“Top Hat”
June 22nd, 2010
pastel on museum board
two things
May 22nd, 2010one: to repel flies while working in the garden, tie lemon balm in your hair or rub it into your skin. I do this frequently, because I don’t like commercial sprays, and the buzzing and biting of flies is annoying
two: when creating a work of art, capture the essence of the idea or the subject, then stop—in this case, the greenery in the hair. to continue on to complete the face would have been fine, but it also would have changed the focus. once the art becomes more developed, it’s easy to forget the original inspiration. if I had gone on to create a full painting, I would have put the lower portion of the face in shadow
this is a visual journal sketch, drawn quickly because the garden was calling
ballpoint pen & acrylic on paper
cover art
May 7th, 2010
“Athena and Odysseus” For Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne
acrylic with oil wash on rag board
the misstep
April 22nd, 2010walked beneath the half-moon night
half in shadow, half in light
Orion raised his spear at me
suspended in eternity
trampled on a daffodil
in the dark side, in the chill
bent to touch the fragments tossed
feeling for the life I’d lost
here was simple tenderness
gone
one step, unseen, amiss
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© 2010 by troy howell
“Cloudy”
April 5th, 2010
pastel on museum board
to do to day
March 26th, 2010empty pencil sharpener
scrape palette
stretch canvas
adjust skylight-
unlock trunk
catch dreams—
feed dragon
ALL THE NEWS UNFIT TO PRINT / 8th edition
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Bed poses as double
U-turn lane declares, “My turn”
FOR SALE: Persian rug complete w/ Persian cat (one-piece set)
Spotlight sees floaters
Senator denies denying denial
Slinky signs StairMaster endorsement
Elephant walkathon issues “Dung happens” stickers
Junior Potato Head peels with laughter
Literary news: Hamlet fails Q and A test
Archives: Elvis donates foot-long sideburns to charity auction
And the Good News Award goes to: Chicken gets to other side, safely
The first composers of spring
March 11th, 2010It’s midnight, and down in the hollows come songs from the mud.
The reason for my absence
February 14th, 2010
The blizzard of 2010. Fallen trees, havoc on the roads, extensive power outages. We hunkered down, feeding the wood stove, which was our only source of heat, until the sun returned. See the photos, here. The last snowfall of this magnitude in the DC area was over a 100 years ago.