Chairy

Remember Chairy from what's-his-name's show? What is his name? Oh. Peewee Herman. Well, this isn't that. This is the boring chair from our living room that we let the cats sit on. I removed all the cat hair from it, as well as the cat blanket. Also the dangly threads from being used as a scratching post (… cats, you know). And, yes, the cast of cats, Curry and Kickens, are also not there.

Chairy: drawn with a Sanford Uniball ONYX micro point pen, black. It's not a bad pen at all.

I decided to contrast the exquisite and elaborate couch Angela drew with this rather dull chair, and tossed in a Goodwill pillow as fluff, so to speak. Do not underestimate this chair. It is a Very comfortable chair. The cats love it, and so do we.

--Anita

Couch

A couch. Can't you tell? This actually took about an hour and a half to do. I got carried away, but it was so much fun. I used a 102 nib that I had slapped out of the holder at the side of my desk and bent. Seemed to be able to fix it to a usable level. Didn't want to waste it since it was so new. Yes, a $1 nib. I didn't want to waste.
FYI, it looks even better in person.

Strange drawings of the week

Two chimeras from this week's quick drawing sessions between errands and work and otherwise goofing off. One thing drawing chimeras does is to force you to learn how to say the word, which doesn't begin with "chin," but rather "kim." And the second syllable is accented and sounds like "mare," or so I've been told. English continues to be an odd language.

My sketchbook drawings:

Drawn with a Berol Fontaine pen, which is like a fountain pen.

Drawn with an old ball point pen. It was FREE from some bank.
I call this one a Chimerhen.

That's it for now,

Anita

Our Chimera

Even though I have two drawings in my sketchbook, finally, for last week's chimera "assignment," I don't seem to have my sketchbook in the studio just now. It's in my purse up at the house. But I do have a journal here. It's one that Jim Bertolino and I write collaborative poetry in, and sometimes we draw collaboratively, too. Here's a kind of chimera I found in the journal next to a collaborative poem written at The Archer in Bellingham on July 9, 2007. The drawing is approximately the same age. I'll include the poem in this posting, too.

This is a rare Duck-Billed Pachyderm drawn in ink by James Bertolino and Anita K. Boyle,
discovered traipsing across my journal.

The Poem is written by three people: me, Jim and an anonymous donor. Could be my sister Carol. Could be Isaac. I don't think it could be anyone else, but there's where I might be wrong.

The Oval Czar
A political poem written at The Archer 
in Bellingham on July 9, 2007. Just saying.

The Callus Sisters are
singing and we're stringing
spider threads between stars.
What else could we do? Short
of paying our long overdue
taxes, we knew enough
to run amuck like pigs
dancing religiously—a regular
jigging for Cod. You know
that fish symbol you see
on cars? Yah. That's us.
Except without any
bumper stickers or dust drawings.
No piraña. Fish aren't as stupid
as people think they are. Not
even close. Of course, a
moderately bright trout
could run this country
better than this stupid
little slop-monger in the
oval shitter now. Why, he can't even
stand on someone's knee with his
other foot behind that someone's neck,
while playing the kazoo and slapping
rhythm into a pair of spoons.
What a dumb shyster! Yah.
My lizard's got better
technique than that
Bush-rabbit. But to Hades with
all of it. We'll eat fish for
lower cholesterol, fat-donkey.
---

Collaborative poetry hardly ever goes where you think it will. They are a kind of chimera all their own. That's all I've got to say about that.

--Anita

Chimeras

Some chimeras I doodled while watching The Punisher to break in a new nib.

A bald eagle/salmon hybrid. How frustrating would that be, wanting to eat your own butt all the time.

I know this looks like a panda, but it is really a shark/bear hybrid. Thus finally mooting the question which is better, bear or shark.

Goblin in the Kitchen

I'm finished. This 6 by 9 drawing took somewhere between 3 and 6 hours to do, depending on how you look at it. You are more used to drawing while watching a movie. I spent more time watching than drawing. We watched Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies. There was a great bonus feature of a 1910 silent movie of Frankenstein, which I thought was excellent. But a silent movie forces you to watch what's going on, or you'll miss the entire thing. Very fun.

—Anita

TITLE: Nope, it wasn't me. It must have been a goblin who ate our last piece of cake during the night.

Gobbling goblin

This took a total of 5 hours, I think only about 25 or 30 in pencils.