The Henson Legacy

My son recently saw on this blog the collection of puppets I posted a while back and I will never hear the end of it if I don't post the recent additions to the paper bag family. So, while the first post was for out of town family, this one is for you little man.

Various Sesame Street characters including: our original Cookie Monster (once believed MIA and which my son demanded be in the picture), the Amazing Mumford, Rodeo Rosie, Zoe and Little Murray Sparkles.

The remaining three Yo Gabba Gabba characters.
Regis Faller's Polo and Pa Gorg (Fraggle Rock).

More Muppet Show alumni: Gonzo, Animal, Wanda and Janice. I'll be tempted to break down and do Floyd Pepper for myself if I get no requests soon just to have all the Electric Mayhem gang.


Muppet Show monsters: Sweetums, Timmy, Mean Mama, Behemoth and Thog.

There you have it.

Peace go with you, Gil

"Pieces of a Man" and "Winter in America" have graced my ears many times. Thanks for the music Gil. Good luck on that journey home.

Still swinging

I've mostly been interested in the energy given or received by one individual but I decided to mix it up and sketch a few interactions.

Birthday Wishes for Iggy

I had planned on giving my summary of how I wished Iggy had come with his full tank of danger and maybe done one of his real classics if he was going to do American Idol, but, I'll pass. I'm of the opinion that if I'm still around at 64 I can only hope to still be stage diving and be half as energetic. Happy 64th, Iggy. I hope it was a good one because you've got a right.

Popeye Closing In

Hard Knocks

Hard Knocks 2

Art envy- Criterion-von Trier

Last year, I was deeply envious when Criterion tapped some comic artists to do posters for a show of theirs. It seemed like such a fun thing to do. This is in addition to a real love I already had for Sean Phillips' and Kent Williams' work for them. All I could think about would be how I'd love to be in on this.

This happens from time to time when you're a fairly obscure art bloke like myself. So I figured why not do something about it? Thus, art envy is born.

When the posters came out I had just recently seen von Triers' Antichrist. Lars von Trier is always one to push boundaries and sensibilities in film. I don't always think his ideas work but they at least make for interesting viewings. Antichrist is such an emotionally and physically brutal film that reaches the point of an endurance test. I honestly can not in good faith recommend anyone seeing it. That said, there were scenes in it that haunted me for weeks afterward so in that respect it was very effective. I also thought I could twist some of the imagery into an image of my own that would be a decent representation of the film and feel similar to some of the work I've been doing as well. So here are a few ramp up sketches and the final image itself.

I hope you find it effective. If it spurs you to see the film... good luck.

I plan on doing more film based pieces again. In and out of Criterion's catalog. This is not the big plans hinted at in the last post. Those are still coming.

The theme song of this post comes courtesy of William de Vaughn.

Handful of boxing sketches

And a few of the better recent boxing sketches.

Part 1- New Years and Rope Burns

Oooh... (blush with embarrassment) I missed two months of updating this rigmarole. I honestly never can seem to balance the making of/posting of art unless good reason calls for it. I end up showing close friends this work by one method or another and I'm not entirely convinced there are many other folks paying attention so it becomes easy to neglect. It is nice to have it on record though and, boy, do I have a few scans to show today.

I do want to give a very belated thanks to the Young Blood Gallery. The show was great fun and one of my pieces found a new home. You can see the rest of the excellent pieces by using this link.

As promised, I had a few sketchbook pages of boxer distractions piling up. Frankly, I'm addicted. I think I may have possibly found a good outlet to push this stuff a bit further. We'll see if I make the time to use it.

I have a tendency to run myself down about my obvious inability to turn my art into what amounts to even a slightly modest source of income. That said, it's the New Year and I've got a lot to be thankful for. I've always done the art whether I was clever enough to catch anyone's eye with it or not. I think that's what I'll focus on this year. If I have to keep making time to make art merely for the sheer joy of it and no other reason, there's nothing wrong with that not. As for making income off of it and getting exposure for it... I'll just keep singing Bobby Byrd's words of wisdom and see what happens.

I'm going to drop these oldest to newest. Happy New Year folks!

I have to comment on this last one. I usually don't worry about or think about composition that much at all when doing multiple sketches on the page. These are just terrific fun and sometimes the end results can be a pleasant surprise. This last one did definitely fall under the surprise category. Paging Doctor Freud.