Brach's Filled Raspberries

When I was a child my mother used to leave these Brach’s Filled Raspberries all over the house on Christmas morning. They were in candy dishes, under the Christmas tree and even in our stockings. Apparently they are hard to find in stores now but they can be ordered online. These will always remind me of my mom and the holidays.

Greg Grey Cloud

This guy times a thousand

Michael Brown

Murder is now legal in the US

In the Hospital

I recently spent some time in the hospital after having surgery. I had my iPad with me so I drew this thing on the wall. I have no idea what it is.

James Foley

American photojournalist James Foley
October 18, 1973 -August 19, 2014

Huffington Post’s Carina Kolodny & Damon Dahlen recently chronicled Foley’s life and achievements. Global Post has featured an outstanding collection of Foley’s finest reporting.

Destiel

I'm unapologetically obsessed with Destiel. Learn about it, people

Figure Drawing 7

Another week at the figure drawing group. 2 - 20 minute sketches

Carl Newman

One of my favorite bands, The New Pornographers have a new CD coming out August 25th. In honor of this monumental event I'm stalking lead singer Carl Newman (solo name A.C. Newman). I've had the biggest, craziest crush on Newman for a long time now. Come on, those blue eyes and all that red curly hair, not to mention the outstanding tunes. I can't. But I digress, of course Newman is straight and married. Someone please stab me because that would be less painful.

Figure Drawing 6

The figure drawing group week 6. These are 10-20 minute poses.

Figure Drawing 5

10 - 20 minute sketches

Figure Drawing 4

Figure drawing group round 4. This week we had two different models to draw. I also drew the couch while we were waiting for the model to show up. These are 2 - 20 minute poses.

Figure Drawing 3

Round 3 of the figure drawing group. 10 - 20 minute sketches

Figure Drawing 2

More quick sketches from the figure drawing group I've been attending. These are 10 to 20 minute poses

Figure Drawing

I went to a figure drawing group for fun and practice. Here are some quick poses. The model kind of reminded me of Lady Gaga

'Unspoken Joy'

In the words of my Facebook friend Dylan:
"Unspoken joy: going total pup and sticking your head out the window and feeling your 'hawk flatten in the wind! Arrrooooo!"

Art and Literature

Steven's Bunnies Part 2

More of Steven's bunnies. So cute

Steven's Bunnies

I have a Facebook friend who’s always posting pictures of his bunnies and they are so cute. For this sketch I was inspired by the bunnies. Sorry Steven, I couldn’t resist. Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies.

Wendy Davis

Texas state senator, Wendy Davis is now running for governor of the state. Rachel Maddow had the opportunity to interview Davis last year in July after her epic filibuster. Davis discussed the hypocrisy of the republican majority in Texas, and particularly of current republican governor Rick Perry, who have stripped many Texas women of health care services while vetoing other bills in the name of 'intrusion of government into a person’s liberty.'  Personally as a democrat, because Texas is one of the reddest of red sates, I would be thrilled to see a win for Davis and to see Texas turn from red to at least purple. Now that Davis is a gubernatorial candidate the right has been trying to smear her relentlessly with personal attacks. The more they attack her the more I like her and I’m certainly not the only one. Davis’ campaign has just announced that she has received a total of 95,892 grassroots contributions of $50 or less since last summer.

Nina Compton

I love Nina from Bravo’s Top Chef. Yes, I am obsessed with Top Chef and I’m majorly rooting for her to win this week in the finale. Go Nina!

Chris Christie Bridge Scandal

Rachel Maddow had been reporting for weeks that Republican Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie may have closed down a section of the George Washington Bridge as political payback aimed at the democratic mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, who didn’t endorse Christie for re-election. The bridge was closed for 4 days creating major traffic problems for the residents of Fort Lee. Supposedly the official reason for the bridge shut-down was a “traffic study” but there was no evidence of any traffic study. The story broke wide open yesterday when emails sent by Christie’s administration were released  proving the speculation to be true. One email said “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” Chris Hayes even discussed the damning emails with Mayor Sokolich.  Every major news organization jumped on the story except Fox of course. It took them hours to even report the news of the emails and when they finally did it barely got a mention and they actually told their audience to just “google it.” Pundits hilariously dubbed the scandal “Bridgeghazi.” Christie held a press conference today to address the damning emails and it was so delicious. I watched it while following my liberal pundits' twitter feeds and was cracking up the whole time as Christie denied any wrongdoing. Christie claimed he didn’t even know Mayor Sokolich and that he wasn’t even “on his radar.” I actually laughed out loud when research director for Media Matters then tweeted “I didn't even know Ft. Lee had a mayor” in jest. Even people who don't care about news should really care about this scandal, especially if Christie plans to run for President in 2016.

Jay Carney With a Beard

So today White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney appeared at the first White House press briefing of the year with a beard. And then “Jay Carney” was trending on twitter. And then this happened. And this. And this.  Carney said of his beard, "My wife likes it, so there." Well, Mr. Carney, we like it too. Thank you, beard gods, I think I can die now.