Three years ago I created a piece titled “Atomic Peace.” link here. This is a follow-up of that, three years later. As you can see here now the figure has been decimated to a skeleton, a result of the extreme exposure to the nuke. Now I don’t know if one can really be reduced to …
Here my latest selfie of the year 2016. This was taken from a selfie I did while lying on the bed. Drawn with conte and then diluted with wet brush on a gessoed cardboard. Simple. Happy Easter. Hop hop.
2014
Charcoal on cardboard
16×16
My own rendition of Michaelangelo’s PIETA. I was inspired by the dark haunting drawings of German artist Kathe Kollowitz. I tried to evoke deeper intimacy of the sadness in this piece. Not sure if I succeeded, do let me know. Greatly appreciated. 🙂
Last month I went to the Bodies The Exhibit held at the former Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park (conveniently just minutes away from my home) and marveled at the well preserved body parts and figures set up in interesting poses. And to think these are REAL human bodies, their identities unknown. It’s my first shot at on site sketching, armed with a giant sketchbook and a pencil I probably spent at most five minutes per figures, so as to not get in the way of other visitors.
A continuation of my figure drawing showcase, this time with color. Not too many here I’m afraid, could only get it done on long poses. Someday soon I’ll try a little ‘speed’ painting with shorter poses…
