This is Jack and Seth sitting by the campfire. The sketch below it is my idea of what the cereal box sketch book might look like.
A scene from last month at our good friends’ house. Everyone was encouraged to pitch tents in the backyard by the pool (that’s ours in the background – you may recognize it from previous camping posts). Wonderful idea, great weekend. I hope they do it again next year!
He’s a great pet; about 25 inches long and loves to eat grass.
Not far from our home. Nice shady spot for a bite to eat and a sketch.
A couple of notes: 1. She was moving so fast it was hard to capture in a sketch, and 2. Her skirt isn’t quite that short — I don’t know what happened, maybe the old fear of the edge of the paper syndrome…
My old car receiving better treatment than it probably deserves.
Oh yeah, I have a blog!
I could say that work has been busy and time has gotten away from me and I haven’t had much time for posting lately, but that would sound like an excuse, which it is. Anyway — new year, new ideas, new posts.
I’m not much for resolutions; sometimes they’re successful, sometimes not so much. But this year, instead of a resolution, I want to try out a theme, and the theme, if you haven’t guessed, is “inspiration“. I’m going to set my mind on being inspired and hopefully being inspiring; of finding and rediscovering old inspirations as well as discovering new ones; of finding artists who inspire me, techniques, software, images, music, movies, associations – both personal and professional, activities, ideas… anything.
Inspiration is a good mode or aspiration or idea for an artist because, among other things, it brings with it excitement, enthusiasm and, as a friend told me on new years eve, a deliberate openness. That’s all good. It’s a nice way of thinking, I hope something fun and good comes from it!
We went to the Henry Miller Library to see Black Francis in concert there. It’s a great venue to see music. A couple years back we had seen John Doe and Peter Case there. Very small, intimate venue – folding chairs on the grass, probably a couple hundred people max. I was not familiar with Black Francis, but was informed by my wife and cousin Jerry that he was in the Pixies. It was a great show, and a nice experience only a couple miles from the campsite.
Anthony Zierhut 
