New drawings, old ideas

possum_ladyThis will be the third time I have rewritten this entry. It has just disappeared twice. I had something like it happen once before and that time my machine was under attack from an American computer security guy who I had annoyed in Yahoo Chat.

One way around it was to upload the work every few seconds before he could get back in and hit me again so very sorry if this is a bit disjointed. I just noticed my firewall is still down since I was gaming offline. That might help.

There were a bunch of unfinished and rough sketches spread through the stored things in the back room. They were generic aged people and retirees and some older locals I had thought were interesting enough to draw. They are all cartoons. I finished one the other night and put in here for a little interest and realized I enjoyed it.

I have developed a few more since then and realized I have a good set of images growing and I am well enough to cope with bringing them up to pre-finished if I just cruise through them slowly. There is no need to force them to be high art or anything. I will just rip them up to a point where they have depth and put them in a book together so they are there if I decide to work them up to finals. You can see from the picture in this post that there is room for polishing.

I am thinking of some new work in this group as well. There are some very iconic locals here. People whose images will touch us all who are getting older. In some cases they will remind us of us, or someone we live near, or a relative. I like working in this area. Much of the stuff in my life has been emotionally or physically scarring and some levels of my art are very dark indeed.

This is more about life and light. Much less pretentious. It is about recognising what it is to age. The toughness it takes to face all the loss. The vulnerability, the irreverent view of what the younger generation’s are precious about. The moments we have to ourselves, to think and realize all the beauty that was passing us by as we hurried through life that needed us to work and struggle for our kids. All of that. Reading back…this looks like an homage (a/an depends on pronounciation) of aging. An irreverentĀ  but loving blah blah blah blah…sorry I was enjoyinge the sound of my own pontification in my head Or, alternately, it is about some old farts doing what old fogies do

The image is meant to be a cranky old woman with a varmint, it looks more like Brett Whiteley skinning possums

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