The Near-Sighted Monkey

Comics Room, Sunday. Classmate Rabbit is working on this weeks strip. I’m just enjoying being with my students on a sweet afternoon like this. @uw_artdept @uwmadison #uwmadison https://www.instagram.com/p/CqRAnfpjA8M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Today in the Comics Room. This is our second day of brush and ink. Today we are playing with gray tones. I’m in heaven when I see this work, each line evidence of a hand in motion using a stick with hair attached dipped in what is basically some variation of soot in watered-down saliva, which is a long way of saying our relationship to making ink and brush pictures is very old. Here is evidence of how hands moved paint brush and ink during today’s Making Comics 1 class. @uwmadison @uw_artdept https://www.instagram.com/p/CqG-jbfjeMf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Ink and brush. @uwmadison @uw_artdept https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGRKaIApML/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Poem https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_MMSkLQWj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Poem: T’was a Sunday before Easter. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_HnSUuGHM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🎶hey… did you happen to see..🎶🎶🎶 the most beautiful cat in the world🎵🎵🎵❤️🎶🎶 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6QNn2DDKQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

There is a book to draw in on the kitchen counter and I do. Sometimes I’m just drawing for the feeling it gives me which is like the feeling roller skating gave me and knitting and crocheting and needle pointing gives me. It’s a radio. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6QJwjrHPU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Pages from compbook. Once I decided to keep everything in one notebook I found a partner and participant in keeping the words and pictures and ephemera that are part of day to day life. That feeling I have about wanting to write something or draw something or make notes about something or glue something down— my composition notebook holds all of it. It’s a place. A time and space. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp1PP9mOuiM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I keep finding notes Like this whenever I lift a pile of books or sort stacks of mail or piles of paper. I dig this one. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvN_-HOrG5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

30 seconds of Southern Wisconsin on day one of Spring Break. Whooooo!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpm_i74jank/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dear Beloit College Students, here are the instructions for the exercise we did on Tuesday. Remember that you can do this exercise using fictional characters too, as a way to get to know them. @beloit_college #beloitcollege https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpl2Bixu709/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Me: Draw yourself on a skateboard like you know how to skateboard. In THREE minutes. GO! My students: (no hesitation!) @beloit_college #beloitcollege https://www.instagram.com/p/CplwoNlrniI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dearest Beloit College students, I have the drawings you made of yourself on a skateboard. They were tucked into my compbook and I just found them. I’m so happy I overlooked them because how wonderful it is to have our class right here with me, all of you on skateboards. @beloit_college #beloitcollege https://www.instagram.com/p/CplwKTxL69r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Teaching notes. Random. Spring semester, 2023 @beloit_college @uw_artdept @uwmadison https://www.instagram.com/p/CplutNbLT2M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=