duh of the week

when is the last time you saw a good toilet papering job like this? and in lakewood. nicely done!

local "spas"

moving pictures

crazy surprise storm

some hail showed up one evening last week, and the short storm gave us little relief from the high summer heat. there was a very pretty rainbow across the sky though. i was still at the studio, and these are pictures of the roof deck.

two days of alkaline washing

totally awesome and under $20

if you haven't been here, you need to go. our first visit was part of our holiday/birthday weekend. very relaxing, good food, happy people, and visually crazy but in a good way. plus, i'm pretty sure i sweat out about 5 pounds of toxins. hooray for king spa and sauna.

back to business

i haven't posted in a while...it's been another busy birthday week and CAC was closed for the fourth of july holiday. these are details of some drawings we just finished flattening today. i really like them.

texas sunrise, 6:41 AM

really really hard to capture with my average digital camera, on any setting. the sun was in fact a very bright red orange magenta, with lovely ripples across it. and huge. the biggest i've ever seen.

wildseed farms

this place is a short drive from my grandma's house in the hillcountry, and we visited this past weekend, on my birthday as a matter of fact. it's so beautiful, even in the heat (102 that day i think). we picked up some wildflower seeds there, which i'll plant in the fall in the sunny parts of our yard (wherever that yard might be) and hopefully they'll appear next spring. the best time to visit the farm is when all the poppies and bluebonnets are in bloom, making the 200 acres of land really colorful. it's the largest working wildflower farm in the united states, and such a dreamy spot.

modern fixatives

these beautiful charcoal drawings just came in. they are huge. the owner took them to a framer who sprayed some kind of a fixative on them, and the fixative turned white, as you can see in the detail. our job is to reverse that effect much as possible, and reintegrate the areas as best we can using charcoal...both tricky tasks. but we've had some interesting problems like this come through the lab lately, and are happy for the new problem solving challenges.