Intermission Part 1- Bagging it

Things are coming along but they are coming along sooooo s-l-o-w-l-y thanks to obligations and getting my little man readjusted to school. I have tons of boxer sketches to show but I promised myself to up the ante before I posted more of those.


So instead I decided I'd show a few sets of paper bag puppet collaborations with my kids before they crumble to dust. Several of these show the heavy battle scars of packing tape and some have been played with so much that they are the consistency of tissue paper. This way I have evidence that I wasn't a completely bad pop. Right?

Sesame street. The Frazzle puppet (lower right) is the oldest I think- about 4 years.

More Sesame Street. Little Jerry and the Monotones with Telly and Oscar.

My daughter's princesses.

Miscellaneous paper characters- Human Torch, Hello Kitty, multi colored Foofa, Toodee, just a dog.

Paper bag Muppets and a character from Henson's Dog City.

Intermission Part 2- Mr. Ice Cream!

Motivational treat box I put together for my son this school year. I realized after doing it that it probably was born of more than a little influence from super talent Jim Campbell's hilarious Mr. Pork Chop.

More boxer warm ups

If I've not mentioned it in an earlier post, the majority of these are taken from a great book, The Illustrated History of Boxing by Harry Mullan.

More sketchbook runoff

A couple more studies for the hyena painting.

Piece #5

22"x30" acrylic, pencil on BFK

Piece #4

48"x60" acrylic and copper wire on canvas

Piece #3

What do you get when you put a collection many years in the making of these...

with ideas from this...

and this...

and a dash of this...

into my brain? Why, my third piece of course.


30"x44.5" acrylic (and some plastic promo credit cards)on BFK

Translation #2

The second piece that derived from a sketchbook piece. It changed slightly compositionally and got a whole lot bigger but other than that it remains fairly faithful.

Sketch:

Another couple of quick shots of the full scale piece:

Sidetracked!

In a good way. Have to use my work hours for an upcoming GA grant contest I came across which has derailed work on the comic. Funny because the progress was finally happening. However, this is an opportunity not only for a good amount of money but to get my work in front of some really exciting folks. Plus it's a terrific reason to do some larger work again.

I love reusing imagery in my pieces and allowing it to be reinterpreted and sometimes change meaning. It makes me feel like I'm building a language of my own. There were a couple of images I've done in the sketchbooks that I've liked and wanted to do large this is one of them:

The current reworking of it (via hastily taken photo):

More to come...

More sketchbook wanderings

Will up the ante very soon but for now more sketches...