Category: Art
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18 Cats in 5 Minutes
Phoebe Age Five recently accepted the challenge to draw 18 cats as fast as she could. She completed the task in well under five minutes, and the result is a set of cat drawings with a striking range of compositional choices. In drawing, composition is the art of arranging visual elements on a page. It…
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*Give Your Life to Mani*
Recent Converts! Are You Confused? Does your inquiring mind raise questions the authoritarian church just can’t answer? . *** ASK MANI! *** . He Can Explain True Christianity To You! **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** ALL THAT IS … is light and darkness. But in the beginning, the King of Darkness smelled something desirable…
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Happy Birthday, George Washington
Popular internet artist Freddy Age 7, in a rare signed artwork, pays homage to the first president of the United States (see Freddy’s extensive online art gallery here). Patriotic images, especially ones inspired by national holidays, are a staple of this young artist’s ouevre. This image features a George Washington figure recognizable by his white…
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How To Make Cartoons
Cartooning is fun, and anybody who’d like to try their hand at it should probably go buy Scott McCloud’s excellent book on it. But if you don’t want to spend the money on McCloud’s far-reaching description of comics technique, here’s a fun free intro: Barnacle Press has a “Pocket Cartoon Course” from the 1940s available…
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The Day After Christmas
Here’s a song, here’s a gift for the day after Christmas When the presents have been opened And your spirit has crashed. When all the colored lights are turned off And the yule log is an ember And you’ve returned that crap to K-Mart And the tree is in the trash. You’ve got to hold…
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Dragon Protagonist
Knight versus dragon, but note how the dragon is a biped who seems to be communicating via sign language. His mouth is politely closed, and the flame shooting from his nostrils barely extends further than his claws. The knight, on the other hand, holds his means defense off to one side, and brandishes his weapon…
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ChaseGiving
Freddy Age Seven interprets the great American holiday, Thanksgiving, with this image of mayhem. At first glance, I took it for a battle between pilgrims (tall black hats, blunderbusses) and indians (feathered headdresses, tomahawks, bows and arrows). But upon closer examination, neither side is clearly chasing the other. Everybody’s running to the left, firing bullets…
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Off the Tracks!
It’s got a geometric simplicity that is mesmerizing. The repetition of circular and triangular forms creates a visual field in which every line is significant. This is a front view of a steam train coming down the tracks, or at least trying to come down the tracks. SOMETHING is in the way, and the engineer…
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Flower Flower Flower Flower
It’s not exactly 36 Views of Mount Fuji, but this set of drawings by Phoebe Age Five does keep the viewer on the move. There is a dance between the human figure and the flowerpot that draws the viewer in. You realize that you are not just watching a person dance around a flower (which…
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Happy Vikings Go Exploring
Vikings: “They’re cool,” says Freddy Age Seven warily, “but they’re not good.” These Vikings, though, are happy enough adventurers. Their tiny boat has a grin of its own as it rocks through the spiky waves. Rows of oars dip down into the sea and a strange, boxy, union-jacky flag structure surmounts the truncated mast. Loot,…
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Worst Coleridge Poem Ever!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the greatest minds ever to write in English. But aside from the justly famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner, he didn’t manage to finish very many extended poems. That mind should have produced an English epic, but instead he produced Wordsworth –no small contribution to English letters. And aside…
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Cowboy Psalm: Turn ’em ta Tumbleweeds
Psalm 83 depicts a dreadful scene: the enemies of God’s people devising schemes to wipe them out of existence. Against this background, the Psalmist prays for deliverance, asking God to do to these enemies the kind of things he did through champions in the book of Judges. One line is especially striking. I grew up…