Circles
Jun23
I usually paint my canvases a transparent color to start with. This eliminates the whiteness of the canvas and also provides an underpainting that I can leave showing in some places… should the mood strike me.
Some Randie Painting in Squid Row history:
http://squidrowcomics.com/lautrec/
http://squidrowcomics.com/choco-high-painting/
A wallmakes as good a canvas as anything else. They can always paint over it when they move out, if the landlord wants. In the meantime, it’s art!
Patjade… yes, walls can be painted over. I grew up in military housing mostly… and we weren’t allowed to paint the walls. So I covered them with drawings and posters and such. The tape must’ve been murder to get off. Sorry, parents.
maybe randi should turn the circles into portraits of friends and family. perhaps by the time that is done, she’ll have an inspiration that feels worthy of a fancy canvas.
Bon Idée, anatman! But then you got people lookin’ at ya, ya know…. in the bedroom… while stuff is going on. Ahem.
Perhaps flowers and birds and things then.
Agreed… BIG Beautiful sunflowers…
Really do like Randi’s new hairstyle. Also like the updated art style, thumbs up all around.
Thank you, Legacy… the shaved side is more artsy. They’ll be more hair fun later on… eventually. I’m glad you like all the new stylings. Smiles!
Oh, goody. You’re doing it more than once a week…I was wondering…
Yes, more than once a week. My thought is to do a trail basis of Tuesday and Thursday… I have cartoons lined up all the way thru August. If I find this format is too slow and my creation schedule allows it, I could possibly add another day… maybe Saturday.
Congrats!!!!
It looks awesome.
Rob… Thank you! I’m glad that you dig the look. Wait until you see Enid!
Filling in the circles would look better than just empty circles on the wall.
And congratulations on the new strip, Brig! It looks good!
THank you, Yat… I’m glad you dig the new… I would call it… a sequential comic art page… whew… that’s a lot of wordy…
And agreed… Randie’s good at abstract painting… fill those puppies in with some paint. Just don’t use black… because painting OVER black (when the time comes to repaint) is hard!
I have to say, the new format is doing wonders for your story-telling. The world of Squid Row is really blooming.
On the subject of ‘fear of the blank canvas’, I know a lot of artists who freak out over the first page of a new sketchbook, thinking that they need to draw a masterpiece in order to ‘represent’ them or some nonsense. I got over this fear by using a theme in every sketchbook I have: page 1 is always “The Worst Drawing in the Sketchbook”, which is usually a stick figure making a very bad pun. This gets that intimidating ‘bad drawing’ out of the way and let’s you move on to better things.
…now if I were to havee one of those ‘Worst Drawings’ stuck on the wall I probably wouldn’t be so gung-ho.
Dada… thank you… having more space has been real fun in terms of drawing and dialogue. I am able to have more conversation, more design (not just four boxes but MANY)… and the playing with color and photoshop brushes has been a delight… to say the least.
I like your idea of “worst page in the book” idea. It WOULD take the pressure off “ruining” stuff. I usually start the first page with “a number drawing” … it’s like a title page… gives the number of the sketchbook, say #110, then the dates started (and at then end, finished)… I get all doodley on that page. It’s just putting down marks. Sometimes, that page is only half finished by the end of the sketchbook. No matter.
You ought to have a show of just your “worst” drawings… all framed and pretty hung in a gallery.
Agreed, the new format does seem to give you a new license, doesn’t it? And the new forums make your responses a bit different … no more response digests. 😀
Yes, I like this responding to each person individually more better. The digests, as you put it, were less effective, yah?
I finally let go of all my college drawings. It was tough, but I am on a kick of simplifying. Circles on a wall, now you’ve gotta fill those in.
Randie REALLY wants to fill them in with color… she should so do that.
And I find it rather hard to let stuff go. I have ALL my sketch books dating back to my senior year of HS…. all 123 sketch books since starting to carry them. They take up 2 small bookshelves.