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08-Aug-2005
Superman, 1986
So I’ve posted The Flash, and also Batman & Robin. So here’s Superman now. You know, there’s a new Superman movie that’ll be out next year. Check Blue Tights dot net for more info. It may even be good. And I’m sure you know about Smallville, a show that were I younger I think I...
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08-Aug-2005
Perspective Study; My Room, 1983
This, one of my first ever studies in perspective, was for the same high school drawing class as this. It shows my room, or at least a simplified version of my room. At the time my parents, sister and I were living with my grandparents and I lived out on the patio. This included my...
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06-Aug-2005
Lil’ Johnny Crivello, 1983
Leahpeah: Who’s that? Me: John Crivello. LP: Who’s John Crivello? Me: A guy I sat next to in a drawing class. LP: He’s got crazy hair. Me: Yeah. LP: Was this the exercise where you don’t take your pencil off the paper? Me: And not look at the paper. LP: How old were you? Me:...
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05-Aug-2005
Congratulations Mom, 1977
Ending the week on a sweet note. I have one sister, Kelly. I was 7 when she was born. She rocks. And my Mom rocks too. This drawing just plain made me smile for various reasons, not the least of which I’m gonna get to see my parents and sister this month, and I’m looking...
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05-Aug-2005
Spacesuit Headlight, 1987
I added some tinting to alter the colors a bit. The original is very faint and I think the paper was not acid-free and has darkened a bit. Plus it’s in pencil. For all I talk about not doing much pencil, I sure seem to be posting a lot of pencil stuff. Once again the...
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05-Aug-2005
Squinty Big Hair Girl, 1988 & 2005
Sometimes what I come across in my pile of drawings is a fragment, like this. I like the boldness of the line, the feel of the line (gotten from a heavy inked brush on a nicely textured watercolor paper). I dig it and it reminds me of a retro-1950’s style as seen in things like...
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04-Aug-2005
Bronchoscope, 1993
In color! (I carried around a set of colored pens and drew this one in a travel scrapbook that is mostly filled with memories of a Europe trip I took with my parents and sister). At UVa I was one of the Respiratory Therapists on the bronchoscopy team. Basically we assisted on bronchoscopies for patients...
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04-Aug-2005
Strange Idol, 1990
In pencil. Quasi Mayan or Aztec, but I suppose it could be North American Indian / Native American. What inspired me to make it I have no idea, probably the idea was to make something in the style of totem poles. The result is interesting to me now for how out of place it seems...
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04-Aug-2005
Artist, 1988
I always seemed to be drawing this guy. Longish hair with a curl at the end, mustache, and a beret. The iconic artist. If I posted one artist drawing a day from my files I could probably go 3 months with just pictures of this guy in particular. I was always doodling him. Huh, that...
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04-Aug-2005
Twenty Years From Now Book, Joe Crawford, Age 8, 1978
100’s and 1000’s of dollars. Note: at the time my Dad was a Physician’s Assistant, a PA, not a Doctor. That’s a distinction that my 8 year old self could not make. Wears white coat? Helps people? Works in hospital? = Doctor. Here’s the text: By: Joe Crawford I want to be a doctor because...
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03-Aug-2005
Andy Warhol (2), 1988
I said before I’d post the Andy Warhol images I had. As far as I know this one and the last one are the only ones I have. Andy was a hero, and I remember crying when he died. It’s strange. I have not cried for many deaths of famous people. I cried when Stanley...
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03-Aug-2005
Andy Warhol (1), 1988
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03-Aug-2005
Autobiographical Mise en Scene, 1983
Over on my flickr account, I just posted a very old image from when I was 13 years old. I’m calling it an “Autobiographical Mise en Scene,” though I don’t think that at age 13 I would use a term like “mise en scene” — but if I knew it I bet I’d try. At...
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03-Aug-2005
Self: Art Crawford, 1988
Look at me. I look a bit hapless, which is how I felt at the time. This is more-or-less a retracing of a previous self-portrait, but with a longer haircut, and is that a soul patch? Goodness me. And I was going by “Art,” hacking on my identity and using my middle name instead of...
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02-Aug-2005
Mr. Roth Caricature, 1987
Mr. J.C. Roth taught high school physics at Uni High — USDHS — University of San Diego High School. I have no idea what years he taught there, but he was a great teacher who I totally underappreciated. I got semi-famous at school for this caricature, perhaps my best caricature ever. Roth had a wonderful...
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02-Aug-2005
Blade Runner Man, 1990; The Art Center Trip 1986ish
Blade Runner is one of my favoritest movies EVAR (as the kids would say). I believe I’ve talked about my liking of cyberpunk things before, and Blade Runner is definitely in that category. When Blade Runner was rereleased in 1992 in the Director’s Cut (with the lost narration and the not-The Shining ending) I drove...
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29-Jul-2005
Snoopy the Red Baron, 1975
I’m 5 years old and I loved Snoopy. My mother worked in an academic library when I was even younger than that, and when I would visit her library I would go find the Peanuts Treasury. And I would read and read. And Snoopy was my favorite. I like very much the variation of the...
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28-Jul-2005
Polka Dot Big Hair Girl, 1987
Quick and dirty. The texture is an experiment of ink dabs onto a wash of water. Tinted in PhotoShop.
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28-Jul-2005
Alien Astronaut, 1988
Nice design, not great in terms of color. This “Alien Astronaut” piece is kind of fun.
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28-Jul-2005
Demon Teen, 1986
Made with the same marker as Girl With Flower Top, a nonetheless much darker image. Menacing, scary, aggressive. I wonder what would have happened if I could have gotten the melancholy and the aggression to work together. Then again, maybe I did. I did a lot of drawings of vampires when I was in my...
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28-Jul-2005
Girl with Flower Top, 1986, 2005
I’ve always liked this drawing of mine, by my 16-year-old self. Just a marker on paper if I remember correctly. It’s definitely a drawing that was made with the aesthetic of “do it fast and do it now” — I think I may have been sad at the time given the melancholy of the pose....
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27-Jul-2005
Winged and Saddled Creature, 1986
Another in a fantasy vein, but there’s a definite techno slant to the rider. Interesting, “fuzzy lined” piece. It’s sort of the opposite of what I was saying about wanting that precise line. The shaggy line affords a rendering that builds up with individual lines. Is that pointillism? I suppose it is.
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27-Jul-2005
Dragon, 1989
This is a bit more polished. Notice the careful cross-hatching on the body of the dragon. There’s a literalness to this rendering that I quite like. I mentioned before that I never was much for sword and sorcery stuff., but dragons are fun to draw. The Wikipedia article for Dragon has some silly stuff in...
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26-Jul-2005
Larry “Bud” Melman IS Roy Orbison, 1987
Along the same lines as Dave’s Alarmed Look, this is Calvert Deforest as Larry “Bud” Mellman (sic) as Roy Orbison. Larry “Bud” is great. This is another quickie. So silly. Absurdist is absolutely the right word for the show that was Late Night with David Letterman. Please remember that this blog is only an exhibition,...
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