AAhh..so here is my second rendition of a young girl which a friend wanted for a possible toy design. This one is definitely better than the earlier version (which I posted about two postings ago, see the first Sept.18th posting for the comparison). I eliminated most of the shading done in the first drawing & focused instead on the line variation of the contour, outline & or edges. By simplifying the character, I think the overall design was strengthened a bit more…
This ink drawing is for a friend who wanted a couple designs (either using his name with a stylized font, or a character) for his new film company, “Blaise Films.” So I sketched it out in a 1980’s New york Graffiti-like version with a verbal play on his name which sounds like “Blaze,” but is really spelled “Blaise.” And instead of “Blaise Films,” I switched the wording around and it now reads “Films Ablaze (ooohh… films on fire ),” which sounds a whole lot more interesting! I kept the outline fairly simple though as both he & I will do different versions of it with layers & color in the Photoshop program. Some more versions of this will be posted soon & a few character designs as well…
” AF-RICAN-STRUCTION.” Oil on Canvas.
Here is a pic of my latest painting for my series of artwork based on Latin Music…With this latest addition I decided to not use a photo as a reference (as I did for the first four previous works) & instead depended on my imagination. One reason for this was that I felt that the pieces needed to have a more improvisatory nature or “look” to them, especially since Latin music contains a certain amount of improvisation, and secondly, I was just getting bored at depending on photos that I had taken at local latin nightclubs & jazz spots. The earlier paintings were fine, but I want these artworks to really represent visually the sound of the salsa & latin jazz descargas (Descarga-latin for a “Discharge,” and is a Latin musician’s slang term for a jam session. Descargas occupy a position midway between salsa and Latin-jazz, since they tend to preserve the Cuban structures yet contain far more jazz soloing than does salsa). So most of the painting so far (with the exception of the figure playing the conga taken from a drawing I did earlier) has been made spontaneously as I’ve progressed with the painting. It still needs a bit more embellishment here & there though…
Here is a drawing I did of a little girl which was obviously done in a very stylized cartoon like manner… I was trying to give her a little attitude with her body language (arms crossed, her laid back stance, one eye open more than the other), will probably do a couple more to loosen up and to see where I can go with this character that my friend wanted.
This painting took me about 5 and half hours to finish…a bit longer to complete than the previous painting (the plum & banana painting took 3 and a half hours). But I guess if I’m going to add more elements into a composition I should really expect it to take a bit longer…the color scheme here is between two sets of complimentaries, green & red, and orange and blue (well a very light tint of blue on the table that is).
This painting was started in the late hours one night into the wee early hours of the next morning about two weeks ago. Don’t ask me why I was painting at that time, its just that is when I happened to get inspired enough to attempt to complete a still life painting in one shot…(started it around 11pm and finished it around 2:30 am the next morning) …so it took me about 3 and a half hours to finish… the color scheme revolves around the complimentary colors yellow & purple…
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