Speak softly and carry a big charcoal pencil. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Me: “Dude!”
Teddy Roosevelt Drawing: “Bully!”
Me: “Dude!”
Teddy Roosevelt Drawing: “Bully!”
About this image: charcoal drawing on Bristol Board
Colonel Roosevelt
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Jules Verne
Apparently my computer doesn’t always ‘work’ these days. So, if I suddenly disappear, that’s probably why. Also, here’s my drawing of Jules Verne.
Jules Verne Drawing: “Imagine, if you can, a world filled with lighter-than-air machines… of submersibles… capable of exploring the greatest watery depths…”
Me: “Or, if you can, imagine a technology that always works… just as it’s been designed to do… with the simple push of a button!”
Jules Verne Drawing: “Dude! You are totally blowing my mind right now!”
About this image: charcoal drawing on Bristol Board
Nucleus No. One
I was planning to share a photo today, but at the last minute I decided to re-process it. So, instead, here’s… another… nucleus (Nucleus No. Two here). Have a great weekend, everyone (I’m off to re-launch Photoshop).
Joel Barish: “Can you hear me? I don’t want this any more! I want to call it off!”
– Jim Carrey – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
About this image: aluminum ground bolted to 8″x10″ canvas frame… background is gel medium transfer of blurred periodic table… charcoal portrait (gel medium transfer)… charcoal circles (gel medium transfer) represent electron orbitals… hand painted aluminum element symbol and atomic number (acrylic).
Twain (in progress)
Friday is Mark Twain’s birthday so posting one of my author drawings seemed appropriate-ish (Poe here and Alcott here). I’ve been transferring these drawings into 3-D / Mixed Media pieces (about 95% complete) which I hope to finish in a decade or so. If I’m lucky.
Mark Twain: “Are you ever gonna finish one of these confounded ‘projects?’ I swear, son… you are slower than molasses on a winter’s morn’!”
Me: “Mole… asses?!” *giggle*
Mark Twain: *sigh* “I do declare… that boy may be a bit dull, but at least he’s plain-spoken!”
About this image: charcoal drawing on Bristol Board
Empire
Here’s a mixed media thing I made a while back. So… that happened.
General Maximus Decimus Meridius: “Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?”
– Russell Crowe – Gladiator
About this image: (where to start?) map drawn in colored pencil – stained & tinted with acrylic; charcoal portrait – gel medium transfer onto painted paper – mounted on wooden frame; hand-built polymer clay mosaic tiles – painted with acrylic; all mounted in 12″x12″ stained wood panel
Nucleus No. Two
It seemed appropriate to post some mixed media today… especially since it’s the model’s birthday on Saturday!
Have a great weekend, everyone! And happy birthday, Annabelle! I love you!
About this image: painted aluminum ground bolted to 8″x10″ canvas frame… background is gel medium transfer of blurred periodic table… charcoal portrait (gel medium transfer)… charcoal circles (gel medium transfer) represent electron orbitals… hand painted copper element symbol and atomic number (acrylic).
Downward Gaze
Simon says… post a drawing.
Simon (*singing his theme song*): “Well, you know my name is Simon… and I like to do drawerings…”
– Mike Myers – Saturday Night Live
About this image: charcoal drawing on Bristol Board
David vs. Michael
Last Christmas I decided to make my mother a St. Michael piece. I’d make a drawing and layer that into a mixed media collage. Only one problem… who do you book for that modeling gig? In the end I wound up using Michelangelo’s David as a reference for my drawing. Clearly this is an identity crisis just waiting to happen.
Jason Bourne: “I’m definitely Kane. I just had a meeting as Kane. And he knew me as Kane. So I’m definitely Bourne. I’m also definitely Kane.”
Matt Damon – The Bourne Identity
About this image: charcoal drawing on Bristol Board
Thanksgiving (faux T.T.V.)
If this image seems odd, you’ve probably never been in my kitchen. Honestly, if it doesn’t fall out of a can and into a microwave there is bound to be a small to medium sized inferno.
Anyway, I’ll be sure to ‘cook up’ something calmer for the big Monday show. Until then, have a wonderful holiday weekend everyone!
About this image: charcoal drawing(s) on Bristol Board digitally colorized and highly modified to represent a TTV photograph.
Refrigerator Magnate 