Posts Tagged ‘process’

Baby Enue Vs Rath in race to Smoke FREE

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

UPS COD- smoke free.

Here is the Full wall with Enue, The spot i had in mind was being painted already so Enue got to rock behind a bush, and my laziness prevented me from getting good head on shots. Trying to quit smoking whilst not dropping almost every other ball im juggling at least once is tough. Add two heavy smokers trying to quit and paint at the same time its a miracle we didn,t cop out on some co-dependent multi enabler shit and end up behind 7-11 splitting a back Marlboro reds and drinking 40s! I have it on good authority nicotine is drug, so we 12 stepping our way out. See you on the other side! related post :http://heavylox.com/reasonAndRasclot/2011/08/triple-a-rated/

Sketchbook pro fun

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Downloaded a trial version of sketchbook pro for the desktop and been playing with it. Shit is a lot of fun and tools are pretty good, takes a lil getting used to but the ipad version was helpful in being familiar to the UI.

desktop version og sketchbook pro. Boobah

The Art of Falling Out…

Monday, July 18th, 2011

All Week the weather forecasts were wrong, each day was supposed to be worse then the previous day. Monday-Friday forecasts fell short of the high temps being predicted. Sunday was slated to be a nice day,  mid 85-ish, thats about 29.4C  for those of you not in America, not bad, warmer then id like but still not bad. At 9:00 Am i left the house and headed towards Brooklyn, 1010 Winds said it was already 80 degrees. There was no way it would only climb 5 degrees through out the day. I got to the wall and the sun was blazing already, thanks to Kem5 the only tree in a 3 block radius was de-limbed as it was interfering with his painting (I think he just hates nature really), at any rate there went the only shade spot in area. By 10:30Am it was 89 degrees and climbing rapidly. I drank water, lots of water, ate food, wore my ‘working in the field’ hat plus sweat band. At noon-thirty or so it was 97 (35C-ish), lawd-a-mercy, HIM jus’ a burn we out! I didn’t even need a lighter to light a cigarette, you just needed to touch it to the hood of a car and poof, FIRE! So there we are suffering, trying to make the best of it, there was plenty of good people around to help keep spirits up. Around 430 i had lapsed in my water consumption, and began getting some real heavy head rushes, which i tired to fight through. Finally I hit head rush number 13, and I realized i wasn’t making it out gracefully. I was talking to Stae2 and Yes1 and all of a sudden i became aware that i was standing up, holding my ladder white knuckle style and my legs were gone; i was holding on trying to make it to the bell, whilst seeing the canvas looking like a pretty solid inevitability. I was one wobble away form the ground the yes1 stepped in and gave me and arm helped to to the ground and hit me with a half gallon of cold water. Fuck, i felt like a horse fiend doing the stumble nod, shit was NO good. I am not fan of not being in control of my body movements and activities. Thanks to Yes and Stae2 i was saved, if not for them id polly be face down on the brooklyn concrete right now sleeping it off, or worse… i could be used as a human picnic table by some of the many hispters in the area, and had my face drawn on like they like to do when people pass out, which would end up on youtube and then id have to cut some people. I digress… After the water and a few minutes of resting I was back on the life side of things and felt a lot better. the take away is, 97 degrees, 18 lbs of hair, body by Xbox, not enough water is a no win scenario, however surrounded by good people, makes all the difference in the world. Violins and roses!

Molotow Colors

Sketch:
sahara Beige
cadmium yellow
tele magenta

Piece:
Poison green
Evil Olive
Traffic red
Pastel Orange
Light orange Brown
almond
white
Toast Gloss Black (SOOOO GOOD)
light Kiwi (ran out of poison)

Background:
Dark Shadow Grey
Esher Dirty Red (among the favs)
Butterfly
Light Piglet Pink
grapefruit

The wall was supposed to be black, which much of it was, however my section was a city buff grey, which through off the game plan of having a black background, sometimes half the fun is working with what you got, which can also then turn into the main source of heartache, regrets and shattered dreams; Ive seen it happen. At any rate, after the heat almost KOed me i drew down on some of the plans to fill the vacuous grey background area. As Usual there was a good selection of people present to while away the day, shoot the shit with. Hotta Fya, humble I.

inspired by the suggestive

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

the suggestive. Ive always enjoyed word play; the between the lines, The real rap starts at half time. the invisible box delineated by the mime. The figure devoured by shadow. There is no joy to be had in a completed puzzle. this is why me is not a fixed entity, but an evolutionary being; rates of speed may not be visible from here to a 100 feet out. Facts remain, unchanged, but they may not always stack the same.

Ive been on this kick to find some new letter shapes, and while perusing flickr i was reminded of Raekwons first album cover “only built for cuban links”. Keep in mind my mind a mash of loose ends and wildly obvious missed connections. At the time i had never really paid any attention to type, in fact I didn’t really pay much attention to any type after that for a long time. but at the time i was fairly floored by the combination of upper and lowercase letter fragments. the formation of legible letters from letter pieces was awesome to me. And it went no further, I’m sure i found some shinny bit of paper and forgot all about the awesomeness of type and thus never got the chance to let my mind wonder past the initial admiration into the pasture of how can i use and or otherwise apply this to things i do. I missed the distillation of what was happening, by committing it to a ‘oh i like this’, and promptly moving on. A short 15 or so years later i found myself reminiscing about it, remembering the essence over the execution, and digging it up confirmed that. But the essences was there in my mind, i just never it gave a change to gain any context. When given the right clues the mind and fight through abstraction and wrestle it into recognition.

  • Say as much as you can in as few words as possible.
  • Over indulge by way of restrictive and economic consumption.
  • generalize enough to form specifics.
  • circle, square, triangle.
 digital previs; rath

digital previs; rath

earlier sketch, trying to work out omissions.

Seeking

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Recently ive decided I need new inspiration to bring some new life into things. I have been drawing a blank and soon resort back to comfortable things. I have always had a hard time drawing the line between inspiration and copying. It can be a fine line to negotiate, unless your inspiration takes you to an extreme away from the point of inspiration. Any inspired landing leaving me close to the point of departure seems like a poorly traveled experience; although sometimes there can be quite a trip taken; a journey in nuance and refinement.  So success is not always a black and white distance race, it can be largely  judged in the quality of the journey.

Sometimes the harder you consciously try the less you get accomplished. I am all for failure as a teaching tool; however if the quality of the failure is no more then common contrivances then there is little to learn save, stop trying so hard and let it flow more naturally; less consciously that is.

I want new shapes. In regards to style writing, its all about the shapes, abstracting the commonly accepted and universally recognized letter form into a new, or re-refined shape echoing the established while seeking to be its own thing. Just as a child is a recognized human they grow up with the hopes of becoming their own individual, complimenting the hole while expanding on its definition.

As part of trying to find new shapes i found myself looking at the photos of a good friend Saul Metnick of Blandscape.org. I haven’t spoken to him about his work for a while, other then to know hes in the mix and trying ti keep himself moving. From the outset i will say, i dont get photography, i can spot a ragingly good photo, but i miss a lot of the nuance that may make one photo stand out from others. My sense of framing can be hap-hazard at best and accidentally genius once in a blue moon. Saul has always brought a sense of whit and irony to his photos; which i always appreciated but was never convinced was the sole basis for him taking good photos. In looking at many the other day i started to look beyond the subject and just see the shapes, created by the interplay of forms and shadows (which have always been there but took me time to come too, im an idiot with a decent vocabulary). SO in an attempt to distill the shapes and things i found interesting I took some screen shots and did some illustrator mock ups. Surely nothing groundbreaking but a good place to start.

Rath on www.molotow.com

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

The good folks over at molotow.com posted some progress shot of the Can You Rock wall, http://www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2010/09/09/rath-in-montreal/

rath sketch

rath sketch

Bic rides again

Monday, June 21st, 2010

So I grabbed a bic from my desk so i would have one handy and did a few quick sketches instead of lunch and then started another one on the ride home.

Years ago i went to a sleep away summer camp, where oddly i met two people whom were huge artistic influences on me. One was a Boston writer, the other was a free time portrait artist. Thinking about it know it was a super coincidence on both parts, and kinda leads me to believe life as a way of providing things you need if your paying attention. At any rate this portrait artist, whos name is slipping my mind(read ive plum forgotten, it was over 20 years ago), both intellectually explained and showed me over the summer his methodology for figure drawing. What he did was sort of squint at his subject, thus reducing what he saw to a series of tonal areas or shapes, instead of looking at and intellectually trying to reproduce a figure he was just drawing shapes with different tonal values. This then became the base for the drawing and he would push and pull the shapes tones and spacial relations. He basically generalized until he had enough information to begin to become more specific. it was a process the involved a lot of layers and building of mass through shade. It was a revolution for me at the time and inspired a few years of mimicking his style and approach. Ive wanted to get away from just line work in my drawings for a while as they are getting kinda of stiff, so why not try and work in shades and tones. INstead of cross hatching i used the good old never ending circle.

park Sitters

Bacon X Rath

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Bacon X Rath:

bacon x rath: Rath Ups Cod 3a

Ive been working slowly and spottily on this idea for a few years now. The idea of combining pieces, and have yet to really commit or propperly prepare a wall to do it the way i see it my head; For one reason or another the right time hasnt presented itself yet, or maybe i havent forced it yet. It started with this in Montreal about 2 years ago with this Re-Run X Rath* pictured at the bottom of post.  And Later that year, did this, “rated as Ideated” painful little jawn. IT seems like the more i did it the worse it got, a year ago was this, HeavyXRath.

So this weekend i got back on the fail horse and road out in hopes of doing a decent Bacon X Rath. And as it would happen it was a cool 92 degrees yesterday and the heat Kick the crap out of me. At one point i found myself lying on some concrete that was in the shade, my shirt was up so my back could cool off on the cooler concrete. I drank 2 gallons of water, two 16oz Tropicana Ojs, and a little bit of a Tropicana lemonade, which it turned out was lemon flavored not lemonade so that got trashed. RastaFari is a blessing but the Lox can be an oven in the hot heat and sun parade. There was a lot more background work and top letter integration i wanted to do, but I admitted defeat in the mid evening.

********* the olders…

re-Run X Rath:
Re-Run

Rath X rath: rated as ideated,
rated as ideated, thats progress related not success equated

Heavy X rath: Sloppy Thomas,
Sloppy Thomas

big mama and inspired beach dancer

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Big Red Mama, illustration by heavylox

I saw this woman the other day. She was walking so i couldnt really get a good drawing done, but in the brief time she passed me i did a quick sketch and then was inspired by her memory. She had a quintessential caricature-ish figure or one well suited to be embellished.

Beach dancer, Illustration by heavylox

More Good Times.

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Found some suppoting images over at http://www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/