This is the second in a series of acrylic paintings I did in my DAILY DERRIERE sketchbook on August 11, 2013. I’m spacing them out over the 3 days before August 11, 2016.
I did no new works in the DAILY DERRIERE sketchbook for 3 days, then did 3 paintings in on day, August 11, 2013. I’m posting the August 11 painting on 3 consecutive days, starting today. I was using up leftover paint from a painting-on-canvas, probably “Horuborus”. “Horuborus” was a present for my fiancé’, Richard Rangel. I had begun the painting in 2012 or early 2013. I had a stroke in April 2013, and was unsure if I’d ever be able to finish the painting. I had lost the use of my left arm for almost a year; luckily I’m right handed. However, standing up for any length of time was difficult. Apparently, by mid-August 2013, I was recovered enough to complete “Horuborus”. I know I was recovered enough to go back to my job on September 1st of that year.
This painting was done with leftover acrylic paint leftover from a work-on-canvas I was doing at the time.
One of the interesting things I’ve notice as I look through old sketchbooks: drawings that I dismissed at the time of initial execution become much better when seen years later. I find I have forgotten what I was trying to do originally and can appreciate the drawings for what they are, or seem to be through my current eyes. This, unfortunately, is not one of those drawing. I’m including it only because it’s in the series, and, fuck it, nobody is paying me for this so I can do whatever I want.
I drew this in the same work meeting as yesterday’s drawing, on the back of another page of the same script. I started out drawing Superman, then changed my mind, putting him in slacks. He seems to have his shirt off, though.
This drawing was done on the back of a script for the TV series I’m working on. I’m not going to tell you which one, or what my job is. It’s a female butt, in case my straight co-workers were watching. That’s okay; I like female butts too, but not as much as male butts.
This is a variation on “Pink Butt” from August 3, 2016. This butt, however is sand colored, not pink. As I recall, I had just inherited a large collection of Ad Markers and was trying them out. They didn’t work well on the porous paper of 2012 the American Express Date Book I was using as a sketchbook.
The Daily Derriere series of artworks is done using a 2012 American Express Appointment Book as my sketchbook. Instead of ignoring or avoiding the printed material in the book, I used it to spark ideas for my drawings, staring at the photographs until a drawing idea came to mind. The drawing was done with Prismacolor.
I was trying to abstract the ass to its simplest elements. I almost got there, but chickened out, adding to little diagonal lines at the top of the vertical.
This is an ink wash drawing of a butt artistically framed by a jockstrap. It was copied from a photograph in my collection culled from mid-80’s gay porn magazines such as Mandate and Honcho.
In this evening’s entry, I got even simpler that this morning’s. There’s only one big circle, this time orange instead of white, with a single, big anus drawn thereon.