Salon De Refuses

So, this year I actually got reminded in time to enter the Lawndale Big Show. I was not accepted, though I'm glad I got off my but and entered. I did get into the rejected art show at the M Squared gallery in the Heights. I think that it wasa great idea, and I got to meet several people.

This is the piece I entered:

This is a crayon drawing on 22 x 34 inch paper. While working on the enginehead diptychs I also created several crayon drawings which followed the paintings -- except the engines were not attached to the person's neck. While looking at different chainsaws for the painting I was struck by how much this brand reminded me of a baby bird head. In this painting I'm looking at not only a quick job, but the way in which that activity has affected the environment. No limb for the nest.

Cattle of Helios

Tried to think of a good name for this one. These lonely cows out by the road when I'm driving to work. I've been really impressed with the white-yellow grass, kinda looks like snow. But here I was trying to capture the warm sun of the afternoon on the way home. I love the way the cattle break up the plane of the field.

Some More Crayon Work

These are the last three drawings from the children's sermon. Enjoy.

Crayon Sketches

The Eyes

The Hands

I was asked to draw some pictures for the children at church for 5 Sundays. Each day I was asked to draw a specific body part during the children's service. Since it was for the kids, and I would be sitting with them, I decided to go with crayons!!! I'm pretty happy with the drawings, especially the eyebrows!

Wednesday Night Life Drawing

This Wednesday, we had Jeremy model. He's playing Howie in the Center's production of "Our Town", so we had him in costume for some of the poses.

Howie delivering the milk.

Howie talking to Mrs. Webb.

This is not Howie, and it's a rather sad disheveled-looking hobo.

Here's a smart upwardly mobile individual, about to leap into the fray.

Anyway, hope you enjoy these drafts, I'll be posting some more as things progress.

Happy Halloween

Oh No! Somewhere in New Jersey!!! It's Halloween!

If I was fuzzy and scaly and kinda fat and had big teeth and glowing eyes would you still luv me? hahaha

Wednesday Night Life Drawing

Amanda did a great job modeling tonight. Here's what I got.

Wednesday Night Life Drawing

This was an all crayon sketch night. My goal was to get every pose, and find something to use in a larger crayon piece.

First image of the night. Liked the movement, might be worth a larger scale.

This one was pretty funny. ran out of time on it, the head really unfinished

This ended up being to cropped I think. And it was hard to get it dark enough (didn't want to use black on it).

I liked this one a lot. Again, ran out of time, and it's a bit to light but would work in a bigger version.

Believe it or else, this is not pencil. It's crayon. black white and gray, but crayon.

This one was very interesting because of the shadows. I'll need to set this up again. The figure looks out, the bottom shadow looks down, the top shadow looks up (good noses on shadows too)