Major Errata XII

Sketchbook, Dec10

That Magician sure has a stupid look about him, wouldn't you say?

Pilot Precise V5 Rolling Ball, Extra Fine. (Black, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, red and pink ink).

Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Marker (Yellow ink).

Faber-Castell Goldfaber 1221 2B Pencil.

5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

5 The Heirophant

0 The Fool

1 The Magician

That's it! No more! For a while, at least...

Next time there will be a caption contest.

Major Errata XI

Sketchbook, Dec10

Gradually expanding my materials list.

Of the Major Errata, Judgement is my best work. Hands down.

Pilot Precise V5 Rolling Ball, Extra Fine. (Black, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, red and pink ink).

Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Marker (Yellow ink).

Faber-Castell Goldfaber 1221 2B Pencil.

5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

2 The High Priestess

20 Judgement

3 The Empress

Major Errata X

Sketchbook, Dec10

New pens! Now in color!

Pilot Precise V5 Rolling Ball, Extra Fine. (Black, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, red and pink ink)

Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Marker (Yellow ink)

5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

4 The Emperor

11 Justice

10 The Wheel of Fortune

Pilot V5's are probably my favorite type of pen. When I get a hold of one, I tend to use it and use it and use it until it's all gone. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Light from the Firmament

I have had a revelation...

...Concerning these robots. I did not know their names, but now I know that the one on the top is from the Tetragrammatron Series. Model number currently unknown. He is made of silver and gold. The fembot's name is still hidden to me, but I have discovered that she is made of lead.

CONFIRMED.

Furthermore, 01000001 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100111 01110011 00100000 01101101 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110011 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01100100 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101100 01100100 00101100 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100001 01111001 00101110.

Still not sure how that whale got out there.

Major Errata IX

Sketchbook, Dec 10

What a disaster today. The Pilot G-2 is a terrible drawing pen. The Hanged Man is included only for completeness. The Hermit was redeeming. The last sketch can be blamed on no pen; I ran out of steam. But yet, I like how it turned out. So there it is.

Pilot G-2 07 Retractable, gel-point (fine) rolling ball, black ink.

5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

12, The Hanged Man.

9, The Hermit.

Fuck, Fuck You, fuck this shit.

Oo-ooh, child, things are gonna get brighter.

Major Errata VIII

Sketchbook, Dec 10
Strength is another favorite, of the monochromes.

1.0mm, Retractable ballpoint (medium), blue ink. (The Devil, Strength)
Pilot G-2 07 Retractable, gel-point (fine) rolling ball, black ink. (The World)
5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

15, The Devil.

8, Strength.

21, The World.

I do not like drawing with the Pilot G-2. It's a fine writing pen, but very difficult to handle when drawing. In fact it can be pretty atrocious, as tomorrow's post will show.

Major Errata VII

Sketchbook, Dec 10
Finishing the digression.

1.0mm, Retractable ballpoint (medium), blue ink.
5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

Ace, Swords

Ugh.
What an embarassment!! (sic)

Ace, Wands

Major Errata VI

Sketchbook, Dec 10
Making an errand into the Minor Errata.

1.0mm, Retractable ballpoint (medium), blue ink.
5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

No, Um...
Oh, Forget It.

Ace, Pentacles

Ace, Cups

Major Errata V

Sketchbook, Dec 10
Temperance is a personal favorite, from these monochromatic sketches.

1.0mm, Retractable ballpoint (medium), blue ink.
5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

13 Death, 18 The Moon.

14 Temperance

I'm Older Than You.

Major Errata IV

Sketchbook, Dec 10

1.0mm, Retractable ballpoint (medium), blue ink.
5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

16 The Tower R

19 The Sun

Errant

Major Errata III

Sketchbook, Dec 10
Things are starting to heat up!

1.0mm, Retractable ballpoint (medium), blue ink.
5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

6 The Lovers

7 The Chariot

Major Errata II

Sketchbook, Dec10
O wery ghost, that errest to and fro. (Chaucer, 1374)

1.0mm, Retractable ballpoint (medium), blue ink.
5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

Aw, Hell.

Notes:

major a. and sb.²

[adopted from Latin mājor, used as comparative of magnus "great", to the root of which it is referred by most philologists, thought the phonology is not quite clear.]

magnum sb.

[sb. use of neut. sing. of Latin magnus "great".]

1. A bottle containing two quarts of wine or spirits; also, the measure of liquor contained in such a bottle.

Major Errata I

Sketchbook, Dec10

1.0mm, Retractable ballpoint (medium), blue ink.
5.5" x 8.5" 65 lb acid free paper.

17 The Star

Knight, Swords

Knight, Wands

Introductory Notes:

err v.
† 1. To ramble, roam, stray, wander. Obs.

Perspectives:
1632 Quarles Div. Fancies The World's a Book.. 'Tis falsly printed, though divinely penn'd, And all th' Errata will appear at th' end.
1691 Norris Pract. Disc. God.. upon a Solemn Review of his Works ..found not one Erratum in the whole Book of Nature.

arcane a.
[adapted from Latin arcānus, formed with arcē-re "to shut up", arca "chest"; compare French arcane.]
Hidden, concealed, secret.
1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref., To Reveal the Arcane Mysteries of Atheism.

United States of Anxiety.

Hey America, I know shit's bad right now.

Oil on Canvas board, 2010.

It's gotta get worse before it gets better.

But don't worry, it'll all be okay.

This is the type of work I should be doing on cardboard boxes from the United States Postal Service. Mostly I was just experimenting with sgraffito. The canton turned out well.

Year of our Lord

Two Thousand Eleven.

I usually don't make New Year's resolutions because the middle of the winter does not feel like an appropriate turning point. I make resolutions in the Spring, like the citizens of the Roman Republic. If they were into that kind of a thing.

This time the Kalends of Janus felt like a turning point. Seasons change and so do I. As a matter of public record, and for the purposes of auditing, I have made four New Year's Resolutions fit to publish.

1. Hold down a job for +6 months (&or go back to school).
2. Move out.
3. Get serious about building a nascent art career. (&Or go back to school.)
4. Read the ~52 unfinished/unread books I'm sitting on.

Notes:

One and three are likely. Four is doable. Two is a dream, but it's good to dream.

How many turning points can you have before you end up back where you started?