HEIDI MOORE ON TOUR

(Preliminary sketch) 11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Fude brush, Micron pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and acrylic in Moleskine sketchbook.  A friend of ours is pursuing her dream as a musician and I'll be ready for her posters when she hits the road to stardom.  For some reason my lettering and spelling were atrocious today! Now you know why I do preliminary sketches!

STUDY OF FISH FROM AN EMEK DRAWING

8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Micron pen in Moleskine sketchbook.

I have only discovered Emek's work this year. I found a used copy of his book: Emek The Thinking Man's poster artist and although the term blown mind has been overused in our world to the point that it has lost it's original intended meaning, my mind was indeed blown.  Shattered even.  I've been told that if you want to strive to draw and paint like a master then study and copy the masters.  Well Emek is surely a master. Don't be thinking that "poster artist" is some kind of lesser artistic designation.  His work is much more than an advertisement for  music concerts.  What I enjoy (beside the obvious artistic skill) is the subject matter that is incorporated into the work.  Things like machines, gears, cogs, robots, cyborgs, skulls, flame, trees, plant life, outer space. No limits.  And talk about detail!  I just love looking at his work, scrutinizing it as I attempt to copy it in order to learn and develop my own artistic voice.  There are few things in this world like learning to get comfortably lost in the details of a drawing. I've actually started a piece at 6:00am and looked up to find out it is 6:00pm and I haven't even noticed!  That is a great zone to play in.

I recently purchased his father Yuval's book The Flavor Of His Youth and it is a work of special genius.  I wish now that a big book of Yuval's 50 years of making art will be published.  I've only been able to study his work from online photos.  In the next week or so I will be writing a review of both Emek and Yuval's books.  In the meantime, don't wait.  Go find them, buy them and study some of the best art around.

STUDY OF AN ADOLFSSON SKETCH

10 1/2" x 8 1/2" Micron pen and Fude brush in Moleskine sketchbook.  I got so lost inside this practice sketch that I started adding things that were not in Mattias Adolfsson's original sketch.

ROBOT REFLECTION

8 1/2"x 5 1/2"  Fude brush and Faber Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook

SPINAL DISCS

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Micron pen, Fude brush and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook. Going to see the Orthopedic surgeon soon and until then it's yoga and mindfulness for me. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

STUDY OF EMEK'S STUDIO SIGN

10 1/2" x 8 1/2" Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook

SQUAWKING CROWS

8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Fude brush in Moleskine sketchbook. There was a whole lot of crow squawking going on outside yesterday over the field.

COMMANDER CODY AT THE BOTTOM LINE

18" x 24" Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush, Fude brush and acrylic on Canson Bristol recycled paper

STUDY FROM EMEK POSTER ART

STUDY FROM EMEK POSTER ART - 10 1/2" x 8 1/2" Micron pen in Moleskine sketchbook. A lot can be learned by studying his work and also the work of his father Yuval Golan.

IDIOT BOX DOODLE 5

 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"  Micron pen and fude brush in Moleskine sketchbook. Done while watching tv.  Netflix allows us to catch up on what we've been missing all these years.  Poirot (1989 series) is actually pretty good (especially the cars).

IDIOT BOX DOODLE 4

 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Micron pen and fude brush in Moleskine sketchbook. Done while watching tv. Netflix allows us to catch up on what we've been missing all these years. Poirot (1989 series) is actually pretty good (especially the cars).

IDIOT BOX DOODLE 3

8 1/2"x 5 1/2"  Micron pen, fude brush and white ink in Moleskine sketchbook

KITKAT

 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Micron pen in Moleskine sketchbook. This stray cat is at our back door every morning at 4am. It has trained us to feed it and is all loving and purring early in the day. It reappears later in the afternoon lounging around but as soon as we open the door it looks wild eyed at us and runs off as if it has seen a ghost. I know cats can be weird but what is up with this?

THINKING ABOUT ENGINES

 8 1/2"x 5 1/2" Micron pen and Faber-Castell Pitt pens in Moleskine sketchbook.

IDIOT BOX DOODLE 2

 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Steampunk Micron pen and Fude brush in Moleskine sketchbook (drawn while watching tv)

IDIOT BOX DOODLE

 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Micron pen in Moleskine sketchbook. I keep a sketchbook by my chair when we try to watch tv. Sometimes there is something worthwhile on, but most times we just can't get into it. This is the result. It always feels good to get lost in a drawing!

AUNT LINDA'S HORSE

18"x24" acrylic on Canson Bristol paper.  For my Aunt  Linda Tonkin who is recovering from surgery.

BEATIE BOYS 2

18" x 24" pencil, Fude pen and Faber -Castell Pitt big brush pens on Canson recycled Bristol paper. (From concert poster for Joshua Brandt)

PEARL JAM

18" x 24" pencil, Fude brush and acrylic on Canson recycled Bristol paper (From concert poster)

DROPKICK MURPHYS

18" x 24"   Pencil, Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush and acrylic on Canson recycled Bristol paper (from concert poster)

SLASH

18" x 24"  pencil, Fude brush, Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush and acrylic paint on Canson recycled Bristol paper

BEASTIE BOYS

18 " x 24" pencil, Fude Brush and Acrylic paint on Canson recycled Bristol paper. ( From concert poster)

FLOGGING MOLLY

18" x 24" #2 pencil, Acrylic paint, Speedball super black India ink and Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush on Bristol paper.  From photo of rock poster.

MORRISON SKETCHBOOK TO PAINTING

18" x 24" Acrylic on canvas. From sketchbook to painting.

CYCLOPS

8 1/2" x 5"  Uniball pen in Moleskine sketchbook. Study from an Emek sketch.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIE!

16" x 20" acrylic on canvass

JIM MORRISON

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 @3 brush and Faber Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook.  Sketch is for a larger painting in the works.

NIRVANA

14" x 11" Pencil, Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush and acrylic on Bristol paper.  Our Oscar in the Netherlands turns 9 years old on September 30th.  He is a big fan of Nirvana so I made him a fantasy concert poster (he will be the opening act).  Will mail it tomorrow!

GYNOID WARRIOR

8 1/2" x 5 "  Uniball pen, Speedball super black India ink, Hunt 102 crowquill pen, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush in Moleskine sketchbook.

POOLDOG

 8 1/2" x 5 " Uniball pen, Speedball super black India ink and Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush in Moleskine sketchbook. (From photo on rock poster.)

PEARL JAM

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China white marker in Canson Sketchbook. From a photo of the concert poster done by Emek.

MAN IN LIBRARY

8 1/2" x 5" Uniball pen in Moleskine Sketchbook

AMBROSE BURNSIDE

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Speedball super black India ink, Hunt 102 crowquill pen and  Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Canson sketchbook.  ..." Burnside had repeatedly demonstrated that it had been a military tragedy to give him a rank higher than colonel. One reason might have been that, with all his deficiencies, Burnside never had any angles of his own to play; he was a simple, honest, loyal soldier, doing his best even if that best was not very good, never scheming or conniving or backbiting. Also, he was modest; in an army many of whose generals were insufferable prima donnas, Burnside never mistook himself for Napoleon. Physically he was impressive: tall, just a little stout, wearing what was probably the most artistic and awe-inspiring set of whiskers in all that bewhiskered Army." - Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army.  (And what a pair of sideburns!)

DONALD DAWG

11" x 17" Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush, #2 pencil, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Canson sketchbook. "Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously, and the politicians as a joke, when it used to be vice versa." - Will Rogers

TRUMP vs ROUSEY

11" x 17" Speedball super black India ink, Hunt 102 crow quill pen and Faber Castell Pitt big brush pens in Canson sketchbook.

11TH and Madison, Corvallis, Oregon

Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens, Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT #5 SHOW THE WORLD YOUR PERSONALITY

18" x 24" Oil on canvas

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT #4 - SLAP A CHARGING BULL ON THE NOSE TO CHANGE HIS MIND

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China white marker in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT #3 - LOOKS GOOD ON ANYONE

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China white marker in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT - #1 THEY KEEP OUT THE SUN

 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

MY HAT

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pen and acrylic paint in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT # 2 - THEY KEEP OFF THE RAIN

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China white marker in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

MONTANA PEAKS HAT COMPANY

Kinda smoky there these days but if you need a cowboy hat this is the place to get one in Pendleton, Oregon. They list five uses for a cowboy hat and I'll post the drawings for them over the next five days.  11 1/2" x  8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell Pitt big brushes in Moleskine A3 Sketchbook

CRUMBLIKE PRACTICE #5

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice. Added some Speedball super black India ink too.

BUKOWSKI

Bukowski  - 11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Faber -Castell Pitt big brush pens, Speedball super black India ink, Raphael 8404 brush and Derwent Graphik line painter in Canson sketchbook.  "You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time, all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

CRUMBLIKE PRACTICE #4

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice. Added some Speedball super black India ink too.

CRUMBLIKE PRACTICE #3

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice. Added some Speedball super black India ink too.

CRUMBLIKE PRACTICE #2

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice.  Added some Speedball super black India ink too.

CRUMB LIKE PRACTICE

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice.

FEEDING TIME

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook. From an old advertising poster. It shows the many uses for a cowboy hat.