People of Color #2 – Plaid Person Peering
Day two of my week long series of ‘People of Color’. I like plaid people. I wish more
people were plaid.
People of Color #1 – A Spotted Woman with Flyer
This week you get to see sketchbook drawings again, woo hoo! These are colored marker
drawings I have done over the years. I drew, then colored, the people.
Most will have symbols and images familiar to those who have seen my work over the
years. I would love to know your thoughts on those symbols and the drawings in general.
Singing Flaming Baby Jesus – Church Drawing #4
Fourth in a week long series of drawings I have done while in church.
I have no idea where the heck the sermon was going when I drew this one, but it was
drawn in December so it was likely a christmas story that was being dealt with.
The Two-Thumbed God – Church Drawing #3
Day three of a week long exhibition of drawings I have done while in Church.
Faith United Methodist Church, Tulsa, OK
Who Are Your Role Models?
This page was filled with questions that I answered by using letter press letters (the
old fashion way, before digital, of graphic designing text with fonts). The model and
I were at the beach in Santa Cruz, California and I took close ups of her against a
cliff to collage. These were from the proof sheet that was made of the shots.
Sketchbook With Voices – Something So Beautiful it Hurts
The idea when I took the photos making up this collage was to get my client up against
one of her favorite pieces of furniture, a large armoire / wardrobe closet. Later, when I
cut up the proof sheet into pieces to do a mock up of the piece I realized how
crucifix-like the pose was. This led me to this page and it’s challenge to think about
beauty and pain/hurt together.
Sketchbook With Voices – If You Are Going To Go For It
This is 4th in the week long series from my ‘Sketchbook with Voices’
that I worked in back in the 80s and 90s.
Do Something About ROMANCE
This is the third in my week long series showing selections from the ‘sketchbook with voices’.
The top two photos were of friends of mine from the restaurant where I worked back in
the 80s and 90s. The bottom photo was a family friend from church. I know what you
are thinking; you took photos of a church friend’s cleavage? What sort of church did
you go to? The answers are yes, I did and it wasn’t the church that was odd, it was
me.
As is often the case the photos had no idea they were destined for each other’s
company. At the time I had a big work table and I would have hundreds of photos on it
at a time, sort of like a person with a messy desk having piles of papers. In this
case the two bigger photos, of the breasts facing up and the cleavage, just happen to
land close to each other on the table at some point. I saw that maybe they would
match up and started to see the heart shape. I found the ROMANCE page shortly
thereafter and it all made sense.
The angel type image at the top just added the final element both compositionally and
thematically to the idea.
Sketchbook With Voices – Make Something With One Hand
This is day two of the week long series from my ‘Sketchbook with Voices’ a sketchbook
given to me back in the 80s that had an assignment, idea, or statement about art at the
top of each page.
The assignment was to make something with one hand so instead of using just one hand I
decided I would only have one hand in the collage. I loved the idea of a hard to
recognize hand coming out of a figure with no hands. I was turning the two body parts
into a new, unknown body part.
A Nut Praying to Saint Mesh
Just something different for fun.
This is from my sketchbook back in the 90s, with some colorizing from some early
digital software.