This month is supposed to be the shortest month compared to the other ones. But it’s crawling and certainly taking its time. Anyways! Some Art News!
I’m involved in this (click image for more info):
SPIN: a glovebox art show
Showing: March 1st-March 29th
Rescue Apparel & Accessories
252 Brighton Avenue, Allston
Opening Reception: March 1st, 6-9pm
The theme was Cassettes and Records…So I decided to nail some cassette tape I found at the goodwill store to a foam board. I wanted to destroy it, basically. As wonderful as cassette tapes were to me back in the day– they are obsolete in today’s world of MP3s. It also shed some light on my mood at the time of its making. A sudden realization that what was once great back then, needs to be discarded for something much greater. I decided to make the background look like the surface of concrete, like a tombstone. Anyways, here it is:
The LHO Otello Poster is finally finished! It’s hanging around several spots in the Harvard Yard area. I got myself a copy and decided to steal another one for a friend when I realized, everyone has been stealing it. Weird. While working at the Harvard Box Office, a man bought tickets to this event and asked if there were any extra Otello posters that I could give him. It felt good to have your work wanted…still…I had to tell him “No”. Anyways, below is the process of how this poster was finished:
first the preliminary drawing….guess who modelled?
Then I added the base color…or something…
Then the finish…
When it was scanned and printed by the producers of the show…it looked over-contrasted and it lost it’s bluish sky….still, the badass-look remains.
Now…let’s open up the sketch book and scan some sketches shall we?
I finally watched “Requiem for a Dream” and although the film’s execution was brilliant… the plot made me depressed…and it stuck with me for many weeks… I decided to draw Marlon Wayans at his least funniest….
Here I tried sketching my day… I was sick as hell but decided to go to work anyways. I wasn’t able to finish it…but the last scene was just going to be me sleeping.
Ok…so this is Janice. Should I talk about Janice? No… I’ll just say she had a nice body, especially her back…so I decided to draw it.
At one point, while thinking of something to draw…i decided to outline my hand…you know, like how you start when you draw stupid drawings of turkeys. Anyways, I made a task for myself of trying to make the hand pop out of it’s 2D world….
Finally…this isn’t a drawing, but one night…while I was feeling like absolute shite…. I made myself some hot chocolate with marshmellows…..as I was about to take a sip from the mug I noticed the hot chocolate was smiling at me. It made me smile back…so I decided to take a picture.
The End.