a collage in process - edges of the paper taped down with blue painters tape, some bits of pictures on the tape in case they might belong on the collage. this one has a grid of black boxes, with cutout shapes or a hand in various positions, and in the cutout spaces I've put pieces of faces - eyes, an ear, a couple of whole people. background is green and lumpy.

21 Apr 2026
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Today's post is just about progress on this year's batch of collages. You'll have to visit the website if you want to see the pictures.

so much this.

ink and water-soluble crayon. portrait of a hare in some sort of clothing (badly sketched jacket I suppose). they look a little wistful I think.

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my daily art - little late for a march hare

I’ll be stamping Harriet Tubman over the portrait if I ever see one of those

collage of magazine pictures, dominated by a sort of gargoyle with a belligerent frog climbing out it’s mouth, and flanked by a bosch club-wielding bird of prey. these images emerge out of a background of brown leaves and blue-green waters.

19 Apr 2026
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my daily art
2026 collage #1

I finally glued down the first of the collages I started to lay out in March.

water-soluble graphite doodle of a proud duckling with bowlegs and an open bill.

18 Apr 2026
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my daily art - Ducklings Fix Everything.

water-soluble crayon. four little purple fish poke at a bit of fallen vegetation, concentric ripple rings in blue and green.

17 Apr 2026
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my daily art - ice pond snack

water-soluble crayon. a briefly sketched heron-like bird, blue and purple with orange bill next to a row or spoked circles, and a line of orange dots, all rather organic looking, in the upper left there is also what could be purple confetti. the background is all greens and blues, and very much in motion.

16 Apr 2026
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my daily art - dancing blue

water-soluble crayon. a purple mouse takes up most of the page. it is evidently howling toward a crescent moon, you can tell by the blue swirl coming out of its mouth. it looks pretty happy.

15 Apr 2026
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my daily art - mouse howl

water-soluble crayon, abstract. green and blue washy lines and stripes, with orange line and circle accents, purple and black ground. The composition is a little reminiscent of a ‘holy family’ theme, but maybe that’s just to my eyes.

14 Apr 2026
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my daily art - make of it what you will

it’s my last day as a 67-year-old. general mayhem in the world notwithstanding, the past year has had its rewards in my little life. I’ll take it for what it is worth. water-soluble crayon. a red rose bud nestles in rather grass-like green leaves, with celebratory spirals of blue and lavender under and above.

13 Apr 2026
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my daily art - a birthday rose

ink, abstract. a black wash and salted thick circle with thinner threads of blue, purple and orange spinning off it on the outside and inside.

12 Apr 2026
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my daily art - unravel
spent Saturday sitting in Open Town Meeting, crocheting a hat for my brother. On Sunday I decided to undo all the work I had done, because it didn't come out the way I wanted. When I work it up again, it will be better.

ink. yeah, it’s sort of a sea slug, blobby yellow, with a red stripe down its back, a pair of eyes on stalks, with long tendrilly lashes, on a pretty green, blue and purple background.

10 Apr 2026
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my daily art - cease lug

ink. a large tree leans over on the right side of the page, a smaller or more distant one on the left. roots below, perhaps a pool between the trees – or maybe just rising mist.

9 April 2026
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my daily art - sweet rest

A metallic foil tray, with "Always Support The Bottom" embossed in the base.

In a world of changing values, one piece of advice remains constant:

is he flossing his brain?

abstract, with glued bits of yarn and thread, and pooled ink. the image could be seen as a purple doggish critter, ears upraised and head turned as if in sudden movement. or you might see something completely different, or nothing at all but swoops of line and color.

8 Apr 2026
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my daily art - snap

So is mine

I am the very model of the reverential revenent.
Now resurrected, see my crucifixion scars are evident.
The stone is rolled away and in the tomb no body is in sight
Two Marys will arrive and this will give them both an awful fright.

ink and fiber, abstract. perhaps a glass vase on the right, and leaning over it a branch with no leaves, but maybe watery and fibrous … flowers?

7 Apr 2026
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my daily art - winter garden.

green buds and shoots are starting to brave the world. we had a snowfall here, nearly an inch. it all melted very fast, but a reminder how early spring so often is a dance between the cold and the warm, intertwined.

this is horrifying.

thank you for speaking up.

The President of the United States is publicly threatening to commit genocide.

For love of country, for the freedoms we cherish and for the values we hold dear, the House must immediately reconvene and vote to impeach Donald Trump.

Read my full statement: tonko.house.gov/news/documen...

In a functioning "international order", a world leader who threatens that "a whole civilization will die" if he doesn't get what he wants, would be broadly condemned for those words by other world leaders, regardless of whether he follows them up with action.

Are you going to impeach the president today? No?

Then you do, in fact, support making a whole civilization die.

water-soluble crayon. sort of abstract, but resembles flower arrangement. on the right, something gracefully grass-like in a bulbous purple vase. on the left an orange, fungal climbing thing, embracing three green discs. three seeds or pebbles in a pile in the lower left corner

6 Apr 2026
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my daily art - arranging

water-soluble crayon. a black cat sits looking out a window. a small purple princess smiles withe her arm around the cat. a large blue motherly person looms over both, eyes closed, and smiling gently.

5 Apr 2026
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my daily art - moment of rest

amazing!

I am the very model of the reverential revenent. Now resurrected, see my crucifixion scars are evident. The stone is rolled away and in the tomb no body is in sight Two Marys will arrive and this will give them both an awful fright. I'll visit good old Tom and tell him put his hand inside of me (that's not a queer proposal, but just evidence of sanctity). At dinner with two friends at Emmaus suddenly I'll disappear, ascending up to heaven as I float up through the atmosphere. Arriving up in heaven I will sit upon my Dad's right hand, the ghost upon the other side I don't completely understand. But never mind, I will return to earth in a millennia, Though what I'm seeing there might drive a god to schizophrenia. I told them feed the hungry, heal the sick, and also help the poors, but now you see they use my name to justify forever wars. Their cruelty and visciousness to anyone who's different makes clear they didn't understand the message of my testament. If I went back today they might deport me to El Salvador, Imprison me and torture me and kill me like they did before. They treat their wars and violence as if they all are jolly sports About my Second Coming I admit I'm having second thoughts. I suppose that if they kill me I would resurrect a second time to tell them how they twist my words is really an appalling crime and though they may consider that I am no longer relevant, I'm still the very model of the reverential revenant.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.