Some Pieces
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One friggin' giant eyeball!About 2'x3', vine charcoal, charcoal stick, black and white conte on blue toned charcoal paper.
I love it, I know I gotta work big now, I've had this feeling before and the feeling is getting stronger. Friggin' HUGE!!! Yes.
This was an extra piece I did last weekend or two weekends ago, I dunno. It was very cathartic.
Roughly 3'x2', printer toner, charcoal, black and white conte on newsprint.
The newsprint was a bad idea, but it began as just a sketch so, I didn't know it would pan out the way it did.
The toner was collected from my job, I work at a print station and can collect the extra from the machine and whenever the cartridge needs to be changed I can get a full cup of toner!! Fun stuff but it takes a lotta fixative to hold it onto the paper. But the effect is fantastic!!
It it meant to represent two individuals in a state of transcendence or perhaps elation (I dunno, Doug?). Either way, these two have seen the same truth or have been chosen to see something revealed. Harkening back to the 1984, Brazil, We mentality. Individuality amongst a throng of bobbing heads. THis would be fantastic with an element of motion. Ah, well.
A close up of the old guy emerging.
The thick black spots near the base of his 'neck' is the toner. Most of it was coming off when I used the charcoal and conte, though.
The second individual rising.
I guess the piece is done for now. I don't know what to do with it so onto to something else until the muse strikes again.
Ciao for now,
Dan
posted by Dan Grove @ 10:21 AM
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3 Comments:
Artist for Art's sake, ARTIST FOR ART'S SAKE!!! I'm terribly offended. How selfish of me to be so, how unconcerned with the society at large, how egocentric, refusing passage of the viewer, how, how...how RUDE!
Well, maaaay-be there's a tinge of that. A sprinkle, here and there.
BUT, I refuse to adhere to it solely and will never use that phrase in a complete sentence, only halted fragments, utterances, mutterings.
art for art's sake, what a croc!
Sorry.
That was an unecessary rant (but it was rather fun).
Please, post...don't be afraid. perhaps I need to be kinder, a little less critical, even if in jest.
Accept me again!!
Greetings, Artisan! My name is Iris Retina and I represent the American Eye Association. The reason I am writing is to enquire as to whether we could commission you to do a series of rather large, 25 foot by 70 foot, billboards along I-70 in western Kansas. We'd like you to a series of giant eyes, which we plan to use to encourage people to refrain from putting carbolic, sulphuric, or battery acid in their eyes by mistake. Would you help us? If so, please reply.
Sincerely Yours,
Iris Retina
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