Alan Johansson
@tuxedolark.bsky.social
Agnostic artist with a strong Christian bent (though really unhappy with the Christian nationalist evangelical trend), thoroughly and delightfully married, vintage car and motorcycle habit, left-leaning according to most. Committed to rigorous honesty.
I’v been watching this Coke can since July or August.
January 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I’v been watching this Coke can since July or August.
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to [our] continual falling in love with beauty, and [our] desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with [us] and enrich [our] common life.
January 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to [our] continual falling in love with beauty, and [our] desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with [us] and enrich [our] common life.
A8 Checker in the foreground right, Dad’s “Pipedream,” a two-door sedan with ladder frame, unit body, AND stressed skin construction, all four wheels powered by a Studebaker flathead six through a BW T84 and Dana 18 transfer case on the left, already partially cut into a truck.
January 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A8 Checker in the foreground right, Dad’s “Pipedream,” a two-door sedan with ladder frame, unit body, AND stressed skin construction, all four wheels powered by a Studebaker flathead six through a BW T84 and Dana 18 transfer case on the left, already partially cut into a truck.
I Am Only an Egg, II
Graphite on bristol board
9 January 2025
Graphite on bristol board
9 January 2025
January 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I Am Only an Egg, II
Graphite on bristol board
9 January 2025
Graphite on bristol board
9 January 2025
@iowannie.bsky.social You can’t be messaged, so I’ll just put this here.
January 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
@iowannie.bsky.social You can’t be messaged, so I’ll just put this here.
Friend an an American LaFrance roadster at Hershey in the mid-’70s.
January 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Friend an an American LaFrance roadster at Hershey in the mid-’70s.
Graphite #7
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
3 Jan 2025
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper painted with methanol, acetone, and MEK, with no appreciable effect. Finally brushed with graphite suspended in methanol.
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
3 Jan 2025
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper painted with methanol, acetone, and MEK, with no appreciable effect. Finally brushed with graphite suspended in methanol.
January 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Graphite #7
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
3 Jan 2025
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper painted with methanol, acetone, and MEK, with no appreciable effect. Finally brushed with graphite suspended in methanol.
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
3 Jan 2025
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper painted with methanol, acetone, and MEK, with no appreciable effect. Finally brushed with graphite suspended in methanol.
Graphite #7.2
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper surface then painted with acetone, MEK, and methanol, without appreciable result. Finally painted w/graphite suspended in methanol.
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper surface then painted with acetone, MEK, and methanol, without appreciable result. Finally painted w/graphite suspended in methanol.
January 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Graphite #7.2
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper surface then painted with acetone, MEK, and methanol, without appreciable result. Finally painted w/graphite suspended in methanol.
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper surface then painted with acetone, MEK, and methanol, without appreciable result. Finally painted w/graphite suspended in methanol.
Our tuxedo, trying hard to convince us that she’s a black cat.
January 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Our tuxedo, trying hard to convince us that she’s a black cat.
January 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Graphite #6
5x7”
Pure graphite pressed and worked into bristol board with brayer, baren, cheap 1/4” brush. I dumped the excess graphite from a previous drawing onto butcher paper, and then put the bristol board face down in the resulting pile and pressed and rolled, then turned it over to brush it.
5x7”
Pure graphite pressed and worked into bristol board with brayer, baren, cheap 1/4” brush. I dumped the excess graphite from a previous drawing onto butcher paper, and then put the bristol board face down in the resulting pile and pressed and rolled, then turned it over to brush it.
January 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Graphite #6
5x7”
Pure graphite pressed and worked into bristol board with brayer, baren, cheap 1/4” brush. I dumped the excess graphite from a previous drawing onto butcher paper, and then put the bristol board face down in the resulting pile and pressed and rolled, then turned it over to brush it.
5x7”
Pure graphite pressed and worked into bristol board with brayer, baren, cheap 1/4” brush. I dumped the excess graphite from a previous drawing onto butcher paper, and then put the bristol board face down in the resulting pile and pressed and rolled, then turned it over to brush it.
Graphite #5
5x7”
Pure graphite powder applied to bristol board with fingertips (no tools). Script side: Pilot G2 0.38 on rice paper, mounted with Scotch Super 77 spray adhesive.
5x7”
Pure graphite powder applied to bristol board with fingertips (no tools). Script side: Pilot G2 0.38 on rice paper, mounted with Scotch Super 77 spray adhesive.
December 31, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Graphite #5
5x7”
Pure graphite powder applied to bristol board with fingertips (no tools). Script side: Pilot G2 0.38 on rice paper, mounted with Scotch Super 77 spray adhesive.
5x7”
Pure graphite powder applied to bristol board with fingertips (no tools). Script side: Pilot G2 0.38 on rice paper, mounted with Scotch Super 77 spray adhesive.
I meet cool, kind people in the wild!
December 30, 2024 at 11:34 PM
I meet cool, kind people in the wild!
Back to the Drawing Board, Day 2
Graphite #3, “I am only an egg.”
pure graphite powder on Crescent marker, applied with toothbrush spatter through 3.75” 55° ellipse template and rubbed with latex-gloved thumb within bone folder-debossed square. 25¢ yardsale frame.
Graphite #3, “I am only an egg.”
pure graphite powder on Crescent marker, applied with toothbrush spatter through 3.75” 55° ellipse template and rubbed with latex-gloved thumb within bone folder-debossed square. 25¢ yardsale frame.
December 28, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Back to the Drawing Board, Day 2
Graphite #3, “I am only an egg.”
pure graphite powder on Crescent marker, applied with toothbrush spatter through 3.75” 55° ellipse template and rubbed with latex-gloved thumb within bone folder-debossed square. 25¢ yardsale frame.
Graphite #3, “I am only an egg.”
pure graphite powder on Crescent marker, applied with toothbrush spatter through 3.75” 55° ellipse template and rubbed with latex-gloved thumb within bone folder-debossed square. 25¢ yardsale frame.
I’m not fond of New Year’s resolutions, but it happens that some reforms seem to be aligned with the calendar. My current theme is “Back to the Drawing Board.” Still trying to find my artist. The approach now is to play with something I haven’t done, since I seem unable to do the things I once did.
December 28, 2024 at 12:03 AM
I’m not fond of New Year’s resolutions, but it happens that some reforms seem to be aligned with the calendar. My current theme is “Back to the Drawing Board.” Still trying to find my artist. The approach now is to play with something I haven’t done, since I seem unable to do the things I once did.
Fun on Christmas
December 26, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Fun on Christmas
Reposted by Alan Johansson
you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus
December 23, 2024 at 1:15 AM
you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus
I am disturbed that the country is about to be run by a white man born and raised in South Africa whose formative years were in the heat of the fall of apartheid, and whose emigration took place just before its end. With a mind formed by that, and now affected by unimaginable wealth…
December 22, 2024 at 9:08 PM
I am disturbed that the country is about to be run by a white man born and raised in South Africa whose formative years were in the heat of the fall of apartheid, and whose emigration took place just before its end. With a mind formed by that, and now affected by unimaginable wealth…
From “God’s Fields”:
“When I learned that Moravians had accepted and practiced racist subjugation, I asked myself, "How did people as good as the Brethren make peace with slavery and racist segregation? How do any of us become involved in practices at odds with their values?”
“When I learned that Moravians had accepted and practiced racist subjugation, I asked myself, "How did people as good as the Brethren make peace with slavery and racist segregation? How do any of us become involved in practices at odds with their values?”
December 22, 2024 at 5:59 PM
From “God’s Fields”:
“When I learned that Moravians had accepted and practiced racist subjugation, I asked myself, "How did people as good as the Brethren make peace with slavery and racist segregation? How do any of us become involved in practices at odds with their values?”
“When I learned that Moravians had accepted and practiced racist subjugation, I asked myself, "How did people as good as the Brethren make peace with slavery and racist segregation? How do any of us become involved in practices at odds with their values?”
Not something seen every day. ‘48 Cadillac Superior hearse trailered by Jeep truck.
December 20, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Not something seen every day. ‘48 Cadillac Superior hearse trailered by Jeep truck.
…All of which, a parallel upbringing within a couple of miles of each other, an interest in Moravian history, and in racism, makes me feel that Leland Ferguson and I have a lot to talk about.
He died in 2023.
He died in 2023.
December 20, 2024 at 2:18 PM
…All of which, a parallel upbringing within a couple of miles of each other, an interest in Moravian history, and in racism, makes me feel that Leland Ferguson and I have a lot to talk about.
He died in 2023.
He died in 2023.
It seems very likely from the geography that the Moravian church Leland Ferguson’s family was invited to was either Olivet, where I became the first member of my family to be baptized as a Moravian (by Alan Barnes, for whom I am named), or Mizpah, where overt racism moved us away to Home…
December 20, 2024 at 2:15 PM
It seems very likely from the geography that the Moravian church Leland Ferguson’s family was invited to was either Olivet, where I became the first member of my family to be baptized as a Moravian (by Alan Barnes, for whom I am named), or Mizpah, where overt racism moved us away to Home…
…He grew up in a log house with an open well with no internal plumbing. My family moved to Winston-Salem in the early ‘50s, to a house in Tobaccoville, immediately adjacent to Pfafftown in early 1956, and to a log house with an open well and no internal plumbing ca 1960…
December 20, 2024 at 2:04 PM
…He grew up in a log house with an open well with no internal plumbing. My family moved to Winston-Salem in the early ‘50s, to a house in Tobaccoville, immediately adjacent to Pfafftown in early 1956, and to a log house with an open well and no internal plumbing ca 1960…