Petroglyphs: Journal of Antiquities

Petroglyph: Petro-combined form, meaning rock or stone; Glyphs-a shallow vertical channel or carved fluting. (Greek- glyphein: to carve)

After a recent movie night, where I watched
the DVD of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
I decided that a Journal of Antiquities
would be a fun project.  Indie's dad, Henry Sr.,
had spent years creating

a research journal of all the clues

to finding the Holy Grail. Of course it was
chased  all the way through the movie
and passes through many hands,
both villain and hero...

cryptic clues, diagrams and

drawings make it pretty cool...

I purchased a small journal with
pages 3 1/2" x 5 1/2 ".

I began my search for treasure in a
reference book in our local library.
Amazing diagrams, photos,

maps and explanations fill the book...

Native Americans taking the time to
carve these in stone with
primitive tools must have been

a labor of love, or perhaps
a search for power...

The author of the book didn't claim to know

what these human figures represented.

I have to say it looks to me like there

is some hanky-panky going on!

Perhaps a fertility drawing?

~~~

My antiquities 'research' will continue as

I am fond of ancient cultures and their art:

Egyptian, Mayan, Native American.

There may be some European religious Icons to

be drawn and admired.

Take the journey with me...

Scrappy Journal

Looking back, moving forward...

Well said, Vincent...

Graffiti Dragon

Highlighter and marker in

visual art journal. Copyright DBC 2011.

Trying out "Graffiti style" lettering

and drawing. I was thinking of

'Puff the Magic Dragon'

but realized there could be

other unintentional connotations...

I'm not a tobacco (or otherwise) smoker,

so just think of this as fire-breathing

dragon smoke.

Very reminiscent of my art work

when I worked for a Tee-shirt

transfer company.

Not exactly like graffiti, but a fun experiment.

I wouldn't be fast enough to actually

paint a 'tag' on anything 

without getting caught...not into

danger, vandalism, or gang signs, 

but definitely intrigued by street art.

I often wonder what it would be like

to put my work over one of those

ugly billboards beside the freeway?

Art Journal Collage

More pages in the 

Scrappy Green Journal created by

Elizabeth of Altered Book Lover.

I enjoy getting to work

on the substrates that she

made as they are often 

unexpected and stretch my

skills in new ways.

The square with bird & Tweet is

a pocket which can hold 

tags or other bits of

ephemera.  I don't "Tweet"

but couldn't resist the 

word and the bird together...

I've never outgrown paper dolls.

These are a couple that I just

did this week. Maybe it's silly

but it's "my party, and I'll make

paper dolls if I want to."

This one has a fashion magazine

face, drawn over with marker.

I drew the face on this one--

it has a watercolor background,

stamping, drawing, and a 

wallpaper scrap glued on.

In other news, I got a small journal in which 

to start making mysterious drawings 

and diagrams, ala Henry Jones.

(Indiana Jones dad)

I am going to start with diagrams of 

Native American glyphs from

the Ohio river area...

who knows what treasures will

be uncovered?