Busy Table -- sketch / mixed media by douglas brent smith
Showing posts with label mixed media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mixed media. Show all posts
Face In The Crowd
Face In The Crowd - pen and marker drawing by douglas brent smith, 1989
At the buttom of the drawing you can see the effect of water on the paper. I feel lucky that my journals weren't more severely damaged or even burned completely up in the fire at Elm Street. I spent hours afterwards drying them out in the sun on a trampoline, carefully turning page by page and giving each page some drying time. This is from journal #26. I was up to journal #41 at the time. Fortunately, not all of them were drenched.
Mineral Wealth
Mineral Wealth - River Gold - drawing by douglas brent smith, 1989
This is an imaginary (so far) record album cover, drawn back when album covers still mattered, when they still helped to sell recordings, when they represented additional enjoyment for the music.
I never had a band named Mineral Wealth, but I think it's a great name for a band and the name of the album, "River Gold" makes it seem like a greatest hits collection. Imagine that. Greatest Hits albums were far more important in 1989 than they are at the moment when streaming one song at a time is much more common. In a way, it's all one continuous "greatest hits" parade.
The colors in this sketch were effected by water damage to the journal that occurred during the fire on Elm Street in 2008. A lot more than this whimsical picture was harmed in that fire.
- dbS -
Egg On A Walk At Koranda Palace
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The People We Met At The Drive-In
The People We Met At The Drive-In -- mixed media sketch by douglas brent smith, 1983
Still Life with Cheese
Still Life with Cheese - mixed media sketch/collage by douglas brent smith, 1979
Scratch
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.
Collage: Propitious Awakenings
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collage: Propitious Awakenings (c) 2016 douglas brent smith
Collage: Hold Two Choices
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If you can hold two choices in tension long enough a third choice may emerge. And let's face it, there are always more than two choices...
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collage: hold two choices (c) 2016 douglas brent smith
Collage: A Penny for Your Cactus
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collage: a penny for your cactus (c) 2016 douglas brent smith
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