Scrawls

It's been a while.

Pon Pon Pon

Here's a drawing of J-pop singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu from the music video for her song "Ponponpon." I should hate it, but I don't. In case you think this is a reflection of Japanese culture, be relieved that it isn't. When my friend from Japan saw this she said that she was embarrassed for the entire nation of Japan. 

This was done with mostly gouache with some color pencil and sharpie. 

Preliminary drawings below. 

I really wanted the finished drawing to look more like these caricature above, but i didn't work out that way unfortunately. It's hard to paint faces like these on a smaller scale. 

THE AMERICAN ART BOOK

Yesterday, I took me a trip down to Goodwill with my friend. I decided to venture towards books to see if there was anything of interest, out of the corner of my eye there was a huge thick 500 page tome called "The American Art Book" by Phaidon Publishing. Inside in alphabetical order were 100's of America's most important and influential artist, and for a trifling sum of $2.99 it was mine, ohhhh what a bargain!

I flipped through it and there were some incredible artist and works that I had never heard of. Here are a couple that grabbed my attention.

JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER

It's no surprise he is highly influenced by John Singer Sargent, actually they were good friends. 

He seemed pretty interested in women turned away from you.

Samuel Clemens!

There were so many to pick from but this should give you a very good idea of his work.

THOMAS ANSHUTZ

WILLIAM BAILEY

CECILIA BEAUX

JAMES BROOKS

Frank Duveneck

Exquisite Alla Prima!

Al Hansen

Thomas Hovenden

Alice Neel

  Jack Levine

5:29 PM Gaston Lachaise

WILLIAM BELLOWS

Actually I've seen the one above but forgot about it, I had never known who did it until now. You can feel the movement in that one, it's fantastic!

Poster

For a friends show in Iceland.

Sketches behind the poster!

The earings are inspired by this video (see if you can find them).

The silhoutte in the sketch below is much stronger. I regret not adopting it.