On Pour

Plotz

Likeness of a Friend and Artist

Hairstyle

From an Arcade Card

Great 30's era hairstyle (bob?) from an arcade card. Groovy gaze too, kind of faraway and out of frame. Not really sure what all these pencil sketches will amount to right now. They are just a nice sideline to the paintings. A good way to keep the hands going when I can't spend a full day at the studio. The portraits keep re-appearing in the paintings, so I'm sure I'll find ways to recycle the work... but they are interesting as a daily practice of drawing and image-making too. Why am I taking cheap antique photographs and ephemera and repeating them in pencil? Why do I change details? Alter beauties and sour faces to a kind of baseline? What does it mean to use arcade cards? Cards given as "rewards" or giveaways that are starlets' images or pinups.. alluring handouts for busy hands... I'm asking something of the portrait, of the photo-object, of ephemera, of beauty, but I'm not always sure what. I kind of enjoy not having a defined relationship to the image, to my project. If I explained it all it might become something I didn't want to do any more.

Braids and a Starlet

Drawings for Sunday

For Timmy on His (Belated) Birthday

Sketchbook 2003-4: Monsters

I was organizing my home office and found my old sketchbooks from grad school and earlier. I thought I'd keep them around and look at them. Its helpful to look at them. Geez has it already been four years since I graduated? This image was made just after I started Jerry Mischak's Wintersession class at RISD on Monsters. We watched Monster flicks like the Blob and Invasion of the Body Snatchers and talked about camp and kitsch! It was fantastic. The work in that course ranged from highly conceptual to creature-feature models that were so good the kids could have trotted over to a studio and gone to work on the next feature film. I just made weird drawings and sculpture and learned about the Wolf Man's walk (very haggard and limpy).

Self-Loathing White Bred Flunkie

Lush Bead Heap

I'm gonna bead a forest scene with these I think. We'll see. This heap was from the store. Mine's smaller, but this gives you some idea..

Work Photos of Puddle Girls on Duralar (Wet Media Acetate)

Fooling with Ribbons and Beads

Faint Underdrawing

This one didn't scan too well as the drawing is rather light, but I suppose the sentiment is the opposite. Happy Monday, hope you have the day off.

Too Tart an Underdrawing?

I found the bonnet too funny. I had to appropriate it and use it for my bitch drawing. The garnishing outer flora have yet to be completed, I'm hoping color will not overpower her.. I think she's just the right dose of black humor and sickly sweetness. Oh, and though I have given you a crappy work photo complete with crooked image, I have elided the confining six inch diameter round panel that should show around the edges. Have a good Valentine's day everybody!