Paul Antonson

A drawing from the last page of my moleskin sketchbook – influenced by a Johnny Cash song and a so-so Polanski film with Johnny Depp as a rare book dealer who’s chummy with ~gulp~ Satan.

Woman reading a magazine article entitled ‘Celebrity Feuds’/Jazz musician in Washington Sq. Park

We ate two delicious chickens.

I’ve been working on a children’s book for a while, a story about a family camping trip and a furry beast lurking in the woods. Recently I finished up the drawings and the manuscript and started thinking about how to create the mockup to show to publishers (I’ve made these mockups in the past with a previous story – think glue-sticks and kinkos trips). I was pondering how to go about presenting my new story when I stumbled across the booklets Apple will printout from within iPhoto:

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This is the kind of drawing/painting one does after looking at Pieter Bruegel the Elder
drawings for a few days. I’m really hoping this is the week Rove gets frog-marched out of the White House… maybe he’ll be forced to hop if the authorities supplement his departure with ankle-cuffs.
This image isn’t as dynamic as the sketch in which the horses were galloping. Here they’re doing more of a mosey. After seeing it scanned in I realize I still need to improve some of the line work and shadows.

Here’s a quick color study of a drawing I may work up of Bush and his cronies riding the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. There would be Rove in prison stipes, skeletor-Rumsfeld, a cardiac-arresting Cheney and the naked idiot-emperor.

I’m nearing the end of my current moleskin sketchbook. I’m hoping my next sketchbook will be of finer paper quality and larger – but the moleskin’s not a bad way to go if I can’t find something better.

a drawing of my brother Jamie from the sketchbook… I need to log more time in the laboratory, more varied use of media and its application. The lab is covered in dust right now.

While in Maine this past week, my brothers Stephen, Jamie and I each did mutliple drawings/paintings of a piece of driftwood. The drawing above came from the sketchbook. The images below are from some of the photography/video sessions we managed between swimming, hiking, canoeing and exploring the woods w nephew Finn.