finally finished today.

i wasn’t sure what was going on exactly with this drawing while i was drawing it. i just added whatever images came to mind. even after i finished, i still don’t really know what’s going on. that’s the way i usually work. most of my drawings have just a couple of figures on a blank background. this time, i continued adding things on one sheet of paper and placed them in a landscape. i wish i had a bigger paper. i could have kept going.

a couple of weeks ago, i invited a local artist, dave geary to my apartment for coffee. we’ll be doing a show together next spring at a gallery in saskatoon. so we get together sometimes to talk about what we would like to do. i’m so glad and lucky to be able to do a show with him.

dave told me about a game called “exquisite corpse“. we played the game over coffee. it was fun. you never know what the result will be.

that game must have been at the back of my mind when i did this drawing. i was playing the game by myself. i didn’t fold the drawing paper. but i imagined my mind being folded. every time i opened the skin of my mind, random images showed up. i just placed the images on paper.

my mind is quite random. my mind is everywhere, so i don’t make much sense when i talk. but for some reason, it all makes sense on paper.

it’s growing + growing out of nowhere…

basically it’s expanding.

and stones.

it’s 1:30am now. drawing on my kitchen table. it’s not finished yet.

i started yesterday. no clue what’s happening.

the baby i drew looks sadder and rather pouting than the baby on the photo i drew from.

i like those pouting faces in general.

i wanted to draw trucks for a long time. so i went to the library the other day and found a kid’s book called “diggers and dump trucks”. perfect. it has photographs of different types of trucks from a bulldozer to a tunneling loader. the one i chose was called backhoe, which has a shovel at the front and a bucket at the back. the backhoe in the book was in yellow but i changed it to green and i got rid of the bucket.

i think this drawing might make my nephew happy. he’s a big fan of trucks.