Art Contest - OH-MY-GOD!!!

Wow!


Just when I'd given up on getting any new entries for an ongoing "contest"...

...along comes Roger!


Wow!

Remember this? One morning I saw a beautiful sunrise - while a crescent moon hung on from the night before. This is what inspired...or led...the forecast drawing for that day.

I asked friends on facebook and MySpace to print or download it, color it in or digitally manipulate it somehow, then send it back to me. I received a half-dozen fairly quickly...then there was a bit of a lull.

And by "lull", I mean NOTHING...for over a year. So - I re-launched the contest. And I use the term "contest" rather loosely, as there's no winner per se - only publication. Mitch, who gave me my first entry, pointed out though that there doesn't have to be a winner...a reward. The reward is in DOING the art.

I thank him for that outlook.

And I thank Roger for the latest entry. Again - Wow!

And I thank YOU...for the next. The original, along with the other submissions can be seen with a click HERE, or just go to the tab for CONTEST!!! ONGOING!!! near the top of the page.

Send YOUR version to davidfleming28@g-mail.com.

And THANKS!

The Human Canvas - Smaugy in Riverside

So...

We were visiting Alex and a few other friends in Rivierside recently. 

Okay. NOT so recently. This was a couple of months ago by now. There's kinda been a lot going on. I've got a LOT of talking about Arlo Guthrie coming up. Got to interview him, get it on the air, then see him perform and speak to him in person a few nights later.

Actually quite a few interviews to talk about...Stanley Clarke, John Jorgenson, Jules Day, which also aired recently...

But Alex. Remember Alex? It's a song about Alex. (blatant Alice's Restaurant reference)

The cool thing about this session was that Alex knew I was joining my wife in the visit, knew about the Human Canvas series,  and wanted to be a canvas.

Actually though, she was too shy to ask. (I'll remove this fact if she asks) Everyone had eaten, we were hanging out by the fire pit, and Ricky asked, "Hey Dave, ya have your markers on you?", and pointed to Alex...quietly off to the side.

Boom! Off to the living room!

I'd been working on dragons recently...and castles...and a few shots at Marvin the Martian. These have been practice sessions for another large back-piece in the future.

You know who you are.

In the meantime...

...here be dragons.

I had a request for a unicorn dragon, actually.

So here's another case of getting to a point where I ought to be done...

...right?

But noooooo. I'd done a drawing recently (on paper) that I called "Smaugy on Mars".

So, with red markers in hand, this was my opportunity to do a Human Canvas version.

Really - just providing a landscape...a place for this dragon to be.

But it was Red.

You know...Mars.

And having put my initials on it...

...done!

So, meet Alex.

I've done better dragons than this...on paper, anyway...and would like another session with her.

I won't be too shy to ask.

The Human Canvas - Melissa

This one actually goes back a bit. On the same night that I did the koi drawing on Bree (New Year's Eve - at The Big Apple Cafe in Murray Kentucky), another person at the table had said that she'd be a "canvas" for me. So...meet Melissa.

This was another case of the model not caring (so much) what went onto her. So...what to do?

I started laying down an Ankh...

...which ended up being not very Ankh-like...

...But again - it's ink, it's there - trudge on forward...

...Try to make it a successful drawing...even though it wasn't what I had in mind initially.

So we ended up with some kinda Ankh-like, female symbol-like piece...

It seemed appropriate...

...And we were smiling.

This piece truly wraps up 2010. I was, literally, working on it right up to 11:59.  This will then be the last entry onto the page  for "the Human Canvas". The tab is up above, but HERE is a link anyway. Several more pieces have been done in 2011, and a new page for this is about to be created...and continually updated. Thanks again for stopping by.