Day 8 - Polar Bear

On the Pittsburgh Zoo blog is a really beautiful picture of a polar bear in the water - watching really massive mammals navigate effortlessly through the water is a pretty powerful thing to see.

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Day 7 - Milne's classic character

Whinnie the Pooh is awesome for a number of reasons. The one that I find most interesting is his curiosity. What is remarkable is that the original drawings of Pooh captured this emotion with really simple sparse lines...

I played around with sparsity here....

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Day 6- native colors

The colors came by way of a wedding I was at - the green and purple is really quite nice

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Day 5- Awkward

Awkward, animals, preferably ones that are surprised or made uncomfortable thrill me to death. It is not so much the prospect of them being made uncomfortable, but the idea that there is something that makes them fell this way. The sentiment is totally different that fear, which I suspect that animals feel often.

Maybe I just like the idea of googlie eyes!

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Day 4 -Eyes

Eyes are always fun to draw...especially those on women.

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Day 3 - Abstract in green

abstractions of the kind that I like. You will probably recognize this style from some of the other things I have done before and posted on this blog.

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Day 2 - Shock and awe

I suspect that this is the face I would have if confronted with the prospect of drawing something new daily. Thankfully, if I were anything but a human or nonhuman primate, the difficulty of holding something without thumbs would outweigh any concern I have for a daily drawing!

Tools: iPad, Sketchbook Pro, right finger!

Art a day

One of my laments has always been that I am not being as creative as I would like - or more specifically, that I do not draw as much as I would like to. In an attempt to remedy that, I have made a mini resolution to do a drawing a day this year and post the images to my blog. Partly inspired by Chris Ayers' "Daily Zoo", my goal is to just draw something - anything daily.

In my city, the sun is a rare visitor, and my thought is that painting/drawing something everyday will somehow ward off those rain cloud blues. In that spirit, my hope is that some, if not most of the drawings are colorful and mildly luminous!

Fell free to forward this blog to your friends, or send me suggestions of things you would like to see, or let me know if you want an image to use because you just have to link to my website, of if you just want to let me know that a drawing was especially hilarious or awesome.

Sometimes the drawing will stand on its own, other times there may be a bit of commentary. Some of the drawings will be done digitally (on an iPad with my finger and Sketchbook Pro or using a stylus and Photoshop) and others will be hand drawn/painted and scanned or photographed.

Some of these drawings will be from my head, some will be sketches of more finished pieces I am doing, and on occasion, when things really hairy, I might throw in a filler sketch or a finished painting. Some of the drawings will be my interpretations of other artists or styles, and when that is the case, as much as possible, I will try to link to the original for context.

Some of the drawings will be good, other will suck.

Regardless, this should be a total blast. Best wishes in 2011 and hopefully you will enjoy a day or two in this journey of art a day!

K

Gallery Opening

I'm showing some painting inspired by Cajal - here is one of the images. This is part of an exhibit "Antiquated & Future (or Imaginary) Technology Pathways" running at the Irma Freeman Center between April 2 and May 15 and is part of the GA/GI Festival opening April 2, 2010.

Cheers

Urethane automotive paintings

I played with urethane a while back on some panels, trying to recreate the Geiger style. Clear coating these panels creates the translucency of auto body paint, and as soon as I can find a nice fume hood, i think integrating this with some steel work is going to open up some exciting new possibilities.

Simple lines

These were just large scribbles, but I find something really powerful in these simple lines. The economy of form that comes from such simple lines has me thinking about simplicity going forward.

Unintentionally theological?

A number of people have commented on the religious overtones of these two pieces - I'm not sure I see it in the blue face, but it appears that unintended perceptions are par for the course when playing with abstraction.

Explorations in color and form

Black and Gold

Having lived in Pittsburgh for nearly 7 years now, It has become clear that the "Black and Gold" have found their way into my work.... at least in terms of color.

Abstractions

These reflect the style that I am really into. I began painting like this in the mid 1990s, and while the style seems to have remained invariant, the themes have changed.