in the garden of albert's imagination

in the garden of albert's imagination
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this is a drawing i did inspired by a recent trip to OMSI, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industy. The featured exhibition right now is about Albert Einstein. This piece is 8.5 x 11 inches and is pen and ink. Swimming through Albert's imagination are: fish, flowers, trees, spirals, swirls, things without names, they might be quarks or gravitrons or something else with a long name in german. You just never know. this piece is on etsy.

i am glad it is Friday. my mind/body connection has not been at its best this week. we seem to have hit the peak of summer a week or 2 ago and are sliding over into what will be, i hope, a long Indian Summer. it's cold and cloudy right now but i am hoping for some afternoon sun. it sure helps my mood!

buddha

buddha
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i love to draw. i could draw all day, every day. well, i'd take some breaks for snacks, walks, naps, and reading. sometimes i draw at home, sometimes at work on breaks, sometimes at restaurants, sometimes in the park. sometimes i plan out my drawings a bit, but not too much. lots of times i just start to draw and they evolve. i might guide them a bit, but then i might not. sometimes i use photos as reference material and sometimes not. i don't usually draw from life. i guess i probably should but it's more relaxing to draw things from my imagination (also then no one can tell me they i did not capture the essense of the thing, whatever it was.) sometimes i draw in silence. sometimes i listen to music or audio books. sometimes i have a documentary on in the background, but i pay the most attention to my drawings. my hands and arms do get stiff and sore, so i do some stretching.

i have piles of drawings. some are on etsy, some are just hanging out. sometimes i give them as gifts. sometimes i frame them and hang them on the wall. sometimes they just drift around my condo.

dryad

dryad
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it was a pretty nice weekend other than the bits where i did not feel well. which includes today. i would love a nap right now, but it is not meant to be. anyway, saturday i did feel ok. we went out to pancakes and then walked around ballard some. i had a nap and later we went out for icecream and watched some Twin Peaks. Sunday I had art time, and also did some much needed chores! i worked on some more pen and ink drawings and some knitting! i also had a massage. that was good. today I am feeling under the weather, though, and it's also cloudy and grey on top ot it!

this colorful dryad lightens things up a bit, though, and she's on .

on the drawing board

on the drawing board
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fortunately i am feeling much better than yesterday. rest and vitamin water. not sure what we will do today.. it's nice out and not going to be too hot...

this something from my sketch book that has been evolving this week...

skating the strata

skating the strata
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needless to say, i am sure we can all agree there is an appeal to weird creepy sea-creatures who glide along the seabed hoovering up tiny invertebrates with their cunning little mouths. i have just described a skate. these flat kite-like creatures are referred to as "batoids". would you want to meet one in a dark alley?

actually they are harmless to man, unless they haunt out dreams, swimming in and out like ghostly shadows.

this painting is 10 x 10 inches, 3/4" deep, and is available for sale on etsy. Enjoy!

in the garden of albert's imagination

in the garden of albert's imagination
Originally uploaded by megan_n_smith_99

here is some art, as promised! this is one of my most recent pen and ink drawings, inspired by the Albert Einstein exhibit we saw at OMSI. i am not sure where the fish are from, my imagination is as strange as Albert's maybe. If you don't know much about Albert beyond e=mc2, you might want to learn more. Albert was also quite a humanitarian and was involved in the zionist movement. he also played the violin and had a great sense of humor.

sasquatch

sasquatch
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last weekend Jesse and I went to Portland. This is a poster i saw in a window, it comes from Tangible Worldwide. I have an abiding fondness for yetis and their kinfolk!


when we were in Portland, we explored China Town and the Pearl District, went to Powells Bookstore, went to Pony Club Gallery, where I got someTheo Ellsworth prints (YAY!) and went to the Saturday Market, The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry for the Albert Einstein exhibit, and Washington Park Zoo!. Well, I am tired just typing all of that but it was fun!