I painting this thickly in gouache on the right folio
page then pulled the pages apart before allowing them to dry.
The whimsy continues. I finally decided to use the
book I was using to sketch in as a source of ideas for artwork. This is not
intended as a comment on Atlanta, which, no doubt is a wonderful city (I
wouldn’t know; I’ve never been.)
Getting whimsical here. A
friend suggested that this would make an excellent pattern for cloth.
See if
you can spot the date on which this drawing was executed, spelled out in
penises.
Y’all get 2 drawings today.
I had started this project
(doing a daily sketch in my spouse’s gifted 2013 American Express Calendar) on
August 26, 2012. I had started several pages into the book not wanting to draw
on pages with too much pre-printed crap thereon. After a few days, I realized I
was wasting paper and jumped back to the very front of the book.
This is my “Kirby Dots”
drawing, executed on the inside front cover. I think I used mostly a black
Tombo ABT brush pen with white-out pen corrections, except for the celestial
pubic hair, which appears to be dry brushed.
I ref’d Kirby here, but Bill Wray is more accurate, specifically in his “Big Blown Baby” miniseries for Dark Horse Comics.
There’s
nothing particularly phallic or penile about the second drawing. I was just
going with the artistic flow. It’s vaguely erotic though.
Y’all get 2 drawings today.
These were based off the drawing I posted yesterday. I was getting simpler,
more abstract, with each pass,
This drawing was executed
with Tombo ABT acid free brush pens, of black and various grays.
This drawing appears to have been exaecuted with a garden variety felt-tip pen
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I’ve lost count; I no longer
know or care how many drawings I’ve done in this series. Probably I’ll do more
drawings before I’ve finished posting the ones I’ve done so far.
This
is another photo-reffed drawing, done with sable brush dipped into India ink
(then thoroughly cleaned with soap and water).
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
This is my 3rd drawing in
the Daily Dick series, sketched in the 2013 American Express Date Book gifted
me by my late spouse, John Callahan.
This drawing is in graphite;
pencil that is. Plain old pencil, with an eraser stuck onna end, the kind kids
use in class. Or they usta; God knows what the little whippersnappers use now.
Probably one o’ them thar computer thingies y’hear so much about these days.
Actually, I wasn’t using
just any old pencil-with-an-eraser-stuck-onna-end. I was using mah all time
favorite pencil, the Dixon Ticonderoga Soft. Beautiful creamy line, and the
erasers are actually good, better than the Pink Pearl these days.
This
drawing is done from a photo, clipped many years ago from one of them thar gay
skin magazines, back in the day when folks bought their porn on paper.
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THE DAILY DICK
THE DAILY DICK
This is a first installment in a
daily blog (to be published daily going forward).
I started doing the work
last year around this time, late August 2012. My dear departed spouse, John
Callahan, http://www.ageofconsentrap.com/asked if I wanted his 2013 American Express Date Book. (He was still
alive at this point.) I accepted his kind offer. It occurred to me that it
would be a low-pressure way to do artistic play—I would be working on really
crappy paper already printed with clanedrical (is there such a word?) crap.
This would free me of worry about doing good art, and I could cut loose.
It was actually reminiscent
of my first one man show, at The One Way ( a leather bar in Silver Lake that
has since gone defunct after losing its liquor license toward the end of my
show’s run) in the summer/fall of 1989. That show was entitled “Recycled
Erotica”. All the art was drawn on the back (or front) of found Xerox copies,
or painted on grocery bags I disassembled and gesso’ed on one side for this
purpose.
This new project served the
same artistic purpose, except the new art would receive even less exposure than
“Recycled Erotica”. I was working in such a way as to make reproduction or
scanning difficult so as not to be tempted to do precisely what I’m doing now:
posting it on my blog. I simply couldn’t deal with it: I had too much going on
in my life, not the least of which was my spouse’s impending death from
metastasized prostate cancer.
Anyway, John died on
February 17 and I had my stroke on April 2. My beloved boyfriend, Richard R.
moved in with me upon my release from the hospital on May 18. The last 3 months
have been all about getting my life and my health (and my
drawing/painting/writing ability) back. Only now, on the eve of my September 2nd
resumption of paying work, do I feel the need/ability to start posting this
rather extensive archive of work. I’ve no doubt I’ll be kicking myself as I
start trying to reproduce scan… but what can you do?
This
is the cover of the volume. The black paper cut-out penis is glued down with
Elmer’s Glue. Last Saturday,when I took it off the shelf to show it to friends
(Joe Flazh! And Sid Lanier, of the now defunct Flazh! Alley Gallery, in San
Pedro), I found the penis was becoming unglued (“It’s hard to keep a good dick
down”, Sid quipped), I revisited the adhesion, this time (over) using Nuetral
PH Adhesive, by LineCo.
