Flaming ArtistThis is an acrylic paint sketch, done in a 2012 American Express Appointment Book, as a part of my ongoing “Daily Derriere” series. I’m calling it “The Hulk” because (I’m told) Google search algorithms rank image posts higher if they include a title and text.
The second piece is a re-draw I did this morning (082116) that is more what I speculate the Hulk might actually look like if caught naked and posing just so. In fact, that would be a great idea for a Hulk adventure.
In my ongoing quest for abstraction and simplicity, I think I achieved apotheosis. A posterior depicted in 6 straight (or almost straight) lines and 2 circles. I executed this by painting the rim of a bowl and pressing it down twice. The lines were similarly done by painting and pressing a sheet of chip board.
This is another foray into simplicity, using the legs and buttocks of some hypothetical man as my subject.
This is the third 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.
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 painted the right hand page with acrylics, clapped the two pages together, waited a few seconds and pulled them apart.
Same deal as yesterday,
wet-into-wet acrylic using leftover paint, color mixing directly on the page.
Except, this time, I started with a yellowish underpainted wash.
I really like the look of
the last 3 posted paintings; I think they would look great painted large, say
3’ x 4’, maintaining the same large strokes.
Yeow,
I just noticed: this is the 50th post in the “Daily Dick” series.
I’m just about halfway through the “Daily Dick” sketchbook. In order to avoid
repetition (and the accompanying boredom and ennui), I had to keep mixing
things up, trying new shit. Things get even more interesting from here on out.
More acrylic, this time painting wet into wet, doing
the color mixing on the page itself. I was working with leftover paint from
whatever canvas I was doing at the time.
