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...

In lieu of having a real website (for now, RIP plastictiger.net and my bank account), I'm starting this thing. Mainly to make room for more personal whining in my Livejournal and to make my artwork, artistic process, and semi-relevant things I think up after huffing too much Galkyd available to the public.

Hopefully, this will be the last image-free post I make here.