Sketchbook (#000004)

Figure studies in pink from February (don't look if female nipples offend you.)

 

Sketchbook (#000003)

Truthfully, some of these are not sketches at all. This is more a collection of serious ink drawings, studies and structures for painted (well, digital painted) pictures, fun throwaway stuff, and yes, sketches. Sorta works as a sketchbook, I think.

Warhol & Lindner Had A Baby And They Called It... (#000002)

 

... Pop Art Pastiche

Various versions of three pictures in a combination of styles by three pop art artists, who did not consider themselves pop art artists. 

They are in reverse order as it was how Blogger posted them, and I haven't rearranged them.

Everything New Is Old Again (#000001)

 Portraits

There is a chance this may seem pretentious, yet it is not intended to be so.

It is strange how you can hide and lie to yourself about what you want in life and what you are doing. Combining the pictures for this post, pictures created over the last three to four weeks, I realised that each shows a stage in breaking down the barriers we put up to protect ourselves from criticism and ridicule. The attitudes and knowing post-modern smirk we make when attempting to avoid the feelings of creating something without second-thought or analysis.

I did say this may seem pretentious.

To explain in simpler terms; After making the decision to start anew with this blog, I spent some time  thinking over what to do for the first post of this volume (so to speak). If I posted something similar to the previous posts, what would be the point of ending a volume? After a few weeks of attempting and discarding various things, I feel into the warm embrace of my old and trusted friend, female portraiture.

Which leads to the pictures.

The Final Issue (of Volume One)

As we near the end of another year, it feels somehow apt to close the book (so to speak) on this blog as it has been over the last two eventful (to say the least) years, and to start anew. As a result of this, I have numerous drawings for posts that were never posted, or which were constantly under revision. Some of these I have included in this post. There is still a possibility I will rework some of these, and I will still add pictures to the incomplete posts of volume one, yet I feel this blog needs to be lighter and more spontaneous in comparison to the heavy epic book-like posts of the last year and a half. So, that is what I hope to achieve starting sometime in January, it should be fun.