COFFEE…JOURNAL…refreshing isn’t it? Well, I thought so, that’s why I posted this for Illustration Friday’s word for the week.
Sometimes that’s all I need to start the day off right! A few words of thought and a few sips of enlightenment… I mean, coffee. The elixir of enlightenment. Well, some would say the elixir of irritable bowels and just plain irritable-ness! But I like that moment of “ahhh..” from my first sip.
Refreshing, isn’t it??
Oh the fun rides you could have if you owned a WHIZZER! But I don’t…and you don’t, unless…you do?
I drew this for Isaac because he’s been wanting to put a motor on a bike, and these are about the coolest things, and are pretty much the idea of what he wants. Well, really he’d love a motorcycle. Something to go with his fiercely independent wild side! Oh wait, he is always fiercely independent.
I’ve been thinking of a mildly independent little moped myself, because I’m not that fierce and I’m not that wild. Oh what a pair though, I think he’d leave me behind in the dust! Hah.
-Code Mush
Why don’t you can some of your toe jam?
Or add some phalanges to your already spectacular grape jam!! How about that??
–CODE MUSH
These two objects don’t really go together at all (tomato and coffee mug if you were wondering what those two objects were) but they were on my straw mat this morning as I was meditating. I advise that coffee really isn’t something you want to be drinking while trying to meditate. I simply just could not focus! Jitter bug that I am…
The tomato came from my very own tomato plant and it’s just about to turn red ( I pick them early because I have some pesky birds that will try to eat them if I don’t pick it early enough). I guess green tomatoes are bitter and so is black coffee…that would be the only correlation with the two (that and they come from some kind of plant). How do I turn those into a meditation practice? Well, I didn’t, I just turned it into an opportunity to draw!
It’s not too late to find random things and turn it into some creativity!
Do you know what happens when you mix a lot of rain, combined with an awesome vegetable garden? You get: GIANT CABBAGE HEAD!
Or when you eat entirely too much cabbage, go outside in the rain, and up sprouts a …GIANT CABBAGE HEAD!
Sometimes when you imagine a world full of nothing but awesome vegetable gardens with a large amount of awesome thunderstorms you get: GIANT CABBAGE HEAD!
okay…the key word is rain (oh and cabbage). So we’ve gotten a lot of rain and I purchased this giant cabbage from a local farm here outside of town ( http://texadus.com/) and I couldn’t believe the size of this thing (it was twice the size of my head). I was inspired instantly to draw a cabbage head. Actually I purchased this almost a month ago, had the idea since then but have procrastinated this long into drawing it. But…it’s real, it grew, and it became my head.
So…if you can imagine here with me a person sitting on a couch, a laptop in front of them, typing away at a blog with a giant cabbage for a head, then you’ve fully described…ME! and I’m not ashamed of it. Everything around me is suddenly all green, I taste dirt and cabbage…and please don’t get me near a sauna for fear I might become steamed cabbage head. I might just eat my own head. Oh, and don’t think about making me into coleslaw, this head ain’t for chopping!
—CODE MUSH
” Howdy!” –Bahama Mama Llama
Yes, this is an attempt to draw a llama. She was actually a llama I met and took a photo with. (an embarrassing photo…but, eh, I’ll post it for ya!). Do I know whether she was female or not?? …No, but she had a matriarchal quality about her. Plus, she looked full and pregnant to me. I really don’t know, she could have just been so full of food that people throw at her. I know that she was eyeballing my bag of feed that I had! But anyway, we’re going to assume she is a mama and her name is Bahama Mama Llama cause she’s quite the cool and sassy type! Her hair just cried for a brushing and a shaving, but you could tell she was just wild and carefree, like a bahama mama would be.
My pen was running out of ink and I’m too lazy to go out and buy a new one. Just to let you know, this won’t be the last time you see or hear from Bahama Mama Llama!! or…Bahama Llama Mama…both sound pretty good to me.
So…to take a break from my failing series of faces (referring to last post’s drawing), I went back to more dreams of fish. and it’s not such a loss because it gives me practice on drawing fish and color schemin’s (I made a word up)…so yay for me! I am getting better at drawing everyday if I practice. And this is from someone who did take drawing classes in college. and drew incessantly in high school..SO..I hope you like it. Now, I just wish I had taken painting. But for code mush this is okay. Here is the painting from another angle:
I love to draw faces. I think that’s what I immediately want to draw when pen and paper are at my grasp…I am currently working on a series of faces. “mushy faces”…umm…I’m not sure what I’ll call it. But here is a sample of my current project.
An artist with a mustasche!
Afraid to Speak!!
Code Mush 