I’ve started coloring “Felled”. I’ve reverted back to a less green tinted version from the detail above. The green tint was added to help bring more focus to the angel’s face (with the contrasting color), but I liked the slightly more muted tone of the original…I can always tint at the end if I decide to go back in that direction. The picture is about 40% finished, in terms of adding color detail and rendering, I also want to paint over more of the line art. I keep intending on doing some more simple pictures (this was suppose to be one of those) but they end up getting more complicated despite my original intention.
I flipped the colors on this one, it started with the lighter pallet , but I felt it was getting a little lost…at least in the present composition. This is part of the “Westerly Strut” sub-series, but it could really go with Butterbroda “proper” as well. On a side note, I’ve started to color the “Felled” drawing, it still has along ways to go, but will post the WIP soon.
Originally this was meant to be a diptych,like the other I had done. Aside from liking triptych and diptych, there was also a practicality angle (in terms of shipping) bc I have the materials for shipping 5″x7″ prints, but not 8″x10″. But I decided that breaking the images into two halves doesn’t work for the flow of the composition. So I reformatted this as well as “We Shall Pop A Cap” to 8″x10″. I’ll likely have these printed on a glossy stock as it provides scratch protection, which these bigger prints may need. Once they’re under glass, the difference in surface finishing to the 5″x7″ becomes a non issue.
Back in early 2000 I did several Salish style animal pictures, I sold them on shirts a bit, but the designs have pretty much been shelved for a long time. Recently, I thought about trying to work some of that Salish style into my present work, either in “spirit” or more literally. I sketched out this new piece a few weeks ago, and yesterday I finally dove and got it done. The fun part about using the Salish style is that I normally have the larger encompassing figure planned out, but after that part is drawn I wing it, carving shapes into the larger outline and then experimenting with what types of figures work in the voids and spaces.
The devil and cowboy are from the CD art, with some very minor edits and the additional background added. I find myself making the backgrounds on this sub-series lighter than “Butterbroda” proper…not sure why that is, but I’m sticking to it.
“Devil’s Rodeo” is a song title from the album “The Sporting Life” by Diamanda Galás and John Paul Jones (bass, Led Zeppelin). The album was released in the early 90’s and was one of my favorites back then and I still listen to it from time to time. The music is comprised of Galás (vocals), Jones (bass), drums and occasional piano and organ. Instrumentally, the sound is driven by the bass, which sometimes takes on tones of Morphine (circa “Cure for Pain”)…I always enjoy when bass takes the forefront. Galás provides uncompromising vocals which morph between the sound of voice and instrument. Give her a listen:
A friend of mine contacted me today and let me know that he saw some of my prints in a video at Lynda.com. The video is of the talented creative team Mexopolis (Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua) who create the cartoon series El Tigre. The prints only appear on screen briefly, it took me a few views of the video to catch them. I think that clip of the video may have have been shot in the Subtext gallery in San Diego. You can view the full video here if you didn’t click on the “video” link above.
Title: “Shared Evaluations oft not Share Appreciations”
Another from the Westerly sub-series. The girl and candy apple originally appeared on the CD art, with the apple being held by a hand which came in from the edge of the liner note page. I redrew the hand and added the witch. The visual suggestion of a wing, on the witch’s right side, was added for a little more weirdness…I had played with putting her other arm there, but it seemed distracting…the wing was more subtle and added a component to the story telling.
Title: “Our Intentions Carved a Path of Rave and Ruin”
Another for the Butterbroda—Westerly Strut sub series. Originally I created this for the “Chasing Giants” CD, but it was sidelined for another pict. The colors were in a different combo, and I swapped out the cream background for a solid blue to make the silhouettes of the guns stand out.
I planning on using some of the CD packing art I had created and using them in a sub-series for Butterbroda of western themed pictures. The first is a dyptic of two 5″x7″ panels titled, “We Shall Pop a Cap”. I hope to have ten or twelve image when I’m done, but may add more if the ideas keep coming.
