douglas brent smith

Study for Another Planet - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1978  

  Study for Act 3 - sketch, douglas brent smith

  Still Life with Cheese - mixed media sketch/collage by douglas brent smith, 1979

  Stage Setting: En Garde. sketch by douglas brent smith

  Sporting Life in Collageland - collage by douglas brent smith

 Sneegitz-mobile -- sketch by douglas brent smith

  When It Was - sketch by douglas brent smith

 Burst - mixed media sketch - douglas brent smith, 1979

 Secret Powers - collage by douglas brent smith, 1979

Second Thoughts - sketch by douglas brent smith Notes: What do you see the first time you look at this? What do you see if you think about it? Does it change if you think about it more? What do you think I was trying to draw? Sometimes an artist draws something and does not even see it until later. It can change in time. It's not much of a drawing, really, and I have second thoughts about posting it. But, there it is.

  Scratch - collage / mixed media by douglas brent smith, 1979 Notes: Even when I created this I knew that the actual smell part of the scratch and sniff would not last forever. It might have, but I haven't had the heart to test it. What if by testing it I use up the smell? What if by testing it my negative assumptions are affirmed? So, maybe it smells, and maybe it doesn't. What do you think? As simple as this is as a collage -- only one cutting pasted and a little drawing, I do still like it.

Rebuff Enough - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980  

  Prospects Flying First Class - collage by douglas brent smith, 1981

 Profitless - collage by douglas brent smith

  Mumm's The Word- collage by douglas brent smith Where did he go wrong?  Was it climbing that cliff? Was it taking that picture? Was it his involvement with that mysterious woman who worked for the government? Mumm's the word.

  Moisture Absorbing Grip - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980-81 Notes: This collage, part of the Collageland series, is an echo of Deconstructing Kit, and that's me getting deconstructed. Pull yourself together, Doug. That's a tennis racket in a glass of water -- a situation I do not recommend unless you want to get stuff wet and maybe break a perfectly fine glass. Unless that glass is made of plexiglass.

  Machine Work - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980-81 Note: As a part-time security guard, I sometimes would read books to pass the time. One night my job required me to guard and observe a location from my car -- a black 1966 Volkswagen beetle. It was night, so I brought a kerosene lantern to read by. It was almost like camping out, as long as I kept watch on the construction site and reported anything out of the unusual. Nothing was out of the unusual. That has nothing to do with this collage, except for the one line on John Updike. Run, Rabbit, Run.

Instant Pictures - collage by douglas brent smith  

 Garpers Mingling in Collageland - collage by douglas brent smith

Fully Vented In Collageland - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980  

 Escape to That Horizon - collage by douglas brent smith

  Deconstructing Kit - collage by douglas brent smith

 A Scream At The Door - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1981. From Journal #16, on the cutting edge, 1980-1981.

Light From Afar - sketch by douglas brent smith, February 1981. From Journal #16, on the cutting edge, 1980-1981 (which, as evidenced in this drawing, has water damage through-out).

  Stage Crew - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980 From journal #16, on the cutting edge, 1980. This appears to be a set design, possibly for The Great Brain Robbery, but I'm not certain since at the time I had been in rehearsal for and developing "en grade" at the Playwright's Center on Kinzie Street in Chicago. It did not get any farther than a staged reading, which was impacted by a massive snow storm so our audience was only four or five people.  This could also be just a random drawing. It is smeared from water damage caused by the fire on Elm Street at Dorinda's rented home in Lewisville, CO in 2008. 

  Dadamax In Collageland - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980 From Journal #15 eccentric nods, 1980

  Covering History - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980 From Journal #15, eccentric nods

  Cold Hard Cash - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980 from journal #15, eccentric nods, 1980.

 Colorful as Your Lips - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980

  After All These Years - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980

  A Great Man Admits His Mistakes - collage by douglas brent smith, 1980 Cut paper, glue, pen.

  Barely Beyond Infancy in Collageland - collage by douglas bernt smith, 1980

  Prescription for Change - college by douglas brent smith, 1979

  Positively American - sketch by douglas brent smith

  One Rather Large Spaceship - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980 One Rather Large Spaceship - x-ray mix - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980

  New Decade - sketch by douglas brent smith, 1980

 Lost Novelist in Collageland - 1980 - collage by douglas brent smith Notes: This is part of a series of collages that were assembled on consecutive pages in Journal #15, eccentric nods, 1979 - 1980. While I do sometimes use "found" text in my collages, the text here is original, if incoherent. I knew that the transparent tape would yellow with age and I was looking forward to it. There it is, aging as planned.

 Long Term Illustration - mixed media / collage by douglas brent smith, 1980

  Let's Take A Closer Look, 1979, collage by douglas brent smith

  Lemon Freshened Reality Test, 1979, collage by douglas brent smith

  Just Before Sunrise - collage by douglas brent smith

 Interior Design for Big Big Meals - collage by douglas brent smith, 1979