Random Art: Tuesday Tries Its Best to Trample. Trees to the Rescue!

Posted on November 4, 2014 by geelw

So, today was a royal pain in the few places that ouch the most. Let’s see now: there’s a wall in one bedroom here that needed two minor patch jobs thanks to the pipe behind it getting slightly leaky. That’s all well and good and the inspector who popped up last Friday gave out that appointment like he was handing out Halloween candy. Then, on a whim I had him check out the wall in the kitchen with the two cracks in it and *whamm-oooo*, things got ugly. Suddenly, he’s up on a stepladder here and mumbling into his cellphone. I hear “asbestos” mentioned and my brain spins around like a kid on a soda shoppe stool who just got a free scoop of ice cream in his sundae. Only it’s not a sundae I’m getting, but a lousy case of déjà vu all over again (thanks, Yogi!) with a big fat, juicy Red #40 colored cherry on top.

Yuck…

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Random Art: Sunday’s Off For a Few Reasons…

Posted on October 19, 2014 by geelw

Oof. I wasn’t feeling too well this morning, but that was probably more due to lack of sleep and the weather outside getting more winter-like (Today only! Temperature 20% off!). Anyway, I was going to watch some movies and write about them, but I didn’t get around to it. Yeah, you know something’s off when you blow off entertainment to do other stuff. Actually, I ended up going through some stacks of PC games looking for a few titles for a future article, but got sidetracked going through two hard drives here to see if I had a really old game installed someone asked me about last week. Meh, I didn’t find it (yet), but while online looking up stuff earlier, I did eventually knock out a quickie tree drawing (enjoy!):

Hokay, I’ll be back tomorrow. It’s going to be a long day, as I need to pop up early and see about doing some laundry. It’s starting to get up and walk around, which isn’t a good thing… Eeek.

Random Art: More Waiting Time Follies for Your Perusal…

Posted on October 18, 2014 by geelw

More waiting time today at the wi-fi shootin’ range, wheeeee! Anyway, this one took less time, but I ended up not getting to download everything I needed to. Oh well. Monday is time to try again. Bright and earlier, this time. Moooo. Okay, good night now!

Random Art: Picture from the Holding Pattern…

Posted on October 17, 2014 by geelw

Hmmmm. Spent most of this afternoon downloading a rather large file and had to shut down as much as possible so that download would go as quickly as could be. Yeah, even on a high speed connection, multi-megabyte game files take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to download (one main reason I prefer retail discs over downloads for some PC games). Anyway, I did keep one window open to keep myself entertained while part of that download was happening, so here you go. Not so amusingly enough, my mouse seems to have died (no, I didn’t draw that with a finger on some touch screen!), so I’ll be needing to buy another. If figures. Anyway, back later with some actual stuff to read. Work is kind of backing up a bit, but it’s more thanks to me having a load of drafts that need completing. My helper monkey’s self-freedom has set me back a bit…

Random Art: It’s Back (Finally!), But Don’t Get Comfortable…

Posted on October 6, 2014 by geelw

Hey, look! I actually found the time to do some (unfinished) art! Thanks to the wi-fi at the other Starbucks here NOT working at all (meaning I wasted a 1.2 mile walk! Thanks, Starbucks!), I got to steam myself into a hot cross bun for a bit because I didn’t get anything done all afternoon before I decided to vent that energy in a more proper direction with a little MS Paint sketch. Oh well – I’ll see if I can finish this piece up this week, but don’t count on it. I have a bunch of meetings to attend plus a few too many articles to write, so my drawing time will be even more limited.

No More Nightmares: H.R. Giger (1940-2014)

Posted on May 13, 2014 by geelw

There’s not much to say here other than he’ll be SORELY missed. As an artist, his work scared the hell out of me many times and yet inspired me to experiment more with my own art without trying to emulate the man’s style one bit. His work on ALIEN, like the entire film holds up to this day to the point that I’ve recommended the movie over the years to people who didn’t know it was made back in 1979 (yep, even with those old computers and monitors in use!). Granted, you could say that classic was more the result of Ridley Scott’s solid direction, but he was absolutely inspired by Giger’s mind blowing art and there’s NO doubt at all it would have been a lesser film without it…
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Random Art Update: Sunday’s Slow, So Here You Go!

Posted on April 27, 2014 by geelw

Okay, still not done, but more complete. Sorry for the lack of more stuff to read today. I’m working on a quick freelance job which is just about done and I haven’t had the chance to post. If I’m done in an hour or so, I’ll add one or two quickies before I turn in for the night. “Alrighty, then!” back to fixing sentences for fun and profit.

Random Art: It’s Earth Day Already? Oops! Emergency Art Time!

Posted on April 22, 2014 by geelw

Okay, this is an OLD piece, but I figure I had to do something for Earth Day while being somewhat earth conscious and energy conserving in the process. So, you get recycled art and I don’t feel lazy about posting it. I think that’s a very nice tradeoff, people. That and hell, I know some of you haven’t recovered from Sunday’s one-two punch of Easter AND 4/20 “festivities” (I don’t partake of either vice, but I’m not down on anyone who does unless they’re an ass about it), so you won’t even notice because you’re still stuffed downstairs and pleasantly fuzzy upstairs.

Random Art: Making Your Monday Better Since, Oh About 3:37pm…

Posted on April 21, 2014 by geelw

FEH. So, I log onto PSN to download the games I bought this weekend (two bucks well spent) and WHAMMO! Yep, PSN is down for maintenance. In the middle of the afternoon. On a Monday. Bleah. I did get some good news in the mail in the form of my FruitChia bar shipment arriving, but as there’s a replacement mail carrier while my regular guy is on vacation, the package was shoved and squeezed into my mailbox instead of hand delivered to my hot little hands. I didn’t see her woman-handling my goods, but I happened to drop downstairs as she finished up and was closing the mailboxes so I know who to give a glare to the next time I have to perform surgery on something packed into my mailbox in order to get the darn thing out. Anyway, whee- more trees to ogle, this time more or less complete. Hey, someone has to have a good day on this otherwise goofball Monday, right?

Random Art: Snoozy Sunday “Update” Just Means More Trees…

Posted on April 20, 2014 by geelw

I decided to stay in today, nice weather aside. I had some more cleaning to do, so some of that was taken care of, but otherwise, it was a pretty lazy Sunday. Nothing thrilling to report this weekend other than I also caught up on a few shows I missed last weekend because I forgot all about them and it turns out my theory on most scripted shows not being much good after four or five seasons is holding up pretty well. Anyway, I did some artwork, too. Here’s one of two incomplete pieces from the last few days. I like the other one I did better, but like the one to the left, that’s also unfinished and my feelings may change. We’ll see, but for now, it gets the bigger picture below.