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Welcome to GIGA!
Gav's Imaginary Gallery of Art.
Yeah, okay, it's a lame acronym, but we're all way into acronyms these days, and well, you just try to come up with something, buddy! Very well, then. The "imaginary" part means that this isn't really a gallery in a physical location, so it must just be someone's imagination. Mine, yours? Who knows? Anyway, it's just some furious artistic outletting, mostly pre-Nukees stuff. I was in a big fire in 1991 that destroyed a lot of stuff I did in high school, so you'll have to settle for that period between 1993-1995 when I was obsessed with depressed women or something.
Anyway, enjoy.
Today's featured selections:
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enya
, that soundtrack singer
who, like candy, e.e. cummings, and k.d. lang, just can't see fit to
abide by the standardized proper noun capitalization rules.
I'm not particularly obsessed with spooky movie soundtrack singers
or anything--I just drew this because I thought
the album cover showed good light and shadow and I was trying to teach myself
to draw. #2 Ticonderoga on 20# computer paper |
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candy
, that self-denying imaginary girl. This was a first excercise in
drawing from a live model. But she didn't end up looking so much
like the person who was posing for me. Instead, oddly, what I ended
up with was candy, an "imaginary" girl from some stories I used to
write when I was in high school.
#2 Ticonderoga on some slightly more expensive Utrecht Two-Ply Bristol Medium (Vellum) Surface drawing paper (Or so says the cover sheet).
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Natalie
, as in Natalie Merchant formerly from 10,000 Maniacs, presently still
Natalie Merchant. I used to be really into 10,000 Maniacs. It's a shame
Natalie went off on her own and started singing bland, lifeless pop songs.
Now I'm into Tori Amos. I should really draw Tori some day... This was
a pose from a Rolling Stone cover. #2 Ticonderoga on 20# computer paper |
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Ariel, a photograph of Me 'n my mermaid. This is the starboard side of
what I painted on my dresser (the port side has The Lorax, which I
should photograph and scan some day). Unfortunately, this is a rather badly scanned
image. HA HA! Everyone point and laugh at my goofy Flock of Seagulls haircut
I had back then!
Acrylic house paint on wooden dresser |
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Kathleen, just this girl on
the internet who doesn't know me. Okay, here's the story: I was bored one
day back in 1995, when people weren't as good at protecting their directory
structures on the internet, so I was poking around the
Vivid Studios* website (I don't remember
why I was even there--I think they partnered with
Riddler once, which used to be good).
Anyway, I came across this unused photo of this girl named Kathleen who worked
semi-occasionally for them as a graphic artist. I thought it was a spectacularly engaging photo and it simultaneously enraptured and depressed the hell out
of me. I had to draw it. I don't know why. Just looking at her makes me want
to cry. She's spectacular. No, Kathleen hasn't seen it.
(As far as I know...) I wouldn't want to freak her out. *Side note: Vivid Studios recently sold their domain name to a porn site. Bizarre the internet world is. #2 Ticonderoga on that Utrecht paper I mentioned earlier |
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