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phew!

came out with four new ones that need some inkwash or color

Ink drawing of anti-trump protesters encouraging honks in downtown Middlebury, Vermont

heading to participate in my first plein air 😬 i’m hoping to capture some scenes from the no kings day presence in middlebury, and judging from jericho’s turn out, they’ll be one.

wes boosted:

Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine – and We Should Too

https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

Every word in this article speaks directly to my soul. I have no desire to burn down the world we live in yet every desire to try and help bring about the kind of world I want to live in: a kinder, fairer, more equal and – to steal a phrase from the piece – more joyous one for us all.

#anarchism #SmallTech #SmallWeb

The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they've done is regarded as embarrassing-for them to have to sit in assemblies in which no one listens to them, to go on living among us without any special privileges in full awareness of the harm they have done. If we fantasize about anything, let us fantasize about making our movements so strong that we will hardly have to kill anyone to overthrow the state and abolish capitalism. This is more becoming of our dignity as partisans of liberation.

So we repudiate the logic of the guillotine. We don't want to exterminate our enemies. We don't think the way to create harmony is to subtract everyone who does not share our ideology from the world. Our vision is a world in which many worlds fit, as Subcomandante Marcos put it—a world in which the only thing that is impossible is to dominate and oppress.

Anarchism is a proposal for everyone regarding how we might go about improving our lives-workers and unemployed people, people of all ethnicities and genders and nationalities or lack thereof. The anarchist proposal is not in the interests of one currently existing group against another: it is not a way to enrich the poor at the expense of the rich, or to empower one ethnicity, nationality, or religion at others' expense. That entire way of thinking is part of what we are trying to escape. All of the
"interests" that supposedly characterize different categories of people are products of the prevailing order and must be transformed along with it, not preserved or pandered to.

From our perspective, even the topmost positions of wealth and power that are available in the existing order are worthless. Nothing that capitalism and the state have to offer are of any value to us. We propose anarchist revolution on the grounds that it could finally fulfill longings that the prevailing social order will never satisfy: the desire to be able to provide for oneself and one's loved ones without doing so at anyone else's expense, the wish to be valued for one's creativity and character rather than for how much profit one can generate, the longing to structure one's life around what is profoundly joyous rather than according to the imperatives of competition.

always liked this photo from last summer.

painted on a bigger format than i was used to.

#urbansketching #watercolor #art

foolish of me to assume i’d have the energy to do some sketches during downtime of talking to users all day @ #redhatsummit. next week maybe.

interior of a tech conference with 20-30 people, red carpet beneath and warehouse ceilings. The banner above this particular booth says experience zone.

*N.Y.

side of camp on the st. lawrence river in nt

i finished my little 6x9 sketchbook. this is my first attempt in a bigger one and i wanted to get that rough-edge-of-the-painting look.

#urbansketching #art #watercolor

Watercolor and pen painting sketch of the side of a seasonal cabin with a river in the background.

my last submission for the april fundraiser 🎉

i need some practice on cars - these two made me realize the straight lines of buildings come much easier.

#urbansketching #art #shetch #vermont

Pen and ink sketch of a walkway and Library drop off box in the foreground and a winding road and town park in the background

gah, upset i missed the opp to see vermont’s comedy darling tonight https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KJZZxU1ejv0

here’s one from walking the new pup. thought this scene was pretty and the water and chaos of the grasses challenging

#artyear #drawing #watercolor #urbansketching

pen and ink watercolor drawing sketch of looking down at my feet above a short culvert where water is flowing from a small stream into, i’m holding a dog leash

helped out this week doing some farm chores for a neighbor. it was rainy and a blast.

#sketch #urbansketching #artyear #watercolor #barns

Ink and watercolor, drawing painting of inside a barn, including objects, kids, Mickey Mouse chair, white bucket, green sled, pile of hay, dark shadows

where i spend most of my time

#remote #art #macbook #urbansketching

pen, ink, watercolor, cartoonish illustration of my remote work-from-home set up, featuring a MacBook, split mechanical keyboard, and other office clutter in front of a window overlooking green grass and blue sky.

local orgs are still doing their thing. burlington’s conservation group is prepping for spring events and sharing nature cams in our time of need.

https://vimeo.com/1075833792?share=copy

thanks @srfirehorseart. fairly unusual. i'm in vermont where you never know what march or april will bring

cataloging (with color!) when we got six inches this april.

#rural #art #urbansketching #drawing

Pen, ink, watercolor, cartoonish drawing of my back porch covered in snow. With footsteps going into the yard, shadows from the deck, railing, and a blue sky.

i thought i should learn to draw our new pup; although she never sits still, so i either have to wait for nap time or work from a photo, which i did here.

today makes it three weeks of having her. tomorrow we go to the vet and hopefully learn her breed.

#rural #urbansketching #pupper

@ryan @wesleymiles thanks Ryan! pen, inkwash, and some watercolor

Golden hour light slammed through the kitchen window yesterday, making our yellow bowl glow. I sat down to capture it and some clutter. I've been working from photos a lot, but without them, studying shadows reminded me how fast the sun moves!

#urbansketching #artyear