all my daydreams are disasters
I've been working hard on a new "monstrous hybrid" (mixed media piece). I haven't done much scribbling lately and (obviously) haven't posted to vox in well over a week. The painting/drawing has been going really well, though. It's been a lot of fun, and I hope the end result of all of the drawing and erasing (and drawing and erasing...) will be less than disastrous, and may even be decent.
To give full credit, I stole the term "monstrous hybrid" from a book I'm reading, which stole it from somewhere I can't remember. The book is Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things and is one of the more interesting books I've read in a while. It focuses on the design problems of industry, which are many and terrifying, but it also discusses fascinating approaches to solving those problems. How with a little creativity, we can have industry that actually works with the earth instead of against it. Anyway. This isn't the place for a book review.
And to give completely full credit, the title of this post was stolen from the first line of one of my favorite songs by Uncle Tupelo, "New Madrid" from the album Anodyne.
Here's a scribble:
Comments
I like that the scribble guy's jacket looks to have been sewn shut. I also like that if you look at him upsidedown, his nose resembles a bird with a really long neck (and ears). Or at least it does to me.
Now I may look like him because I just read M--l's comment and he said he looked at it upside down, I wonder how he did this, is his monitor turned upside down? Does he hang upside down while online? Hmmm.
Thank you so much Nick!
As for the "fully rendering" idea that seems to have caused some controversy... M-----l's right in the fact that these pieces sort of are what they are. They are scribbles so I keep them scribbly. I don't think of them as ideas for future pieces, but then again, I also wouldn't put any of these in a show without some major polishing. I mostly consider them exercises in keeping my brain and hand loose so my more finished work stays interesting (hopefully!).
That being said, I have definitely been toying around with the idea of fleshing some of them out a bit. Right now most of them just live in my tiny Moleskine. I did change one scribble into a polished scribble for fellow voxer Amy Jeynes, but I haven't done that with any of my other scribbles. In any event, developing these scribbles into something new could be a really interesting project. As far as needing a new name...? I think "Unscribbles" would work just fine.
That's probably more informaiton than you wanted! :) So, I'll just say thanks again! Your comment (especially "They are so freakin cool!") had me grinning for a while. :)
I tried to paint some of her stuff before but it just didnt seem right, for a style so unique, the original artist has to do it, i think.
Fully painted or not, the drawings are great and by no means are lacking anything.
Oh and Paige, they are freakin cool! lol You should be very proud.
I just took a look at some of your own work and I can see how an illustration can be taken to the next level by being painted (or "fully rendered"). The best examples I saw on your site were the "Soar" posts from 12/30 of last year. I'm not sure it would work with the scribbles, but it's an interesting idea.
(I also liked the drawing you did of the Chico State scene (2/16)...where the couple are smoking.)
Thank!