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Poster for a group show I’m curating. It’ll open at Wootini on April 15th.
When I was about 16 I was pondering centralized control of media, especially TV, and the fact that most people didn’t seem to mind the pablum they were fed. Possibly inspired by the Macintosh commercial of 1984, I drew this pen and ink drawing of a mohawk festooned punk rocker jabbing an oversized needle into the glassy eye of the idiot box.
I started a new painting late last year as a 20 year re-visitation of the theme. A lot has changed in the realm of media outlets, distribution and the offerings available to anyone anywhere. Between the Internet and Tivo, I’ve been able to jab my own sharp needle into the baleful eye of the thing I really hated about TV, the commercials.
So I thought it would be a good time to revisit the theme.
The painting is 24×30 on hard board, and was larger than anything I’ve attempted recently. So it took me forever to finish it. It has the recurring one eyed monsters and lizard men I’ve been painting and drawing reecently, but there are a few other noteworthy cameos.
Here is the punk from the original drawing, 20 years later. Now he’s married and is trying to figure out how to plug the TV in. The original tv is also there, on its side, obsolete and useless.
Here’s my mom and dad riding around in my dad’s a-model hot rod project car.
Here we can see David Rose, Tommy Long, and Doctor Who peeking out of the Tardis. He’s not sure he wants to get involved with this mess, because it’s a tangle that can’t be solved without guns, face punching and biting. Dave on the other hand, is in his element, gleefully chasing a monster with a broken beer bottle. Tommy is putting his hockey equipment to good use as well.
Matt Turner is wearing part of his Spartan costume while George uses his MTG cards to cast some sort of spell. Behind them is a LARPer, casting a level 1 Lightning Bolt.
Finally, there’s Lauren, reloading her Beretta, while my brother Jon lines up a shot. The Time Bandits are making a quick getaway. The item they were after has already been stolen . . .
“Decomposition”
Ballpoint pen, Xerox Enlargement 1992I dug this out the other day and decided to scan it for posterity so I could safely toss out the aging photocopy. I drew this in Logan, Utah while I was on my mission. The inspiration was probably from a goofy joke, but looking back now, I appreciate the sentiment of the musical cadaver. I think I share his drive to create and work in spite of fatigue or in his case, death. Unless I’m feeling tired and lazy.
So a couple of weeks ago, Doug had an accident involving his wheeled garbage container. I would call it a ‘trash can’ but to me, ‘can’ implies something made of metal and most trash bins today aren’t.
Tommy drew the above to depict and reinterpret the actual events. Because I was in a rush, I scanned my version of the drawing and finished it in Photoshop.
What exactly happened to Doug’s fingers? You’ll have to ask him yourself. Tommy’s version gets the big picture correct, but is off in some of the details, like what Doug was wearing.
More Thursday Meeting notes.
The Lizard Men have a ray that instantly turns Humans into Lizard Men!
He’s digging tunnels under your home.
I found Mike Laughead’s site the other day, and loved the work. I also appreciated the description of his process.
For a good while I’ve been torn between styles that feature line work, and styles that are more shape and color based. Mike’s process bridges those competing aims well.
So I played around with his process in ArtRage the other night. In ArtRage, you have to make a stencil of a layer to ‘lock transparent pixels’ the way Photoshop does. Unfortunately, this means you’re looking through a transparent red field the whole time you’re painting in the lines.
Rich and I went to Jerry’s over lunch today, and I discovered a flyer for a costumed sketch night at Camelot Treasures. Since the theme for February was pirates, I thought it sounded like fun. So here’s a couple of sketches.
And I found the flickr set where one of the artists there posted a few photos.
More Thursday meeting notes.
Another meeting on Thursday generated some more doodles. This one is connected to the text of my King Krok story. Lawless anarchy is just one beard away from reality! I enjoyed the doodle enough to color it in ArtRage. I’m still struggling with the style of the illustrations for the King Krok story, and I wanted to test a flatter style of modeling this type of cartoony character, so I used this doodle as a vehicle.
