park sketches

more new stuff

I wanted to post theese 2 because they were so happy and it was so fun to draw and hangout.  

I could have done a lot more with theese 2 great faces but I just wanted to post it because I found out later that they are famous X-games dudes.   I finally drew someone famous!!
he was a chemist
this is my typical beach babe, popeye, drawing.  I just wanted to post one because I draw it so often.  

new park sketches

This dude was really fun to draw.   Sometimes its so forced.   this was natural.   there is an attitude I have been seeing where some of the artists don't think the people like goofy faces of themselves.   Theese 2 loved it.
This guy here below is one of the great first year artists and a great all around artist.   Look out for him, he's loaded with talent. 
Who's this hot young number?  Awwuu yeea.   I'm made her stupid looking,  thats ok,   she's got it coming to her. :)
This guy is in art school or something like that and wants to be a caricature artist.   I gave him Kamans number and told him about how great it is.    We had a good time talking, he knew who Court Jones is and a lot of artists that I think are heros.  

my business card

I think this kind of crap is funny.   I need a business card because sometimes people ask me for one when they hear I do caricatures or when I'm drawing a caricature of them.     People also often hand me there business card.   What the hell am I ganna do with it?   ..  Ha ha!  Here is a great way for me to have a business card and recycle other peoples cards.   This is great.  It really gives me a laugh making them.    There is even a blank place at the bottom for my phone number because I'm always going around still.   This is only the first one I made so it has some mistakes on it.  I plan on making a few other stampers to and I now that I know how to do it better, I won't mess it up and the next will be even more beautiful.  I feel positive about the future.  This is a legend in the making. 

Fashion

Here's some thoughts on fashion I got after reading some of "The Philosophy of Fashion" by Lars Svenson.  (I hope I got his name right)     I didn't finish the book.  It's in Norway.  I will try to come across it again.    I was inspired to read it from a conversation had where one of my friends was defending the idea that it is ok to by a 1000 dollar purse.   I don't think it is.  

  

        "There is a natural inclination of man to compare his behavior to that of a more important person.  (a child compares itself to grown ups, or you to your favorite author, rockstar, celeb, etc.) in order to imitate that other persons ways."    -Kant-

       When the only reason for it is to not appear less important, then it is fashion that I don't like.    Like a lower class person trying to look like they are a higher class.   

      There are 2 opperative principles here     1. Differentiation   from others in your class (which I think is not so bad and can be individual expression/can be art)   and    2. Imitation  of the class above.  (this I don't like at all.  It's where the purchasing of symbols comes into play, and the concept of conspicuous waste or conspicuous consumption.)   Any person engaged in this is a materialist and I find that so boring. 

        This person will confuse economic and aesthetic worth. 

        It's the need to conform vs. the need to express individuality. 

Hippies

Hippies aren't just more fun, they are also more fun to draw.      

Caricatures

Here is some caricatures I did at work.   Some of my fellow artists and some regular stuff that I do everyday.  

 this one below is without a foamy.   they don't use foamies here.   I think it makes the thing look like crap. 

by by Norway

Here's a picture I made for Matz before I left.   I didn't put everybody in there.   So whoever isn't in the picture it is either because I didn't draw you earlier or didn't have room or time to draw you in.   I think of this one as a prototype and I will do a much better one later and present it to Matz.   

     I'm thinking about everybody there and I miss Norway and everybody there a lot.   In Drobak and in Norway there are some of the best people I have ever met.   Great hospitality, great friends.   I look forward to when I can visit again.     Thanks for everything.

Coming Back !!!

t.v. stinks, meaning in life, and back in the new world

I was just sitting here reading an article in "Everything you know is wrong" (go get it and read it now and then make some appropriate life style changes, please)>   The article was "Toxic TV syndrome".     Here's an excerpt. 

        "If you reduced all of history"s best advice on living well to two fridge-magnet-worthy goals, they would probably be 1) pursue excellence or 2) pursue balance.   In other words, either drill down - work with obsessive focus in one area, try to create something new and valuable and lasting; or go wide - learn to surf of meditate, read good books, tend a garden, raise a kid or two, try to be neighborly.  You know, all the stuff that makes life worth the price if you job itself isn't all that fulfilling."

           Pretty good stuff,  and it says a lot more about t.v. and culture and its bad effects and the epidemic of depression in our culture and the possibility of our entire culture being just  toxic.   

             Any way, I'm back here in the U.S. to focus in one area.  I'm drawing 8 hours a day at work and then I come home and draw.    What I was doing before was going wide.   Now I do feel very passionately about drawing, its one of the few things that can keep me settled down and have me look past allot of things that are against my ideals. . ie.  submitting to corporate ideals of dress that are in place to rid one of identity, take a drug test that is an illegal search and a direct violation of the 4th amendment, live in the u.s. again where people and communities are isolated from each other and cars are necessary to get around, I will also be paying taxes to a system that i disagree with, that threatens life on the planet with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, and i will even have a bank account where rich people can use my money to get richer.   

           I mention this because when I was back in Missouri last summer I had a conversation with a friend who thought that I had no purpose in life and that it was a bit depressing, thus once again proving that often the people that you think are weird are thinking the exact same thing about you.    I was not able to find any sense of purpose in people working at jobs that one cannot possibly have any passion for and that support unnecessary invented goals, while amassing more stuff and popping out babies.   It seemed so much like everyone was just doing what came next because that's what your suppose to do.  I cant understand there choices of how to live there one and only life.    I also can't understand how they don't see a sense of purpose in my life.  For me there is a natural connection between the traveling, activism, visiting and participating in social experiments in living and sustainability, and art, that they can't see.   Maybe the first paragraph clarified a little.   I will explain more later.  

           oh, well,    I'm back in the New World.. and for real this time.  I actually live minuets away from Jamestown and Williamsburg.   I'm drawing the tourists and trying to save money for art school...and if that doesn't work, action and adventure.    And I'm happy to say that the price in gas increase has caused lifestyle changes.   There is talk of a 4 day work week, the people I live with have moved much closer to the work, and they want to get mopeds.  This is all using less.   It's still america and very wasteful and using way to much energy, but there is some improvements.   I'm very optimistic for the future and the change coming to this country,  it is a little to slow for my lifestyle choices but it will come for the masses sometime soon.  

hari krishna

this guy was with his wife and kid but they took off. nobody pays or poses for me anymore. boo hoo. poor me. i miss the amusement park. but really im still having fun
i cannot believe how creepy i drew her. and shes cool. she laughed and hung it up in her apartment when we got there. i thought she would smack me nad not like it. thats a fish eye lens on her camera
this last one here is the guy who started the hari krishna movement in the u.s. i have a great idea for a big painting of him. i think my deal is ganna be caricatures of semi famious people who nobody cares about but me ....well, and i guess this guy does have lots of freeky followers to. they make good vegetarian food

sculpy sculptures

damn. it came out sideways. im a monkey on a computer
this is some sculpy stuff i made. its some of the first stuff ive made besides jewelry things with sculpy. the goal is to get to make some coool caricatures with it later.

mark twain

this one is Mark Twain if you cant tell already. hes the best writer from Missouri where im from.... and one of the best in the world if you know whats good fer ya!

this is the first time a left a face completely white. because he was a bit pale. and i drew his zits. see, im trying to get some more balls here with this drawing stuff

siri. super smart and pretty, she thought this one was to depressed looking.. but i think thats kind of funny to. ?

कारिकातुरेस ऑफ़ जिम मोर्रिसों, रवि एंड सोम फ्रिएंड्स

this red haired guy is Ravi og dj lov. hes a music guy here in norway


here is jim morrison





theese are a couple of guys from idas photo school. i think they look ok. but still i have lots to learn and this one hunchback with the bell is to portraity and not enough caricature.


this is chalote. she loved it. and it looks redicilious

theese aren' t even caricatures. this is a guy who is to aware and enlightened.

and this other picture here is a little bit of my take on religion and even society all together. get out while you still can. and as soon as you can

theese are pretty simple. i was partying that night. i think that hand/eye coordination is one of the first things to go with that. i cant drink and draw

more about florida

I just wanted to say that i was crabby the day i wrote that big load of crap about Florida later int this blog. Not that there isn't some truth in it but really i had a great time over all. In fact, i miss it and i learned a lot and met some great people. sometimes i think i need that kind of environment with lots of people and the drawing and entertaining others to be content. I'm ganna try to get into a park again to draw for sure. hopefully sooner then later i will be drawing tons of people all the time.
oh. i also didn't mention that its just bizarre how many religious people there are back in the u.s. I swear, its like going back to medieval Europe or something. But for all its problems , i miss and love it back in America. ...i just hope they don't burn me for being a heathen.
and i still cant post photos correctly. im like a cave man with this stuff.
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