Here is an odd approach to an image: quote some song lyrics, and illustrate something related to the lyrics but not directly illustrative of the lyrics. I did the drawing first, and then heard the song in my head, and realized that the last words of the song would add a touch of Storminess to the page.
This time around I decided to have a little fun with some mid-20th-century examples of rocketry, and find other, non-rocketry examples of things with similar names. It’s a good drawing EXERCISE, but not necessarily a good DRAWING, but later drawings will I hope be better because I went through these motions today.
When I was a child I read about the frontier in history books, and saw The Final Frontier unfold in 1966. And in science fiction, three words from Robert Heinlein’s The Star Beast stuck with me forever: “Space is vast.” Three short words have spawned a gushing river of thought.
Components of modern outposts are crafted on Earth and then flung into Space, and we endlessly wonder what friends or foes or indifferent Others are out in that vastness.
Here’s something I’ve been working on for a long time. It’s at that fork on Creation Road where I the artist must decide whether to put a LOT more work into it, or wrap it up as a cleaned-up As Is. I am uncertain so I am soliciting input from whoever reads this, i.e. You.
This drawing is heavily avian. The temptation is to throw in not only more birds, but anything Bird-related, such as Larry Bird, Brad Bird, Harlan Ellison’s psuedonym Cordwainer Bird, Nicolas Cage in the movie Birdy, the American Eagle, etc. Maybe throw in an obscene gesture or two.
What is most likely to happen is I’ll do a LITTLE more Bird-stuff, clean it up, post it, frame it, and then consider the use of its basic structure as a springboard for a MUCH larger piece, either a large canvas or a mural. Give the elements a little more living space. Study Hieronymus Bosch and various Breughels to go to school on myriad-detail structuring, then set to on canvas, wood or wall.
Note about the fellow in the foreground: on his chest is a triple=acrostic, “Aero Dyna Mics.” It goes like this:
As Clara Blandick’s Auntie Em
Eliminates Your rootless stem, I
Raise a Sting and fell an Orc
Or skewer Bad Guys with my Forks
Any thoughts on where I should go with this piece, Friends?
Yesterday I had yet another Bad Pun Brain Teaser contest. This makes about 10 or so. But this time there could be any number of correct answers (usually there is only one–or two when someone is clever enough to solve with an alternate solution!)
Here’s another Bad Pun Brain Teaser Contest. What’s a Washing Machine’s favorite Jukebox selection?
Friends, there is MORE THAN ONE RIGHT ANSWER to this one. I’ve thought of two, but there may well be a dozen or more. And anyone commenting with an answer that rings true will win a Washing Machine with their name on it!! –A DRAWING of a Washing Machine, I hasten to add. If I were independently wealthy it would be a different story.
Ready to Fill, Soak, Agitate and Spin, Friends? Then GO!!! The deadline is Midnight tonight in your favorite Time Zone.
The response was WONDERFUL. No one came up with the two I had concocted before the contest started. They were “Let’s Get Loaded (Like We Used To Do)” and “The Cycle of Life.” The winning responses were better than mine, I think.
Kristi Whitehurst Beckham: “Twist and Shout”
Birdie Birdashaw: “You Spin Me Right Round”
Nancy Gunther: “A Little Bit of Soap”
Lyn Herndon Burmeister: “Ebb Tide” AND “Downy By the Riverside”
Wayne S. Hoyt: “Good Vibrations” AND “Turn! Turn! Turn!”
Scott Kaye: “I’m Amana”
Marv Edward Person: “You Make Me Feel Brand New”
Thomas Elmer: “Do the Twist”
And here are the prizes, which I did in as close to “real time” as I could manage as the entries rolled in. Congratulations, Winners!!!
#Inktober2020
It takes all kinds of Teeth to make a world.
Plain & Fancy? No. Flight of Fancy? Eh. Fancy Feast? Save for “Feline” prompt. –Fancy Pants it is.
Today’s Inktober prompt: “Radio.” #Inktober2020
Today’s prompt is Wisp.
One with Clay, Image and Text 