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 - Dr. Who, Dr. Jha, and Da Sharpie!

Meet...The Professor.

Um...I don't always call her this.

Sometimes it's Dr. Jha. And she doesn't

always look like this. The above picture is

from a few nights after the Human Canvas

session we're talking about here.

We were getting ready to go

to a bit of an open house at University of Redlands.

 

 

This session,

about 25 minutes before we were set to leave,

was a bit of an experiment...again. 

 

An experiment in fine line...

...very basic design...

...and just a touch of color.

Something that can blended,

with just a light scrub of alcohol.

This a bit reminiscent of the session

referred to as "The Butterfly and the Big Bruise".

You can click HERE for a link, but here's

the (first) attempt at erasing that

inspired the name:

Yuck, right?

But look at it

again as a blending of color,

along with the creation of NEW color.

Colors you won't ordinarily get with even

your best array of Sharpies. You can CONTROL it...

...for a rather attractive look...

...especially when

you go back in with a bit of

black to re-define.

Done?

Well, after adding

a quick signature - as it were -

...and powdering it,
to give it a bit more of
an under-the-skin look...

...NOW we're done.

There were several people
at the open house that thought
this was a real tattoo.

Cool!

Thank you Priya. This was long over due.

And thank YOU for

making time for me to draw on you NEXT!

There are two tabs near the top of the page

which show all of the (documented) Human Canvas

sessions so far. Thanks for checking it out, for your

comments, and your encouragement. More soon.

I'm excited by this new method, and am quite

anxious to continue. The above session was

only the night before this writing.

Dustin Lance Black - in Redlands

Got Milk? Didja see the movie yet? Ya wanna hear from the writer? The film (and many associated with it) took numerous awards in 2008, and was nominated for 8 Acadamy Awards in 2009.
                                 

One of the winners, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will be speaking at the University of Redlands Wednesday, September 29th. That's at 7pm at the Orton Center on campus. Black is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT activist.

In addition to the afore-mentioned Acadamy Award for Milk, he's won two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the TV series Big Love. He grew up in a devout Mormon military household in San Antonio, Texas and graduated UCLA's School of Theatre, Film and Television with honors. Black started out as an art director before transisioning into directing documentaries, commercials and music videos. He'll soon make his narrative feature film directorial debut on What's Wrong with Virginia, to star Jennifer Connelly, from his own original screenplay. Thanks to Raja Bhattar for allowing me to lift much of the writing of the flyer onto this blog. Thanks also to the University of Redlands Pride Center, the office of Campus Diversity & Inclusion, ASURI Executive Director of Inclusion, Chaplain's Office, and the Johnston Center (and all else involved) for making this opportunity possible!