Yet another drawing...This drawing (and the others that I’ve posted recently) is fairly small, about 6x8 inches or so, done on a piece of scrap cardboard. As for process on this one... I randomly scribbled some pink oil pastel onto the board and covered that with a loose layer of white acrylic. Next I cut the shape of the dress out a newspaper paper page, roughly (and randomly) laid in some pink onto that and put a layer of matte medium over it to adhere it to the board. The girl was drawn in with pen and ink.
Working on a new tattoo design, but nothing to post yet. It will probably be quite some time before that’s done.
Hmmm other than that: I dunno. There’s a bar within walking distance that has a Britpop / indie / mod / 80s night on Tuesdays- it’s supposed to pretty decent from what I hear. Maybe I’ll go investigate that at some point.
Posted at 12:49 AM on Friday, April 29, 2005
This drawing didn’t start begin with any ‘ghoulish intentions,’ although I guess it turned out that way. By the time I laid down the first layer, I was humming the Misfits “Ghouls Night Out.”
The Process:
Black acrylic with matte medium using brush over scrap cardboard
White acrylic / matte medium wash laid in roughly to fit form of figure
Blue pen gestural sketch on top of wash
Pull out form / refine figure with blue pen
Add highlights to figure using white acrylic
Fill in the dress with green oil pastel
Mute the chroma of the green pastel with gray pastel
Seal pastels with a layer of matte medium
Clean up / heighten value range within blue pen areas
Add text within the frame using a white paint pen
Cross out selected text with black paint pen
Decide against text, cover with black acrylic
Done.
[I noticed my top 5 this week was looking a bit heavy on the "pretentious indie fuck" side... hmmm, maybe I'll listen to some Guns n' Roses now to balance that out. Not that I need a reason to rock with Slash...]
This drawing didn’t start begin with any ‘ghoulish intentions,’ although I guess it turned out that way. By the time I laid down the first layer, I was humming the Misfits “Ghouls Night Out.” The Process:
Black acrylic with matte medium using brush over scrap cardboard
White acrylic / matte medium wash laid in roughly to fit form of figure
Blue pen gestural sketch on top of wash
Pull out form / refine figure with blue pen
Add highlights to figure using white acrylic
Fill in the dress with green oil pastel
Mute the chroma of the green pastel with gray pastel
Seal pastels with a layer of matte medium
Clean up / heighten value range within blue pen areas
Add text within the frame using a white paint pen
Cross out selected text with black paint pen
Decide against text, cover with black acrylic
Done.
[I noticed my top 5 this week was looking a bit heavy on the "pretentious indie fuck" side... hmmm, maybe I'll listen to some Guns n' Roses now to balance that out. Not that I need a reason to rock with Slash...]
Posted at 10:45 PM on Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Hey look I have internet access. Thanks to Dominic for lending me his laptop while I travel. Otherwise insanity or at least cabin fever were not far away I’m sure. Obviously I wasn’t able to take my stenciling stuff along with me. Instead I packed a small box of art materials to keep me busy.
So far I’ve made two drawings. Kind of a change of pace I guess- yeah, I am missing working on stencils. I decided to draw in a stream-of-consciousness sort of way, as I often do nowadays. Maybe because it’s so different from the planned and plotted way that I used to construct my paintings. Who knows? In any case, I [inadvertantly] used two lines written by Robert Creeley as inspiration. One, the drawing on the right, was made from the line: “I want no sentimentality.” And then the second line: “I realize that it won’t be long.”
Drawing one is: black and white acrylic, matte medium, and pen & ink
Drawing two is: white acrylic, matte medium, black conte, pen / brush & ink and newspaper.
Have you gotten that Against Me! CD yet? Quit being estupid and go get it.
Hey look I have internet access. Thanks to Dominic for lending me his laptop while I travel. Otherwise insanity or at least cabin fever were not far away I’m sure. Obviously I wasn’t able to take my stenciling stuff along with me. Instead I packed a small box of art materials to keep me busy.So far I’ve made two drawings. Kind of a change of pace I guess- yeah, I am missing working on stencils. I decided to draw in a stream-of-consciousness sort of way, as I often do nowadays. Maybe because it’s so different from the planned and plotted way that I used to construct my paintings. Who knows? In any case, I [inadvertantly] used two lines written by Robert Creeley as inspiration. One, the drawing on the right, was made from the line: “I want no sentimentality.” And then the second line: “I realize that it won’t be long.”
Drawing one is: black and white acrylic, matte medium, and pen & ink
Drawing two is: white acrylic, matte medium, black conte, pen / brush & ink and newspaper.
Have you gotten that Against Me! CD yet? Quit being estupid and go get it.
Posted at 3:43 PM on Thursday, April 14, 2005
Back from New York! I was in Manhattan and, aside from general coolness going on, I got to see a lot of artwork at MoMA and the Met that I've always liked. It's cool getting to see that stuff in person.
I also (through a friend) got a behind-the-scenes tour of Sothebys after they were closed for the day. You wouldn't believe the amazing shit just lying around in the back rooms. When I saying lying around I mean lying around, literally. Chuck Close, Lichtenstein, Miro, etc... all just leaning against walls in a backroom. It's fucking nuts. Society people buy this stuff as an investment, never even pick it up or see it, Sothebys holds it for them and then the owner usually sells it again 10 or so years down the line. Madness.
I did a few alternate versions of the Girl with Gun stencil. One went to New York with me, one is going to an art show / art walk in New Brunswick, NJ, and the bag on the right is in my studio. The bag is a sorta nylon messenger bag that I picked up from H&M and felt needed some art. It was a bit challenging to paint: the diagonal black and red stripe is actually raised fabric, sort of an appliqué. It took a little more patience than working on a flat surface, and there's some slight underspray, but overall I think it was a success. So I'll probably throw it up on eBay at some point down the road. Road? Street? That reminds me: there are some Girl with Gun and Binary-bot stickers about on Wooster St. in SoHo, too.
I'm not sure when I'll be updating this site next. Monday I leave for a work related project and sadly enough I won't be bringing my studio with me. I'm going to bring some materials to make stuff (so I don't go insane), but obviously I won't be stenciling. I'll be gone for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time, but I'd estimate at least 2 months. So who knows when I'll be able to upload anything here.
Back from New York! I was in Manhattan and, aside from general coolness going on, I got to see a lot of artwork at MoMA and the Met that I've always liked. It's cool getting to see that stuff in person. I also (through a friend) got a behind-the-scenes tour of Sothebys after they were closed for the day. You wouldn't believe the amazing shit just lying around in the back rooms. When I saying lying around I mean lying around, literally. Chuck Close, Lichtenstein, Miro, etc... all just leaning against walls in a backroom. It's fucking nuts. Society people buy this stuff as an investment, never even pick it up or see it, Sothebys holds it for them and then the owner usually sells it again 10 or so years down the line. Madness.
I did a few alternate versions of the Girl with Gun stencil. One went to New York with me, one is going to an art show / art walk in New Brunswick, NJ, and the bag on the right is in my studio. The bag is a sorta nylon messenger bag that I picked up from H&M and felt needed some art. It was a bit challenging to paint: the diagonal black and red stripe is actually raised fabric, sort of an appliqué. It took a little more patience than working on a flat surface, and there's some slight underspray, but overall I think it was a success. So I'll probably throw it up on eBay at some point down the road. Road? Street? That reminds me: there are some Girl with Gun and Binary-bot stickers about on Wooster St. in SoHo, too.
I'm not sure when I'll be updating this site next. Monday I leave for a work related project and sadly enough I won't be bringing my studio with me. I'm going to bring some materials to make stuff (so I don't go insane), but obviously I won't be stenciling. I'll be gone for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time, but I'd estimate at least 2 months. So who knows when I'll be able to upload anything here.