It's most impressive to see someone still use classic, pre-technology art tools to make art:-) Bravo!

Do they still sell colored pencils, or would I need to rob a museum of ancient art?

Lol, Max :). Thank you four your funny comment, but if you want to rob a museum, choose the toy museum.

A very nice surrealistic garden

Thank you so much!

Sweeeet

Thank you so much!

Very nice work !!!

Thank you so much, Gary!

My gosh, I think you're right!... back in ancient history colored pencils were associated with children, and children were associated with physical toys ... so a toy museum would be a good place to find these ancient colored pencils :-)

Fantastische tekening !Rupsjes,vlinders ,bloem, zaad dat zie ik er allemaal in !

Hi, dear Jacomina! I saved your gallery for when I had a lot of time. I haven't commented in your gallery for some time (I've done most of my comments in letters, of late!)...so I wanted to actually comment in your gallery. "In person". So here I am, after a long absence...

I'm amazed at how much your abstract drawings look like your fractals. But they're also very diffferent. The difference is that your drawings have all the "touches" and feelings of hand-made art. They just feel handmade. The lines are human, the colors are clearly placed on the paper with pen, pencil, etc. It feels very "touchable." And visceral.

This has a very organic feeling, it's an organism, or maybe several organisms living on top of each other. I love the organic shapes within it---like biological cells and tiny organs, and bacterium, and corpuscles---the things one sees in microscopic studies in biology. And you use a pale tan-orange very effectively---it stands out well from the blues and blue-greens here. And you use strong reds and crimsons as powerful accents. Then the bottom has a caterpilar? Yes? (The crawling thing on the bottom, who looks like he has a head, and is crawling through grass?) Terrific surprise!

This is like a little colony of living organisms, going about their day, running into each other on occasion, or being very busy. (Going to appointments, cleaning their yards, doing work at home, etc.) (maybe they have "zoom") And the top right looks like something about to bloom---like a flower!

Plus, I love the paper. If you did anything to it, it has wonderful texture and earthen brown tinged hued. Wonderful drawing, it's always great to see your hand-made work here: I adore your digital work, but when you post pieces like this, it reminds us of how good you are at traditional art as well.

Thank you for your comment on my photomontages...they are, to me, like the 2 part and 3 part inventions by Bach: Simple, playful, but not too compicated. I hope I can create 1/100th the inspriation that Bach created, but I do enjoy making them. (And they allow me---yes---to submerge a city under water, or open up a sidewalk and show another whole city underneath...a ton of fun to do.) Thank you for your response, as always. I will write back to you in the coming few weeks---loved your letter; and your variation on that cross was gorgeous---it's just beautiful. I just love it.

ANd Jacomina, I would like to post someting for you in my gallery, in the next couple of weeks. I never posted for your birthday (I did something privately but not publicly) and I'd like to celebrate you here. If you'd rather I don't, just tell me. It won't be for a couple of weeks. But I'd like to. (I will be posting someting for Jo, Rods wife, and maybe a taekoff on someone else's art---a silly tale---but probably nothing else. Just want you to know I've thought about doing something for you, here, for a while. I'm slow these days, but I should be able to post it by early June.

Now I'll leave some more comments on your gallery!

Hi dear Mark! Didn't I write anything about this intense reaction yet, huh? Apparently not, but maybe I forgot to press 'post comment', that's happened to me before, how silly. It's so nice the way you look at this drawing, as if everything 'does its own thing', I love that idea. Yes there is a kind of flower above on the right, and you may have also discovered the butterfly. Lately I have had neither peace nor inspiration to sit down and draw. I have made a number of drawings that I still have to put the 'finishing touches' on. I'm too insecure to finish things now, in that respect making fractals is easier to do.

I haven't yet looked at many photo folders on the PC. Haha, I enjoy taking photos more than editing them, that takes so much energy, and I keep taking photos, way too many, stupid me! It's such a nice distraction. I'm curious what distraction you have to distract yourself from your pain (which unfortunately you have). I suspect this will be meditation(?), deep meditation?

Thanks you so much for all your great comments, dear friend. Sending peace to our Chicago-friend ;-) .