I drew this in October of 2015 as part of the “Inktober” daily drawing challenge on Facebook. Since it has a butt prominently displayed, I’m posting it in this hole in my Daily Derriere schedule.
These two drawings seem to be part of a series. The drawing on the right is a sketch of Richard, my boyfriend at the time (now my husband, subsequent to the death of my spouse, John Callahan, and my recovery from my nearly fatal stroke on April 2, 2013. Complicated, isn’t it?) I would have thought I would have done the drawing on the right FIRST, and abstract the drawing on the left from the more realistic drawing. But the dates tell a different story. Hmm.
This drawing was done with a Pentel Color Brush pen and a Tombo brush pen for the grays.
The dating on the Daily Derriere drawings I’m culling from is going to get wonky from this point onward. That’s because my life was getting out of control (not that it was ever IN control) as my spouse, John Callahan, was nearing the end of his life in the beginning of 2013. John was dying of metastasized prostate cancer, having been diagnosed as terminal in October 2010. He passed on February 17, 2013. During those couple of months (and the period afterwards) it became hard to keep a daily drawing schedule, especially after I had a nearly fatal stroke on April 2, 2013. So I’m filling in the gaps with other drawings, many of which have nothing to do with derriere.
This drawing was done with a white-out pen. It is a study in subtlety.
As with much of the “Daily Derriere” series, I’m working in an American Express Date book from 2012. The travel destination for that month is Punta Del Este, Uruguay. The beach-front sculpture depicted in this photo looks really interesting. In this face the animus mundi is copping a celestial feel.
This is so abstract you wouldn’t even know it’s supposed to be an ass unless I told you it was. So I’m telling you.
I call this sketch, “Shoot out at Butt, Montana”. I executed it with ball point pen and Tombo brush pens.