EEEK! I know, I know, looks like a police rendering of a serial killer. My wife calls it ‘the portrait of the artist is a big suck.’ Still here’s my first self portrait. I’ve been inspired (yet again!) by Cindy, this time by her self portaits. She’s particpating in Sparky’s “Self-Portrait Marathon“, and now so…

Another from the series of found drawings, scribblings on the backs of work documents I’m reading on the way home. This one I tried to follow Dalton’s advice and colour and play with it a bit after I found it. I ended up colouring a few of them with Leah, using her markers. I’ve let…

Another forgotten sketch kicking around in my bag. This one’s from last August.

I found this drawing with some others in my bag, drawn in December on the back of some documentation I was reading on the way home from work. We’ve had so much rain, and I’ve been anticipating spring so eagerly, I’d forgotten what winter is like – the cold, the boots, the gloves.

Found object, somewhere in the mess of our house. It’s a slide of my father in Europe, on vacation with either my mother or my uncle. Look and you’ll see an idyllic village, my father gazing on admiringly, self consciously. He had grown up poor in working class England, and so, I imagine, felt good…

On the College streetcar on Monday night, coming home late (well, late for me). This woman, with beautiful hair, seemed to not be having a great time with her date. They were tense, bickering over small things, it seemed to me, but trying to be happy.

This person struck me as a very patient man. I also put about 30 pounds on him.

I got his concentration, but not the hand.

My parents, photo taken May 9 1975, probably before the big trip we took to England when I was 8 years old. Found in the basement, it fell out of a box while i was looking for some old comics.

I am the king! Originally uploaded by davehoward82. Leah’s good friend Isaac (4 yrs old) visited for a day on Friday, and left us this wonderful expressive chalk piece. A quote from the artist: “I am the king, I am the king, I am the king, I am the king, I am the king of…

Beautifiul Tulips Originally uploaded by davehoward82. Leah and Theresa created some tulips for our table in celebration of spring. Leah even painted the pollen inside them.

mail art start…Originally uploaded by this is just somebody…. Michael Fikaris at www.silentarmy.com invited me to contribute to this mail art piece when i was over at his place a while ago. Artists so far also included Amy Lockhart, Marc Bell, and Anthony Woodward. I drew Michael’s eyes and hat as he sat looking at…