hearts and rope

Here's a cute little flashy flash painting. I opted to not add colour just because I thought it looked cooler on my shelf that way.

And here's a gratuitous cat picture because those little toes sticking out while the cat watched the sunset was irresistible to my camera.

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flash dump

Truth be told, I'd grown tired of blogging. Tired isn't even the right word... it's more like I started to feel like it was totally pointless and therefore I wasn't doing it.

However, a friend encouraged me to keep her up to date with my drawing/painting progress and so, with that small prodding, I'm back. I thank her for that because it is nice to know that people care.

So... here are some things...

This lady head is done after Amund Deitzel flash but I'm not going to finish it because I'm unhappy with the shape of her face. (Actually, I have already redrawn and inked her again and I'm not finishing that one either because I just can't get her to have the aloof/angelic look I want... I will eventually come back to her and try again because I like the image but I needed to move on and try something else.)

This bird is from the Ben Corday Tattoo Travel Book and it is the first bird I've attempted. I didn't have any brown ink so I had to use some water colours. I'm not loving my current paper selection or the water colour paint. Anyway, a learning experience.

This one was really fun.

Having gone through art school and done a lot of "life drawing", I've drawn many a penile region in my day... but, as I was never an adolescent boy, I don't think I've ever drawn a random, gratuitous "cock"...

Now I have...

This whole image is so delightfully ridiculous that I enjoyed every minute of drawing it.

It is from the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 1. The caption says it is a "humorous youth tattoo known by convicts as 'Duet with sleighbells'". Here you can see my drawing beside the original.

Here's a scan of the inked drawing.

Here it is hanging on my fridge because I thought it was an "A+"... and also funny to use the "This is ART" magnet (picked up at the San Antonio Art Museum) to hang it.

And lastly, one I did yesterday.

Everything on this sheet is Ben Corday flash and I tried to keep the inking style as close to his as possible (so, more brush-strokey in some places than smooth, gradated washes).

Here's the central lady with her original counterpart in the book. I really need to go get some brown ink and maybe some (caucasian) skin tone - because mixing the inks doesn't seem to work very well and I had a hard time getting the colours of the original (which I was trying to do here... for practice...)

Anyway. that's it for now. Thanks for looking!!

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More Stoney Stones

I drew and painted these characters from a little picture in the "Stoney Knows How" book you can see here. They were really fun and quick. I gave them all names that end in "y" but my writing leaves something to be desired so I just messed around with it.

These two are my favourites.

Thanks!

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recent acquisitions & renditions

First the rendition:

A friend from highschool, who now lives way over in London, recently crossed the pond with her English man to spend some time in NYC and Ottawa. While in New York she and her beau eloped! Their pictures were so old-timey and romantic and sweet.

So when I got a chance to catch up with them in Ottawa for dinner I first painted up some old-timey/romantic/sweet flash to give them as a marriage-gift.

I want to give credit where it's due so let it be known that I painted this from an image on Zack Nelligan's website. I'm a great admirer of his and you should be too if you like traditional tattoos.

Please visit his website and know that I'm not trying to rip this guy off. He labeled the image as "Vintage Flash" so I felt not-scummy about re-painting it. This image is not going into a portfolio or for sale anywhere. It's just going on a wall (or in a box under a bed) in a friend's house.

Anyway, I really wanted to get tattooed by this fella while I was in Texas recently but sadly, I didn't have the time to make a side trip to Austin. Maybe next time though - hopefully. A yellow-rose-of-texas perhaps...


And here are the recent acquisitions:

A pelvis from some potato field near Alliston and a vertebra from Wasaga Beach.


Rusty horseshoe and wrench, also from some potato field (these are things that get dug up along with the potatoes).

And lastly, check this out!! Someone moving out of my building left a nice cast-iron Le Creuset dutch oven in the laundry room!! It was really dirty but it cleaned up really well. AND! It's the same colour as a lot of my other kitchen stuff! A match made in the culinary aisle of heaven!

That's all for now!

Again, go look at Zach Nelligan's tattoo work! It's so nice!

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