Hey, Blanc et Noir is parading on Sun, feb 3, 08, in the Krewe of Highland parade. You're welcome to join us.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Burroughs in El Paso / 07
While Burroughs is associated with Paris, London, Mexico City, even Lawrence, Kansas (1981 - 1997), I was watching the movie about Johnny Cash when I sketched him and imagined Burroughs crossing paths with Cash in El Paso. Two dark birds on a wire.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
le reve
Spontaneous dreamscape before bed, thinking of how it might go in a sketch performance. Wondering what I'd produce. How to squeeze out the week's protribulations.
Zaraa zehr 02
Souvenir of a belly dance production by Rebecca Nesbitt Prosino at soundstage 516, downtown Shreveport. I performed as narrator and photog. Bevy of beauties and all that.
Happy holidays 07 from the staff of Trudeau Communications
A quick burst of pen work before bed to deliver some of the demons to the castle.
Actually, I was rehearsing, sort of, for doing a concert using a live pen atop a musical bed.
Actually, I was rehearsing, sort of, for doing a concert using a live pen atop a musical bed.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Jean le Bon, Paris
Deck the Halls art market, Artspace, Shreveport; opens Nov 15 / Robert Trudeau
Originally uploaded by trudeau
Jean was king of France from 1350 to 1364.
In my recent sketch he has entered the monastery and taken tonsure, which is probably portrayed too broadly. Still, I like the robes d'investiture
and his sanctified glow. His eyes seem to say High As a Loon.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Sugar in Shreveport
Inspired by a van Eyck painting of Christ that I sketched in a Belgian museum this summer, I've been playing with this face and watching it morph.
The eyes seem characterful and somewhat unsettling. Clearly this is a sober and intense person. Angry? Possibly. Threatening? OK.
Partly it is a study of aging flesh. So many furrows in one face.
I think of him as a monk; one of a series. From age 14 to 18 I went to a Catholic seminary, a boarding school outside of Covington, La, in which we were ruled by monks. Order of St Benedict. Some were benevolent fellows. Many were old school-stern and even malicious.
Then why the title, Sugar? For the sake of irony, I think.
The eyes seem characterful and somewhat unsettling. Clearly this is a sober and intense person. Angry? Possibly. Threatening? OK.
Partly it is a study of aging flesh. So many furrows in one face.
I think of him as a monk; one of a series. From age 14 to 18 I went to a Catholic seminary, a boarding school outside of Covington, La, in which we were ruled by monks. Order of St Benedict. Some were benevolent fellows. Many were old school-stern and even malicious.
Then why the title, Sugar? For the sake of irony, I think.
Blood on the walls at Deck the Halls
Blood might also be entitled Iraq.
You can see a previous version of Blood in an earlier post.
Meeting of cultures.
Many African-Americans are Muslim. Many of them are descended from West African families that were Muslim before coming to the US.
This piece also comments on the much-debated gangsta stance. Are these women veiled or gagged?
It's also about texture, of course. Texture freak.
It will be for sale during the holiday art market at Artspace, Shreveport.
In a heavy black frame.
You can see a previous version of Blood in an earlier post.
Meeting of cultures.
Many African-Americans are Muslim. Many of them are descended from West African families that were Muslim before coming to the US.
This piece also comments on the much-debated gangsta stance. Are these women veiled or gagged?
It's also about texture, of course. Texture freak.
It will be for sale during the holiday art market at Artspace, Shreveport.
In a heavy black frame.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Calacas: the Godfather of Soul, Artspace, Shreveport
In a benefit for Artspace and the Dia de los Muertos exhibit, SRAC supplied me with the plastic skeleton, which as you see is quite charming. Found the large raw wood frame in Talbot's collection of old frames. Put in a few screw eyes and wired in the dancing calaca.
It went for $100 in the auction. Thanks to Gif and Bonnie Gillen for fancying it.
It went for $100 in the auction. Thanks to Gif and Bonnie Gillen for fancying it.
Chicken of the Dead, a response to celebrations of Dia de los Muertos
Being involved in a celebration of Dia de los Muertos at Artspace, Shreveport, has resulted in . . .
* shooting and editing 2 videos: one of interviews with Mexican-Americans and another of the party that marked the opening of the exhibit (please see youtube.com/trudeau11 on the short one).
* making 6 illustrations from the life of folksinger Huddie Lead Belly Ledbetter for a large ofrendas.
* making a calaveras to be auctioned for the sponsoring arts organization.
* additionally, this quasi-skeleton popped out last week.
* expresso pen in a moleskine.
* shooting and editing 2 videos: one of interviews with Mexican-Americans and another of the party that marked the opening of the exhibit (please see youtube.com/trudeau11 on the short one).
* making 6 illustrations from the life of folksinger Huddie Lead Belly Ledbetter for a large ofrendas.
* making a calaveras to be auctioned for the sponsoring arts organization.
* additionally, this quasi-skeleton popped out last week.
* expresso pen in a moleskine.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Christ the Secular / After Jan Van Eyck's Christ / mixed media by Robert Trudeau
Sketched the face while standing in front of Jan Van Eyck's study of Christ in the Groenigen Museum, Brugges, Belgium.
At home I realized one reason I was drawn to it was that it was a secular Christ. So I found some bleached blond hair and a royal tunic and laid it upon a Jasper Johns piece. July 07.
To be donated to the Auction against AIDS in Shreveport for support of the Philadelphia Center.
At home I realized one reason I was drawn to it was that it was a secular Christ. So I found some bleached blond hair and a royal tunic and laid it upon a Jasper Johns piece. July 07.
To be donated to the Auction against AIDS in Shreveport for support of the Philadelphia Center.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Monday, June 04, 2007
Watching Trudeau's Video Documentary at the opening of the Lotus Studio
Watching Trudeau's Video Documentary at the opening of the Lotus Studio
Originally uploaded by Red River Blog Jam
Monday, April 02, 2007
Box guitar player / in memory of Johnny Slim Campbell
Sketched while listening to American Routes radio program host/producer Nick Spitzer talk about the rebirth of New Orleans.
Centenary College, Feb 07.
Image based on memories of the late blues singer Johnny Slim Campbell.
Centenary College, Feb 07.
Image based on memories of the late blues singer Johnny Slim Campbell.
N. Fez
Mediterranean dude. The stylized hair is borrowed from an impression I got from Etruscan art, maybe. Minoan?
This is a misbegotten figure all around but I think he's an amenable sort.
This is a misbegotten figure all around but I think he's an amenable sort.
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