Let me go and I will want you more

September piece I kept meaning to color:
Flat colors:


And with a flat green layer set to 'pin light':

I get the feeling that this is a beginner effect, but I like it. So bah.

Let me go and I will want you

Fan art? I think? For my current favorite Cake song, Let Me Go. I basically just sat down listening to it on repeat and drew what came to mind. I think that the girl the song describes would dance in an arm-swingy, head-tossy way that makes it hard to get close to her.

Love From The Depths

I LOVE Tomihiro Hoshino's haiku and illustrations. My high school Japanese teacher showed me some of his work, and I always meant to go back and learn more about him. I got to incorporate his art and poetry into my paper for disabilities class on artists with acquired disabilities or impairments (he was paralyzed from the neck down while teaching gymnastics), and had an excuse to read Clocks of Different Paces, one of his many books. So good!

Two beans rather than just one.
Two people rather than just one.
I think that is surely more natural.
I eat green soybeans side by side with my wife.

A spear flower bears little red berries among dry grass in the shadow of the bank.
And those red berries can't be created by the big tree towering next to it.
Nor even the human beings who went out into space.

Also, if I was at this concert, I'd be going significantly more crazy than this audience: