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Go West and Grow Up With the Country

alidasun — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:27:29 +0000

On the walkabout.

I go West (not saying how far or how little, it’s all relative in this especially Eurocentric world) when it becomes absolutely necessary to ravel these things and not die.

Hard, funny work.

Last time I shlepped coffee on the side and under the table at college students and Hell’s Angels.

Solo Mission

alidasun — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:10:19 +0000

Bye bye, my friends.

I will continue to update, so you will be able to know if I’m alive.

Capoeira in Turks Head Square

alidasun — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:50:49 +0000

Always get to know a place best right before I leave.

Circa XX

alidasun — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:44:11 +0000

Coming soon.

Prospect Park Gouache Study

alidasun — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:58:49 +0000

Painting en plein air is funny when you’re working in gouache.

Done on illustration board in throes of sentiment and nostalgia about school, the city and the 1870s.

Humdrum, but it goes to show that not every 2D thing I make is twisted and stabbity.

The park was empty except for these two women who ended up sitting still long enough for me to work them into the scene. The presence of more than one figure saves the study from complete boredom, so thank you kindly, strange ladies.

Exploration

alidasun — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:46:21 +0000

Bad scan job of ballpoint exercise on a part of an old roll of nondescript paper.

I was not born for one corner of the world: I was a foundling in a public transport hub, I crossed oceans before I can remember, I have moved more times than I can count and I will probably die in transit.

Yellow Skull

alidasun — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:09:45 +0000

Cray-pas on construction paper. This and that I drew before foster care, as opposed to after

Blue Skull

alidasun — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:07:12 +0000

Cray-pas on construction paper.

Skulls

alidasun — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:10:35 +0000

Pencil on bond paper, at least I think it was bond.

I promise the results of this won’t be this dark, bony and messy.

What’s your favorite animal and/or plant?
No humans or characters, please and thank you. Fantastic beasts are fine, though.

Lost in London

alidasun — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:12:32 +0000

LOST SKETCHBOOK: Red, passport-sized, Muji made.

LAST SEEN: London Borough of Hammersmith, the boot of an illegal cab. My idiot dude companion at the time signaled the cab, left my overnight bag there and then waved the driver off, making the whole thing impossible to trace.

CONTAINS: Recorded scenes of Miffy’s 50th birthday at the National Library of Scotland, epigrams on simplicity from Dick Bruna. Selected paraphernalia from Pixar’s exclusive exhibit 20 Years of Animation, again in Scotland. Chummy London Bobby’s exposition of English football fans concussing each other with newspapers and slitting faces with credit cards. Carnaby Street style sketches in ballpoint and Pantone marker. More fully realized drawings of the Red Dragon of Wales, same medium. A couple nightmares about exorcism. Cartoons of two unbelievably fat Welsh sheep in pencil.

(These days I do most sketching on loose brown paper – that archway drawn from memory is in Edinburgh, not London.)