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Levitating a Small Guitar

  Levitating a Small Guitar - sketch by douglas brent smith (probably 1991). "Do you think that he could levitate a large guitar, that is to say, a normal sized guitar as well?" "No doubt. It might take some practice, though." "Does it come naturally?" "It comes with practice." "That is more like a ukulele than a guitar." "Nope. It has six strings. Guitar." "Small" "But he could also levitate a large guitar. Maybe one wasn't available." "Well, you've got to start someplace." "Yes." - dbS - 

Badminton

  Badminton, sketch by douglas brent smith, 1991 It is only a doodle. A quick sketch that started out as a space ship but somehow ended up looking like a badminton birdie. Still, I like it, so here it is. 

Angel Wall

  Angel Wall - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1991

Face In The Crowd

  Face In The Crowd - pen and marker drawing by douglas brent smith, 1989 At the buttom of the drawing you can see the effect of water on the paper. I feel lucky that my journals weren't more severely damaged or even burned completely up in the fire at Elm Street. I spent hours afterwards drying them out in the sun on a trampoline, carefully turning page by page and giving each page some drying time. This is from journal #26. I was up to journal #41 at the time. Fortunately, not all of them were drenched.  

Mineral Wealth

  Mineral Wealth - River Gold - drawing by douglas brent smith, 1989 This is an imaginary (so far) record album cover, drawn back when album covers still mattered, when they still helped to sell recordings, when they represented additional enjoyment for the music. I never had a band named Mineral Wealth, but I think it's a great name for a band and the name of the album, "River Gold" makes it seem like a greatest hits collection. Imagine that. Greatest Hits albums were far more important in 1989 than they are at the moment when streaming one song at a time is much more common. In a way, it's all one continuous "greatest hits" parade. The colors in this sketch were effected by water damage to the journal that occurred during the fire on Elm Street in 2008. A lot more than this whimsical picture was harmed in that fire. - dbS - 

Egg On A Walk At Koranda Palace

Egg On A Walk At Koranda Palace - mixed media sketch by douglas brent smith, 26 December 1987  

A Formal Evening

  A Formal Evening -- mixed media sketch by douglas brent smith

Your Face

 Your Face, sketch by douglas brent smith, 1983

One Instant In The Brain

  One Instant In The Brain -- mixed media by douglas brent smith

Chaos In The Middle

  Chaos In The Middle - sketch by douglas brent smith (with help from Christopher Morgan Cizewski Smith.

A Cast of Thousands at Play

 A Cast of Thousands at Play -- sketch by douglas brent smith

With Greater Detail

  With Greater Detail - mixed media by douglas brent smith

A Cast of Thousands

  A Cast of Thousands (partial close-up) - sketch by douglas brent smith

Dream Birds Over Pulaski

  Dream Birds Over Pulaski - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1985

Tango Rango

  Tango Rango - sketch by douglas brent smith

Dangerous Art - 1984

 Dangerous Art - 1984 - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1984

Window Box 1984

  Window Box, 1984 - drawing by douglas brent smith, 1984

Happy Faces On Parade

  Happy Faces on Parade - sketch by douglas brent smith

Hairy Ape

  Hairy Ape -- mixed media sketch by douglas brent smith, 1984

bizarre ensemble duo

 bizarre ensemble duo -- sketch by douglas brent smith,  from "the bizarre chronicles, volume one" 1984