it doesn't look like my friend, seth, but that's my friend, seth pointing a shotgun at zombified karl, and a terrified sara thrown in the mix, too. requested by karl & seth.

flash CS3 sketch, based on another image from davno.ru.
i kind of want to turn this into my final screenprint project for ART 350.
could be hard though - this looks to be about 10 layers.
and i have to make an edition of 20 or 25.

with only 10 sheets of rives heavyweight (my favourite printing paper, btw)
i think i might go for it though, this picture is rad.

per request from karl and krishna.

my dad and three uncles circa the 1960. dad has recently showed me this photo and i became obsessed with it. this is a sketch for a larger painting i'm working on -- in-progress photos of that coming soon (as soon as i remember to bring my camera to the studio!).

the main conceptual idea i am working with in painting seminar this quarter is parodying russian/soviet propaganda. i've found a plethora of old posters over at davno.ru, some i had already seen and some gems that i hadn't. the first one i'm working with is a pretty famous image: "don't babble" (or blab, tattle, whatever spies do in english).

my version:



eventually, this is going to become a painting. i'm still fiddling with how i want to handle scale and paint application (honestly, if i could, i would just screen it, but i would always rather screen). so far, i've been doing sketches on canvas paper and doing experimental hatching with oil paint.


the drawing itself isn't good, and the colours get muddy in places, but i think it's a good start. maybe only hatch parts i want to emphasize/darken, as i would with pen & ink. one thing i definitely need to do is go bigger (this is about 11x14").

now, if only i would spend as much time in the studio as i do in the gym these days...