It's been a while since I posted anything new. I've been finishing up a book, and starting up a new one. This is a quick sketch I'm not sure I'll ever paint. But I do love the idea of illustrating one of Houdini's underwater tricks. When I first started sketching, I intended to draw the outline of the key to the padlocks in the assistant's apron. I think it's still visible if you click to enlarge.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Friday, August 05, 2005
Ye Olde Sawmille
'The Perils of Pauline' is an old silent serial in which Pauline finds herself stuck in varied precarious situations--always to be rescued just in the nick of time. My favorite is when she's tied to a log in a sawmill. The hero is in the bottom corner, striking a pose with his scarf flapping in the wind.
Cole Porter's song 'Friendship' has the line, 'If you're ever in a mill and get sawed in half; I won't laugh'---great inspiration for a drawing. Another one to paint...soon.
Cole Porter's song 'Friendship' has the line, 'If you're ever in a mill and get sawed in half; I won't laugh'---great inspiration for a drawing. Another one to paint...soon.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Trollpig
I've been listening to Candide lately, so I've got lederhosen on the brain. I went to draw in the park today and they have this little stone bridge there. I tried to cross it, but a little kid wouldn't let me because he was pretending to be a troll. Once he'd handed me an invisible map, it was okay to go ahead. I left it on the edge of the bridge for him.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Geronim-ohhhhhhhh!!!!!
I wanted to have fun today, but I couldn't think of what I wanted to draw. Then a finger slipped as I typed a message to Mari, and out came the word 'pigture'. Combine that with a random memory of Laverne and Shirley skydiving, and Voila!
Monday, August 01, 2005
Simple Simon
This may well be the stupidest image I've ever done. But it makes me laugh, so up it goes. The pie's carrying a bucket of forks, spoons and knives to sell for a penny
Simple Simon met a pieman,_Going to the fair._Said Simple Simon to the pieman,_"Let me taste your ware."
Said the pieman unto Simon,_"Show me first your penny."_Said Simple Simon to the pieman,_"Indeed I have not any."
Simple Simon met a pieman,_Going to the fair._Said Simple Simon to the pieman,_"Let me taste your ware."
Said the pieman unto Simon,_"Show me first your penny."_Said Simple Simon to the pieman,_"Indeed I have not any."
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Fishscape
A man in the wilderness
Asked this of me,
"How many strawberries
Grow in the sea?"
I answered him
As I thought good,
"As many red herrings
As swim in the wood."
I want to do this as a painting eventually, time permitting.
Asked this of me,
"How many strawberries
Grow in the sea?"
I answered him
As I thought good,
"As many red herrings
As swim in the wood."
I want to do this as a painting eventually, time permitting.
Monday, July 25, 2005
painting2 copy
This is this week's painting from the model. I was completely frustrated painting it, so I reworked it once I got home. I can't explain the hat. From the neck down, she was dressed as a harlequin. The woman was actually very pretty, which made her harder to paint.
Model
On Saturday nights Art Center has a model session with a long pose open to current students and alum. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. This was the first week's painting. The one I did the other night was more of a struggle.
There are still people in this world sporting handle bar mustaches. I wish I'd given this guy a sea captain's hat and a telescope.
There are still people in this world sporting handle bar mustaches. I wish I'd given this guy a sea captain's hat and a telescope.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Wolves
This is the first of two images about there being multiple wolves out there in the woods willing to screw you over. Little Blue Riding Hood is followed closely behind by a Little Orange Riding Hood. The wolves are in competition for the prize, but there's more than one stupid little girl to take advantage of. It's a cynical viewpoint, and I'm not sure the second painting is any less gruesome.
Grandma Wolves
This is the second of two images retelling the story of red riding hood with multiple wolves and little girls aplenty.
The first image (see above) has to do with there being more than one wolf in the world out to do you in. This one is about what can happen to those wolves once they grow complacent and overly comfortable in their cushy new role as Grandma. You piss off enough little girls, and I think you can expect a revolt.
The first image (see above) has to do with there being more than one wolf in the world out to do you in. This one is about what can happen to those wolves once they grow complacent and overly comfortable in their cushy new role as Grandma. You piss off enough little girls, and I think you can expect a revolt.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Hunt
I've been working on projects I'm not allowed to put online yet, so I'm going to be updating this thing with older imagery for a little while.
This was done as an update to a book dummy I'd put together. I like the subject matter and I really like the perspective. It's just fun. I'll restage the story at some point, but my yammering on about it here won't help that get done. So I'll shut up for now.
This was done as an update to a book dummy I'd put together. I like the subject matter and I really like the perspective. It's just fun. I'll restage the story at some point, but my yammering on about it here won't help that get done. So I'll shut up for now.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Scenic
I don't have much to say about this painting. I've been playing around with throwing architecture and landscape on top of itself. I love the idea, stylistically, behind the silent film--The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari--which uses a form of cubism and flattened perspective. Most of its influences are apparent in some stop motion films today--hello Tim Burton.
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