Recent Apocalyptic Froth

Djinn

For the Atlantis RPG.

Life Drawings 1989!

Finally getting around to cataloging/publishing 3 surviving pieces of Life Drawing and as far as I know, the oldest surviving pieces of Life Drawing I have. If you have noticed I've been cataloging a ton of old stuff over the past week, and I hope that won't stop for a bit. I have a lot of that to get through, and I have been putting it off way too long.
The figure at top was the first model I ever remember drawing. A tough foreshortening that I did pretty good with.
Yes, the guy in the middle had two belly buttons. I don't know why. The two holes, they looked as identical as they do in the picture. I see this character (and his two belly buttons) as an interesting metaphor and gatekeeper for what art making has been in my life. He embodies the seen of sustained embryonic sustenance and also the exo-nurturance of the myth-man; the wounded warrior (a piercing? the lancing  St. Templar of the George dragon stabbing?) and the shit-maker (possibly a colostomy hole?) & the emperor-bum. I think I did him justice. I worked at a brewery racking kegs for a while in my early 20's and I remember thinking about this guy, and still being proud of this drawing, as I hammered bungs into the kegs bungholes. But mostly it seems a symbol, the one (regular) belly button, the obvious, physical nutrient-line and the other non-nutrient bearing astral/spiritual/incorporeal snake hole purveyor of inspiration, maybe a third eye entry at the 3rd chakra. The man has 9 holes entering his body. The woman has 10. It *might* make no sense unless your the artist who made it, and have lived with it as a cryptic signal for 20+ years. I get it anyway.
These were all done during a short stint at Lane Community College in Eugene Oregon when I was 19(or)20. The bottom one I used as inking practice quite a few years later.

Hellas Roughs: Comment Characters

Character Roughs for new Hellas work. Hellas can be found at http://www.hellasrpg.com/

Tisiphone

 Akantha

Phormio

Balasai 

  Selena

Dromo 

  AgisRandom Ancient Goregon

Ghost-Shield-Memoirs

View from the Bluff

eggs

2 still life drawings

 

The "dressmaker's shop" Still life. I usually do a variation of this one every term in my drawing class.

A study of values and shapes via still-life.

More Life Drawing 8

Emily and Orson

A quick sketchbook drawing of some snuggle time.

bacchus

Sylvania Gallery

My painting at Portland Community College's North View Gallery. The show is up for another week! It is a wonderful show of all the art faculty at the school.

Self Portrait

Nautilus

drawings 4-15-2010

3 blind drawings

These 3 drawings were done without looking at the paper. I really like this process, it is challenging, fun, full of anticipation and not a little tension. The line that gets generated is spontaneous and the points of connection embrace a pure balance of improvisation and willful placement. There are more of these somewhere. I present these three here for your enjoyment.

The Consumers Corner

3 more from the garage-box

Here are 3 more from the same box as yesterday's. They are 3 pieces done from life and are kind of neat documents from the last house we lived in. I'm glad I did them and glad I've saved them. I think I'll keep them a while longer. I present them here for your entertainment.

Garage Scraps

More treasures from the piles of cardboard boxes falling apart, smashing each other and overflowing with past "detritus." It really is pretty fun to discover what can be gleaned from these time castles and what has been forgotten. I've been making (including the wastebasket) 4 rough piles to get through a box: 1.Filing cabinet 2.Recycling 3.back into the box 4.Immediate save and discard pile. In this way I have been through 2 boxes in the past month. It is a fun game. More space is getting cleared from the garage, there is a hole now where you can stand which is a nice development. I present these light sundries here for your enjoyment.

Tree Study in B&W