Hatch might be about the spark of life; like a chick hatching from an egg. Or about the spark of inspiration, like a brainstorm. It’s kind of a variation on the theme of creation and personal growth.

Hatch

Close up view of 2 roses with very soft, peachy pink outer petals, and coral-orange interiors, and a few dewdrops poised on the petal tips. Sunlight shines through the petals and reveals shadow shapes of lavender, and pale blue sky reflections bounce off the edges.

IceCream Roses

A woman's body that is shaded in a way to look like a thermal picture using the colors red, orange, yellow, green, teal, and blue.

Warm Body

A graphite pencil drawing of three honeycrisp apples nestled together.  Two side by side with the third centered behind.

Honeycrisps

A skeletal couple dancing around a swirl of blue smoke. Both skeletons have their own unique vibrancy of orange, pink, purple, and yellow. 

Dance With Me And Shake Your Bones

Black and white pencil drawing of a fall maple leaf. It has dried into an interesting twisted shape with a rough texture.

Dry maple leaf

A drawing of a cowboy riding a colorful alien-dinosaur creature.

Alien Cowboy

A black-&-white scratchboard illustration of a young boy with tousled hair glances aside, in front of a quiet city street, against a light swirling sky.

1942, Memory of Denis

Irial has ears but he cannot hear.
A sketch of my grand son.

Irial

A drawing of isolated people floating in a kite-like structure over waves. 

Quarantine quandary

Blue spotted Koi fish floating over a purple/Magenta cityscape.

Untitled

This piece of work is a vibrant expression of the fall season in Minnesota. It has two bare trees with many dark-colored branches within a prairie that has grass expressed in strong red, yellow and brown hues, with highlights of yellow. We know it is falling because there are still hints of green trees in the far distance and on the horizon. The blue sky and light small clouds remind us that fall in Minnesota is one of its most beautiful seasons.

Autumn in Minnesota

Symmetrical geometric line drawing on dotted grid paper of intersecting blue and red lines with varying crosshatch patterns within formed interlocking shapes

AQ' from Book 1

A graphite pencil sketch of the Minneapolis urban skyline architecture as viewed from the South. 

The Neighborhood 

A black and white pen drawing of a desert or Martian landscape. One figure sets off towards the horizon carrying two pineapples and a helmet. 

Home

A baby fawn drawn with a brown pastel and painted white spots, laying in a background of green water color and two painted trees.

Baby Fawn 

A pen drawing of a surreal idea that women are from Venus

Planet Venus

A pen drawing in black and white ink on brown paper. The subject is a group of 5 lady slippers, the yellow variety (Cypripedium parviflorum).

Lady slippers 

Anime drawing of caped figure with sword and sheath

Tribute to _pon_ko_tsu

A drawing of raspberries in a 2 x 2 matrix. On one dimension is black and red raspberries, the other dimension is 'Ripe' and 'Not Quite Ripe"

Ripe and Not Quite

Silhouette of a Peony 

Abstract green object on purple background with pink pole and bloopy surfaces

Paper Study II

A double spread illustration in a handmade book depicted a large red worm with human teeth looming over a young child.  In the background lie the bodies of the worm's previous victims, including a corpse with a television for a head, a dismembered torso, the head of a monster, and a man impaled by a sledgehammer.  The words "In Human Gore Imbued" are written on the righthand side of the page.

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Conqueror Worm" Book Art

Pointillism portrait of fashion designer Hitomi K wearing one of her pieces

Portrait Of Fashion Designer Hitomi K

Close colored-pencil rendering of a yellow-and-brown honey bee (Apis mellifera) with about 46% of the image unfilled graphite outline representing the percent decline of this species between 2009 and 2019.

The Disappearing: Bees

This drawing is done on a simple piece of white paper with graphite pencil. It is a play off of a Norman Rockwell piece of a young girl on the run, palette and easel in hand, depicted as a modern day self portrait of the artist.

Little Artist On The Run

An oil pastel painting of a head and neck with painted and scraped flowers around it, in the center of a background gradating with blue-based colors.

Warm Blossom

yellow. 

A four panel comic. First panel depicts a phone with news headlines, letters, bills, pill bottles; text reads: "The big things are so painful and arduous that we put all our energy into small things." Second panel depicts a lit candle, empty place setting; text reads, "Eventually the small things will bear the brunt of the big things." Third panel depicts jar of marmalade, toast, eggs on a plate; text reads, "But for now... my friend sent me clementine marmalade. There's homemade bread, with scalded milk and grandpa's yeast, runny gold yolks...." Fourth panel depicts kitchen table and view out a window; text reads, "Snow out the window."

Runny Gold Yolks

Different angels of a camera taken by a camera and then drawn out in different triangles all throughout the piece 

Camera 

"Here I am, existing in amongst some beautiful grasses. As I look out above me, I am wondering where I am - and where I am going. Colors and textures comfort me. Fireflies too!"

Hatch, 2019

Al Porter