I painted this last week for my brother’s birthday. No, I don’t know what I was thinking, except that he lives in the Midwest and there is some corn around there somewhere. Alan, if you’re reading, happy (belated) birthday!
It’s another cutout painting – made on a card that’s about 4″ x 6″ and then cut out. Here you can see my hand holding it against the scanner glass:
Lots of time in the lab this weekend, trying to get the paint to do what I want it to do.
I like the top and the right paintings; they have some nice light. The one on the left looks OK but the technique was way too labor-intensive; it sucked all the freshness out of it. Maybe you heard the noise Sunday night.
A quick watercolor and ink study of Chuck and Micki from Smithson:
And part of an illustration gig from last week:
It’s a little hard to tell without the color, but it’s supposed to be a PC shaped like a motorcycle. The guy’s probably playing Half-Life 2.
I discovered last summer, while doing some work on my house, that I am resolutely not what is called “handy”. Oh, I can tear things down all right, but putting any kind of structure together (with nails, screws, carbon nanotubes etc.) is pretty taxing. Nevertheless, this is what I worked on today:
Note that by the final picture it is actually nighttime and the year 2525.
I’m still having fun with crowquill pens …
… and with cutout gouache paintings.
This is a detail from another painting I made for the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, for the play Augusta. Created in Photoshop.
