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...

Shapely Shapes and Other Considerations: Part VI

 Let's take a break from drawings and look at some of the goings on in the studio.

I spent many days this winter wrapping cardboard shapes with hot glue and fabric so I could make pieces like the image you see below. In an earlier post I showed a whole stack of 'starts'/'components' just waiting to be incorporated into an idea that has yet to fully manifest.

Here's what the different pieces look like. I write a number on each one so I can remember how thick (how many plys of cardboard) to make each shape. It's not uncommon to have a delay of several days, or weeks, between when I decide to make these shapes and when I actually fabricate them.  If I had to rely on my memory, I'd be doomed.  Notes and sketches whenever possible.

This is another piece that has just been primed.  I have a lot of decisions ahead of me as far as how this dude is gonna turn out.

The same thing can be said about this canvas.  I'm just at an early playing around stage with what's going on.

Anyway, that's an early peek at some things in progress.

A Few More Sketches From This Past Winter: Part X

 Making some serious headway on posting these sketches.  They will be used in a whole mess of paintings I am currently starting in my studio.

Overview.

Detail shots.

Only a few more to go!

A Few More Sketches From This Past Winter: Part IX

 I hoped to get all of these sketches posted before it officially became summer, but June had other plans for me.  There's just a few more installments remaining.

Here's the detailed shots.

Happy 4th of July!!

The Beginning Stages of The Last Supper(time at Burger Mundo)

Several years ago at The Figge Art Museum, there was a super cool show of the work of William Hawkins.  In that show, there was an entire wall of William Hawkins' versions of The Last Supper. Not being an artist who wishes to miss a good bandwagon when I see one, I thought that I too should make a last supper.  This is of course another way of saying I was inspired by Hawkins' passion and work.

Here are some images of the beginning stages of my 4-panel Last Supper.

I spent awhile figuring out the layout for the Burger Mundo restaurant and then proceeded to cut it out of cardboard.

Truth be told, the piece stayed in this state for several years while I moved studios - a process fraught with upheaval.

I also started combing my sketchbooks to locate suitable faces/apostles to sit around the table.  Once located, I drew them on scrap pieces of wood and then carved them out with my trusty Dremel tool.

Once carved out, I needed to figure out who would sit next to whom.

Here's a shot from the raised area of my studio.

Before I go to much further, I need to make the main man of this story.

A few empty tables with chairs.

These last images actually got us up to late Fall of 2023.  I put the piece away for the winter and transitioned over to cardboard working/cutting/wrapping.

So here's a few shots of the piece as I dug it out to start working on again about a month ago.

Some of the apostles are going to need bodies, and the ends of a corner booth.  As an aside, I have multiple memories of going to restaurants that had corner booths and insisting that we sit in the corner booth.  It was a blast having the whole family/group snugged in together around the table.  As an adult - and a husky one at that, I now realize what an abject torture the corner booth had to represent for the adults in the group.  And the table size? That was like having a Thanksgiving dinner with 8 adults around a four-person folding card table.  My god?  What sane adult(s) let this happen?

Anyway, apostles jammed into a corner booth amused me enough to put that into this piece.