Weightlifting prismacolor colored pencil power & my Jewish nose. Photo: Angie Mamrot.

Artwork notebook. Each sleeve contains five drawings following the evolution of the illustration (from bottom up): clip-art mock-up, pencil sketch, photocopy inking, photocopy color mock-up, final coloring (in notebook).

Clip art mockup

Pencil sketch (click on image to enlarge)

Inking

Color mockup (click on image to enlarge)

Final illustration (click on image to enlarge)

This is of my first illustrations from In the City. Compair this illustration to the color illustration above, what an improvement! It's probably why I am smiling in the photo below.

This humble "Calf" storyboard for Lite beer was a sublime peak-time moment clarity on how cut and paste color can blow your imagination wide open. Click on the image to enlarge. Check out the third and fourth rows where a giant hand rips a beer can out of the water and spewing foam turns into a loose calf. This is such a bizarre jump in imagination in the hope of selling cheap beer it's "mind plasma!" all the way. Thanks to Alex Mohler, a writer/creative director in advertising, who gave me this storyboard.

I have a love/hate relationship with advertising. Advertising is free, it's juxtaposition of images can create imagination and strip-mall truth. It certainly has helped me, but it also has a dark side. Check out the video below.

John Berger, "This culture is mad!"

Me as a hyper-kinetic goblin of prismacolor colored pencil fun in need of a tummy-tuck. Photo: Angie Mamrot.

The Hindu Priestess Of The Somme

Click on image to enlarge this masterpiece, then study it! Oil painting by my graphic arts hero Robert Williams.

Titles for this painting are:

The Hindu Priestess Of The Somme

Scholastic Designation: Preferring The Semen Of A Russian Gigolo To The French Legion Of Honor Or The German Iron Cross, Mata Hari, The Dutch Hoochie Coochie Dancer, Exercised Her Influence Over Men In High Places Only To Find Her Expertise Of The Kama Sutra No Aid To Her In Front Of A WWI French Firing Squad For Espionage

Remedial Title: A Sideshow Yeast Infection Shared With The Right War Mongers

Robert Williams is amazing, not only for his imagination and graphics style; but also for his poetic skills, knowledege of history, and the interrelation of all these strengths.

>> work in progress <<

outline

Charcoal pencil and marker to pencil and ink to colored pencil upgrade.

Add Alex Moyer advertising storyboard moment of clarity story.

Add photo of advertising storyboard.

Add John Berger Ways of Seeing video as a counterpoint to advertising.

Advertising helped me break through to the next level, but not all is well in advertising land, this is what John Berger has to say about advertising:

OUR CULTURE IS MAD!

Add drawing/writing process.

Sculpting, carving away, chipping, wearing down the shoreline into the shape of my imagination.

Add Poetry text <--> image interrelation. By going back and forth, It creates its own world. Solid, like a house each beam holds the other. Robert Williams, Dennis Leary?

Also represents a shift of creative focus: motion to transforms. Tighter concepts/content info-twist.

Add video? Maybe

Add C.R. Stecyk III, "Billboards vs. Graffiti" ? No!

Add Robert Williams video? No!