These last several years I’ve been drawing, almost exclusively, portraits. Portraits of famous people; artists, actors, authors I admire. The last two I completed were John Waters and Aubrey Plaza. For some reason after that I felt totally dried up on the subject. I’d just recently found myself single and w/no intentions of changing this status in the near or distant future. With plenty of emotional time to fill I needed something else to draw, FAST.
So back when I was a teenager, the things I drew, most often in a classroom on the blank side of a worksheet or test paper, were googly eyed things. It’s a subject that never left me uninspired. And that’s what I resorted to at the end of August, 2024.
I drew this Bouquet Of Frogs, and I really liked it! So then I did another, Abiogenisis, which actually got comments from people who saw it over my shoulder at the coffee shop. It’s like they’ve just been sitting around waiting to be drawn.
A couple pages a week. Practicing my pen & ink, keeping every line neat and exact. I enjoyed seeing what each would turn out to be even though I saw no use for them other than filling another page in the book.
They evolved into decorative borders. After several of these, I realized I had to do the alphabet.
Then I said, “These are neato! If I weren’t me I’d want these as magnets so as to spell things funny on MY fridge sometimes!” … is indeed what I said to myself.
Thus born the Normals.
Yesterday I sent them to print as magnets.
In a couple months I’ll have them to put up for sale, and I’m excited. February sometime.
So say hi. They’re Normals.
