Flaming Artist
To fill in the gaps in my DAILY DERRIERE series that I executed in 2013, using a 2012 AMERICAN EXPRESS APPOINTMENT BOOK as my sketchbook, I’m posting a drawing from a 1994 journal. During this period in the early-ish 90’s, for a couple years, I did my daily journal on the backs of photocopies that I hole-punched and put in binders. One can see the ghost-image of the reverse side, which I haven’t taken the time to fully obliterate.
This “drawing” was done simply by careful tearing the page of the 2012 AMERICAN EXPRESS DAILY APPOINTMENT BOOK” that I was using in 2013 when I did these drawings for the “DAILY DERRIERE” series. For better or worse, as I scanned this page on July 23rd, 2016, I made the snap judgment call to put another sheet of white paper behind the page to hide the page underneath (which will be the DAILY DERRIERE post for July 27, 2016) from view.
This drawing was done with Prismacolors. It’s a closer view of the photograph I copied on one of the DAILY DERRIERE posts for July 22nd. I drew it over the AMERICAN EXPRESS APPOINTMENT BOOK for 2012 that I was using as my sketchbook when I was doing the DAILY DERRIERE series back in 2013.
I drew this over 21 years ago.
Two drawings for the price of one! The first is a sketch from a vintage early 80’s photograph, probably from Drummer or Mandate, done with a Tombo brush pen. The second is from my fevered imagination, drawn with a ball point pen.
Running butts, drawn in Prismacolor.
This is copied from the same source photo as yesterday’s post with Prismacolors.
This is another copy of an old photo from Mandate or Honcho Magazine(s) from 1985 or 1986. Drawn using Prismacolors.
This is a scan of a sketch from 1994. Seems to be a police officer from some future utopia.
For the next month or so, most of the DAILY DERRIERE drawings will be taken from my dedicated DAILY DERRIERE sketchbook, done in 2013. Each days post will be taken from a drawing I did exactly 3 years ago on any given day. As with THE DAILY DICK series I executed and posted in 2012, I did the drawings in a re-purposed American Express Appointment Book from 2012. This appealed to my sense of perversity. Also, the shitty quality of the paper stock kept me from being too precious, too perfectionist, which I found artistically liberating. In the DAILY DICK series, it took me a couple of months to realize I could interact with the printed material in the book instead of trying to ignore it.