For my VIRTUCATION ILLUSTRATION trip, I go to Paris. First thing I’d do is call my friend, Jean Christophe-Defline. He is basically mayor of the city, at least he seems to be. We’d meet at Le Consulat cafe in Montmartre. Both of us would sit together for a few hours sketching the joint. Basically the conversation Jean and I usually have goes something like this; “you are such an amazing guy.” “No, YOU are an amazing guy.” “But you are such a brilliant artist. “No YOU are an even more brilliant artist.” “Look at your clothes, you’re so elegant.” “Me? You should be in the pages of L’Uomo Vogue.” “You’re a genius” “No way, you’re the genius.” This behavior goes on and on endlessly but we love doing it. Also, that’s the reason I’m sitting virtually in Paris drinking a Ricard and water after having spent 5 hours drawing the adorable little cafe with Defline. A true bromance.
Pilot
I have not been on a plane in a year and I don’t see myself flying anytime soon. So I am going to take a vacation to a foreign country virtually. I always draw on the streets of cities I travel to. Next week I will post some VIRTUCATION ILLUSTRATIONS. It’s my new creation. Starting Monday I will post my drawings that I’ve done pretending that I’m living it up on a pretend trip to Europe.
Climate Change
Rumor has it that climate change is being put back on the menu.
Anne Atomy
Due to Covid, I have not been able to attend any life drawing classes for an entire year. I decided to draw Anne Atomy by using a reference photo.
Leonardo
When I do a life drawing, I meekly attempt to make it look like a Michelangelo notebook forgery.
Animal Rights
Math lesson.
1 Moleskine sketchbook + 8 Muji pens = 1 unexplained, double page drawing.
Flower Girl
Nun
As a kid, I went to catholic school. I was the last era of students to learn from nuns who wore very crazy jet black, floor length costumes. These women looked a bit like grim reapers in scary outfits. There was a lot of layers of vails and drapes hanging about. When they moved, everything flowed like a ghost. In hindsight, I wish the Halloween costumes could have been colorful, maybe with some nice designs on them. It may have cut down on the fear and terror aspect of it all. Not sure I would have turned out any different though.
Look
Looking off the page at nothing is a great way to create fake drama in a drawing.
Tea
Tea For The Tillerwoman.
Unicorn
Yet one more forgery. This is my version of Young Woman with Unicorn by Raphael done in 1505. I call mine, Woman with My Little Pony Unicorn.
Anniversary
Another.
Ermine Girl
I’m known as a very good forger. This is my forgery of Leonardo Davinci’s, Lady With An Ermine, painted in 1490. I call mine, Girl With Her Cat Named Ermine. They’re basically indistinguishable from one another.
