Sketch – Rosehead
Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 9:09 amEssentially benign, despite its appearance. Lights the way in interludic stretches where the world is half-extinguished and half-asleep. Its mind is in the caterpillar. It wants to be transferred to a horizontal picture with other creatures following it.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
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<3
March 15th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
It glimpsed you in the foggy glooms of Patagonia, going in the other direction…
March 15th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
It looks far too delicate to withstand the wind in Patagonia. I hope it is okay over there.
March 15th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Roses are tough — it should be fine. Though I imagine the lanterns would be swinging wildly and the caterpillar might be just poking its head out of the flower. Or maybe I have no concept of the wind in Patagonia!
March 15th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Your art always shakes me up. I have to peek at Dali through my fingers, too!
March 15th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
EEE. That thing is awesome. Reminds me of the more bizarre obakemono, but stranger still.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
OH, it’s like the Sick Rose got a happy ending. With lanterns. I hope you do the other creatures…
March 16th, 2010 at 2:44 am
That looks scary. Its intentions might not be benevolent.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:34 am
Welcome back to blogging and drawing!
March 16th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Kirby – But you write about slayer angels and gruesome deaths!
Laurie – it was no doubt inspired by obakemono. I was wondering how it came to exist, and I thought it might have happened when a moth was trapped in a lantern left in a rose bed where a dog was buried…
Tori – the rose reconciled with the worm, I never thought of that! I want to draw the other creatures – just need to think of them.
D – It can defend itself, and it might be treacherous if it has a reason to be.
Charles – thanks! I always like it when the drawing bug bites.
March 16th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Sometimes I wonder if you draw like Beth, or Beth draws like you.
I very much liked your St Sebastian, btw.
March 16th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I draw like her — sometimes, anyway
I still have to finish Sebastian. I’m procrastinating about the hand.
March 17th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
“I was wondering how it came to exist, and I thought it might have happened when a moth was trapped in a lantern left in a rose bed where a dog was buried…”
Sounds like an endangered species. Buy more lanterns, bury more dogs in rose gardens and save the Rosehead!
March 18th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Not only dogs — feed the dead of all species to hungry gardens and see what breeds!
March 18th, 2010 at 10:44 am
Kirby – But you write about slayer angels and gruesome deaths!
But they only live in my head, so I kind of have to be inured to them. What lives in other people’s heads is infinitely scarier!
March 19th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Wow, that’s my favorite one so far, that thing is horrifying!
March 19th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Poor Rosie. No one’s going to believe it’s benign.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
It reminds me of the lantern hopping on its hand in Spirited Away – I must admit I’d be a little dubious of its intentions if I ever met it while alone on a pathway. However, I can also imagine it sitting, alone and dejected, at a bar for obakemono, which makes me wibbly on its behalf.
Does the caterpillar ever metamorphosize?
March 20th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Kirby – I get it. It’s like drinking the water overseas.
Emera – a bar for obakemono would be awesome. I’m not sure about the caterpillar. If it did metamorphose, I think the whole creature might change with it.