~ A CHARACTER STUDY ~

Old men's faces fascinate me, probably because I own one. I borrowed this guy from a photograph and he reminds me of one that Leonardo did a study of.....you probably have seen that one. I did this drawing in Corel Painter IX using their pencil tool with slight conte tints. Let me know if you do or don't like it..........

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~ A VALENTINE'S DAY DRAWING ~

Maybe it was because of the Dali posting below or maybe it was because I've been sick with the flu all week......but here is my attempt at a Valentine's drawing..........


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- MR. DALI -

I wanted to share this video with you from You Tube. It's one of the best that I've seen on Salvadore Dali. I saw of book of his work in the Glendale, California library when I was very young. Later in 1977 when I was working on a Bette Davis film in Mentor, Ohio, I met an artist Louis Pennfield who asked me if I'd seen the Dali Museum. Turned out that it was a collection of Dali's work that was in a factory in Willoughby, Ohio, just 30 minutes or so from Mentor. A wealthy factory owner had managed to get over 200 of Dali's best paintings and kept them in a special climate controlled, and very large gallery. It was open by appointment only and we arranged to go there. It was a great opportunity to see the paintings that I had only seen in books. A very nice memory. Later on I heard that the factory owner had a falling out with Dali and sold the entire collection, which ended up in Florida.
Louis and I ended up having a two man art show at Lakeland College a year later. Check out Dali's video below. He was one of a kind.

MORE ZAZZLEMANIA!

Since I obviously haven't been posting "a drawing per day"......it's because I've been designing five products per day for my new Zazzle store called "Java_Mod". It's basically different kinds of cups and mugs with "Art" on them. Here's what some of them look like. Again, I've been having way too much fun.......darnit!


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