Brian Moore's Sketchblog » cutouts

Wallflowers

Brian — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:00:11 +0000

To combat the winter blahs, I’ve been making this little paper garden in one corner of my kitchen. The shapes are cut out of little tempera paintings (also see here) I make when my son and I paint together. I make a couple of new cutouts each day. Looks like it will be expanding out of that corner soon.

Two Helens Agree …

Brian — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:17:17 +0000

I had a grand day out on Saturday which included a trip to the paper counter at Pearl Art Supply, so here’s a new watercolor sketch to kick the tires. It’s Winsor & Newton hot-pressed 140lb., which may be my new fave paper. Shown here is Shaenon Garrity’s Helen Narbon, who has apparently forgotten that she left a Hot Pocket in her fusion-powered microwave oven. Well, either Dave or Artie will clean up the mess.

And here’s an earlier attempt at Helen, painted in gouache.
(It would take me too long to do 40 Helens, sorry …)

Green Guy – FInished Version

Brian — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:14:07 +0000

Here’s the finished version of the green guy painting. Gouache on cardstock, cut-out, approx. 4″ x 4″

My real interest was in trying to paint the weird lizard skin on our green guy … I sort of pooped out when I got to what he was looking at; hence the perfunctory kick-line girl.
And here’s a cute scan of the lil’ green guy on my hand. Someday, I must get a decent digital camera for this kind of thing.

Work In Progress

Brian — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:42:00 +0000

I’m running behind on the sketchblog this week, but here’s a peek at a work in progress. It’s a detail (reproduced larger than actual size here) of another small gouache painting.
(Feels sort of Heavy Metal-ish – I think it’s from reading all those “Were 1970′s Comic Books Any Good?” threads that have been floating around lately.)

The Real Thing Has A Stylin’ Silver Stylus, Too

Brian — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:47:00 +0000

This … cute … little guy was for a Xmas card I made for my wife, which read “GOOD FOR ONE WACOM TABLET.” She finally decided on a small Graphire, which arrived a few weeks ago. It’s a sleek, silvery sports car to my circa-2000 model Intuos tablet’s Beige Bomber. Apple really has done wonders for computer design.
The painting is gouache on cardstock, cutout, maybe 3″ tall.

Ink-A-Doodle-Doo

Brian — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:04:00 +0000

I’m still having fun with crowquill pens …

… and with cutout gouache paintings.

Comics Are So Gouache

Brian — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:14:00 +0000

In art school I had no idea how to pronounce “gouache” (gwash); I always thought it was “gauche”, like when the Admiral invites you to dinner and you use the wrong fork.
Anyway.
Here’s a mashup of a panel from a recent Smithson and one of the cut-out painted guys I’ve been making lately. I actually taped the cut-out onto the original art, which is sort of stupid in retrospect. But luckily I was able to peel it off again without any damage to the strip. Whew.

Cutouts #1

Brian — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:37:00 +0000

Painted with gouache on card stock and cut out, each around 5″ tall. I’m trying to do one of these guys a day.

The Best Laid Plans

Brian — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:43:00 +0000

Picked up some gouache paints today and played with those, as a (brief) break from the illustration gig.
This is an old to-do list that got used as a brush pointing page and now has this little man lying down on it. (The text at left says “3. Take a shot at New Yorker – come up with 10 ideas for cartoons.” By March, I think it was. Oh well.)

Today’s Experiments

Brian — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:06:00 +0000

I got to sit around and cut out paper dolls for a few hours today. This experiment came out better than previous ones – these cutouts cast a nice shadow in a few places, which usually isn’t the case when the pieces of paper are sandwiched in the scanner. I’m groping my way toward some kind of effect here …