20121023

hello, sweet friends.
i forgot to tell you.
many weeks ago i moved my blog.
it can now be found at:

bearhatsketchbook.com.

i am sorry if you think i have neglected you!

20120427

here is a time when eleanor and i sat on a  sheet and drew for a little while. meta sketchbook! also linus was tied to a tree and was very rarely as untangled as this drawing depicts. also featured: sea cucumber shoes.

20120423

sometimes i listen to the rap station in the car, mostly out of some strange voyeurism. chris (and most other passengers, frankly) disapproves.

20120420

here is my small fantasy set of things i want. i actually DO have a small garden, now. it was a surprise. 

20120418

we went camping in cape cod. it was great and very magic. 

20120415

20120406

we went to newport on easter to see my friend eleanor's family. we climbed on rocks and ate too many crepes and chocolate and her brother, sky, said something funny and disgusting about calzones.

20120402

oh. i have been making many balloon animals lately. that's fine, right? it's just a new hobby. in case art therapy doesn't work out. it is fun! you would like doing it too, i bet.


here also is my winning lotto ticket and all the ingredients for a good peanut tofu stir fry. 

20120328

a good part of a poem by rilke, and my mega millions winnings! i won 4 dollars using greg's birthday as one of my numbers.  he is luckier than he thinks he is. it is the first time i ever played the lottery. 

20120322

here is an uncharacteristically weapons-laden page. the enemies are in the treetops, i guess. 

20120313

we were talking about the descent. no one goes willingly. 

20120309

here is a drawing about three ghosts. 
also, my shoes really do look like sea cucumbers. they are terrible. i have just an innate ability to sea cucumber all the shoes i own in very small amounts of time. 

20120302

my friend liz is really excellent at logistics and i love her. we did eventually find her, and the dead bird.
and, the unfortunate ending to the story at the bottom of this page is that i did, in fact, have to eventually put clothes on, despite my oppositions.

20120228

here is a mandala. 
not knowing is a state that i am trying to learn how to be more comfortable in. 

20120220

see, world? see how he treats me? i'm kidding. i am a sand monster. he is in the right. 
here are also some important words coming out of my fingertips. 

20120214

i have a lot of things to say to people, but generally i try not to say the things i have to say in real life. thank goodness for sketchbooks. and here is a valentines day comic. 

20120210

greg-the-fox and I picked up a small archery habit for a few weeks. it is good and makes me feel like artemis, even though my form is actually terrible and i bruise my wrist up with the bowstring and i accidentally got an arrow stuck in the rafters at the shooting range, once. 

20120204

hello! here is the first page of my new sketchbook. as the years go by that I have been keeping regular sketchbooks, the first page has always remained a real challenge. here is the best advice i can muster, but no practical tips to make it easier/possible. 
well, i guess it's true that i did this weird castle drawing on a paper towel that i had dried my paintbrushes on, and then i glued it into my book. is that a tip? first pages are just hard.  

20120201




Here are some non sketchbook embroideries that I have been working on in recent times--it is easy to make these on my train commute. They are just made with embroidery floss on muslin, freehand. Thanks to one man named Greg for taking these photos for me!

20120129

autocorrect has been getting me a lot, lately. here it is, giving me and greg new nicknames. i'm "creeps", obviously.

20120125

this is a true story. about how i was never meant to be an adult.

20120120

another gasping comic. breathing is an issue for me, i guess.
here are 3 beautiful rocks that we found on christmas day on a beach at lake ontario. they were in my wallet when i lost it, so they are gone forever, except in drawing form.

20120116

for better or worse, right?


here is my grandpa and greg, when they met. poppa made sure to give greg a disclaimer about my singing habits.

20120114

i am teaching myself and someone else these words as often as i can. 
when i didn't know what to draw one day i spun my sketchbook on the pottery wheel at the steelyard. that is where those pencil circles came from.

20120106

sometimes words are more important to draw than pictures.