Nightjar (Wayne Ferrebee, 2015, color pencil and ink)
It is 11:00 PM on Friday night after a long week and I have no blog post written. You know what that means! It’s time to take out my little book and post some of the frivolous sketches which I do on the train or at lunch. Since it is October and we are approaching the scary Halloween feature week, I have been doing some creepy otherworldly little drawings. Above is a nighttime laboratory with two mad scientists hard at work doing some transgenic modifications to various organisms. Ethereal spirit people drift by outside beneath the cold stars and various beasts and plants inhabit the spaces of the Gothic room not taken up by weird lab apparati. The seated scientist bears a striking resemblance to a particular Abrahamic deity, but perhaps he is just playing god (not that there is anything wrong with that). Only when I was done with the picture did I realize that the second scientist bears a striking resemblance to Rick from Rick and Morty (do you watch The Adventures of Rick and Morty? You should!).
Little Glowing Man in Pod (Wayne Ferrebee, 2015, colored pencil and ink)
In the second drawing, a little glowing man in a hyperbaric pod lands on a strange world as a many limbed beast cavorts atop his craft. The fronds of the creature’s vegetative back are a refuge for tiny green elf-like beings. A pulpy red sphere with a green top in the foreground may be a tomato…or a larval version of the creature. There is really nothing more to say about this image.
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October 10, 2015 at 1:00 AM
Beatrix
I miss Halloween.
Nepal’s version of Halloween has raucous boys setting off firecrackers, lighting bonfires, & beating loudly on old pots & pans at town gates to scare off the evil spirits & malicious ghost that return upon the Autumnal Equinox when the spirit & human worlds collide. The Maoists banned the festival as it tended to scare the Hell out of livestock & caused a few entire neighborhoods to burn down.
I’m liking ‘Nightjar’ a lot. Brilliant composition. Could you render it in oils in large scale so we can see all the lurid detail?
October 11, 2015 at 12:57 PM
Wayne
Nepalese Halloween sounds pretty great–like a cross between Halloween and Fourth of July! The fact that it scared Mao makes me think there might be something to the fundamental concept. My poor housecat would not like it though.
Thanks for the praise for Nightjar–maybe I do need to paint a laboratory scene…
October 11, 2015 at 5:09 PM
taidgh
Hi Wayne. I really enjoy your drawings! Love the colour. Thanks for sharing. Nightjar is excellent. Have you thought of submitting your sketches anywhere. The Magnolia Review are currently looking for submissions of art, poetry, and fiction. They might be up your alley.
Here’s the link: https://themagnoliareview.wordpress.com
October 12, 2015 at 3:55 PM
unclehugi
Rick and Morty for ever and a hundred years. I love the sketches, Wayne.
October 13, 2015 at 10:16 AM
Wayne
Thanks so much for the kind words. Also, how are we going to get through the time until next season?
October 12, 2015 at 4:28 PM
katesisco
And all this horror due to the long-held belief that this time of year allows the veil between this world and the other to thin and the other to affect this world. Samhein was the latest interpretation of this and since this comes from the Druids, It may have a bit of truth to it.
October 13, 2015 at 10:19 AM
Wayne
Are druids particularly honest? Maybe we need some in Congress…but perhaps they are not ready for that level of horror. 🙂 Whatever the case, the time between summer’s jpyful warmth and winter’s frozen misery does seem like a time when the veil is thin!