That 80's show

A couple weeks back, Chi and I participated in a show in downtown Atlanta with an 80's theme.  The show was pretty short notice, so I didn't get a whole lot of time to put together a whole lot of 80's themed works, but I messed around with a couple faces, and here are a few from the show. 

12x16 Airbrush and Graphite

Hulk Hogan started off as a time killer at the park, to fight off boredom, but I liked where it was going, and decided to finish it.  Completed 2-3 days after the show, so he wasn't a part of my display... but 80's none the less...

11x14, Copic Markers. 

The following images are larger caricatures that I had done a few years back (mostly end 2005 - 2006), and it just seemed appropriate to pull out a couple of them to fill out the wall space a little better.  I realize that for the most part, these guys have nothing to do with the 80's  but I don't believe I've ever shared them on the blog, and now would be as good a time as any to put them up. 

18x24, Prismacolor Pencils

16x20, Graphite

18x24, Prismacolor Pencils

18x24, Prismacolor Pencils.

Enjoy!

More to share...

Here are a couple more drawings from this past weekend, maybe a couple from the previous weekend too, I don't remember, they are all starting to blend together now...

Designing T-shirts...

Halloween is around the corner, and the T-shirt people were looking for new halloween designs, I came up with this couples design. Allen painted it, I just drew it up...

Some more unshared sketches...

A handful of more sketches... some more recent than others. 

Sock Puppet Wrapped in Bacon.

It may seem a little odd to some, but I do enjoy making weird little things like this every now and then, this is a sock puppet cow.... obviously wrapped in bacon.  

As everyone knows, you can wrap ANYTHING in bacon and make it just that much better... and that goes double for a fine cut of steak.  I suggest you go to any Brazilian Churrascaria and sample all of their bacon wrapped products, you won't be disappointed.  Until then, enjoy this tastey bovine. ...

The busy times...

All of these drawings were done when either when the stand was SLAMMED! or when I wanted to go home... but I kinda liked them, so here you go! sorry about the blurriness on a couple of them. 

First Oil Painting

As I said a couple posts back, I am currently taking my first painting class at Kennesaw, and here is my first painting from that class.  This ws done over the span of two class periods, one with the still life set up, and the second without.  so I had to go from memory on a lot of the finishing details.  All you people that really know what you're doing when it comes to painting, let me know what you think! 

A quick update...

Here are a couple of the several drawings that I have sitting on my hard drive waiting patiently to appear on the blog... enjoy!

These girls were definitely interesting...

I liked the colors, and the airbrushing on this one... especially on the lady

This kid quoted Monty Python for the whole 5 - 10 minutes I was drawing him... he also enjoys money, and had a hard time handing over the $19 for the drawing... thats why he paid beforehand.

Airbrushed T-Shirts?!

On some slow non-eventful days in the park, I have been working on learning to do airbrushed T-shirts.  Me knowing how to airbrush already has helped out some, here are a couple of things i've done... all freehand designs, no stencils...

Let me know what you think! 

Back to School...

Well, school starts back up tomorrow for me, and I am taking my first painting class.  That should be interesting.  I haven't really done anything in the realm of painting before, but I am definitely looking forward to it.  I have only followed two paintings to completion, and I have lost the image of the second one I did, so I am going to share with you the only painting record I have...

No laughing allowed, I did this I think like 5 or 6 years ago...

I look forward to sharing more (hopefully more successful) paintings with you shortly.

Black n' whites

Here are a couple drawings in black and white, I've been trying some new things, hoping that my black and whites look like a more "finished" after I'm done with them... Not quite sure about how I feel on some of the experiments.  I really took these pictures for myself, but I figure I could share them too.  

Three Nigerian girls on vacation...

This is Heather, she kinda paints t-shirts at the park... kinda... when she feels like it.  

She's also quite "air-y"

Simple Co Worker Sketches

A post or two back I introduced something new I had been working on, trying to capture a likeness with very few lines.  Here are two of my co workers, You'll have to trust me on the likenesses...

Richard

Antoine

Please let me know what you think! 

More....

I've really been out of it for a couple weeks now.  Not really pushing a whole lot of anything.  Maybe when we go back to weekends, I'll be more into my drawings, but until then. here are a couple of drawings that turned out pretty close to how I envisioned them. - Kinda just posting these for the sake of posting at the moment.  Hopefully I have better stuff to share soon.

Bowling Sketches

Some people sketch in coffee houses and what not, well, recently, I did a little sketching in a bowling alley between frames.  I was trying something new, with a specific goal in mind, using line and simple shapes to capture a likeness.  The two yellow ones were completed in about a minute or two in the bowling alley...

...and hopefully you can recognize these two.  They were done using prismacolor fine line markers in a sketchbook, maybe 10 minutes each. 

This is really just an experiment, but please let me know what you think. 

Thanks!