Mark Burt, of the amazing mind and pen of C. Mark Burt, asked for a small sketch with head, body, legs. He's got a serial sketch thing going. This what I found in the sketchpad and ink well.
Hope it works for his assignment. He said "the radium the better." Hm. I'm afraid this fellow's radiality is quiemus. .
Monday, December 21, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Alonzo Maxile, Jr, with a title and proper respect
In Albrecht Durer's age, artists sometimes put the name of their subject on the canvas beside the portrait. It was a variation that has always attracted me, somehow.
I've taken the idea of painting the name of the subject on the canvas and made it larger, bolder and more modern. Subject-wise, Alonzo is no longer a characterful black man, a stock figure. This piece proclaims his name in attention-getting form, both with a classic calligraphic edge to the lettering as well as with an idiosyncratic spacing of the letters on the canvas. In the spacing I was influenced by an antique map that I found online of Terra Incognita America.
This is my idea of a good Christmas card. Happy holidays, Xmas 09, all!
Please check the fresh link in the title box to viewing a range of my sketches.
I've taken the idea of painting the name of the subject on the canvas and made it larger, bolder and more modern. Subject-wise, Alonzo is no longer a characterful black man, a stock figure. This piece proclaims his name in attention-getting form, both with a classic calligraphic edge to the lettering as well as with an idiosyncratic spacing of the letters on the canvas. In the spacing I was influenced by an antique map that I found online of Terra Incognita America.
This is my idea of a good Christmas card. Happy holidays, Xmas 09, all!
Please check the fresh link in the title box to viewing a range of my sketches.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
While listening to Regina Spektor
What a lovely and thoughtful songwriter and performer she is. Heard an interview at NPR.org.
Friday, December 04, 2009
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