Once in a while, you get shown the light / in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
"Scarlet Begonias," The Grateful Dead
Sometimes it happens when you don't expect it.
While I work on the final paintings for a book, the glass palette to the left of my drawing board fills up with blobs of dried acrylic paint. I scrape them off, and mix new colors for whatever I'm working on.
Over the years, I've noticed that some of the blobs take on the features of people. Huh! That one looks like a ------! And then they're gone, scraped into the waste basket.
But because I was thinking about this blog while while working on the final paintings for Bats in the Band (coming in August this year), I finally decided I wanted to do something about these characters I saw in the paint.
So this time, I took photos when I thought I saw something in the paint, before I scraped it off. From time to time, I'll post a paint blob, and the character I saw within it.
Here's the first one. The paint blob:
And here's the character I saw within it. He's got a faintly Bill Gaines look (late of MAD magazine).
Wonder what he's thinking about?
So this time, I took photos when I thought I saw something in the paint, before I scraped it off. From time to time, I'll post a paint blob, and the character I saw within it.
Here's the first one. The paint blob:
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| That black/gray blob with the blue cloud above it? Someone's there. |
Wonder what he's thinking about?
