The Human Canvas and the Land of Diversity

Marshall, Will and Holly...

On a routine expedition - met the greatest

earthquake ever known. High on the rapids, it struck

their tiny raft, and plunged them down

a thousand feet below...

To the Land of the Lost. To the Land of the Lost.

To the Land of the Lost-ost-ost...

Wait a minute.

This was supposed to be the Land of Diversity.

This was our second year in the 4th of July parade

in Lyons, Colorado - population MAYBE 86 or so. In the picture below, you can see MOST of the town.

The parade is SO small, it circles around

town TWICE so it'll last longer...

maybe seem a bit bigger.
 

The Moscow army used to do that.
 

This is what we ended up lookin' like.
 

But let's get a closer look.

a picture of my really really cool sharpie case will go here soon. 

This... is how it started.

We were gonna each represent a state.

Easy enough. 

  

 

Tracy was West Virginia...

  

Though this second 

bit of Sharpie makes me think more of Texas. 

 

Texas, by Gawd.

Add to it - Priya...Hawaii...

5-0...

Hawaii 5-0!

Even Lola got sharpied.

She was one prairie state or another.

She INSISTED she was NOT Laura Ingalls.

Rather, she was the girl on one of her books in the

Little House on the Prairie series.

 

Sometimes it's easier to not argue.

Tim here MAY have been representing Colorado.

He wore some snowboarding goggles.

 

So these were just

some quick, fun pieces to get into the spirit of

whatever we were dressin' up as.

 

After the parade,

back to Tim, Tracy and Lola's - aka Colorado, West Virgina, and NOT Laura Ingalls prairie girl.

 

Time for a cookout...

And, of course, a couple more canvases.

 

 

Laura's ankle had been waiting to be a canvas...

 

Which looked better in the sunlight.

 

Her son, Charlie, also wanted a piece.

He wanted a Grim Reaper. Except purple instead of black.

And holding a trident instead of a scythe.

I'll do a better version of

this someday.

 

The last canvas of the day is without a doubt my favorite.

 

 

Melissa.

A wonderful canvas AND a wonderful new friend.

But this'n deserves its own entry.

That'll be next.

And soon.

 

More than 80 canvases so far,

and MOST of them can be seen through a few

tabs near the top of the page.

"The Human Canvas - the Beginning"

"...2011" and "...2012".

 

Please take a look - and share it with ANYone art-minded

Thanks.

The Human Canvas - SO...Why DO Hummingbirds Hum?

  

This session is fairly straight forward.

Except for the fact that it was such a long time coming!

I did a session

with Erin SEVERAL years ago.

It was in Los Angeles in the middle of a disco

at a Dr. Who convention. A kind of random, impromptu

black and white.

Then, before we could do any more...

She moved! She seems happy - other than me

not being able to draw on her.

So the following session took place in Colorado.

As I said - fairly straight forward.

The blank slate...

With a few quick lines...

Just a TOUCH of color - smeared JUST a bit...

A few more colors and some black later...

And there's our Hummingbird.

Now - a place FOR it.

A BIT of black along a few edges...

And then it's time to play with some nice photos.

Thank you Erin!

Been waiting for this'n.

OH! And I nearly forgot.

Why do Hummingbirds hum?

It's 'cause  they don't know the words.

Oy!

The Human Canvas - A Calming Pool... and Aquaman!

Here's a quickie.

Mike.

We saw him on the previous post,

The Human Canvas - A Tree of Life and New Beginnings.

This was later that same night.

And no matter WHAT I had in mind artistically, my wife was there saying, "Draw Aquaman. Draw Aquaman. Draw Aquaman..." - something like that.

Mike's a swimmer.

So...

Aquaman...

And Mike...

And the mirror.

Thanks Mike.

These were both fun.

And thank YOU for stopping by.

And possibly - for being the next canvas.

I'm always looking.

Please check back.

Gives this site a bookmark.

Coming soon, a REALLY cool hummingbird

and flower combo done on a dear friend in Colorado.

And most of these

adventures can be seen through

tabs near the top of this page. Some really fun stuff.

Some really cool pieces as well.

Okay.

They were ALL fun!

The Human Canvas - A Tree of Life & New Beginnings

sO MEET mIKE.

oOPS - dAMNED CAPS LOCK.

There we go. So...

Meet Mike.

Mike had shown me

some pictures of his dorm, which included 

something REALLY cool that he had created.

We'll get to that in a bit.

Meantime - the photos he showed me...

and the story he told...

That's what led to this session - with

something quite specific in mind. I told him about it.

He was up for it.

It started with a bit of a wash - just a

smear of some color for use in the background.

A long time ago,

this smear was the UNsuccessful

attempt at erasing. Now it's become another

method for me to employ. Something

I tried out just earlier this year.

To do this...

...Which became this...

...And finally - this.

THIS - was a COOL experiment.

But back to Mike.

After the wash, we start

with a bit of a "Tree of Life" kinda picure.

Then we go back in with another wash.

This one ends up being simply a light green at the

 base of the tree. The important thing though

is that it remains more subtle - allowing

the tree to be just a BIT

more bold. 

After that... have the earth crumbling away beneath it.

A bit more detail...

...And now let's talk

about those pictures from his dorm.

This wonderful tree you see

in the picture below was done with Sharpie,

and created over a long period of time. If you were

able to look close, you MIGHT see that this tree is made up entirely of writing.

You'd have to look REALLY close.

He did the writing as a rather personal journal,

and kept it rather hard to read. It was something public,

yet hidden. A retrospective AND existential

examination...

AND a wonderful art project.

But since this writing/drawing of the

tree in his dorm was a rather cathartic release for him...

...I wanted that earth crumbling

away beneath the "Tree of Life" to end up in a pool.

A cooling, calming place...

A place to find some peace...

...A place for re-birth.

Thanks Mike.

Thanks for the canvas... and the story and pictures which inspired it.

And thank YOU for stopping by.

And for being next. I'm always looking for the next canvas.

To see ALL the adventures

of The Human Canvas,  there are a few

tabs near the top of the page.

"The Human Canvas - The Begining" "The Human Canvas 2011" and The Human Canvas 2012"

Thanks again for looking... AND for spreading the word to a new audience/group of potential canvases.

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