ChickensTennisOstrichesAndBanjo
Author: Nate Creekmore | Date: 06-05-2012 | Category: Artwork | Comments: 0Tags: NATE CREEKMORE, TENNIS, CHRIS SANDERS, ART, SKETCHBOOK, OSTRICH, BANJO, CHICKENS
For this week, more from my sketchbooks...
This drawing, done in pencil with ink and ink wash, features (yet again) an ostrich and a satyr. Mostly, this one was done with a focus on the chickens. I'm working on a rather large project about chickens but I won't be able to say much more about that for a while. In the meantime, my sketchbooks are seeing more and more poultry...
Here's a quick sketch of a hipster playing a banjo. I once had a roommate who played the banjo. He looks nothing like this guy.
Here's a Chris Sanders (the guy behind the look of Lilo and Stitch, the most unique Disney film I've ever seen) inspired ink drawing from one of my older sketchbooks. I added watercolor to it last week.
Ink on pastel paper (with a touch of chalk). A woman plays tennis with an 6-armed, four legged ox-like catfish monster using frying pans and eggs.
I wonder, from time to time, what a psychiatrist would make of my sketchbooks...
TheGospelOfSaintThomas
Author: Nate Creekmore | Date: 01-04-2012 | Category: Artwork | Comments: 0Tags: ROY LICHTENSTEIN, NATE CREEKMORE, CHICKENS, ROCKY HORTON, SAINT THOMAS, THE GOSPEL OF ST THOMAS, ROOSTER, OSTRICH, ERIC POWELL
For anyone unable to attend the reception of the gallery show I participated in alongside Roy Lichtenstein and Eric Powell (and Jim Jinkins and Mitch Breitweiser and Phillipe Perreno) this past Friday, I encourage you wholeheartedly to stop by and take a look. The work will be on display at the John C. Hutcheson Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee until April 12th between the hours of 7am and 6pm Monday through Friday. And if you happen to run into Rocky Horton, be sure and congratulate him on putting together a lovely exhibition.
For this week's posting, I've decided to go with two sketchbook images. In this first drawing, an angel has a dispute with St. Thomas over the contents of his gospel account and, because he fails to compromise, The Gospel of St. Thomas is ultimately regarded as heretical.
St. Thomas is modeled after Fillippino Lippi's The Vision of St Bernard, which I've pasted below.
If you'll look closely, you'll notice Lippi's version doesn't have an ostrich. Mine does.
This second drawing is of a girl (her pose was swiped from an old magazine image of a ballet dancer), a rooster, and a brood of chicks.
Chickens have been turning up in my sketchbook quite a bit lately and it's because I'm working on a project that revolves around the exploits of an ancient band of chickens. I can't say more than that at the moment...
RimmerAndModel
Author: Nate Creekmore | Date: 05-02-2012 | Category: Artwork | Comments: 0Tags: MODEL, NATE CREEKMORE, FROG, CHICKEN, WILLIAM RIMMER, HANDBAGS, OSTRICH
Most of the artists I admire, most of the fine artists I admire, work in what I would consider to be a baroque style. I appreciate the grand, dramatic gestures and the over-the-top-ness of it all. I've never been able to find much of William Rimmer's work, but I've always liked what I've seen. Supposedly, he didn't use any preparatory drawings for his sculptures; he just worked everything out during the process.
Here's a pencil drawing from my sketch book based on his sculpture "The Dying Centaur."
This sketch book page is also a recent creation. The girl in the foreground is modeled after a pose I came across in a magazine advertisement for shoes and handbags.
I added some ink and chalk and now I've got a finished drawing (there were no columns, frogs, chickens, Indians, ostriches, or American revolutionaries in the handbag advertisement). I don't usually know how most of the drawings in my sketchbook will end up when I start scribbling, but they usually end up being disparate and random.
OstrichesAndSatyrs
Author: Nate Creekmore | Date: 04-12-2011 | Category: Artwork | Comments: 0Tags: SATYR, OSTRICH, ART, NATE CREEKMORE, SKETCH, DRAWING, INK, PENCIL
Two things regularly appear in my the background of my work:
Ostriches...
and Satyrs...
There's no deep psychological reason for this (not that I know of), I just think they're both fun to draw.
Cardboard Corinthians
Author: Nate Creekmore | Date: 23-10-2011 | Category: Artwork | Comments: 0Tags: CROSSWALK, WALRUS, CAMEL, QUETZAL, OSTRICH, SATYR, CITY, SCENE, NATE CREEKMORE, CARDBOARD CORINTHIANS
There'd been a half-used piece of illustration board sitting next to my desk for some time. Eventually, the rectangular shape of the board caught my eye and I began to pick away at it between other projects. I added color and ink to the pencil drawing this past week and now it's finished:
What was once a scrap piece of board is now an absurd crosswalk with camels, ostriches, a quetzal, and (in the background) a man being attacked by a walrus.
What was once a scrap piece of board is now an absurd crosswalk with camels, ostriches, a quetzal, and (in the background) a man being attacked by a walrus.