I was gonna try and hold off another puppet post until I finished the next batch of heads (I've been working two at a time, taking down entire seasons of Desperate Housewives in one sitting). However, this one wee head is perplexing me.
If you recall the 9 x 9 grid of sketches at the last post's end, they all held as property a certain growth-like, facial feature that may be perceived as an insectual parasitic sense organ of sorts (in particular, I'm thinking of the lowest left-hand head in that grouping of drawings). In reality, quickly sketched ideas are less easily made tangible than one would expect. The abstraction of simple contour lines is often overlooked.
So here's where I'm stuck.
I sculpted this head, as planned, with the intent of fastening this eye-candy (all pun intended) to the side of his face.
It still needs to be coated with shininess and gloss, but this is pretty much what I had in mind. It goes over half the face, but I leave details like that off until the painting is finished because it makes for easier access to tricky, hard-to-reach spots.
He still has not received his eyes. It's my way of anesthetizing them until they are complete.
But anyway . . .
As much as I dig the weirdness of this little cobalt growth, I'm equally fond of the head with just the empty black patch where said object should be glued.
It has a charm and strangeness that may only be appealing because it's there and I didn't do it. It's there whether I like it or not and covering it up seems almost disrespectful. It real. It's what it looks like and I've seen it that way.
Blue Bunion of Psychedelic Psoriasis
or
Black Blotch of Septic Shadow?
Even a more alarming conundrum:
Will I ever photograph these guys outside the yellow-tinted light of my basement's fluorescent electric currents?
And now an obligatory napkin sketch featuring:
-the many-eyed
-a costume idea
-a $26/yard synthetic fur vest
-as-of-yet-unprocured buttons
-an ultra-absorbent texture
and
-about one minute of drawing time
The show goes up April 1st.
Really . . .
If you recall the 9 x 9 grid of sketches at the last post's end, they all held as property a certain growth-like, facial feature that may be perceived as an insectual parasitic sense organ of sorts (in particular, I'm thinking of the lowest left-hand head in that grouping of drawings). In reality, quickly sketched ideas are less easily made tangible than one would expect. The abstraction of simple contour lines is often overlooked.
So here's where I'm stuck.
I sculpted this head, as planned, with the intent of fastening this eye-candy (all pun intended) to the side of his face.
It still needs to be coated with shininess and gloss, but this is pretty much what I had in mind. It goes over half the face, but I leave details like that off until the painting is finished because it makes for easier access to tricky, hard-to-reach spots.
He still has not received his eyes. It's my way of anesthetizing them until they are complete.
But anyway . . .
As much as I dig the weirdness of this little cobalt growth, I'm equally fond of the head with just the empty black patch where said object should be glued.
It has a charm and strangeness that may only be appealing because it's there and I didn't do it. It's there whether I like it or not and covering it up seems almost disrespectful. It real. It's what it looks like and I've seen it that way.
Blue Bunion of Psychedelic Psoriasis
or
Black Blotch of Septic Shadow?
Even a more alarming conundrum:
Will I ever photograph these guys outside the yellow-tinted light of my basement's fluorescent electric currents?
And now an obligatory napkin sketch featuring:
-the many-eyed
-a costume idea
-a $26/yard synthetic fur vest
-as-of-yet-unprocured buttons
-an ultra-absorbent texture
and
-about one minute of drawing time
The show goes up April 1st.
Really . . .
1 Comments:
wow. that's really cool. i can't decide which i like better--growth or no growth. it'll look good either way.
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