Attempt at the Surreal

This is my illustrated attempt to do my work in a more abstract state. These are on~going skethes for a new poetry book for SunnyOutside Press. The title is "My Fingernails are Fresnal Lenses". The publisher was thinking abstract - so I have to pretty much stop thinking to get 'abstract' out of me and onto paper.

The more conceptual idea behind the poem.


Purely abstract without thought just intuitive happenings.


Abstract with human element.

Orange Sketches

Good grief...it's been a month since my last post. I have been wasting my time getting my tail chased. So no more playing hide and go seek I am back in drawing/painting mode!

Here are some beginning sketches for a new project David McNamara from SunnyOutside press has asked me to do for poetry book. They will be inside and possibly the cover...wish me luck!! Sorry for the crappy quality of the photo...I am sans scanner and a bad photographer.

Finished Madonna

The finished Madonna True Blue piece for the "Let's Bolt, Again" show at Rock Paper Scissors Gallery in Oakland, CA.
As you can see, if you keep scrolling down, the process that it took to get her to this. I am very, very happy with the result!
It shipped today so that they can have it to hang by Friday. I am still terribly sad that I won't be able to make it up to the show. The gallery sounds awesome and the show should be fun!


From the side.

Then the other.



Half way there.

Purple/Orange Madonna

Blue Madonna

True Blue

These are some beginning sketches of a piece I am painting for a show in Oakland, CA at Rock Paper Scissors Gallery on Jan. 4th.


This is the one I will work from and I am going to try to get it as paintly as possible when painting. I am not sure yet if I will paint it in acrylic or oil.


While I was tracing the outline to be transfered onto the wooden box I am painting the final piece on, I need a light colored surface under my tracing paper to see the outline better. This scrap of test paint paper with written out random thoughts was laying on my drawing table, her outline was transfer onto it. I decided to take it a bit further and ink it in with a blue rolling ball pilot pen. I really liked the effect...sometimes magic happens when you are not even trying.
I also love that it is blue and so is the writing...strangely coincidental because I did this weeks before working on this TRUE BLUE piece.


When I first thought of this idea I remembered a painting I did in high school of this image of Madonna's True Blue album cover. This was a quick sketch from the recall but realized when I looked up the image it looked nothing like this.
I will post the final piece sometime in the next week, it is due on the 15th.

IF: Excess

Inspired by P.J. Harvey.
Songs from the City ~ Songs from the Sea
Lyrics from "We Float"

When seeing the topic for the week...this song kept playing on repeat in my head when brainstorming excess. I didn't want to do something cliche' or obvious this week and I have always wanted to draw P.J. Harvey. So here ya go ~~


I thought I would add this photo because it's a nice view of my current workspace, in my additional ~ why do I have a second kitchen ~ kitchen, acting as a temporary studio.

Meet the Sharks

Since the shark video, for the time being, is not the highest quality, I thought I would introduce the sharks in their stationary mode.
Please click on them to enlarge them to get their full effect.


Alan


Dave


Ms. Heloise


The Shark Council

Dr. Sketchy SD November Session

I am very happy with my progress since attending the first Anti-Art School session back in July.


10 minute


10 minute


20 minute with added arms


20 minute

Dr. Sketchy SD October Session

As you can see I am a month behind with this set of sketches. The model was very vampy for Halloween.

5 minutes


5 minutes


15 minutes


20 minutes

Flying Society of Sharks

My new San Diego friend, Brandon and I worked on this film for the last couple of weeks. It was a call for video artists to come up with a mocumentary of Artificial Anthropology. We found the flyer at T-Deli in Hillcrest and had until the 15th to make the entire film under 7 minutes. If chosen it will be played along with other films at the Bamboo Lounge in Hillcrest, SD Saturday, December 1st, 8pm.

Honestly, Brandon was the brains behind the project (he is a filmmaker). He came up with the script, the thought behind the rock wall/gardens and the society of flying sharks. He got the actors for the parts, filmed the entire piece, the music in it is his original score and he edited it as well.

I decided to make the sharks out of cut paper. The first idea in my head was simple and boring. However, I kept receiving every kind of catalog you can think of in the mail for the former tenants of my new house in North Park. So the sharks evolved from the pages of catalogs and fashion magazines...I hope you find their bling as beautiful as I do. I also painted the backgrounds and the shark castle, where Ms. Heloise meets with the shark council. I really wanted the Hanna Barbara repeating background effect and it worked nicely.

I hope you enjoy it, I personally find it truly hilarious and one of a kind, it makes me laugh every time.

Thanks for watching!

IF: Open

I'm not sure why this image formed in my head and then materialized into a painting for this topic. Probably has to do with all the wonderful live burlesque women I have been drawing lately.

There are hidden messages and meanings ~ as always with lovely creatures of the night.

WOW!! I am so excited to have been chosen for this fun contest.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VOTING AND ALLOWING IT TO HAPPEN!!