PRANKSTER AT THE FAKEOUT SALOON

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Uniball pen, Fude brush and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook.

CYBORG

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Uniball pen, Fude brush and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine sketchbook.

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)