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DREAMS IN INK

Ink drawings... I like color so much I tend to tint my ink work later on the computer, turning it hybrid. That's why this list is so short--I no longer even recognize a lot of dream art that started out as ink. Also, most cartoonists eventually render their pencil art in ink for presentation, but I make a lot of mistakes, so I've learned to stick with pencil for erasability, and finish it off digitally--it saves labor and looks fresher to me. Still, ink gives such vivid contrasts--as dramatic as dreams. Try it at least.

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The World Dream Bank has 1500 dreams and dream images plus 500 other pages on dreamwork and shamanism, creativity, genius, art, surrealism and fantasy. Unless otherwise noted, all material copyright Chris Wayan, 2001-2006.

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ART TAKES GUTS: by Wayan; ink, 11x14", 1982, a waking confession.
Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS......
BIRD CRASH: by Emily Joy; 2007/3/12, a set of didactic nightmares
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
BLACK MAGIC: by Wayan; 1986/11/10, a dream of love and rage; Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone.
A packet of magic soup mix transports me to the secret wizards' lab in our attic. They're trouble enough, but they've called up a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...
BURN: by Sierra Loucks; 1990?, a five-year-old’s nightmare
I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
CATFISH: by Wayan; 1990s, ink sketch of daydream.
Not a dream image, as far as I can recall. Just looked like it should be...
CENTAUR WITH STAFF OF POWER: by Wayan; 11x14", ink 1986, tinted 2001; a daydream..
Not from a dream, just felt like it...
EYELASH GUY: by HareTrinity; 2003?4?5?, a fortunately nonrecurring dream
A coach-driving vampire seemed kind of cute until he raped me. If that's even his real face...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE
FIGURE DRAWING: NINA SCARES US WITH HER BICEPS: by Wayan; 1995, studio sketch, felt pen
Just what it says.
CAUTION: CARTOON BUTT and GRRL BICEPS
HORSE IN A TAILWIND: by Wayan; 1982; study of a dream character
It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...
INK MOUNTAIN: by Wayan; 1992/8/5, a tutelary dreamtale.
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
JILL THE PEST: by Wayan; 240K, 2001/2/22, a nondream visionary comic.
I had a headache and couldn't sleep. I started drawing, and asked for a cure. And a cartoon angel said...
CAUTION: TANTRUMS, MASTURBATION, JUNKFOOD, ANGELIC SCOLDING
NO MAN IS ISLAND: by Wayan; 125K, 1990, poem refuting John Donne's, illustrated with dreamselves.
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
OWLYCAT: by Wayan; 1983? Daydream of night being.
At the time I didn't even notice the pun...
PRISONS AND STRIPES: by Emily Joy; 2007/10/4, a lucid dream.
In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...
REINDEER FOREST: by Wayan; ca. 1985, nondream ink sketch, approx 9x14"
Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it...
SHHHH!: by Wayan; 628 x 318, 1981, ink drawing.
A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they...
CAUTION: NUDITY
SIXTY-NINE IN INK: by Wayan; 1988? Ink, 14"x17"; nondream fantasy
Just a lazy, sexy image that came to me, of floating in air like a pinwheel, licking and being licked...
CAUTION: SEX
SLEEPING BEAUTY: by Wayan, 1999/8/22, a warning dream on quitting too soon.
A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell "Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a kiss...
SO TIRED OF MY BONES: by Wayan; 1999. Ink painted on with cardboard wedges, acrylic wash.
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
SUDDEN DEATH: by Cory; 2008/3/1 to 2008/3/14, a series of dreams on a friend’s suicide.
I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
TAROT: HAW!: by Wayan; 30K. Tarot card, 3x5", 1978-1981.
Humor's one of the big emotions--laughter's as loud and uncontrollable as crying or orgasm...
THE VEGETABLES OF SHADOW: by Wayan; 125K, 1999. Nondream surrealist art technique.
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
WAYAN’S STUDIO: by guess who; 200K, art 1999, text 2007; sketches of my art workspace
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a flow state. I really do “follow my bliss”!
WHAT! MORE?: by Wayan; 300 x 500, ink 1985, digital color 2001.
The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot. Here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many.
WHAT STARTED THE PILLOWFIGHT: by Wayan; 1983/2/16, a strangely innocent dream.
My sister and I get into an argument about different kinds of incest, in embarrassing circumstances...
CAUTION: POST-ORGY HYPOCRISY
WHILE THE MEN WERE HUNTING, 1981, crayon-ink-Xerox art-as-prayer.
In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...


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