A Quick Peek at the Artwork of Phil Laber

 I still haven't figured out a way to add images to my draft posts (thank you for a prompt response to my query Google help staff...).  So I'm going to close out 2025 with a post I started in 2023 and never added text to.

My friend/former mentor Phil Laber had a show in DeWitt, Iowa.  If you have a time machine you can go see it. Anyway, his show was a look back at the work he made durin g the time period I was a student of his back in Missouri.  I LOVED seeing these pieces again.  The excellent compositions and dynamic plays between warm and cool colors are PRECISELY how/why I fell in love with his work over 30 years ago.

You can check out his pastel work by clicking this link to his website: https://www.philiplaber.com/pastel-drawings .

Enough of my blabbering on, check these pieces out!  We'll start out with what is probably my favorite.

Although this one is damn cool too...

This one isn't pretty sweet too!

Let's also give respect to this one.

...and this one...

...and this one...

Let's finish big with another awesome piece.

With that, we bid 2025 adieu....

Mmmmmm, Suppertime At Burger Mundo

For awhile now I have repeatedly sketched a quasi Last Supper concept/motif in several of my sketchbooks.

At one point, I was seriously considering hazing over a large swath of Mystaphorical Parfait so I could add another layer which included that idea.

After mulling around the concept of painting the idea for a bit, I've decided to make another large scale mural in a vein similar to Processionalization: Power Lunch With The Tasaday.  This one will be Suppertime At Burger Mundo.

All said and done, it is going to be a 14' wide mural comprised of four relief panels.  I have already constructed the panels, so it is now time to start building the restaurant.

The building is starting to take shape.

Building the flora texture (which will also serve as the beard texture for three four figures that will flank the composition.

This is a pretty big project, so I'm going to spread out the updates.  Stay tuned...

Elko Dialog Becomes Tattoo Detective

Here's a quicky for you - the transformation from the first layer of imagery (with the working title of Elko Dialog) to the second layer (which earned the piece the name Tattoo Detective).

A quick layer of colorful hazing and then a second layer of imagery.

A slightly cropped version of the finished piece.

Until next time.

The LAST Batch of Sketches From This Past Winter.

 Thank you for sticking with me on this parade of sketches.  Here is the last page.

Details.

Next time we'll look at some new stuff.

A Few More Sketches From This Past Winter: Part XIII

 Lucky number 13!

One more batch of sketches to go and then we can get to what I did this past Spring...

A Few More Sketches From This Past Winter: Part XII

 It was a long winter, and I have a few pages of drawings to show for it.

2 more installments left to go!

A Few More Sketches From This Past Winter: Part XI

 Another batch of drawings to peruse at your leisure. 

Only three more batches of drawings to go!  Until next time...