Second Star Progress

 

I'm currently inking issue #3 of my comic, Second Star and I was pleased with how these pine trees turned out. Just thought I'd share some progress. 

Happy Day After Thanksgiving

 

I had a great Thanksgiving, good meal, saw some family, gonna see some friends, and actually, feeling quite festive. But, sometimes an image comes to mind and needs to be tended to. I couldn't help think of what we will be serving ourselves up to in the coming years. So, I give you a sacrificial Uncle Sam as a turkey.

I sincerely hope that you all had a great Thanksgiving  and enjoy the weekend! 

And, again, I'm feeling quite festive!

Saint-Exupery Woodblock Printing Process

 

The process as to how my print of Antoine Saint-Exupery came to be is now up on my Substack.

Sketching At The Detroit Institute Of Arts

 This past Friday found me at the Detroit Institute of Arts and I brought my sketch book along, but wasn't sure if I would do any sketches. It's better to be prepared and as it turned out, I did do a couple of sketches. I really enjoy sketching sculptures with a wide, flat pencil and that's what these two were done with. I've had this pencil for years and it seems like it never wears down. But, I do need to sketch more with this old friend.

I'm not sure who the artist was of this statue called The Rakan (1688-1695), Japanese, but interesting and fun to sketch.

This smaller casting of Standing Lincoln was done by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1887 (this one cast between 1913-1917). Fun shadows to play with.

Leaf Printing Class

 I needed an artistic distraction from things, so last Saturday I attended a leaf printing class with Nobuko Yamasaki at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. They have been having some good classes with some good peeps, so it was much needed. I brought some leaves from trees in our yard, both front and back and used some of the ginkgo leaves that Nobuko had brought. After some less than thrilling experiments I hit a groove and made a few that I was happy with.

A repetitive pattern of Nobuko's small gingko leaves.

Experimenting with two colors of gouache on leaves from our front yard maple tree.

I believe that these leaves are from my neighbors Japanes maple tree.

Experimenting with multiple colors on some larger gingko leaves.

It felt good to be around some like-minded, creative and decent people. 

Vote (You Know What to Do)!

 

Resurrection Joe

 

7x7

colored pencil on black paper

Here is Christopher Lee as Resurrection Joe from the movie Corridors of Blood. It's not really a horror movie, but was pitched as such for American audiences. But Resurrection Joe was rather creepy.

Happy Halloween!