Painted in gouache on re-used junk mail.
This is painted on the reverse of a flyer for Golden Apple Comics that I gessoed (mixed with red paint). The drawing is in black Prismacolor, painted into with gouache. Since it’s been cropped to 8″ x 10″ I assume it was included in the “Recycled Erotica” exhibition.
I either drew this for my one man show at the One Way or for Secret Love #3. Notice that I did the artwork on a page of a newsletter for Black and White Men Together. It looks to have been done in gouache and
This was sketched in regular
Dixon Ticonderoga Soft pencil, then painted into with either water color or
gouache.
It was
drawn both from loving memory and from fantasy.
I sketched this first in
purple Prismacolor, then painted into it with watercolor and gouache. I haven’t
much to say about it.
I guess I could comment on
the photo and the pages it is printed across.
The photo is captioned: “The
SkyPark atop the triple towers of Singpore’s Marina Bay Sands Resorts features
an infinity pool billed as the world’s largest outdoor swimming pool at such a
dizzying height.”
This
definitely sounds like a bucket list item—see it while you still can, before
the world goes to Hell. Can you imagine being in this place when the oil runs
out? I wonder if the water in the pool is potable?
This drawing continues in the same vein as
yesterday’s— even the same penis spaceship, from a different angle. I drew it
in Prismacolors, punched up with white gouache to make it stand out from the
background photo.
This is a continuation on the theme of yesterday’s
painting. Here, I covered the page with black gouache and, once dried, drew
onto the dark shape with light Prismacolors, again achieving the eerie, ghostly
quality. It’s a matter of taste as to preferring one version to the other: I like
them both for different reasons. I like the spontaneous, gestural quality of
yesterday’s sketch; today’s has a fuller, deeper, richer, more atmospheric
quality.
I painted this quickly in gouache, letting the paint
soak into the thin, somewhat absorbent paper. I was pleased by its somewhat haunted, ghostly
quality.
With this image, I fully embraced using the printed
pages of the Daily Planner, instead of ignoring these pages or avoiding them as
too distracting. This has led to some really fertile, evocative images. I’ve
gotten a lot of feedback that this is the most interesting work in these
sketchbooks.
