Michael Moore

Here is a new drawing:

Greasy cog
12″ x 9″
Ink on paper

I bought this inspirational book of science-fiction illustrations by Frank R. Paul at Barnes & Noble tonight (less than $10). Paul’s work is new to me, but I feel like we were separated at birth (unlikely…).

You can see some of his work online, as well as read some biographical information:

• http://www.frankwu.com/paul1.html
• http://budsartbooks.com/prod.cfm/pc/FOMD/cid/1
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_R._Paul

These last two images were found here.

Here are two new drawings:

Joy Machine, 9" x 12", Ink on Paper

Infinity, 9" x 12", Ink on Paper

Here is is a snippet from a short novel by D.H. Lawrence, called St. Mawr:

“Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen. Always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisel of other people, this analysis of other people’s motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presupposes a whole world-laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.”

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (Rembrandt)

I have been interested in Carl Jung for a few years now. His writings engage my imagination in really wonderful ways. Here is a quote from Instinct and the Unconscious, which is in The Portable Jung.

“But we should never forget that what we call complicated or even wonderful is not at all wonderful for Nature, but quite ordinary. We always tend to project into other things our own difficulties of understanding and to call them complicated, when in reality they are very simple and know nothing of our intellectual problems.”

I am madly in love with this painting by Russian artist Yaroslav Gerzhedovich:

Check out the detail images he posted here and here.

Look very close and you will see a little dancing smoke-person on the pipe!

Check out Yaroslav’s Flickr photostream.

I’ve been making drawings using ink pens and Borden & Riley #234 Paris Bleedproof Paper for Pens recently. Love this paper! Hover your mouse over the thumbnails for the titles.

I though I’d share some of my favorite artists that I have recently discovered sharing their work online:

1. Bill Ayton
   
2. Paulina Czak
   
3. Malachi Ward
   
4. Redmer Hoekstra
   
5. Ivan
   

Here are a bunch of new drawings. Enjoy!