This is cross posted at the art challenge blog, though it doesn’t really apply to the months topic, but that is irrelevant.  I was sitting around the other night contemplating something when an idea for a painting popped into my head,  a tiny experiment really.  So tonight I painted that idea.  It’s small, maybe 4″ x 4.5″…  Acrylic on watercolor paper. No prep work or drawing, just paint on paper.  The point was to play with lighting and to restrict the amount of detail involved.  Leave a lot of it a little on the vague side, which I don’t normally do.  I just wanted to see how easily I could pull it off.

Anyway, this is it.  He is a grumpy looking fellow.

I took a gander at my folder of stuff I drew in MS Paint, and there was this gross fat face drawing I saved for some reason.  I decided to seal that reason in by painting it.  So I did.  And this is it.  And it’s kind of gross, but in the good way, I think.

Whatever it is, it looks happy…  Acrylic on watercolor paper, 8x8ish.

Here is the original drawing:

I got a hankering to make a quick painting last week, but I didn’t feel like painting one of my own drawings. I decided I would borrow a drawing my friend Chris’ had posted to his sketch blog recently.  So I grabbed it, transferred it and went to town.  I was expecting a quick painting, to tune of a couple hours.  That ended up not being the case.  Regardless, after re-painting what I had painted several times and quiting completely a fair few times in the middle, I finsihed something I like.  Here it is:

Acylic on water color paper.

And here is the original drawing:



Drawing by Chris Hajny, hajny.com

OK, this is going to be one of the longest posts I have made.  It includs eight paintings inspired by the show Twin Peaks.  All of which are portraits of various characters.  These are for a show at Gallery 1988 in LA called Idiot Box, which opens April 2.  It should be a good ol’ time.

Anyhow, here are the paintings.  All roughly 8″x5″ acrylic on bass wood panels.

Special Agent Dale Cooper, as played by Kyle MacLachlan

“Black as midnight on a moonless night.”

Audrey Horne, as played by Sherilyn Fenn

“Do your palms ever itch?”

Pete Martell, as played by Jack Nance

“There was a fish… in the percolator.”

Deputy Andy Brennan, as played by Harry Goaz

“It’s my civic duty and I like whales.”

Dr. Lawrence Jacoby as played by Russ Tamblyn

“Hang loose haoles.”

The Log Lady as played by Catherine E. Coulson

“One day my log will have something to say about this.”

The Giant as played by Carel Struycken

“The things I tell you will not be wrong.”

The Man From Another Place as played by Michael J. Anderson

“That gum you like is going to come back in style.”

I also attempted a Sarah Palmer painting, but it did not succeed. I might post it later along with a boat load of process for this whole series.

Until then, or the next painting(s) I make, later.