Jim O'Neil's photos

No significance, just a segment from last night's dream. Faber-Castell pens on Bee's 'Bogus Rough Sketch' 9 by 18 inch paper

New York City. Seventh Street and Avenue B. Early sixties. Vazak's Bar on the corner. Catholic church diagonally across.. Tompkin's Square Park across from the church. A greengrocer and other shops diagonally across from the park. A story behind this little sketch? You bet. There was this time I.... Crayola extreme colors pencil and crayola extreme colors crayons on 6 by 6 inch black card stock

It makes an interesting pattern. This was taken after ten at night by natural daylight, no flash. It's about a quarter cord of spruce out of an area I'm clearing, moving the trees farther away from the house.

Summer is.... summer! Faber-Castell brush-pens on 9 by 18 inch Bee's 'Bogus Rough Sketch' paper

Jeanne d'Arc was only 19 years old when they burned her. Faber-Castell brush-pens on 9 by 18 inch Bee's 'Bogus Rough Sketch' paper

A simple image subject to many interpretations. colored pencil and really really bright kids crayons on 6 by 6 inch black card stock.

Not based on the Beatles song but instead on the Japanese author's, Haruki Murakami's novel by that name, ノルウェイの森 (Noruwei no Mori). A coming of age, loss of innocence story set in the sixties (been there, done that) in Japan (been there but in my sixties, not the sixties). ;-) By the way; A movie version of the novel is scheduled for release, in Japan, December of this year. Hum. I just may try to be down there then so I can see it. By the way II: If, in the picture title you see, inside the parentheses, Question marks, squares or other garbage, instead of katakana and kanjii it is because you do not have a Japanese fount on your computer, sorry. Soft pastel on cheap construction paper 9 by 12 inches.

Forest fire burns Away the old for new growth, Rural renewal . Haiku 26 June 2010 The climax forest, here in the interior of Alaska, is the spruce. It has little undergrowth and supports very little life. A lightning strike, a raging fire and the dominant spruce is replaced by grasses and sledges, ...which are supplanted by bushes and willows that give way to alder and birch (the caribou, moose, bears, beaver, etc. all dine well in these non-spruce areas) that are ultimately replaced by spruce, the climax forest. A natural cycle of which the fire is a very necessary part. ink (applied with brush) and soft pastel on 12 by 12 inch colored stock

Deep in the darkness Fly all things that we most fear Lose them in the light! Haiku, 25 June 2010 on Ampersand 'scratchboard' (a kaolin clay ground coated with India ink), 5 by 7 inches

You've seen the Geico commercials? ink (with brush) & colored pencil on 5 b 8 inch colored stock.

My friend, here on flickr, shinsan was gently complaining about some visitors to his computer. Subsequently I gave him some advice. :-) colored pencil on black card stock 5 b 5 inches.

My lilacs are still in bloom and the bees and butterflys are quite happy about that.

Last evening, from my upstairs window, with the sun shining down from the west, it looked like there was a thin mist covering my driveway but.... as you can see in the closeup to the left, it was a layer of cottonwood seeds. Anyway, kinda cool!

Faber-Castell Pitt pens on 5 by 5 inch card stock

This morning's doodles while listening on the telephone. woodless colored pencil on colored stock

They are still in bloom! Koi Japanese watercolors on 5 by 7 inch Ampersand aquaboard (clayboard).

I haven't shopped at this store lately (they only sell meat in bulk lots and it's a bit more than I need these days), but when my kids were growing up, one moose and a couple of caribou from this shop would take care of all our family meat needs for a full year! Mixed media, colored pencil and watercolor on 9 by 12 inch 140 pound cold pressed paper.

Woodless colored pencil on Bee's 9 by 18 inch 'bogus rough sketch' paper