Now, these first four that are all on black paper are just drawings i did one night this week while at Malena's house. I did them all consecutively, none were planned, and all are lots of fun! one is reminiscent of ghostbusters to me (building being struck), one is an egg fertilization gone completely wrong.... one i have no idea even myself what it is because there's an alien in the background, and the final one, which ironically was the first one that i drew, is a self portrait. It's me looking into a bug zapper, if you look properly, there's a profile shape in it. ahhh to be young again.
the girl at the bottom is name of "beany." -- yeh yeh you aint getting anyone's real name on this blog. She was recently hit by an suv.... right before summer break by a few days.... aint that always the way??? anyways.... this was based on a picture of her when she was in the hospital. Everyone who knew her was so terrified that she was going to die, naturally, anytime you hear someone was hit by an suv and has a bundle of broken bones.... death is no fun. BUT-- she's a twinbrook native, as am i, and we don't "die" by car.... we only die by bullets cancer or self infliction of disaster. SHe is totally rebounding at light speed so.. i am pleased to be able to have a positive story on something here... ha ha. BUT, i remember my sister showed me this picture and says "even in the hospital she's still gorgeous." I saw it and thought.... man that's one of the greatest pictures i have seen! question becomes why paint something that you have a wonderful photo of already? for one, breaking it down, and making it a painting GIVES even more of a human quality to it. Every spec has been run through my mind, like i am a printer and my mind is the cpu. I have always sorta dealt with that issue of making something that is similar to what is already a photograph. Not all the time obviously, i almost never directly copy. What i like to do it to start something, base it on a photo, then little by little stop looking at the photo completely as i work on the painting. Of course, i have so many different work techniques that i now employ after all these years thati guess it's unnecessary to explain myself to people. One example: there are specific reasons i might draw a picture onto the wood before i paint it, but most of the time i don't draw them on. Or how i paint as if i was trying to make a roorshacht test out of the outing. I make some paint marks. I look at the marks. I see things. I paint what i see into those things. This is how the painting i did at the begining of the summer called "without me" came to life. I am a huge fan of subliminal imagery. I don't wanna think all the time about waht i am expressing. Sometimes that gets in the way, so if i am roorshachting it up (a roorschacht test is where there's the ink blot and you're supposed to tell the guy in the chair what you see ... ya ya). so anywhoooooo..
this painting right here is yet to be titled but definitely is for sale: all i could think when i was painting it was of the phrase "downfall of man" so i am still trying to figure out what those two alien like figures above are holding.... some kind of red ball... wizards orbs or something??? maybe??? dont know.
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