The Incomplete Artistic Endeavors of a Gen Xer

Heroes, David Bowie. 11"x14". Pens and Watercolor on Paper. 1998. 1966 Zorba The Greek: Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjZoBD_AzRs I’m Only Sleeping: The Beetles 1967 Green, Green Grass Of Home: Tom Jones 1968 Hey Jude: The Beatles 1969 Oh Darling: The Beatles Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet: Henry Mancini and His Orchestra 1970 The Prettiest Star: David Bowie Raindrops Keep Fallin ' On My Head: B.J. Thomas 1971 Knock Three Times: Tony Orlando and Dawn 1972 I Can See Clearly Now: Johnny Nash (Listed twice on purpose) 1973 Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce I Can See Clearly Now: Johnny Nash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkwJ-g0iJ6w 1974 1975 Love Will Keep Us Together: Captain and Tennille 1976 Sir Duke: Stevie Wonder Don’t Go Breaking My Heart: Elton John and Kiki Dee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIQ-e_6QUt4 1977 Solsbury Hill: Peter Gabriel (hot year) http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/061024/1977s.htm 1978 Love is In the Air: Paul You...

My career as a comic book artist, was well, never really a career. It started with the love of drawing and writing and when I first began making pictures to go with stories, I honestly had no idea what I was doing and this drawing is proof. It is the first image of a storyboard, on poster board, with felt tips and sharpies and maybe crayons. The big spot on the back legs of the character at the bar is a water stain. Little did I know, while having the opportunity to work on this some-how-never-abandoned project this summer, I sketched this same scene. Only later did I realize exactly which scene it was and where it had taken place in the original story. The original story was first a play (finished), a novel (only a few chapters), six pages of my first attempt at comic book pages which were sent to Vertigo who did not reply on the reply card I sent with stamps (I am over it, really). On to a screenplay, only about 30 pages. Then back to the comic book idea,...

I have been making drawings every night, or trying to anyway. Mostly, they get done while on the phone, or before bed if I have watched something totally unpleasant on TV. So out of about 30, this is the only one that I like. Someone commented that it looks like two birds. But it doesn't look like anything to me, that is why I decided to use it as a preliminary drawing for abstract painting. It does have these images of leaves that I am obsessed with in drawings. I often think they look like I am drawing a part of the female body, and I then I get self-conscious about the drawing and I try to make it look like leaves, which is what I think I am doing. I mostly think it’s just a drawing of the olive branch. However, the sketch, is more like a leaf on the top of a blade of grass, which I have never seen in nature, that’s why I chose it for an abstract painting assignment. I spent about 3 class sessions, that’s over 9 hours, experimenting with different materials as suggested by the T...