Tag: black and white

  • I Like Broad Nibs,

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    Breaking in a new fountain pen is one of the most satisfying experiences in art making. It starts as a stiff unrefined experience as the tines slowly begin to flex at a nearly imperceptable magnitude, and ink flows out onto the paper for the first time. It stops it and sputters the feed needs properly…

  • A Head Full of Fungus

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    Feed your head This pen and ink drawing of a group of mushrooms growing from a skull was a very quick fun sketch. The drawing was done in Noodler’s Black Eel ink with a Pilot Metropolitan fine nib. I enjoyed experimenting with a some new textures in the background and on the mushrooms. This one…

  • The Hourglass of Saturn

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    Some Questions What if time were a constant governed by a mechanical device? What if somewhere from deep in the pleroma between Indra’s faceted jewel’s there was a perfect machine regulating the flow of immediate experience? How would it function? What would it look like? Some Thoughts The Hourglass of Saturn is a very literal…

  • The Pyramid and the Sphere

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    In the valley of the pyramids something waits below the cyclopian monuments. Buried by the ancients preceded by nothing on this planet and forgotten to modernity. It’s surface perfectly smooth worn down by the infinite cycles of the stars. The sphere under the pyramid is a hypothetical, unfalsifiable enigma like Schrodinger’s cat. The question of…