Tag Archives: anti-war painting

03/20/11

War Monster

Tank Monster is now “War Monster”. It still eats babies, but it looks a bit different. It took a while to finish because I had to draw the babies with a marker (it’s a very small painting) and it was hard to find archival ink in a small pen point. I finally found a .005″ archival ink pen at Crafts Direct, and before I finished using it my dog chewed it half up (eating ink in the process). But I was able to finish it after taping up the pen and voila, War Monster. I’m not adding it to the usual places, but instead, it will go to AntiwarArtists.com.

03/10/11

Afghan Girl

I am drawn to photographs of children that are survivors of the wars the U.S. is engaged in, especially girls. This is an image made by a photographer I found online, a man traveling through Afghanistan, not a soldier and not a news person. Maybe for that reason the girl does not look at all guarded. He found her in the countryside, in a very rural area in Afghanistan. I’m about half done with this one, maybe less. So far, it’s acrylic, on a watercolor on paper background.

When it’s finished, I’ll put the finished version here as well as on Leitworks.com.

Meanwhile, I’m loving my new Pentax K-r camera! I wish I could take photos all day long now that I have it. Honestly, they are not paying me to say that. I’m just thrilled I finally have a good camera after years of dinky point and shoots (not that you can’t get a great point and shoot camera). I like all the manual controls a DSLR has and I could see becoming serious about photography with this camera. I just wish I’d had it when I went to Costa Rica last November. Instead, I was taking most of my photos with a little pocket sized Kodak.

Below is a sample of one of the photos I took today with the Pentax, of an older painting. It’s of my grandmother as a 15-year-old girl. This painting won an award in a local art show, and it looks pretty great even as a quality-reduced photo for the web.
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02/24/11

Tank Monster

This is an antiwar painting (haven’t done one in a while) with a monster that will soon be eating children. After all, that’s what war does. The trick is to make sure the monster doesn’t devolve into a cartoonish appearance.  I’m working on it later tonight, along with a watercolor/acrylic of an Afghanistan girl.  Here is “Tank Monster” so far.  It’s not nearly this colorful yet, and probably won’t be when I’m finished.