Category Archives: Art

New Year

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In this Year of Our Lord 2024, it is time to make a few New Year’s Resolutions. I haven’t the time to draw and blog as once I did so I shall set my targets on a monthly basis rather than a weekly. (Small individuals have invaded our house to consume our time and our victuals.)

I find myself no longer drawing, watching films, or reading very much, so I want to fix that. Therefore, each month I wish to post:

  • At least one black and white picture
  • At least one colour picture
  • Comments on at least one book I’ve read
  • Comments on at least one film I’ve watched

To start with, here’s a beer mug of my acquaintance:

a krug, or stein
krug, or stein, incomplete

Happy new year, all!

Inktober ’23, Batch 2

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My plans for drawing every second day and posting on sundays have gone off-track already due to lack of time and energy (it’s a bit busy round here) and also by leaving stuff till the last minute (thus discovering, at the last minute, that I had no time or energy). However, I have done about half the prompts, so there’s that.

Prompt #2, Spiders:

Prompt #3, Path:

Prompt #5, Map:

Prompt #7, Drip:

Prompt #9, Bounce:

Agreement

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Then your covenant with death will be annulled,
    and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through
    you will be beaten down by it.
As often as it passes through it will take you;
    for morning by morning it will pass through,
    by day and by night;
and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.
For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it,
    and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.

Isaiah 28:18-20, Revised Standard Version

A gloomy note to return to blogging on; but this verse has been on my mind for a while, throughout the pandemic.

Isaiah was rebuking the wealthy of Jerusalem, who had forgotten God, forgotten duties towards their neighbours, and who clearly thought that the good times would go on forever; that good things would continue to fall into their hands and that bad things would continue to stay away. Even if you don’t know the Bible, you can probably guess how that turned out. (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2028&version=RSV)

Without commenting on specifics, I hope and pray the bad times will not be as bad for our civilisation; but I don’t believe we’re guaranteed an easy ride.

God willing, regular art will resume son.