me and my Dad

thousand miles of bad road

"thousand miles of bad road"
30" x 22"
charcoal on vintage map
2009
©Lynn Hanson

Crows by Mary Oliver

CROWS
From a single grain they have multiplied.
When you look in the eyes of one
you have seen them all. At the edges of highways
they pick at limp things.They are anything but refined.
Or they fly out over the cornlike pellets of black fire,like overlords.
(Crow is crow, you say.What else is there to say?
Drive down any road,take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your old life behind,die and be born again—wherever you arrive
they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy
and indistinguishable.
The deep muscle of the world.

crow:mexico

dragonfly

spotted in the grass, stayed around for a very long time, then spun away

moon in the ditch

king corn

rattler: rattlesnake canyon to santa monica bay

rattler: rattlesnake canyon to santa monica bay
charcoal on vintage road map
©2009 Lynn Hanson

Thursday evening @ LA Louver: Rogue Wave

Matt Wedel

detail: Flower Tree, 2008
fired clay and glaze
77 x 43 x 45 in. (195.6 x 109.2 x 114.3 cm)

my mother's birthday is today

Happy Birthday Mom!

palette

working on an eight foot painting, listening to Tom Waits,
life is good

"studio" today, crow drawing for California Wildlife Center

drawing to donate to California Wildlife Center auction:
Mission: Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Release Imperiled Native Wildlife
http://www.californiawildlifecenter.org/home.html

studio July 2009 drawings

crows, rattlers, bat, rat, octopus,
& ed moses

LA Times Review of "Draw the Line" by Leah Ollman

studio June 2009 drawings

wolf & rattler

studio May 2009

in the cabbage patch

mojave: rotten peak

"made in california" exhibition
rumba, santa monica
opening june 25, 2009

pilgrimage: Los Angeles and Vicinity

draw the line
Lora Schlesinger Gallery June 13 - July 25, 2009

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/review-draw-the-line-at-lora-schlesinger-gallery-.html