Showing posts with label Illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illustration. Show all posts
Reaching Into the Past for a Hand
Kids will draw on anything. 20 years ago I found this fax copy roll in a bundle of trash-bound office stock, someplace, somewhere. Its entirely possible I pilfered it from some middle-school basement or office closet. It was a compact roll of ultra-thin 28x9 copy paper; not very good quality. It was likely to become an invoice or a receipt, or some meaningless note for someone just "goin' through the motions". Either way, it struck me as something of creative value. So I, 12 at the time, knew that I could take to it with pen and pencil to make something. I had made strange "surrealism" (I'm not sure if what I did falls under that artistic subset, but I was learning so...) drawings, and this was prime among them.
Cut to a few months ago, when I came across this rolled up, slightly ragged finished piece in my folks basement. Unrolling it, I found the drawing I had made 20 years before. It felt a bit like opening a time capsule. It also did the same thing it did all those years ago. It gave me an idea...
(This is the original, 1994 version)
That idea was to remake what I saw 20 years ago, but how I saw it today. So here is the fruit of both of those days. 12 year old Ev, and 32 year old Ev collaborating on one piece set in two lives. "Going back" isn't always a bad idea. Im going to try out a color version soon. Stay tuned for updates.
Bram and Gary and Winona...but not Keanu.
No need for explanation. I love this movie. Saw it in theaters as a kid. Now I have my own poster version. HA! I was up watching this movie, and I had (in the past) been trying to come up with a Dracula piece that I liked. Unfortunately nothing I had come up with really pleased me. It all looked so regular, so like many other overdone ideas: moon, castle, red...whatever.
This, of course, lead to me taking the notebook and scratching out something. I started to get somewhere just on a whim. Keep in mind, this all took place around 2AM. Soon I was off and running and knew exactly what I wanted, and how to do it. Around 4AM the poster above came out of the "oven" and I fell out of my chair fast asleep.
Hero's in a Half Shell, Another Art Show!
Here is "The Rat King"! From the "Turtles in Time: TMNT 30th Anniversary" show at Bottleneck Gallery, from October 2014.
Minor Throwback to a Throwback...
ERASERHEAD
Locally (within Philadelphia) there was a David Lynch show. David Lynch had spent some time going to PAFA, which eventually became The University of the Arts, which eventually I went to. SO, David Lynch was the subject of a group show at the NEWER version of PAFA thats not UArts (stay with me). I heard about this show rather late, and so was not able to be a part of it. However, I immediately had the exact idea for this piece, which has turned out simply as it was in my head.
...And Inktober 2014 Gave Birth to something.
Stemming from my introduction to the sketches of Inktober 2014 and 2014, I present some pieces that did, in fact, start from those simple sketches. In any artists studio there are a myriad of paper scraps/cardboard/trash, any of which eventually becomes a "canvas". These all began as the hard-backing within Amazon.com-sent packages, and simply would not make their way to the trash can. These three are untitled pieces, all part of the package called "Windows".
Inktober 2014
Once again, Inktober has passed. This year my contributions were both more involved, as well as more off the cuff and loose than last years sketches. Also, this year has brought me more attention and kind words from so many talented artists, friends, family, and folks passing surfing the seas of other Inktober posts.
Though I am not pleased with all these sketches, I love them all and feel like I have grown within the work. The years pass but they change (thankfully). This Inktober feels like an accomplishment and a setup for some new ideas, new artwork, and my first "selfie" (probably no more of those).
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