...NOR does it have a crystal ball.
And that's as far as I'm going on that one,
other than to go on the record wondering
if I should have typed it out as sung,
rather than this faux-proper
kinda thing.
Anyway, you got it or you didn't.
Point of this one,
I suppose, is gathering together
an image that's found some repetition,
but only to a certain extent. I actually DO
draw a lot of suns, but they end up looking something
like what's pictured below. A sort of cartooned,
Japanese block print style?
Kinda?
That's what happens on paper, anyway.
The few times I've drawn a sun on a PERSON?
Certainly more of a flow involved, but (at first) it
wasn't a matter of manipulating the medium,
only a stylistic representation.
The first sun I put on a person
was actually in the middle of Istanbul.
Ha and I had met some 20 minutes or so
earlier, and talked about the fact that someday,
maybe, she might like a tattoo. When and if it
happened, she wanted an old-fashioned
kinda sun.
Like what you might
find on an old map or on a horoscope.
She was pleased with the result - as was I...
...As was Heena,
who was hesitant at first,
but by the time Ha was finished,
had worked up something SHE'D like.
A sort of whirling dervish figure.
Only a few more suns
in the history of the Human Canvas.
Kelly, below, got something a bit more akin
to what we saw in the pen and ink up above.
At this point I was just STARTING to
work with blending.
Pictured below is
a sun(set) that actually HALTED a session.
One that never saw completion.
And pictured below
we get something similar to
Ha's large back-piece, but now working
with blends, rather than simply "stacking" colors
next to each other.
Also pictured below is the 98th, 99th,
and the 100th drawing.
Almost up to date now,
this next one is working now more
with a blend AND fade. In the middle of
Autism Awareness month, this was simply a
few puzzle pieces, looking like three people holding
hands (perhaps?). I have to say too that I really
didn't like how this one turned out...
UNTIL I added that sun.
Now I LOVE it!
You can't see it too well,
but pictured below is the first (documented)
Human Canvas session. Very impromptu,
it turned out to be the SON.
His little hips wiggled when she flexed.
Cool.
So now to the sun
we saw at the beginning of this post.
A week and a half prior, I had gone over to
Dave's house to draw a puzzle piece on him as
well, and he ended up getting something
to go with his T-shirt.
A bit of a better view of the T...
...And his hoodie as well.
So on this night,
he came over wearing a Sublime shirt.
I'd never drawn one of the Sublime Suns before,
but REALLY thought it'd be a cool one to try.
At first I put this post
together as a gathering of past
suns because I didn't have any of the
step by step photos. Thankfully Dave took
one with his cell phone. The key to drawing
this'n is just breaking it down. Really - it's just
a mushroom with a couple eyes
and some squiggles.
Blacken around it, add some stylistic flames...
...And there we go. That's what I got.
Sublime.
I REALLY liked how this one turned out,
and after powdering it, SEVERAL folks thought
it was real. Nice.
I like that.
Dave liked it too.
And now here's to hoping you did as well.
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