The Human Canvas - Drawing a DRESS onto someone...

 

A dress that was drawn on,

not UPON, but drawn onto a person,

using the most vivid of colors...

 

 

...May be really cool to try someday,

but this wasn't the case.

 

Today was the second time

to try out one of my metallic Sharpies.

The first time was on Karen, pictured below.

You can link to that session HERE.

 

 

Simply put,

I had her take off the

heart-pendant she was wearing,

then I (kind of) drew it back into place. Scroll

back up to the first picture, and you see

Shaelyn with a treble clef-pendent.

So let's try it again.

 

 

What you're also seeing here,

with the red showing up around

where I've drawn, is the only kind of

reaction to the ink that I've ever encountered.

And Shaelyn has served as canvas SEVERAL times

by now, with large back-pieces being among them.

No real worries about reaction. It actually fades

from one part about the time

I'm finishing up the next.

 

 

Now to the chain. 

Not really a line, per se,

but rather a bunch of closely

connected dots - flowing over the

clavicle and around the neck. Then just

coming back in with some black dots.

Not everywhere.

 

 

Just enough to

suggest holes going through

the silver "line." Then more black

around the "pendent" before we can call

it done. A bit heavy here and there,

but like the other one...

 

 

...Turns out nicely when you step back a bit.

 

 

Shaelyn was happy with it.

Or at least smiles well for pictures.

 

 

At the time of this writing, I've only used

the metallic Sharpies once more. Not to recreate

jewelry once again, but this time it was inspired BY

some wonderful jewelry. A really nice, Dia de los

Muertos-inspired bracelet. We'll see that one

in the near future. It's amongst my favorites

to date. I know it's the favorite of

another friend as well.

 

 

Again, we'll see it soon,

but we may be seeing Shaelyn less.

She's moved from the area. I've known Shaelyn

as a student of my wife, as well as a pupil of my own.

An adept and critical learner, she was a valued asset

at KVCR, and some of her work continues to air to

this day. She did at KVCR, what many

people hope to do SOME day.

 

I'm grateful most of all to have her as a friend.

Thank you Shae!

The Human Canvas - Artists in Action - The Vault, part 3

So these are the stragglers, I suppose. 

Of the two Artists in Action events I was 

a part of, we saw a nice butterfly (and more) in 

Part one (click HERE). We saw SEVERAL more 

butterflies in Part Two (click HERE), and an epic 

appearance from a couple of epic members of 

an epic band. These can be seen with If I 

had a Songhammer. Click HERE for 

a link to that one.

Only a couple ones to show here. 

First - one that will be seen again once I get 

more drawings of this nature.

A tombstone? 

Well, not really the nature of a tombstone. 

Rather, a play on words of sorts. We'll come back to that.

The other one was one I was rather disappointed with. 

It shoulda been simple. 

I was working over a tattoo that was 

already present. Something I've done many a 

time before, with wonderful success. 

But on this one... I dunno. 

Maybe it was the angle? 

All I know is it got muddier as I went...  

To the point where 

I was truly embarrassed to have done it. 

Of over 250 images to date... 

This is one of only 

a very few that I DID NOT LIKE AT ALL.

But I'm trying to show them all. 

So let's go on to one I did like. 

The one we started this post with. 

A simple design. 

Yes, a tombstone. 

The person who owns 

the arm I was working on is named Grant. 

Thankful for his willingness, as this will go 

into a special collection soon. 

A collection of bad puns, 

or just drawings that have something 

to do with the person's name. In this case, Grant. 

Grant's Tomb. And as the saying goes, 

Who is buried in Grant's Tomb? 

Who IS buried in Grant's Tomb. Oy.