Sketches from a journal of a camping trip, drawn & written after the fact. 1. We arrive, parking the car in the trees. 2. My friend’s daughter slept through the whole car ride the prior night, so woke much earlier than we were ready to. Eventually we left the tent and ate breakfast at the picnic table. 3. I squatted by the dwindling fire and failed to adequately cook a Native American recipe, the little girl filmed the proceedings & played newscaster with her camera, and the the rain got worse and we erected protection over the table. 4. The rain became a downpour, and we eventually decided to pack it in; I donned a clear plastic emergency poncho and helped ferry everything back to the car. It was a delightful trip, which is why I felt compelled to document it afterward (though more in words than pictures).

I drew this Christmas tree with a windmill for the star for a sustainable design-build company’s holiday card. The sun & sky are part of their logo, not drawn by me.

A view just off the trail at Northfield Mountain in Northfield, MA.

1. My knee, with pants by my shoe (yes, drawn in a bathroom). 2. View out the window at a former job (drawn during lunch): tree, boulder, grass, van, pavement, and a daycare in an industrial park.

1. Trees in a forest, a fat woman, a table, a strange creature, a paranoid man in flannel with satellite-dish hat, a pipe-smoking man in cloak & hood, and a couple abstract designs. 2. Simple cartoon people: a blond man in t-shirt, jean & sneakers with a bag; and an elf, or maybe a man or woman with bandana. 3. A smiling woman in a tank top, with dark curly hair, gesturing in front of the door of a building. 4. A folk-dancing punk. 5. A slightly eerie bald man in a vest.

Some sketches of a friend; the first was drawn from life in pencil and inked later; the rest were drawn from memory. #3 shows her on a bridge over a river. #4 is of her apartment at the time; one panel is the kitchen (stove & cabinets), the other is the bedroom/living room with futon and lamp.

Some menu buttons from the old version of my website, showing a person in glasses recursively holding a comic book, an outhouse, a comic store / shop, and trees & hills.

February 2006 events calendar cover for Flywheel, showing a man and woman in the mountains at night standing by a fire and listening to music emitted by a large stone statue head.