Leaf Ghost #141

This one combined dry paper for the dark squares with wet-on-wet for the lighter spots. I love the vivid colors of the sumi-e paint set.

I also enjoyed listening to a trio arrangement of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony while I painted. Nicely relaxing.

Fail Point – Wearing Glasses

This year I’ve started work on a sequential art project called “Fail Points.” The project takes its name from the engineering term for any point in a process where things can break down, often causing the entire system to stop working.

As the name implies, entries will focus on some of the less successful moments in my life. For the time being, I’m keeping the multi-page stories to myself. But I’m also planning a set of four-panel minis, this being the first.

Leaf Ghost #140

Poe, page two.

I think this particular variation on the leaf ghost theme might look right at home on the walls of the Glore Museum. But perhaps that’s part of the charm.

Leaf Ghost #139

My idea of an ideal summer, all captured in a single photo.

After a rough May, I’m finally settling back into a place of comfort with some creative work. I actually did the pencil sketch for this ghost more than a month ago and then couldn’t find the time or energy to actually paint it. 

I even briefly changed the number, assuming that I’d do some ghosts when we were on vacation in late May, but between the rain and the cicadas there wasn’t really a lot of opportunity to spread out on the picnic table and paint.

The greens have too much water in them, which produced an uneven surface effect that I thought looked leafy.