Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Growing Up

I'm working on a pair of large drawings for an upcoming two person show at Dollop Cafe in Chicago mid -March (dates TBA). I will be showing alongside betsy birkey, see her work here.

In an effort to occupy two large spaces on the back wall of the cafe I wanted to a pair of large drawings using imagery from some smaller drawings that I did last month (photos towards the bottom). I typically don't work large and the original drawings appeared in my mind at a small size. The more images that I came up with on paper the more I started thinking "big". I had been looking at monumental bronzes and related imagery at the time so I guess the larger, life size concepts of heroes at rest started sticking in my brain.
I hope to make more of these. The panels are actually inexpensive luan doors from the local home improvement store. $23 for a painting support... can't beat that.



-in progress-
acrylic on wood panel
30" x 80"
2011


-detail-


These are some samples of the smaller related drawings that led to the above piece...

 6" x 11"
ink on paper
2010-2011

3.75" x 7.5"
acrylic ink on paper
2010-201

3" x 6",
ink on paper
2011

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