Bruce Hollister / brown sketchbook V2

Something new…

Fire Starter

Fire Starter

pen and ink
14×10
from my Brown (02)  sketchbook

Bruce Hollister / brown sketchbook

…this mortal part of mine…

from a poem by Robert Herrick

 

THE VINE.

I DREAM’D this mortal part of mine
Was Metamorphoz’d to a Vine;
Which crawling one and every way,
Enthrall’d my dainty Lucia.
Me thought, her long small legs & thighs
I with my Tendrils did surprize;
Her Belly, Buttocks, and her Waste
By my soft Nerv’lits were embrac’d:
About her head I writhing hung,
And with rich clusters (hid among
The leaves) her temples I behung:
So that my Lucia seem’d to me
Young Bacchus ravished by his tree.
My curles about her neck did craule,
And armes and hands they did enthrall:
So that she could not freely stir,
(All parts there made one prisoner.)
But when I crept with leaves to hide
Those parts, which maids keep unespy’d,
Such fleeting pleasures there I took,
That with the fancie I awook;
And found (Ah me!) this flesh of mine
More like a Stock then like a Vine.

pen and ink
14×10
from my Brown sketchbook

 

Bruce Hollister / brown sketchbook

Waltzing Matilda

…and the band played Waltzing Matilda…

pen and ink
14×10
from my Brown sketchbook

.. don’t ask me about the rabbit… it just sort of … appeared…

 

 

Bruce Hollister / brown sketchbook

been a while…

Pen and ink – on sketchbook paper

14×10

Bruce Hollister / Paintings on Paper

I love painting skeletons

Red Clavicle

14 x 20
Ink, collage, watercolor, and gouache on paper

Bruce Hollister / brown sketchbook

The Middle

these pages are half way through my brown sketchbook.

 

 

 

 

Bruce Hollister / loose leaf sketch

…I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres…

Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5

...I could a tale unfold...

Bruce Hollister / brown sketchbook

 

Right in the brainpan

Bruce Hollister / brown sketchbook

chicken butt

Bruce Hollister / brown sketchbook

this one is from Kuniyoshi (kind of…)

Princess Takiyasha summons a skeleton