This past weekend a friend showed me how to get “xp mode” up and running in Windows 7.  It actually isn’t already in the install – you have to jump through a few hoops and download some files to get it to work.   I’m experiencing some other problems with W7  (had to buy a new TV tuner for one thing) – but this post isn’t about that.  What this is about is the sketches from the last three or four months that I can scan in at home and put up on the site using my old CanoScan from (put on your space helmets, grab your flashlights and dim the lights!) the Year 2000 in xp mode.  So – here are the “better” sketches from (the first half of) moleskine #2.  These are all now in the “Drawings” section of the site as well.

 Obviously someone with less imagination would want to call this “the collector” – I plan on calling it…    ….dammit… “the collector” =(

  For some reason I keep coming back to two things in my sketches – “the noble savage” and “monsters vs. astronauts.” 

 This guy reminds me of some sort of Flash Gordon wizard… or something….

That last one “sky pilot” was turned into a large painting – which I guess I’ll call done at this point.  I took it off the easel yesterday and started a new painting, but it just doesn’t seem finished – so I’m going to take a break from it.  I struggled (as I always do) to come up with a background.  You’ll notice none of my sketches ever exist in any particular space – so when it comes time to paint I have to plop them down somewhere – and it is very tough to figure out what to do.  With these fellows I decided to have them skimming across a large body of water with “misty mountains” in the background.  Not sure if that came across in the actual painting (not sure if it matters).   I will probably put up the painting in a few weeks.