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Rebby Sharp Drawings

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The main purpose of this site is to share these drawings in the form of slideshows. Each drawing is accompanied by a phrase. These phrases are assembled in the manner of an exquisite corpse poem.

These images are drawn in an automatic way with indelible marker and filled in with oil pastel color. This method was inspired by and approximates pictures that I produced on the enjoyable KidPix software. I have been making outline drawings for a long time. Recent examples are shown hanging from the clothesline in the pictures used here in the top banner.

The advantage of "real" drawings is that now I can sell them inexpensively. If you are interested in buying one, please contact me by email at rebbysharp@gmail.com. They are only $25 each and most are 11" x 14" unmatted. I am making more all the time so more are available than shown here.

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Slideshow 1

Lay me down in cuttlefish sepia My Landau sleeps in the deep peat Systemic bra propellant King Oliver's figurative description The brutality of several initials Prevail sweet butter in these times of oleogarchy The virtuous love of big white clouds "I must hover!" cried the kestral Stumping for the estatic now The tongue of a bell may exceed three feet Wrongward wind down Judas Tree Lane Sketch my plentiful wings Rising island serenade Fly-by-night spot checks Elusive fiscal sobriety My stupor, your torpor Ovipositor thinking Paleophonic distress The tune of flaxen locksmiths

Slideshow 2

Transcribing the iridescent lake Narcoleptic waste regulators Pursuing deceitful simplicity Keying "Bumpy" A restraining odor of idiocy Can playfulness be cured? No more ivory anything My Ursa Minor buddy Oh night jar, Oh goat-sucker, dusk is upon us Sit for your indeterminate portrait You've lost none of your allure Hankering after mud Come rest on my laurels Ambling nag, where are you bound? Caught in the undertow of the merely clever Gratuitous tattoos on teeming hordes of hipsters

Slideshow 3

No poet ever lost a leg to Miami Almost all wildlife will bite you Your greasy eyes see only mannequin Ripe sweet cherries delight our earth The sniffle of Count Basie wakes Susa Ringing with voiceless speech sounds The dirty paternity of dread Ink vanishes on a snakelike lizard Gregorian unichords chime Elephant shrews bring me joy Howdy, peasouper The condition of change is constant I dreamt of yawning ostioles Late nights of ranting filth Life's biggest hinge A steady diet of predators Where candy possums play

Slideshow 4

The drama of the ordinal scale Sighting the pleasure of allegiance Shadow rise to greet the dawn The purposive occupation of the disheveled I wear my naked name A small breeze alleviates asphyxia Equimagnanimous in word and deed CGI sylphs circle the block Artaud collects dew Revitalizing the fields with protocol Shocked by a mannered vowel Grown ups play Toronto

Slideshow 5

Snapping blue serpents in two No longer an alien taupe Deterrence shreds itself Ego trumps the sole foundation Zero give-and-take in hell Nuremburg buys the farm Pittsburg surrenders to the throes of versicular chanting Fate spells doom Erect this mess to fresh paddlefish Reasoned disordering of all senses Refilter that humanoid, Jeeves Various toast toppings in red

Slideshow 6

Yellow jacketed beach burn A turbulence of skeets Suing descendants of Huns Sad nematoad handoff Craving tempeh Holiday altitude exercise Increasing torque by Chuck Berry momentum Petro-chemical subsidy suite Index number pathology Not yet quite forgotten Slow mosquito tragedy Felicity conditioner gel Norm Crosbian testimonial dinner Don't jackknife my rig, Santa Streets are paved with half-spent reactor cores Intensifying the log jam of distrust

Slideshow 7

Laughter laser pup in Delphi Hit that grounder to Godard Remorseful keening becomes you Pumping the stomach of Maoistic cosmology You finished with that? Mean orbital velocity The luggage rack of heroism Rock steady on its pegs Human rights are just that The blast of a turncoat levee Basking in international daylight

Slideshow 8

Fancy-ass kitchen shit The communion of dry Spokane, repeat an acrobatic trick Weeds are growing ever faster Enough reading, now dig Not here, John Locke Declare your category, yet? Another tree fatality You can't let down a punk Hittin' on new-age sillies Control my time, you machine Molecular crockery Reeking hammocks across the land Anti-reductivism in a nutshell Blue ridge carabiner trail Immediacy: to be continued Tuesday Weld ends October Smelting a glad hander Unadorned salamander, matter-of-fact and free This frog count is preternaturally low Why tease the helgramite? Make me fly, wanton honesty Primitive and pristine: no objection My very own sample

Slideshow 9

Head first alpine descent Elbow these deadly trees Behind the fridge paint job The name's Bland ... James Bland A rabble of raccoons Mercy quilting at pudgy terminus Athenian robber, extract a fee Recreational off-the-clock cussing No shortage of bad ideas Temperatures dropped to nothing degrees Murderous baffle across movable find Fiat lux, maybe louver Officially present and postcarded Your debut detected by sonar

Slideshow 10

I kinda get to thinkin' about ol' Zagreb "Oh lovely," exaspirated the collective conscious Slight bamboo birds tremble Neutrality as combined with washing Won't your drugs leave you alone? Overthrowing kingdoms of inauthenticity Advise upon arrival The salty taste of industry and thrift Ripening blue in this sun flare Will you underpay the testy driver? Vienna releases motionless chains Grip Grinner begins a harvest game You told me your dream How lost can keys be? Resplendent with denim