Just a Quickie

Lots of drawing has been going on lately, but unfortunately no immediate access to a scanner! So there's a bit of a lag but more stuff is on the way. In the meantime, lots of ideas are stewing in my lil cooker.

For now, inspiration of sorts:

Arguing skeletions, unkown artist

Sociopathic Cats and Grumpy Girls

Serial Killer
ink on paper 2010

Dark Girl
Ink on paper 2010
The writing around the corner reads:
"You can take the girl out of the dark but you can't take the dark out of the girl"

I had a lot of fun doing this second piece with india ink, I love the medium and the lines are getting a lot closer to what I'm trying to do. Still lots of room for work but I'm starting to see some of my style come through. I hooked on working with ink now.

The cat picture... only portrait of my cat I'll do and it brings to mind the many times I've opened the front door in the morning to find a mouse head on the doormat, with a perfectly aligned bum that is no longer attached. I don't know how that cat does it but she's managed to eat the middle of a bird and a mouse and leave the remaining bits in the right order on the front porch. Sometimes she's a bit less creative and just leaves a head or a leg. She likes to have her cake and eat it too, showing off and having a snack all at once. Seems like an appropriate representation.

Sad Skeletons

Sad Skeleton
Pencil Crayon & Pen 2010

Lately I've been getting into doing some pieces with pencil crayons, wanting to add colour to things I typically do in black & white. Probably the most exciting part for me right now though is experimenting a bit and pushing or developing my style, working with the lines and shape and form. The further I go along the more intricate and sophisticated I'm trying to get it.

Also - Skeletons! Bones! Skulls! These things I like.

Charcoal Series 2

Girl in Wet Silk
Charcoal on paper 2009

Blow A Kiss
Charcoal on paper 2009

White Horse
Charcoal on paper 2009

Charcoal Series 1

Untitled
Charcoal on paper 2008

Bomb It Documentary

If you're interested in graffiti and street art, or even just art in general, this movie is sooo worth the cost of renting. Actually, I got it at the library so it can also be good free entertainment.

Definitely inspiring in terms of style, technique and plain willingness to produce art anywhere and everywhere, and for anyone to see.

Also, in this movie they go all around the world to different cultural centers of street art (LA, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, NYC etc) so you get a pretty cool, all-rounded intro to this whole other world of art.

http://www.bombit-themovie.com/

David Mack

Also in love with David Mack's work. He's done a whole bunch of different graphic novels, but the one that got me interested was the Kabuki series and to this day I haven't been able to get my hands on any of them but I'm still ogling the artwork and snippets of the stories online.


Click for a larger image... This one's from Dreams of the Dead.

http://davidmackguide.com/portfolio/kabuki/previews/

BANANA!

Alex Pardee link

I'm drooling over this guy's stuff right now, check it out:

http://upperplayground.com/wordpress/?p=3349
or
http://alexpardee.deviantart.com/

He's got such a wicked style! I love it, it's beautiful and demented at the same time. This IS a compliment, BTW, on both counts.

Looking at his stuff reminds me how far I have to go still in developing my own style more and more.

For Chief Noodlehead. <3

Thoughts Tied To Paper

scrap of life like a scrap of paper

with a note on it

torn out and pasted into a diary

sentiments last longer than your memory

tearing out pieces of your life

you would otherwise forget

or lose grip of

a book of visions that you tried to collect

every waking moment

I don't want to miss this one

I don't want to miss any one

Sometimes I think I'm Miss Anyone

I've forgotten a piece of myself somewhere

a scrap of paper that slipped through my fingers

I can start another page, try to recreate

who I thought I was

Always trying to remember who I am

as if I could forget myself out of existence

sweaty fingers gripping tight to the edges of the world

thoughts tied to paper

always trying to attach the intangilbe

to something we can hold, something we can keep

closing the blue of distance

can't be done

but we keep trying anyway

Like my brother, feeling homesick for a place

that doesn't seem to exist

Dredged up part 2

The figure in this post is from the sessions at TSA, which were a lot of fun. I had some fun playing with using only highlights instead of shadow for a few pieces:

Dredged up from all over

I found a whole bunch of pictures of old drawings - some from high school, some from life drawing sessions at TSA and other miscellaneous bits and pieces.

Miles Davis
pencil on paper, somewhere around 2005 I think

The Third One!

acrylic on canvas, 30x36 2009

So this is the last one I did of this series. I was really lovin' the colour scheme between the three, I like to mix up colours with figures, doing people in funky colour combos or in combination with the background and this one was extra fun that way because the colour scheme also worked out for this diver with the background of the sky behind her and the sun highlighting her.

Second of Three

Acrylic on canvas, 30x36 2009

This one was actually the first that I did in this series of three and it all kind of evolved from here. I started painting in the background just based on feeling out the texture and colour - I'd been using charcoal a lot (which I still love) so I was hungry for vivid colour, I guess you could say. After that I was inspired by pictures of people in motion, full of feeling.

Green Scream - The First of Three

acrylic on canvas, 30x36 2009

Sometimes feeling homesick for a place that doesn't seem to exist.

2010

Alrighty, so I'm starting to get my shit together and putting up paintings, ideas etc, maybe even some short stories and other creative endeavors all into one spiffy blog.

Everything on here will be a mix of fun, whimsical, dark, humourous, sometimes slightly thoughtful and sometimes just whatever silly thing came to mind. Anything I relate to or am inspired by at any given time...

Feel free to comment and throw some new ideas at me.