Jim O'Neil's photos with the keyword: colored-pencil

Whimsical sketch while listening to the Grateful Dead's 'Candyman'. Woodless colored pencil on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper.

Sketched during last week's life drawing session. Woodless colored pencil on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper.

Woodless colored pencils on colored card stock

Hum, wonder if I should send this to the 'manhole cover' group. ;-) A 3 a.m. doodle, colored pencil on 12 by 12 inch colored card stock.

So! Day before yesterday I started re-reading Long John Nebel's 'Way Out World' (published 1962). Long John was a very late night talk show host on NYC's station WOR. As a boy and a bit living in NYC's East Village back then I'd often listen to him and Jean Shepherd, another late night talk show preceding Long John's. Long John was a carnie talker ( carnival barker) always pulling you in to the tent to see the bearded lady, the two headed calf and other sights to amaze and enlighten you while Shepherd was Garrison Keillor long before Garrison Keillor was Garrison Keillor. Subsequently, yesterday, I goggled Neble and Shepard and found and was listening to a number of audio tracks from their shows back in the day. While listening I did this cartoon/sketch; The Talk Show Host. Brought back a lot of great memories from the early sixties…. Colored pencil on 12 by 12 inch card stock.

This weeks Every Day Matters Challenge was draw Something Under Water so.... A few years ago, the 1950s to be exact, when I was growing up in Florida the University of Miami had an underwater painting course. Colored pencil and a little soft pastel on 12 by 12 inch card stock

As noted, EDM challenges 305 and 306 are, respectively, 'draw something huge' and 'draw a snack'. Subsequently I replied to both challenges with one sketch of muktuk! I know, I know, many of you living below the 64th parallel are asking; "Hey Jim, uh, what is muktuk?" OK, I'll be glad to explain; Muktuk is raw whale blubber. Hey, whales are huge, right? Hey, muktuk is a tasty snack right? You've never tasted muktuk? Oh well… So! You're sittin' around with your homies in Savoonga, Barrow, or some other Eskimo village. Somebody passes you a big chunk of muktuk. You sink your teeth in to a corner, pull the rest away from your face, and, with your sheath knife, cut the piece your teeth are holding off the big chunk, being careful, of course, not to cut off your nose or lips in the process. pass the big chunk on to the next guy and…. chew and… chew and… chew and chew! Yes, it is a bit chewy. Personally I like my muktuk with a little Grey Poupon mustard. Muktuk may not be to everyone's taste but it really is a great high energy snack. I remember occasions when I've done stupid and let myself get cold when out hunting at -40° (not a good idea!) taken a bite of muktuk and felt the heat pour back in to my body! Most probably won't get to taste muktuk, as it can't be sold and only Eskimos can hunt whale, -but they can share it with friends, thank goodness, -else I wouldn't have had the chance to eat it. So just take my word for it, it is a tasty snack! It's a good thing I proofed this before posting; I found I sometimes above wrote 'mukluk' (boot) instead of 'muktuk' (blubber). Mukluk tasty? That would have been a different story! -grin- Colored pencil on 12 by 12 inch card stock.

colored pencil & pastel on Bee's 'bogus' rough sketch paper

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成). He was born 1899 and died in 1972. A writer of world renown, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. -one of the few Nobel prizes that has not been trivialized and still, in my opinion, has great honor attached to it. He is respected in his own country as well as abroad. His short story, 'The Dancing Girl of Izu' (伊豆の踊子 izu no odoriko)) , 1926, gained him his first critical acclaim. An English translation is available in a book by that title published by Counterpoint Press, ISBN 1887178945. Portrait; colored pencil, Kanji; done in ink. On card stock, 12 by 12 inches.

just a passing thought....

I've no idea why this subject came to mind, I don't/didn't play nor watch polo. Woodless colored pencil on colored stock. 12 by 12 inches.

風 The weight of the wind, Burden of no consequence, For those who are young. Haiku 2010 Ink, brushed, and colored pencil on colored stock, 12 by 12 inches.

Woodless colored pencil on colored (marbled) stock, 4 by 5 inches

I've some planting to do. Woodless colored pencil on 6 by 6 inch black stock.

Of course the beer bottle is a wee bit crooked, they get that way after a few are emptied. :-) Marker and colored pencil on 9 X 12 inch colored stock.

Morning coffee is alchemy! colored pencil on 8 1/2 by 11 inch cheap construction paper.

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

Hum. Some day I'll have to tell you a shaman story, like about Emmonak, where the black fish gather... OK, I'll tell it now.... Hey, you want to hear shaman story? Youbetya? OK by golly, I'll tell you story: Long long time ago, nobody here, just the people, no white men, no snow machines, no four wheelers, plenty fish, plenty birds, plenty game, plenty of mosquitoes! Good life, good fishing good hunting, the people were happy. Tell the time, you look at the sky. So. Come a day one of the people would look up and say, "Hey, it's fish time!" and all the people would pack up, the elders, the children, everybody and head to Emmonak, the place where the black fish gather, and set up fish camp. So fishing was good, everybody full and happy... but one of the elders started telling how when he was young and everybody came here the mosquitoes were not as many were not as bad, did not bite as hard. Well the people all started talking; "Hey, it's good here, fish are plenty, weather's fine but the mosquitoes!" So they grumbled and complained and grumbled and finally went to the shaman. The shaman said; "Hey what's up?" The people tell him; "Life is real good here, the fishing is good, weather's fine but can you do somthin' about those darn mosquitoes?" The shaman asked; "You want me to get mosquitoes to stop biting?" The people say; "Yes!" The shaman asked: "You sure, are you really really sure?" The people say: "Yes, yes, yes!" So the shaman tells them OK, if that's what you want I will do it and he takes out his magic seal bone needle and he takes out his magic caribou sinew thread, and he calls the mosquitoes one by one and he sews their little beaks shut. So. That season the fishing was good, the people were happy and hauled in all winter's supply of fish and the mosquitoes didn't bite! All summer the mosquitoes did not bite and the people were happy. Well, the next year, one of the people looked up and said, "Hey, it's fish time!" and all the people packed up, the elders, the children, everybody and headed to Emmonak, and set up fish camp. They got there, they found no mosquitoes but also they found no fish! They fished and fished and fished all season but they got no fish, the people would be hungry come winter! Finally they said: "Hey this is not right, we need to ask the shaman to fix it!" So the did. The shaman said: "Hey what's up, the mosquitoes are gone aren't you happy?" The people said: "No we're not! There are no fish." The shaman said: "Of course there are no fish, the fish eat the mosquitoes and you asked me to take care of the mosquitoes so I did!" The people said: " uh-oh, we did not know that, please please can you bring the mosquitoes back?" The shaman said: "You want me to?" The people said: "Yes." The shaman said: "Are you sure?" The people said: "Yes, yes, yes!" The shaman said he could, the shaman said he would. He took out his magic raven feather and the ash of magic caribou sinew thread, blew the ash in to the air and waved the raven feather to send it all flying all over the world! Well the magic dust dissolved the thread and the mosquitoes started eating and breeding again. That winter the people were hungry, but next year and all years thereafter up until today, this very year, every single year the black fish and the mosquitoes, and the people returned to Emmonak and the people are happy! colored pencil on 6"X6" black stock