Flaming ArtistThis is the final double page spread in this series.
Herein we fully see the supplicating torn-paper face glimpsed obliquely in
yesterday’s blog posting. We also see, more clearly, the torn paper crotch
profile from yesterday’s blog and the man’s hips from the blog before that.
There’s something vaguely profound about it.
For this
one, I did the drawing first on yellow construction paper, cut out the drawing
and traced it onto the page of the Am Ex date book destined for it’s adhesion.
Then I laid down heavy puddles of blue and green watercolor onto the page,
painted more shapes, wet into wet, into those shapes, and let the whole thing
dry. Then I glued the construction paper drawing onto that page, then drew back
into the drawing with colored pencil. The image was inspired by something I
found on the web.
I did these drawings in two of my early erotic sketchbooks, done when I was 21 years old and laid up for 2 months recovering from frost-bit feet that I acquired on Thanksgiving weekend 1981. I had nothing but time on my hands and was able to do these meticulous layered, luminous drawings that I’ll be serializing over the next few days.