This is another 2-for-one day, riffing on the same basic composition, exploring how to simplify my subject matter.
The paper in the American Express Date Book (for 2012) I was using when I did these drawing 3 years ago in 2013 had such porous paper that the ink I had used for the January 10 drawing bled through and nike slightly the page underneath. Instead of fighting it, I used the properties of the crappy paper as part of the art for the next 3 day’s drawings. Today you get a double serving of derriere.
This is the second in the series of jock strap framed buttocks.
JANUARY 1, 2016
This is the first post of “THE
DAILY DERRIERE”, taken from scans of my “DAILY DERRIER” sketchbook. Like my
previous series, “THE DAILY DICK”, these are done in “The American Express
Appointment Book” for 2012. I started the series on January 1st,
2013, but was derailed from my daily schedule by life (or death) happening, in
this case my spouse, John Callahan, losing his prolonged battle with
metastasized prostate cancer on February 17th, and my near-fatal
stroke on April 4th.
I sketched this drawing on Saturday, ballpoint
pen. I was trying to see if I
could turn myself on. I didn’t. I thought it was an interesting compositional
idea though. Worth further
exploration…
Sketched lightly with pencil, “inked” with Tombo brush
pens, touched up slightly with white out pen. This is an example, to my mind of
simply crude, instead of pleasingly spontaneous and muscularly gestural.
Perhaps it’s the fault of the media; brush pens lack the flexibility and
subtlety of a sable brush dipped in ink. Or maybe it’s just… you can’t knock it
out of the park every time. Oh well.One problem is that the
guy’s hand is too small; It should be at least as large as the dick.
Here, I’m getting the hang
of working over, being inspired by an existing photo. Some might see my drawing
as a snide comment on patriotism. Such was not my intent. Given the nature of
my self-imposed assignment, I now see hard-ons everywhere I look.
This one
is pen and ink, with painted highlights in gouache.
As I begin doing better, or
more ambitious paintings, the nature of the paper becomes somewhat
constraining. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, the paper in the American
Express Date Book is pretty thin, lacking in body, and has a weird quality of
being initially repellant to paint, then becomes too porous. Oh well.
It is
done in watercolor.
