The Labrat

Some quick sketches and a drawing

2008-01-28T18:42:00.000-06:00

In the grand scale of things...

2007-11-12T22:23:00.001-06:00

Our time here is brief.

Season of the Witch

2007-10-31T17:57:00.000-05:00

Happy Halloween! Redneck Pumpkin
You have to see this!! Attack Frog

There was a nip in the air last night so
today it looks like summer has stopped
holding it's breath and expired. Autumn
is in the air at last.

I just had a 'Halloween' moment. I put a
couple of eggs on to soft boil and walked
away to do something else, in a few
minutes I came back to check and see if
they had started boiling yet. There in the
small black pot, floating across the
face of a creamy white egg, like a bat
across the face of the moon, was a
spider with his knees all drawn up .
The water bubbled merrily away.
Boiling up a spider along with my eggs!!!
ACKkkkkkkk!(Halloween lobster anyone?)

Turning The Corner

2007-10-29T10:13:00.001-05:00

It is the prank playing, mask wearing season of illusion.

Trick or treat, sweet or sour?
You won't know
'till the midnight hour.
Games are for children, how absurd!
Fourteen letters, what is the word?

Merlinprincesse has unscrambled
the word and won!

“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour
when every one has to throw off his mask?

The IF word this week is Grow.

2007-10-20T22:08:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from the DISCOVER magazine
by Gregory Mone
"When Julius Caesar exhaled his last breath, he bequeathed approximately 1022 molecules to the atmosphere around him. Air leaving the lungs is 78 percent nitrogen, 16 percent oxygen, and 4 percent carbon dioxide—depleted in oxygen and enriched more than a hundredfold in carbon dioxide compared with what went in, due to human metabolism. Some of the carbon dioxide probably got trapped and digested by plants in a nearby garden, but the vast majority of the exhaled molecules began to fan out over an ever-widening area. Within a decade, that breath had dispersed completely around Earth, and most of it is still in circulation. Odds are, at least one of the molecules that Caesar (or Mozart or Martin Luther King, for that matter) relinquished when he died is flowing into your lungs as you read these lines."

As you were growing as a child, think of all the great, near great and unknown people who's molecules helped you grow. Think of all the bits and pieces that were woven together to make you who you are, who you will be. Let that thought grow.

2007-10-16T15:04:00.000-05:00

It's fall and it seemed like a good time to do some fall house cleaning. I've removed all the posts from the floods but I saved your very much appreciated comments. This is my second year of blogging and I wanted a fresh start. Frankly I've had enough of looking at flood damage. We are recovering with the help of friends and the kindness of strangers. So....let's get on with it!!!!

2007-04-06T14:15:00.000-05:00

C'EST PAS FACILE D'ÊTRE VERT
(IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN.)*
Standing at the cross-roads
Of the Six Ways,
The withered moor! ~Issa

(The Six Ways are the six conditions of sentient life,
hell, that of the hungry ghosts, animals, nature spirits,
human beings, gods.)
*I borrowed this line from merlinprincesse

2007-03-25T14:56:00.000-05:00

I Spy......
(speed drawing, self portrait)

2007-03-14T13:40:00.000-05:00

2007-03-08T12:27:00.000-06:00

Tangeriene Queen and Bubble Snails on the Pond-in-Dreams

Hid,hide, hidden...

2007-03-05T13:42:00.000-06:00

Night deepens,
And sleep in the villages;
Sounds of falling water.
~Buson

2007-02-02T03:37:00.000-06:00

I've had the flu and so has my computer. We've both
been really tired and crashing about. I got a new
power supply for Mr. Computer today, so he's
cool and much happier. I'm starting to feel better
too, so I'm going to try to get emails answered and
something posted here....... sorry I'm so behind
with everyone, I haven't forgotten you!

Here is Toby, he's been asleep in a little Spanish
leather box every since I made him. A few days ago,
by chance, I found someone who is a professional
costume designer and she may be interested in
making him more that just a head. I'm working
hard to tempt her! Toby wants out of the box!

2007-01-10T22:16:00.000-06:00

I don't know anything about painting seascapes(Kansas)
......but I thought it would be fun to try a fast one.
That just goes to show what do I know! Ok, it was a
little bit fun, but mostly, I feel like I would have to do a
couple of hundred of these before I figured out anything
about beaches and water... better luck next time!

Kiwi

2006-12-28T20:35:00.000-06:00


Dony Permedi’s animation thesis project Kiwi! Trees and dreams seem to be my theme this week. I found this video to be very touching. What do you think?

2006-12-27T12:26:00.000-06:00

Speed Trees (another fast painting)
Before the first seed broke open the rosebed of Being,
An inner lark soared through your meadows,
Heading towards Home.
~Bibi Hayati

Christmas Eve In Sarajevo

2006-12-22T14:36:00.000-06:00


This is a video done with Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra... PEACE on Earth....... goodwill towards all.

2006-12-21T17:14:00.000-06:00

Invitation to the 30 mins painting exercise

Sebastien Gallego from The Jumbled Drawer
Has offered an invitation to join the 30 minutes painting exercise.
This is my first try... I suck, but I tried *giggle*

For a lovely holiday treat visit:
Merisi's Vienna For Beginners
If you have time be sure and look
in the archives as the window
shopping is the best!!!!!!!!

2006-12-06T16:41:00.002-06:00

Pumpkinhead II

2006-12-01T00:25:00.000-06:00

Pumpkin Head goes home...

I love those antique paper pumpkin
heads, but I can't tell if they are
supposed to look scary or scared.
He might be both!
He might be just lost.

2006-11-27T21:15:00.000-06:00

This is what I've played around with today... fun!
Computers that you can paint with...
Best invention, ever!!!!

2006-11-14T23:50:00.000-06:00

No one was certain how fat little Toady Crackbone,
the class clown and shortest kid in school, became
The Most Honorable Theodore Crackbone,
High Judge of Arcturus. The only thing that was
completely clear, was that no one was laughing now.

2006-11-07T17:37:00.001-06:00

When in a difficult and dangerous region,
do not weary of the journey;
should you do so,
turn back half-way.

2006-11-03T22:41:00.000-06:00

Not all the smoke of Autumn
comes from burning leaves.

2006-11-01T18:11:00.000-06:00

Love of monsters runs in the family...
Third grandson out for a walk with the pets.

2006-10-30T12:47:00.000-06:00