Weird people are to life what scent is to flowers.Here is the new video created with the help of some friends. Thank you to those that provided helpful feedback and assistance in the creation of this video.
Lasting Providence End from Doug Forbes on Vimeo.
Look for the next time-lapse video painting here on NotAsPretty.com
Foot in the Door 4
If you have been following my work for awhile now, then you know that I have a tradition to make a Valentine. In my way, of course. The following links are the previous years Valentines. Happy Heart Day, my friends.
Ink on Bristol, colored in Photoshop.
This weeks fan art brought to you by the fail sega system. I introduce the one and only, sad sidekick that always kept up; Mr. Tails (from Sonic the Hedge Hog).
Was Sonic the Hedge Hog that quality of a game, though? I mean let’s be honest; Super Mario, Zelda, and Punch Out were time well spent in comparison.
But I am sure that there are still some die-hard Sega fans out there; still betting on this horse and holding their breath for the next time Nintendo will throw Sonic a bone and introduce him as a secret character on a upcoming game.
(Yeah, it happened. Do you think lightning strikes twice in the same spot?)
So sad watching celebrities fall.
And think, what came of Tails? Did he start a successful crack habit to forget Sonic’s abandonment? Maybe he is turning tricks–two tail for the price of one–somewhere on the sunset strip?
No, I think Tails had always been a survivor and a believer. I say he probably found a job to get by and waits for Sonic to give him a call, faith untarnished. I think, he still thinks there is a future. He will most likely start a family and one day bring his son out into the field to show him how to fly, like dad once did. At this time he will tell his son of the past adventures, the fame, and the reason why he tail practices still because he misses it all. And his child will convince him that he has the potential to start again. And that he never needed Sonic. And the child’s statement will ring with truth. And Tails will set out to start a new adventure game.
But that night, on the way back home, he’ll get hit by a truck and die suddenly.
And Tail’s son will be wrecked by the idea that his father’s sudden death was only coincidence, which he can not accept. So he creates a new religion to convince himself that death is predestined and there is a plan. He renames himself Tails the Savior, demonizes Sonic, and sets Nintendo as the institution of Hell. He grows extremely rich by donations to his church from those desperate looking for answers.
Tails the Savior’s faithful are mostly past Sega fans.
The fans come and go. It is the side kicks that will do anything to make you look good in hopes to share a little of the spot light.
This is my contribution to the Foot in the Door 4 show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Charlie and I decided to add something to the show and in the spirit of the show–just being for fun, for the community, and to gather artwork together without any judges, panels, or applications (just with in a foot square)–I decided to try a couple of applications and techniques that I hadn’t in the past; gold leaf and resin.
Of course, I purchased the faux gold leaf rather then the real stuff. The real stuff tends to be on the expensive side.
Gold leaf is putsy and annoying. The leaf was thin and wispy and hard to manage. It was the glue provided that didn’t like. The glue was too watery and runs past the area I originally applied to, when putting the leaf on top of it. Kind of like jelly spilling over the side when putting the bread on top to finish a sandwich.
In the end it worked out. I think it is going to take a bit of more trial and error to get used to the gold leaf. Maybe I’ll try effectiveness of some other glues.
I was fortunate to have the tutelage of Charlie in the application of resin. He has been using resin on his art for awhile now.
And it all would have gone smoothly, if I hadn’t caught the painting with my sleeve, when walking past it, a couple of hours into it drying.
The painting with tacky resin flipped, landed on its face, onto some news paper.
Fuck.
I managed to peal most of the paper off. But couldn’t get it all off. I burned the remaining and poured another layer of resin over it.
Charlie said he liked it better with the burned paper, but I think he was just being nice.
Ah well, live and learn.
Be sure to join me and Charlie on February 18 at the MIA for the opening reception of the Foot in the Door 4 show.
Artist: Doug Forbes
Charun: His name was imported from Greek Charon, although it is uncertain whether Etruscans had a native name for a god of the underworld before this. As suggested by alternations in the Etruscan language such as θu “one” changing to θunśna “first”, lev “lion” (from Greek leōn) and Apulu (from Greek Apóllōn), words ending in -n after u were disappearing from the language which is why we see his name spelled Хarun and later Хaru. The Etruscan Charun was fundamentally different from his Greek counterpart. Guarding the entry to the underworld he is depicted with a hammer, his religious symbol, and is shown with pointed ears, snakes around his arms, and a blueish coloration symbolizing the decay of death. In some images he has enormous wings. He is also depicted as a large creature with snake-like hair, a vulture’s hooked-nose, large tusks like a boar , heavy brow ridges, large lips, fiery eyes, pointed ears a black beard, enormous wings, discolored (pale cream, bluish or greyish) skin, and snakes around his arm.
sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charun
Demoniacal Project: The idea behind the Demoniacal Project is a simple one; have the talented poet/writer Tom Lewis create a description and poem of an obscure demon and then collect a bunch of visual artists to find inspiration in the text to illustrate how the demon may look. Subscribe to NotAsPretty blog and look for the Demonical project every second Monday of the month.
