Tag: drawing

drawing of legs + handwritten notes on how elements are formed in the heart of a star

[“hydrogen & helium clouds collapse under their own gravity; as they contract, the temperature rises such that nuclear fusion reactions begin, steadily converting hydrogen into more helium. This releases more heat, raising the pressure enough to counterbalance the gravitational collapse. Once all the hydrogen has been consumed (which happens more quickly in larger stars) the contraction begins again, and the according rise in temperature allows for the creation of still heavier elements (lithium, carbon, oxygen). However, the energy thereby released will not be enough to stabilise the star completely. Before its ultimate collapse into a dwarf or neutron star, it may undergo a massive explosion (supernova), flinging its gases/elements clear, perhaps to form other stars or planets over time.”]

I don’t remember making this and I’m not even sure how accurate these notes are.

Pencil sketch, digital colour.

naturally i took advantage of this undignified episode in that baby bird’s early career to make some sketches.

(pencil, pen & chalk on sugar paper)

resisting urge to tag this “tits”

Ephemera

1. this dinosaur has the distinction of being the ugliest of all my dinosaurs

2. osteospermum – not all flowers are beloved by poets

3. i am queen of holes

4. band poster i designed for these guys

5. cryptic list found in a second-hand copy of A Music Course For Students printed circa 1956. list reads:

Tennis racquet

Room at the top and another one

food

6 a second-hand book about technical drawing, inside of which i found

7 this highly technical drawing (reverse signed “D McLaughlin”)

8 i have spent so long dreaming of the summer sun that would bleach my soul clean like an old bone

Things I found and hoarded this month. I’m not sure what’s going on with me.

1. Packaging for a Luxury Short Wig the colour of Maud’s “Blue Surf” ice-cream, featuring an image of an uncomfortable woman being devoured by the all-consuming Void.

2. Cryptic appointment card for a hospital.

3. Handwritten list of conservatively-named show dogs (?) and their owners.

4. Envelope for a guitar string discarded in a bar by a bluegrass covers-band duo.

5. Concise message from a greetings card.

6. A receipt for diesel, dropped on the roof by a man that came to pick a fight with my satellite dish, lodged in which was

7. a dead bird.

8. This is a pen drawing of mine that I don’t remember making.