Disegno @ Getty Museum

Had a fun exhibit at the Getty that just closed Sunday. "Disegno (which means both "drawing" and "design" in Italian): Renaissance Drawing from 1520-1600." We went and I got in a few sketches like the one on the left, (a copy of a sketch by a guy named Bloemaert (really!)--he drew in that typical style for the era--lots of curvy, balloon-y muscles strung over some wild proportions)(I tried to keep a bit of his Mannerist flavor (like the giant arm), but reel the anatomical believability in a little for my "interpretation").

The sketch on the right is from a Houdon bust in marble (not in the Disegno show). We sat on a bench in the middle of a gallery and I tried to get a decent drawing of this guy (who looked a lot like Robert Helpmann of "The Red Shoes" and "Tales of Hoffman"). I kept struggling, grunting a little "Dam-mit...." every few minutes, making Blair shush me repeatedly with the admonition, "There are children near!" 

Punched Batman-Next Painting

The idea is Batman is punched so violently the cowl stays in place while his head liquefies and spins within it. I'm going to get some shots of fighters at the moment of face punching, good ref on a Batman head, composite them and then sketch. Do a little more prep than usual.

Extra Tuesday sketches on my Tumblr

The most bizarre thing you'll see...

I remember this from 1971 Drive In days.....finally got it from Amazon at a discounted price. Is it a biker flick, exploitation, horror, grindhouse or all of the above. It's funny that so many pics like this got made back in the schlock days of movie making. Kind of miss it.

Drew This When Jeff Watts Was Downtown San Diego

Nhia was very unimpressed

The cartoon Color acrylic on this thing is the same I used for the Ape vs Batman

And when I say "the same" I mean the same squeeze bottle of color.

New chatacters

Some of the characters I've been doing for that phase 2 of the game I'm doing

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Going To Lowes For Krystal Klear Tomorrow

I Enjoyed painting directly into a toned xerox on card stock. I'm going to use krystal Klear on the next one and see if that's a better way to work. Harder to cover the xerox than it should be. I also want to try one where I come back and darw into it again. The clear coat will help that. It's on Ebay with all it's flaws. Added some changes to the painting. Put Batman's feet behind a random curb plane. Changed the break of the Monkey Wrench (pipe wrench actually) arm so the anatomy was closer to right. Couple of more dabs here and there.

Would need a lot of work but a good head start on something to digitally paint into. Got the colors from that Mickey Video game that was done in Austin.

Rick & Son Visited Me In Portland....

...and I forgot to post this drawing.

Trying out one of Rick's cool brush pens (I think?).