Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
A day of death II
Finally got a chance to sit down with this lady again.
got most of the dark color tones put down and the yellow reflection from the candles for her skin's undertone. I wanted her dress to have a lot going on so I started putting in colors for the pattern.
All dark color tones and pattern done...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Another day at the office.
little lady action action today at the shop...fun.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
"Seperation of God and Country"
So, two dental assistants and a tattoo artist walk into a bar..... Just sent this little guy packin' with Sir Brandon Kemp off to Little Rock, Arkansas today... been lookin' at this thing for 3 plus years...good to see him leave the nest. Well ah poo poo poo. Hope you love it forever.
A day of death.
So, November 2nd, Octane Gallery inside Kustom Thrills Tattoo shop in infamous historic East Nashville will be a large group show titled "Dia De Los Muerto". A theme show calling on many local artists to bring their embelishments to the topic of the Festival of the dead, or day of the dead.... followed and including some heavy drinking... I'm sure.
I, like many of these artists chose a "back door" approach. Flashes of brightly colored sugar skulls and Mexican Skeletor seem to haunt me with a fever of over exposure, so i did a little more research. I chose marigolds for a static repeating element due to their relation to the subject...and continued on to the more frightening theme of the visage of death and decay.
Goin' with a 15in by 19in size in loo of a fuckin' sweeeet ass frame i found at Goodwill, I started a small scaled prelim sketch including a decaying lolita, wind brushed candles, and a shitbox of marigolds and greenery from a sort of aerial perspective. I also included a tattered scrap of paper in her right hand. Now on to the final line copy that I will do on velum with microns and sharpie.
With this out of the way i can take a crisp clean drawing to Kinko's and have them enlarge it to the final size.
Dude, I was amazed how well the marker on velum drawing worked in the enlargements. On previous peices i had taken dirty three and four color pencil and ink thumbnails in for enlargement and gotten fuzzy yuckfest enlargements out of it. Not the case here...fuckin' a.
After cutting a large scrap piece of Masonite to size and priming it, I'm on to gluing the paper enlargement down.
Here is our affixed and dried line copy. Now i can start laying in the main tones of color......stay tuned for more. cheers.
-jonny
I, like many of these artists chose a "back door" approach. Flashes of brightly colored sugar skulls and Mexican Skeletor seem to haunt me with a fever of over exposure, so i did a little more research. I chose marigolds for a static repeating element due to their relation to the subject...and continued on to the more frightening theme of the visage of death and decay.
Goin' with a 15in by 19in size in loo of a fuckin' sweeeet ass frame i found at Goodwill, I started a small scaled prelim sketch including a decaying lolita, wind brushed candles, and a shitbox of marigolds and greenery from a sort of aerial perspective. I also included a tattered scrap of paper in her right hand. Now on to the final line copy that I will do on velum with microns and sharpie.
With this out of the way i can take a crisp clean drawing to Kinko's and have them enlarge it to the final size.
Dude, I was amazed how well the marker on velum drawing worked in the enlargements. On previous peices i had taken dirty three and four color pencil and ink thumbnails in for enlargement and gotten fuzzy yuckfest enlargements out of it. Not the case here...fuckin' a.
After cutting a large scrap piece of Masonite to size and priming it, I'm on to gluing the paper enlargement down.
-jonny
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