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that I write down,
or just these little phrases,
that kind of give me
the figures to have.
I'm so out of your league,
right sport, is one of them.
guitars play rock
When I was in school,
it was like everybody wanted
to be a painter
to wait for paint to dry.
This is a drawing with a lady
wearing squirrels as a coat.
I was playing around with
and has gone somewhat awry.
The thing I like about the color
pencils and the oil pastels
is that it can still get
that quality of light,
I can get sort of these really
nice jewel tones and the reds
and some of the blues.
a day to wait for that to dry.
They're translucent enough
mediums that I can
through, which I really like.
the faces and the skin
and things like that,
because I want you to see
the mechanism of it.
The idea is just how can
I reinforce this sense
that these people aren't real?
They're just sort of these
representations
of what I'm thinking about.
Sometimes I'll start
with a phrase
that I've been kicking around
in my head for a while.
I take that and just
sit down and start drawing.
paper comes in handy,
as refined as this,
kind of starts out as, you know,
the junior high pentagram
that you put
all over your notebook.
middle of working on a drawing
and kind of wondering
what's going to come next,
and then I'll see
something random happen on the
street and I'm like-- that's it!
So I'm just
and seeing what comes of it.
of directions that I'm going in.
There's these trippy
starting to evolve here.
I had been working on
pattern, you know, and that was
or whatever from Kiss.
of trying different things
which one sort of clicks.
Once I get an idea, I kind of
have to run it through
move on to the next thing.
a lot of colored pencil
and a lot of tracing paper
getting from the initial idea
to the finished piece.
I've always worked this way
because it's
a really good way for me
to just kind of piece things
together and move them around
and kind of see what's working
honest evaluation,
and chuck it if I don't like it.
to Minneapolis,
the State Fair Exhibition.
for an afternoon
and I just kind of hung out
by my artwork
would say about it.
That's kind of
a lot of artists talk about is,
from their audience.
I think a lot of people would
like to say that they work
in a vacuum, and it doesn't
affect anything they do,
but it's really something
that I think about
for nobody.
I feel like I have.
One is to like, push myself,
to keep having fun,
because if I'm not having fun
creating what I'm creating,
then it's not really worth doing
and it ends up looking forced.
And I think that people can
really, it's really relatable,
in the studio
what you're doing,
that's going to translate
to your audience.