LEAD HEADED

CHILDRENS ART

2012-02-14T16:02:00.000-05:00

This is a concept watercolor sketch for a for a story idea I have. His name is Tim.

Fwape

2012-02-02T11:47:00.000-05:00

Some paintings can be best described as a learning experience and that's the case with this one. My original, more interesting, sketch (below left) was done in gouache on watercolor paper and was very spontaneous and textural. This one, done in acrylic, has none of that. Also I failed to get the colors and contrast right (some of that is due to scanning). Onward.

COLORBUNNS

2012-01-23T15:29:00.000-05:00

SY FLIES WITH COLOR

2012-01-21T00:14:00.000-05:00

Cartoon Jazz

2012-01-18T09:43:00.000-05:00

Modern Mitch
ponders Jazz
"Which mode is which?"
(and all that razzmatazz)
Meanwhile his date,
a square named Claire
jumps with Nate

Abstract Cartoon

2012-01-06T22:03:00.001-05:00

Ron Paul Sketch

2012-01-05T15:24:00.001-05:00

A quick I did in my sketchbook+PS. No I'm not Paulhead I just think he is an amusing character (among many running for the GOP nomination).

HOLIDAY SEASONINGS TO ALL

2011-12-23T19:44:00.000-05:00

Sketchbook Page Fifty-One

2011-12-06T16:24:00.001-05:00

Busby is feeling unrepentantly self-satisfied today. (This, despite having been drawn with no hands or legs.)

Sketchbook Page Fifty

2011-12-03T13:32:00.001-05:00

C. Lawrence Howell sings " Blue Moon" in Wolfman the (failed) Musical. Dogged by criticism for his performance in this play, Howell retired from acting to a splendid no-kill shelter and married a fetching young bitch named Bitsy.

Sketchbook Page Forty-Nine

2011-11-29T16:27:00.001-05:00

Colored in Photoshop

Pencil

Sketchbook Page Forty-Eight (+)

2011-11-25T14:19:00.001-05:00

Cursed Werewolf

2011-10-23T21:28:00.000-04:00

From Curse of the Werewolf. Face is off but that's okay.

Sketchbook Page Forty-Seven

2011-10-22T13:06:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Forty-Six

2011-10-22T13:04:00.001-04:00

SKULLBOT

2011-10-15T16:06:00.002-04:00

9x12 Acrylic

This was painted for a gallery show, but I missed the deadline. So it goes... (The colors are not completely accurate here.) Correction: I made it into the show after all.

Whatever it is...

2011-10-10T11:56:00.000-04:00

.. it's getting closer.

Sketchbook Page Forty-Five

2011-10-08T13:40:00.001-04:00

The evil Mr. Hyde.

Sketchbook Page Forty-Four

2011-10-08T08:36:00.002-04:00

Sketchbook Page Forty-Three

2011-10-07T17:37:00.001-04:00

(growling sounds)

SketchbookPage Forty-Two

2011-09-30T21:31:00.001-04:00

It's a
two-in-one
deal.

Sketchbook Page Forty-One

2011-09-28T11:43:00.001-04:00

Mmmmrrrr!

Sketchbook Page Forty

2011-09-26T11:46:00.000-04:00

The future is strange.

Sketchbook Page Thirty-Nine

2011-09-06T21:38:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Thirty-Eight

2011-09-06T21:28:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Thirty-Seven

2011-08-26T20:30:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Thirty-Six

2011-08-25T20:45:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Thirty-Five

2011-08-22T22:29:00.001-04:00

[Billy Pilgrim] came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground…
to hide them cleverly…
so they would never hurt anybody ever again.
The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn’t in the movie. Billy was extrapolating.
Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve…
…he supposed.

From Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Sketchbook Page Thirty-Four

2011-08-07T00:22:00.000-04:00

Another go at Aldous' mug in hopes of saving face (you've been punned!). He's still screwed up (heh) but looks a little more like himself than before.

Sketchbook Page Thirty-Three

2011-08-03T16:15:00.002-04:00

A failed likeness of Aldous Huxley .

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books. (From Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.)

Sketchbook Page Thirty-Two

2011-08-02T22:24:00.000-04:00

George Orwell (complete works online)
(Morewell)

In Part 2 of The Road to Wigan Pier, published by the Left Book Club, Orwell stated: "a real Socialist is one who wishes – not merely conceives it as desirable, but actively wishes – to see tyranny overthrown". Orwell stated in "Why I Write" (1946): "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience. Aldous Huxley writing to congratulate Orwell on the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this [act of] being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.
• Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby (2002)

Sketchbook Page Thirty-One

2011-07-22T15:56:00.000-04:00

"I told you so. You damned fools!"- H.G Wells

Sketchbook Page Thirty

2011-07-16T14:06:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Twenty-Nine

2011-07-16T13:49:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Twenty-Eight

2011-07-12T20:40:00.000-04:00

I don't get it.

Sketchbook Page Twenty-seven

2011-07-12T11:45:00.000-04:00

"Now, why did I come down here?..."

Doc Damage, Man of...you know that stuff...It's like, you know...sigh...give me a minute, I'll think of it- anyhow, he doggedly pursues the evil... um, what's his name-that guy, you know... oh, it'll come to me...

Doc Damage, Man of stuff thwarts some evil junk and whatnot!

Sketchbook Page Twenty-six

2011-07-11T18:06:00.000-04:00

"Right in the @#&!% t'maters."

Sketchbook Page Twenty-five

2011-07-11T17:12:00.000-04:00

Another victim of anthropomorphism.

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2011-07-09T21:28:00.001-04:00

Sketchbook Page Twent-three

2011-07-09T17:29:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Twenty-two

2011-07-08T17:23:00.000-04:00

Cy flies.

Sketchbook Page Twenty-one

2011-07-07T09:11:00.001-04:00

Sketchbook Page Twenty

2011-07-07T08:52:00.001-04:00

Sketchbook Page Nineteen

2011-07-06T22:02:00.000-04:00

'Snothin personal.

Sketchbook Page Eighteen

2011-07-06T21:56:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Seventeen

2011-06-29T14:16:00.000-04:00

Laughing face.

Sketchbook Page Sixteen

2011-06-27T19:20:00.000-04:00

Woodland creature.

Sketchbook Page Fifteen

2011-06-27T18:47:00.000-04:00

Face from the past.

Sketchbook Page Fourteen

2011-06-23T11:48:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Thirteen

2011-06-19T20:59:00.000-04:00

Well, what are we gonna do today?

Sketchbook Page Twelve

2011-06-18T12:41:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Eleven

2011-06-17T12:05:00.000-04:00

Numbskull.

Sketchbook Page Ten

2011-06-15T23:30:00.000-04:00

Sometimes jive is what you need in order to survive.

Sketchbook Page Nine

2011-06-15T09:24:00.000-04:00

Sinister bunnies.

Sketchbook Page Eight

2011-06-14T09:47:00.000-04:00

Slightly wonky face, but I like her still.

Sketchbook Page Seven

2011-06-13T14:28:00.000-04:00

Sketchbook Page Six

2011-06-13T10:09:00.001-04:00

Sketchbook Page Five

2011-06-12T22:42:00.001-04:00

Sketchbook Page Four

2011-06-11T10:21:00.001-04:00

Any resemblance to actual thoughtfulness is purely coincidental.

Sketchbook Page Three

2011-06-10T15:43:00.001-04:00

British barmaid from the Hopcat. A pint of ale and a spoonful of sugar.

Sketchbook Page Two

2011-06-09T08:49:00.000-04:00

I bought a new small squarebound sketchbook. I'm posting sketches from it sequentially.

New Sketchbook Page One

2011-06-08T13:48:00.000-04:00

Carefully Arranged Random Marks

2011-05-27T14:33:00.000-04:00

FROM THE FUTURE

2011-05-26T19:44:00.000-04:00

VAMP

2011-05-23T14:21:00.000-04:00

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR

2011-05-19T20:49:00.000-04:00

#*@!-Don't Try This at Home Kids

2011-04-19T20:18:00.000-04:00

Pencils: Anthony Carpenter. inks and ink spillage: Jack Snider

There is an important lesson to be learned here, sadly I'd learned it a long time ago and, in my haste, ignored it.

When drawing with ink or inking artwork with a brush always secure your ink bottle to your desk (see bottom illustration). If you don't you may tip your ink bottle over onto the art you're working on. (see above) I actually un-taped my ink bottle so I could shake it up and then stuck it down with the old tape, The unfortunate accident (above) took place after I had taken the lid off the ink bottle and checked to make sure the tape was secure. It was not. (Gaze in shock at my stupidity above.)

Another important lesson is to always make a copy or a scan of the pencils in case something catastrophic (Oh the humanity, look at that mess!) should happen to the pencil artwork. Luckily I did in this case and was able to digitally ink the destroyed half (Stare into the abyss above and let it stare into you asking, " Why man, why?") and reconstruct the hand inked art with the art inked on the computer.

Here is the finished page:

Salvaged and colored page.

(This is one part of a comic produced by Alan Close (Writer), Anthony Carpenter (Penciller), and me (Inker, Colorer, Destroyer), for a computer/tech solutions company.)

Inking tech solutions:

OWLGASM

2011-03-26T21:31:00.000-04:00

Three pages of owl variations.

More Owls

2011-03-24T21:50:00.001-04:00

Eurasian eagle owl

Burrowing owl, saw-whet owl
and northern hawk owl.

Hawk Owl

2011-03-23T17:15:00.000-04:00

Mouse Sketch

2011-03-22T19:17:00.000-04:00

IF THIS BE ES

2011-03-04T22:49:00.001-05:00

I had every intention of doing something serious but ended up screwing around in Photoshop to make this. Ahh well, maybe next time.

Don't Worry Be Happy

2011-02-24T11:49:00.000-05:00

I really think the meds are helping...

; )

Abstract Sketches

2011-02-05T12:17:00.000-05:00

Here are two gouache sketches I did for the fun of it. I plan on doing more of these.

Sketchbook Monsters

2011-01-31T19:10:00.001-05:00

Good Knight

2011-01-29T19:13:00.000-05:00

HULK SMASH!

2011-01-27T17:26:00.000-05:00

INK BLOT DRAGON

2011-01-23T18:38:00.001-05:00

Ink plus digital shenanigans.

Lost In Space

2011-01-16T08:02:00.002-05:00

I've been away from the blog awhile now. I'm going to try posting more and maybe even steer this thing in some sort of direction.

LOOXIE

2010-11-30T22:31:00.000-05:00

ANNA MAY

2010-11-27T15:20:00.000-05:00

Adrift Colors

2010-11-24T19:03:00.000-05:00

Digital abstract.

Hairy One

2010-10-30T12:05:00.003-04:00

A quickie for Halloween's sake. (Now also in blue!)

ZOMBIE ATTACK!

2010-10-17T11:47:00.000-04:00

PHLY WITH COLOR

2010-10-13T15:15:00.000-04:00

Watercolor and gouache.

Heroic Woman

2010-10-05T16:37:00.000-04:00

Monster Sketch

2010-10-04T15:16:00.002-04:00

A quick monster sketch in Painter.

Gal with Color

2010-10-01T19:57:00.000-04:00

Brush Gal

2010-10-01T15:25:00.002-04:00

I found this old sketch while I was inking some cartoon drawingsand laid some ink on it. It's mostly brush inked
(thick lines) with dip pen used on the background shape (thin lines).

Madness

2010-08-12T22:30:00.000-04:00

GLADDNESS

2010-07-28T18:11:00.000-04:00

ZAP!

2010-07-10T10:40:00.000-04:00

A Cartoony Bird

2010-07-02T23:36:00.000-04:00

NICE FISHY

2010-06-24T23:39:00.000-04:00

Still on Mars

2010-06-18T19:09:00.000-04:00

To Barsoom!

2010-06-15T18:51:00.000-04:00

MUG LUG

2010-06-08T18:15:00.000-04:00

Way...Way Out!

2010-05-21T19:35:00.004-04:00

This is the announcement Anthony made for our show. (Good job!)
The opening was a week ago ( I’ve been sick with a cold since ) but the show is going to be up through June and possibly longer. It was very nice talking with everyone at the reception but I was glad when it was over. Right now I’m satisfied that I finished a bunch of paintings and hope to continue despite the lack of a show deadline. Eventually I’ll post the rest of the paintings. It is my intention to post an online gallery on my web page. I have to sort out some problems with my computer first though.

Eyelobite

2010-04-29T14:47:00.000-04:00

My son named this one. It is acrylic, it is 18x24" and I don't know what it is exactly but I like it.

Owl Painting

2010-04-27T09:37:00.000-04:00

This owl was painted for an upcoming charity auction to support a school arts program.
9x12"
Acrylic on canvas