#595, 8:36 PM. This was a manipulated snapshot of a bed sheet that I saw at an IKEA store. I was so caught up in the pattern that I used it in my own painting later. A printout of it was collaged and further manipulated with some airbrushing, brushed on enamel paints, and smothered with resin at the end.
#592, 4:11 PM. This was an iPad digital drawing using my technique of visual fragments in a narrative. My idea was to simply revisit older photos and drawings and orchestrate them to make an alternative narrative. These “cannibalized” fragments were from earlier blog posts.
#591, 12:01 PM. I did a combination of a digital photo and drawing on the spot. This was a mild intervention. Quiet, understated, and restrained at its core. Captured the vibe at the moment.
#590, 7:54 PM. This is a visual mash up from several reference points. I was working from images on a Chinese package design, a Japanese comic book, and a Japanese monster movie. For me, the experience of drawing this was like a conductor orchestrating an ensemble of different events in order to make a cohesive whole. In the foreground, I’ve added an orange rickshaw. By the way, I’ve never been on a rickshaw and my guess is that I would feel uncomfortable having someone pull me around at his or her expense.
#587, 8:43 AM. I’m calling this a hybrid because it’s a union of two separate observational drawings done on my iPad in two cities, Glendale and Silver Lake that are both in Southern California. If you get a chance, Silver Lake has a great pizza joint called Tomato Pie just off of Hyperion Avenue .
#585, 9:09AM. In creating images, I will often look for combinations of elements that work well with each other. This one with the flying figure and vintage hot rod works for me because of their similar directions of angles.
#582, 8:53 AM. This is an appropriation of sorts using digitally drawing from various references such as the “Magnum Force” title sequence, several pulp paperback book covers, and digital snapshots that I shot on a trip to Dallas earlier this year. More guns.
“Murakami at Blum Poe, v. 2”, Culver City, CA. #580, 1:40 PM. (A "duplicate" digital drawing with more text that hopefully provides some descriptive explanations and that was built on an earlier observational drawing done on 4-19-13).
“Murakami at Blum Poe, v.1”, Culver City, CA. #580, 10:29 PM. (A digital drawing based on a gallery visit of Takashi Murakami's work at the Blum Poe Gallery in Culver City, CA).
“History in History”, #579, 10:20 AM.