Saturday, May 28, 2011

A sequence

On Monday I posted this four-page piece on Abstract Comics. I then meant to post the original art for it here, but we had a bad storm, tornado warnings, and a tree that fell on a power line, causing us to lose electricity for a day and a half. We've had a couple more blackouts since--I think the power company's infrastructure took quite a beating--but now the juice is back up and--cross my fingers--looks like it is so for good (or at least until the next thunderstorm).

Anyway, here is the art. In a Japanese (but made in China) spiral sketchbook, 162 x 225mm. I had sixteen blank pages left in it, and so I decided I would draw a sixteen-page sequence, each image building up on or somehow following on the previous ones. So it was basically an abstract comic drawn straight, with no pre-planning whatsoever, something I haven't done in a good long time. My other "constraint" was that I had to draw four pages a day, every day--which is what I did, from May 12 to May 15. A few days later I went through the whole book, adding small elements here and there to make it flow better, and I added a cover drawing. I also tore out all the unrelated pages (it was only a 20-page notebook to begin with), so now it's kind of like a little artist's book, I guess.


















Friday, May 20, 2011

More sketchbook drawings, March-May 2011







French laid paper sketchbook, about 296 x 209 mm.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Sometimes you just feel like hatching, part II



This one's from January (but I was too busy to upload it then). 14" x 17".

Friday, May 06, 2011

Sketchbook pages, Oct. 2010-April 2011




In chronological order; selected from two sketchbooks, 11" x 14" each. I could only post the ink drawings; snapshots of all the pencil drawings did not come out very well. I'll have to scan those and do another post.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

My work in the "Party Crashers" show at the Arlington Arts Center


Moving Stripes
and TTID Fugue (for Bruce Conner) (digital animations, 2010 and 2009, respectively):















Original art from my Ruins project (ink on paper, 2008, 2010):







"Two of the Missing Pages from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" (ink on paper, 2008):





For more info on the show, see here.