The refrigerator adventure continues

[vaneramos]

Prismacolor drawing: cedar waxwing, circa 1999

This morning I was wakened to the sound of the kid from upstairs moving their stuff around the entrance hall, which is located beneath my bedroom. If you have known me for more than a year you will understand how surprised and grateful I was. Let's just say his family is less than responsible.

So I got up and cleared a few of my own things out of the upper hallway. For the time being I'm practically barricaded into my office. But the most annoying task was picking all the magnetic poetry off the freezer door.

When Ivan, the freezer guy showed up, he used a tape measure to show me there's not enough room to get my old fridge around the banister. How somebody got it upstairs is anybody's guess. I figure they lifted it over the banister, but it would be insane for anyone to try repeating that. So Ivan has to talk to the landlord about removing some trim, which means the job might not get done until Monday.

Ivan has salt-and-pepper hair in a long ponytail, a goatee and glasses, and an abrupt but amiable manner. He smells of pipe tobacco. I can be patient.





A few years ago I drew a cedar waxwing from a calendar photograph as a gift for my parents, which now hangs on their living room wall. These birds have a special place in my family because I raised one named Bandit, from the blind and featherless stage, and he lived tame in our sun porch for 14 years. These birds have a remarkably charming and gregarious disposition to go along with their dapper appearance. The sight or sound of one still brings a lump to my throat. After finishing the drawing for my parents I started to make another for myself but never completed it. I wouldn't have the patience for such fastidious realism now. This unfinished drawing shows slightly better mastery of colour and texture than the one I finished.

I made the armband tattoo design about two years ago for a lover who requested something in the style of Keith Haring. Sadly, I don't have any contact with him now. My friend Colleen always admired it. This week she asked whether I would design one like it to go across the base of her back. The same design might work. I'll show it to her to see what she thinks.

Comments

[kwintt.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous prismacolor drawing. I love the subtlety of the feathers. Just a beautiful job.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks Karen. I dug this out and posted it partly as inspiration to myself, a reminder of what I can achieve with some persistence.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

yes, it is a wonderful drawing. mind if i
use it for a desktop for a while?~paul

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Not at all, Paul. I'd be honoured.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

thanks.~paul
:o)

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

*drool*

but you knew that.

The drawing is great also - the unfinished part of the picture actually I find is visually exciting. as Renata always said, "Never tell the whole story."

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kind of imagined some sounds from your direction. ;-)

Thanks, I feel that way about the unfinished part, too. I seem to recall deciding that I didn't want to finish it. I was loving the realism and simultaneously losing interest in doing it.