4.8.15 :: Morning coffee and #coloredpencil #drawing – “World Of My Own Design”
Archive for the ‘mountains’ Tag
BEFORE NOON
Friday, April 10th, 2015UPD8 ON “REFUSE TO SETTLE”
Friday, September 5th, 2014Recently got into a batch of gold paint. $$$ ruh roh
HAVE A GR8 DAY,
APRIL IS TODAYS MONTH
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014Update from BrianLeahyArt HQ: Working on a new painting. Here’s a couple sketches:
Color scheme not final. You can see the wall of windows well here.
TO THE SUMMITTTTTT
The painting is going to be as big as the last one (“Pile Of Ship”) aka 4 x 6′ on wood. The basic idea is a mountain peak with footprints to the summit visible. In the background a sun looms larger than life. But the whole scene is viewed through a wall of randomly stacked windows.
I am experimenting with using tape to block off segments of the painting, leaving clean wood visible. Just finished a trial smaller example of the tape part, seen below.
No worries, it only took 4 hours! Ha! Ha. Ugh.
This one’ll be done in time for my summer residency at the unparalleled most excellent TWIG SALON on Pearl St. here in lovely BOULDER COLORADO. Stay tuned friends!
IN THE BEGINNING
Friday, November 15th, 2013
IN THE BEGINNING WE LIVED OUTSIDE
“He pulled the mirrors off his Cadillac (yeah) / ’cause he doesn’t like it looking like he looks back” – Tame Impala, ‘Elephant’
Acrylic on wood, 40 x 60″. July – September 2013
NEW PAINTING
Friday, June 28th, 2013Started another painting on wood, about 5′ tall and 3.5′ wide. As of now it is called “In The Beginning We Lived Outside”. Check out that grain pattern. Danggg son. $12/sheet plywood at Home Depot…It may not be suitable for building anything, but it looks cool when you paint on it.
The title was inspired by a lyric from musical mastermind Valeska Gavotte‘s forthcoming release, Songs for Sinfonietta, which I am very excited to be designing the album art for. It’s shaping up to be pretty spooky and dark so far. Borderline metal. Br00tal.
FYI, FTW
Monday, June 24th, 2013
Things new and old:
Swamp of dead trees…brutal
Beginning of my newest painting. Spoiler alert…it has mountains and trees in it
This is a vague idea of what the new painting will look like, the bottom being the foreground and the top being the…anti-foreground
The foliage is made of card symbols. These colors make it look like sugary cereal
Sketch for a commission I’m working on. It’s a diptych inspired by that feeling I get when I drive through suburbia, surrounded by malls, chain restaurants and selfish, useless over-maintained lawns. Uneasy. Displaced. Worried about the future. Sad and lost. I want it to make the viewer feel like vomiting, yet still be like, ‘that’s a cool painting’. Tricky
Making paper mache dinosaurs with a person really teaches you about the core of their character
I made a stegosaurus with a sun on its side. f$#%ing hippies
The ol’ stood has been pretty full lately
The painting on the bottom right is called “I’d Rather…”
This symbol is how I sign my work. It goes back to some of my oldest doodles, when I used to draw nothing but stacks of cubes. I think I learned how to draw them from the show ‘Imagination Station’, that awesome show on PBS that taught kids how to draw all kinds of cool stuff, along with basic concepts like utilizing 3 dimensions. Thanks Mark
It’s been done. Joe.
Mini tree discussion
‘No Good Oxygen User’ progress
My bamboo bush thing is the only plant I’ve ever managed to not kill
“Headless Ghost Gives The Thumbs Up”
Me at the beach
CHINACAT GENERATOR
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
ATTENTION
YOU ARE APPROACHING GLEN CANYON
DAM SITE ALL BOATS MUST LEAVE
RIVER AT KANE CREEK LANDING ONE
MILE AHEAD ON RIGHT ABSOLUTELY
NO BOATS ALLOWED IN
CONSTRUCTION ZONE
VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED
U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Faber Castell markers, pens and found mirror on bristol board. 19 x 24″.
Prints and more are available for sale here.
