Drawing
Well, not just drawing, but also designing, painting, and shooting. Y'know, stuff I made for you to look at!
Starstruck update
(90 Words. January 21, 2012, 10:27 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Update to my posts of a week or two ago. In the interim of buying a new set of the original Epic run on eBay and the new copies arriving, I, of course, found the missing box of comics that contained the original copies. It turns out I had not picked up one of the original issues when I was…
Starstruck Deluxe Edition: missing material
(23 Words. January 08, 2012, 05:52 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Aargh, I was right, sez the CJ: You won’t find the material from issues #2-6 of the Epic series in this book……
reflections on this image making excercise
(389 Words. November 08, 2011, 12:36 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Just over a week ago I started expecting myself to execute and post a digital drawing or painting every day, using the iPad or my more-capable graphics tablet, a 12-inch Wacom Cintiq. Both offer a direct-display drawing experience. The Cintiq is a more capable tool because it offers gradations of pressure sensitivity and the stylus also delivers information about velocity,…
Wine glass
(18 Words. November 08, 2011, 12:28 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Incredibly hurried sketch of a glass on our Halloween tablecloth, literally after finishing cookery and just before serving….
Sawyer's View-Master, Portland ORE
(213 Words. November 07, 2011, 11:55 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Super quick sketch of an old View-Master. Not entorely successful. I was trying to get after the surface textures of the dark, reflective surface of the device, but the digital emulation of wet oil color mixing led to a loss of control of hue, value, and draftsmanship. Some limitations of ArtRage’s UI are beginning to crop up for me….
THE KIRKS
(173 Words. November 07, 2011, 11:22 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
On Saturday and Sunday November 5th and 6th I tried a new experiment in my digital drawing and painting exercises. Starting from a photo reference, I created a ‘pencil’ drawing, executed a conte and wash treatment, and reworked the drawings into a painting. It was important to me that the series take as its’ starting point a very recognizable…
Pencil neck banjo
(20 Words. November 04, 2011, 03:34 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
ArtRage 3 demo for Mac OS X, Intuous. Looks like I need to work on my image-presentation CSS a bit….
Old Rocking Chair
(57 Words. November 03, 2011, 03:30 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This was done with ArtRage for iPad and it is clearly the closest app to what I have been looking for as I go through these apps. It includes every standard photoshop layer transform plus some pretty convincing natural-media textures for both surface and marking tool. I sought out the desktop version after this image was created….
Cephalus
(0 Words. November 02, 2011, 03:28 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Get Lamp
(0 Words. October 31, 2011, 03:26 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Dog on chair
(33 Words. October 30, 2011, 04:13 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I’ve been trying to do and post a digital drawing a day for a few days. Naturally, I forgot about the advisability of posting said pix to the blog. So here they come….
Art Rage
(16 Words. August 26, 2005, 10:44 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Art Rage, a freeware painting program for Mac OS X and Wintel [via MeFi]….
Palm pix
(138 Words. April 03, 2005, 10:46 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Resco Photo Viewer for Palm OS looks somewhat promising, if a bit limited in scope. I want a mini Photoshop for the Palm, one that I can use to create and draw in as well as look at pics. The most crucial image-editing tool for me would be curves, apart from the imagemarking tools such as brush. The few sketchpad…
Annabel Lee; The Banjo - grotesque fantasie; and so forth
(221 Words. August 04, 2004, 07:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The eagle eyed Manuel linkied me via email with ye olde Duke U. repository of American sheet music cover pages, covering the years between 1850 and 1920. Each decade is presented in its’ own browsable gallery, although it takes a few clicks to get to the good stuff. But the good stuff, well, it’s good. A typographical horror representing the…
Ellen Forney TOC
(83 Words. November 30, 2003, 07:40 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
For the past few days, I ran a transcript of a half-hour conversation I had with Ellen Forney about her half of a show at Secluded Alley Works. This is a table of contents to make it easier to read in the categoy-view archive. Ellen Forney: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five It was fun chat,…
Ellen Forney, part 5
(1368 Words. November 29, 2003, 07:16 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
M: Now, there are like two other layers to the visual presentation of images of women explicitly – um, intentionally, I suppose, is a better way to put it – as sexualized. One is the image or the object itself as an expression of sensuality, of desire, and of sexuality directly. Which is a little bit different than the…
Ellen Forney, part 4
(623 Words. November 28, 2003, 07:15 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is part four of five posts that make up the transcript of my conversation with Ellen Forney about her paintings seen at Secluded Alley Works though much of November, 2003. I’m breaking it up to make it easier to read. M: It’s interesting that you indicated Mary just now when you were saying that you were really tentative. And…
Ellen Forney, part 3
(1089 Words. November 27, 2003, 07:14 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is part three of five posts that make up the transcript of my conversation with Ellen Forney about her paintings seen at Secluded Alley Works though much of November, 2003. I’m breaking it up to make it easier to read. M: Now, just now as you were talking about the process of setting up the poses, you first demonstrated…
Ellen Forney, part 2
(1184 Words. November 26, 2003, 07:13 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is part two of five posts that make up the transcript of my conversation with Ellen Forney about her paintings seen at Secluded Alley Works though much of November, 2003. I’m breaking it up to make it easier to read. MW: Now, this painting of Mary - the woman on the couch – is familiar to me. Has that…
Ellen Forney, part 1
(894 Words. November 25, 2003, 07:10 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Here’s part one of my conversation with Ellen Forney about her current show at Secluded Alley Works. The show runs through the end of November, and is shared with another artist that I did not get a chance to talk to, Kristine Evans aka Kinoko. This conversation formed the basis of an article in Tablet 81, not posted at the…
Seeing green
(1010 Words. June 09, 2003, 08:34 AM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
For years now, I’ve collected a peculiarly American subspecies of handbill, one which seems to bring out the obsessive best in the designers of the material. It’s been a popular subgenre for years, probably longer than I have been alive, and sits right on the border of illegality. Friends, I am discussing the fake-bill advertising handbill, in which the size,…
A mailbox in my neighborhood.
(12 Words. July 13, 2002, 07:07 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Click to enlarge. um, I suppose I should crosslink to here….
Ihr Ken Goldstein der Woche
(79 Words. July 10, 2002, 07:44 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
All I can say is, I’m sorry it took so long. I don’t know what I was thinking. Click the pic and a larger image which will be perfect for printing as a sticker will appear. Let’s all do our part! UPDATE: Just to make things easy for you, here’s a 337k .gif which you can simply print off and…
1987 Stenciled poster
(382 Words. July 09, 2002, 07:11 AM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
Oops! I was so involved with my Wired piece I forgot about the Monday art. In a few days I’ll fudge the dates of publication so it’s neater. This image is a photo of a no-longer surviving copy of a large, 18” by 24” or larger poster I made for a party/show in the basement of the house I lived…
Li'l Kay-Gee
(29 Words. July 04, 2002, 07:12 AM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
Click will open a 1200 pixel-wide version. Here are sketches. It seems that Mr. Goldstein was once featured in a series of long-forgotten Gold Key comics. Happy Fourth!…
BKB C-Note
(190 Words. July 01, 2002, 07:48 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
This week’s entry in my growing pile of original art is the main image from the last tee-shirt I designed for my former band, the Bare Knuckle Boxers. This image, with the website URL below it and the words “Irska Musika - Americke Svaly” (Czech for “Irish Music - American Muscle”) above it in a warm cream color on a…
More KG evidence
(131 Words. June 27, 2002, 02:22 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Pursuant to the remarkable admission of Ken Goldstein’s secret identity and the subsequent discovery of photographic evidence concerning Mr. Goldstein’s apparent agelessness, we here at mike.whybark.com moved with the lightning reflexes of the distributed, all-digital startup and despatched crack teams of research associates to photo libraries the world over in hopes of finding further traces of Mr. Goldstein’s Zelig-like footprints…
Seoul Brother
(522 Words. June 24, 2002, 07:14 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The weekly original art I’ve selected is from a series of xerox flyers made in the summer of, um, 1987. In fact, it appears to have been made in June of 1987, when the Korean government first suspended the constitution, and faced massive popular unrest before backing down by June 29th, with the Korean government announcing major democratic reforms in…
DT: KG - NJ blogger comes clean, admits all
(301 Words. June 18, 2002, 07:46 AM, Comments: 7) MORE >>>
In a startling development to the evergreen “Who was Deep Throat” mystery, veteran blogger and beloved trencherman Ken Goldstein, of Jersey City, New Jersey, admitted to this writer in a personal email that he was in fact Deep Throat, the secret inside source that catapulted cub reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Redford to national prominence in the mid-seventies Hal…
Laguna Beach drawing
(50 Words. June 17, 2002, 07:44 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is the view of the headlands at north end of Laguna Beach, specifically Main Beach; I drew this on May 27th of this year. I believe this opens Vacation Week here at mike.whybark.com, where I’ll try to write about things that I did while we were in Southern California….
Bobblehead 2
(72 Words. June 13, 2002, 04:49 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Uh, I really didn’t mean to spend more time on this. But I did. Nets fans, think of this as a consolation prize. Here’s a way, way too-dark quicktime movie of the object in action. I don’t know why it’s so dark. Maybe the horse I brought in to work on the soundtrack was blocking the light or something. Update:…
Your KG Bobblehead!
(111 Words. June 10, 2002, 04:07 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Heeere it is! In commemoration of the historic NBA finals of 2002 - your Ken Goldstein of the week! I closely considered having the bobblehead hold his head in shame and fear, reflecting his emotions concerning the performance of his beloved Nets thus far, but in the end declined to do so as a) my subject is of a…
Votre Ken Goldstein du semain
(33 Words. June 04, 2002, 04:04 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
Here, the charming mug of Jersey’s favorite Rutgers grad beams in happy welcome to yours truly in the parking area of JFK. This is the shot on which the cartoon Ken was based….
"Ahau" is "King" in Mayan
(20 Words. June 03, 2002, 07:20 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Originally executed circa 1991 in sumi brush and ink. Any resemblance to a celebrity is purely coincidental, I assure you….
YOUR Kenneth G. de la semana
(53 Words. May 30, 2002, 12:35 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This week’s KG features the little guy demonstrating his theory of ancient egyptian hieroglyphic bloggage at the Met. A virtual Otter Pop to the site visitor who first correctly identifies the photoshop spoofing herein employed! I was gonna do a KG bobblehead, but I couldn’t find any decent pix on ebay. Someday, however…….
Still life, part III
(68 Words. May 27, 2002, 01:25 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Here is the completed painting, which I’m giving to my in-laws as an anniversary present. All of the materials in the painting have something to do with their life experiences. You can see a WHOLE lot more of the process of producing this painting in my photo gallery for May 2002. I believe the appropriate sub-albums are entitled “Still…
Blue Underpainting
(28 Words. May 20, 2002, 03:28 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Whoops! Meant to have this up this morning - lost track of time. This is the underpainting for the still life I posted a sketch for last Monday….
A Still Life, part one
(12 Words. May 13, 2002, 07:58 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The charcoal sketch for a painting I’m working on at the moment….
Seattle Pacific Zeppelin Airlines
(117 Words. May 06, 2002, 07:57 AM, Comments: 7) MORE >>>
Shocking news! Recent discoveries indicate that in an alternate timeline, the company which produced the poster above makes money hand over fist over jowl! For a printable PDF, click the image. UPDATE: I’ve realized that I misused the word “Zeppelin” in the poster. Since I depicted the Cargolifter dirigible and not the currently-flying Zeppelin NT I suppose I should…
April 29, 1992
(87 Words. April 29, 2002, 12:37 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Ten years ago we watched LA burn. I ran from my first riot, a few dozen people who gathered outside the police station in my neighborhood and chucked a few bottles, shattering a window. Almost everybody splt when the kids with the bottles chucked ‘em. I also drew an Octogon that day. I think it’s kind of fatuous, but it’s…
Chloe on a Blanket
(21 Words. April 29, 2002, 07:22 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The weekly art: I sketched Chloe in pencil, and then painted in Photoshop. Click to see her at 1100 px wide….
Interview note
(69 Words. April 22, 2002, 05:40 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
This is the temporary set of links for my interview on Tuesday the 23rd at the Olive Way Starbucks. my main resume: www.whybark.com quick-and-dirty portfolio additions: http://pix.whybark.com/gallery/album11 click here for a Starbucks locator map to this store: E. Olive Way 1600 E Olive Wy Seattle, WA 98102 (206) 568-5185 Finally, here’s a recent photo. UPDATE: I think the interview went…
Banjo and Tulips
(22 Words. April 22, 2002, 07:45 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Let’s see if I can do this every monday, shall we? I think photos don’t count, but don’t quote me on that….
Well, not just drawing, but also designing, painting, and shooting. Y'know, stuff I made for you to look at!
Starstruck update
(90 Words. January 21, 2012, 10:27 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Update to my posts of a week or two ago. In the interim of buying a new set of the original Epic run on eBay and the new copies arriving, I, of course, found the missing box of comics that contained the original copies. It turns out I had not picked up one of the original issues when I was…
Starstruck Deluxe Edition: missing material
(23 Words. January 08, 2012, 05:52 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Aargh, I was right, sez the CJ: You won’t find the material from issues #2-6 of the Epic series in this book……
reflections on this image making excercise
(389 Words. November 08, 2011, 12:36 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Just over a week ago I started expecting myself to execute and post a digital drawing or painting every day, using the iPad or my more-capable graphics tablet, a 12-inch Wacom Cintiq. Both offer a direct-display drawing experience. The Cintiq is a more capable tool because it offers gradations of pressure sensitivity and the stylus also delivers information about velocity,…
Wine glass
(18 Words. November 08, 2011, 12:28 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Incredibly hurried sketch of a glass on our Halloween tablecloth, literally after finishing cookery and just before serving….
Sawyer's View-Master, Portland ORE
(213 Words. November 07, 2011, 11:55 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Super quick sketch of an old View-Master. Not entorely successful. I was trying to get after the surface textures of the dark, reflective surface of the device, but the digital emulation of wet oil color mixing led to a loss of control of hue, value, and draftsmanship. Some limitations of ArtRage’s UI are beginning to crop up for me….
THE KIRKS
(173 Words. November 07, 2011, 11:22 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
On Saturday and Sunday November 5th and 6th I tried a new experiment in my digital drawing and painting exercises. Starting from a photo reference, I created a ‘pencil’ drawing, executed a conte and wash treatment, and reworked the drawings into a painting. It was important to me that the series take as its’ starting point a very recognizable…
Pencil neck banjo
(20 Words. November 04, 2011, 03:34 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
ArtRage 3 demo for Mac OS X, Intuous. Looks like I need to work on my image-presentation CSS a bit….
Old Rocking Chair
(57 Words. November 03, 2011, 03:30 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This was done with ArtRage for iPad and it is clearly the closest app to what I have been looking for as I go through these apps. It includes every standard photoshop layer transform plus some pretty convincing natural-media textures for both surface and marking tool. I sought out the desktop version after this image was created….
Cephalus
(0 Words. November 02, 2011, 03:28 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Get Lamp
(0 Words. October 31, 2011, 03:26 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Dog on chair
(33 Words. October 30, 2011, 04:13 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
I’ve been trying to do and post a digital drawing a day for a few days. Naturally, I forgot about the advisability of posting said pix to the blog. So here they come….
Art Rage
(16 Words. August 26, 2005, 10:44 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Art Rage, a freeware painting program for Mac OS X and Wintel [via MeFi]….
Palm pix
(138 Words. April 03, 2005, 10:46 PM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Resco Photo Viewer for Palm OS looks somewhat promising, if a bit limited in scope. I want a mini Photoshop for the Palm, one that I can use to create and draw in as well as look at pics. The most crucial image-editing tool for me would be curves, apart from the imagemarking tools such as brush. The few sketchpad…
Annabel Lee; The Banjo - grotesque fantasie; and so forth
(221 Words. August 04, 2004, 07:00 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The eagle eyed Manuel linkied me via email with ye olde Duke U. repository of American sheet music cover pages, covering the years between 1850 and 1920. Each decade is presented in its’ own browsable gallery, although it takes a few clicks to get to the good stuff. But the good stuff, well, it’s good. A typographical horror representing the…
Ellen Forney TOC
(83 Words. November 30, 2003, 07:40 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
For the past few days, I ran a transcript of a half-hour conversation I had with Ellen Forney about her half of a show at Secluded Alley Works. This is a table of contents to make it easier to read in the categoy-view archive. Ellen Forney: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five It was fun chat,…
Ellen Forney, part 5
(1368 Words. November 29, 2003, 07:16 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
M: Now, there are like two other layers to the visual presentation of images of women explicitly – um, intentionally, I suppose, is a better way to put it – as sexualized. One is the image or the object itself as an expression of sensuality, of desire, and of sexuality directly. Which is a little bit different than the…
Ellen Forney, part 4
(623 Words. November 28, 2003, 07:15 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is part four of five posts that make up the transcript of my conversation with Ellen Forney about her paintings seen at Secluded Alley Works though much of November, 2003. I’m breaking it up to make it easier to read. M: It’s interesting that you indicated Mary just now when you were saying that you were really tentative. And…
Ellen Forney, part 3
(1089 Words. November 27, 2003, 07:14 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is part three of five posts that make up the transcript of my conversation with Ellen Forney about her paintings seen at Secluded Alley Works though much of November, 2003. I’m breaking it up to make it easier to read. M: Now, just now as you were talking about the process of setting up the poses, you first demonstrated…
Ellen Forney, part 2
(1184 Words. November 26, 2003, 07:13 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is part two of five posts that make up the transcript of my conversation with Ellen Forney about her paintings seen at Secluded Alley Works though much of November, 2003. I’m breaking it up to make it easier to read. MW: Now, this painting of Mary - the woman on the couch – is familiar to me. Has that…
Ellen Forney, part 1
(894 Words. November 25, 2003, 07:10 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Here’s part one of my conversation with Ellen Forney about her current show at Secluded Alley Works. The show runs through the end of November, and is shared with another artist that I did not get a chance to talk to, Kristine Evans aka Kinoko. This conversation formed the basis of an article in Tablet 81, not posted at the…
Seeing green
(1010 Words. June 09, 2003, 08:34 AM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
For years now, I’ve collected a peculiarly American subspecies of handbill, one which seems to bring out the obsessive best in the designers of the material. It’s been a popular subgenre for years, probably longer than I have been alive, and sits right on the border of illegality. Friends, I am discussing the fake-bill advertising handbill, in which the size,…
A mailbox in my neighborhood.
(12 Words. July 13, 2002, 07:07 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Click to enlarge. um, I suppose I should crosslink to here….
Ihr Ken Goldstein der Woche
(79 Words. July 10, 2002, 07:44 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
All I can say is, I’m sorry it took so long. I don’t know what I was thinking. Click the pic and a larger image which will be perfect for printing as a sticker will appear. Let’s all do our part! UPDATE: Just to make things easy for you, here’s a 337k .gif which you can simply print off and…
1987 Stenciled poster
(382 Words. July 09, 2002, 07:11 AM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
Oops! I was so involved with my Wired piece I forgot about the Monday art. In a few days I’ll fudge the dates of publication so it’s neater. This image is a photo of a no-longer surviving copy of a large, 18” by 24” or larger poster I made for a party/show in the basement of the house I lived…
Li'l Kay-Gee
(29 Words. July 04, 2002, 07:12 AM, Comments: 5) MORE >>>
Click will open a 1200 pixel-wide version. Here are sketches. It seems that Mr. Goldstein was once featured in a series of long-forgotten Gold Key comics. Happy Fourth!…
BKB C-Note
(190 Words. July 01, 2002, 07:48 AM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
This week’s entry in my growing pile of original art is the main image from the last tee-shirt I designed for my former band, the Bare Knuckle Boxers. This image, with the website URL below it and the words “Irska Musika - Americke Svaly” (Czech for “Irish Music - American Muscle”) above it in a warm cream color on a…
More KG evidence
(131 Words. June 27, 2002, 02:22 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Pursuant to the remarkable admission of Ken Goldstein’s secret identity and the subsequent discovery of photographic evidence concerning Mr. Goldstein’s apparent agelessness, we here at mike.whybark.com moved with the lightning reflexes of the distributed, all-digital startup and despatched crack teams of research associates to photo libraries the world over in hopes of finding further traces of Mr. Goldstein’s Zelig-like footprints…
Seoul Brother
(522 Words. June 24, 2002, 07:14 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
The weekly original art I’ve selected is from a series of xerox flyers made in the summer of, um, 1987. In fact, it appears to have been made in June of 1987, when the Korean government first suspended the constitution, and faced massive popular unrest before backing down by June 29th, with the Korean government announcing major democratic reforms in…
DT: KG - NJ blogger comes clean, admits all
(301 Words. June 18, 2002, 07:46 AM, Comments: 7) MORE >>>
In a startling development to the evergreen “Who was Deep Throat” mystery, veteran blogger and beloved trencherman Ken Goldstein, of Jersey City, New Jersey, admitted to this writer in a personal email that he was in fact Deep Throat, the secret inside source that catapulted cub reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Redford to national prominence in the mid-seventies Hal…
Laguna Beach drawing
(50 Words. June 17, 2002, 07:44 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This is the view of the headlands at north end of Laguna Beach, specifically Main Beach; I drew this on May 27th of this year. I believe this opens Vacation Week here at mike.whybark.com, where I’ll try to write about things that I did while we were in Southern California….
Bobblehead 2
(72 Words. June 13, 2002, 04:49 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Uh, I really didn’t mean to spend more time on this. But I did. Nets fans, think of this as a consolation prize. Here’s a way, way too-dark quicktime movie of the object in action. I don’t know why it’s so dark. Maybe the horse I brought in to work on the soundtrack was blocking the light or something. Update:…
Your KG Bobblehead!
(111 Words. June 10, 2002, 04:07 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
Heeere it is! In commemoration of the historic NBA finals of 2002 - your Ken Goldstein of the week! I closely considered having the bobblehead hold his head in shame and fear, reflecting his emotions concerning the performance of his beloved Nets thus far, but in the end declined to do so as a) my subject is of a…
Votre Ken Goldstein du semain
(33 Words. June 04, 2002, 04:04 PM, Comments: 4) MORE >>>
Here, the charming mug of Jersey’s favorite Rutgers grad beams in happy welcome to yours truly in the parking area of JFK. This is the shot on which the cartoon Ken was based….
"Ahau" is "King" in Mayan
(20 Words. June 03, 2002, 07:20 AM, Comments: 1) MORE >>>
Originally executed circa 1991 in sumi brush and ink. Any resemblance to a celebrity is purely coincidental, I assure you….
YOUR Kenneth G. de la semana
(53 Words. May 30, 2002, 12:35 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
This week’s KG features the little guy demonstrating his theory of ancient egyptian hieroglyphic bloggage at the Met. A virtual Otter Pop to the site visitor who first correctly identifies the photoshop spoofing herein employed! I was gonna do a KG bobblehead, but I couldn’t find any decent pix on ebay. Someday, however…….
Still life, part III
(68 Words. May 27, 2002, 01:25 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Here is the completed painting, which I’m giving to my in-laws as an anniversary present. All of the materials in the painting have something to do with their life experiences. You can see a WHOLE lot more of the process of producing this painting in my photo gallery for May 2002. I believe the appropriate sub-albums are entitled “Still…
Blue Underpainting
(28 Words. May 20, 2002, 03:28 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Whoops! Meant to have this up this morning - lost track of time. This is the underpainting for the still life I posted a sketch for last Monday….
A Still Life, part one
(12 Words. May 13, 2002, 07:58 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The charcoal sketch for a painting I’m working on at the moment….
Seattle Pacific Zeppelin Airlines
(117 Words. May 06, 2002, 07:57 AM, Comments: 7) MORE >>>
Shocking news! Recent discoveries indicate that in an alternate timeline, the company which produced the poster above makes money hand over fist over jowl! For a printable PDF, click the image. UPDATE: I’ve realized that I misused the word “Zeppelin” in the poster. Since I depicted the Cargolifter dirigible and not the currently-flying Zeppelin NT I suppose I should…
April 29, 1992
(87 Words. April 29, 2002, 12:37 PM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Ten years ago we watched LA burn. I ran from my first riot, a few dozen people who gathered outside the police station in my neighborhood and chucked a few bottles, shattering a window. Almost everybody splt when the kids with the bottles chucked ‘em. I also drew an Octogon that day. I think it’s kind of fatuous, but it’s…
Chloe on a Blanket
(21 Words. April 29, 2002, 07:22 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
The weekly art: I sketched Chloe in pencil, and then painted in Photoshop. Click to see her at 1100 px wide….
Interview note
(69 Words. April 22, 2002, 05:40 PM, Comments: 2) MORE >>>
This is the temporary set of links for my interview on Tuesday the 23rd at the Olive Way Starbucks. my main resume: www.whybark.com quick-and-dirty portfolio additions: http://pix.whybark.com/gallery/album11 click here for a Starbucks locator map to this store: E. Olive Way 1600 E Olive Wy Seattle, WA 98102 (206) 568-5185 Finally, here’s a recent photo. UPDATE: I think the interview went…
Banjo and Tulips
(22 Words. April 22, 2002, 07:45 AM, Comments: 0) MORE >>>
Let’s see if I can do this every monday, shall we? I think photos don’t count, but don’t quote me on that….
