modified and enlarged version of sketch_d4
art - tm
flower_crop
see previous post. i think the flower was based on a Thos. Hart Benton reproduction but it's my painting (oils). the canvas is now a series of cut-up scraps - scan fodder
not made on a pad or phone
that cobalt turquoise was expensive, as I recall
Raster Portrait 2
Not to be cruel - this is a celebrity we're talking about - but this kid (Skrillex, the dj) has a big bulbous nose. Am sure he got ribbed about it in school and had to grow up to be famous so it became a trademark rather than a liability. In any case, a previous attempt at drawing him was fairly realistic and the nose got reduced out of empathy but it lost the essence of the guy's goofy charm. This raster portrait is more of a caricature and is rendered more vaguely so the honker is back up to full scale. (Ex-portraitist aside/self-shop talk.)
The one above isn't even recognizable but I liked how the Photoshop Navigator Buren-ized the image.
The Man from Chicago
So we were having a discussion of the Chicago school of artists, dating back to the '60s, who incorporate underground comix-style drawing into their art. I tried to make a "Chicago" style drawing from memory, not looking at any one particular work by, say, HC Westermann or The Hairy Who. Above is the second revision, which yells '80s, not '60s. The more I try to make it like Karl Wirsum or Jim Nutt, the more it looks like Gary Panter.