As of this piece, my new naming convention will be to come up with a vaguely appropriate title, Google translate it in Japanese, then post it on my facebook page @misutasupakuru, then use the fb translate function to finalise the English moniker. In this case: “Bruce worked hard for her kimono and wig.”
Had been wanting to use the sailboat painting from the Simpson’s living room in a piece for quite a while. Mr Sparkle seemed a good fit. Plus I’d had a request for a Mr Sparkle painting…
It’s an older one (almost a year even), but I stumbled across the photo today and figured that it needed to come out of the shadows…
If I had more time available, maybe it wouldn’t take me 7 months to complete a painting… Still! On to the next one!
He’s a convenience type store logo in New Zealand – made famous by NZ artist Dick Frizzel. Not trying to riff of of him – just playing around with some colours…
It’s quite some time since I drew these us, but this is the last one. Closure bro! and onward and upward!! and pash the antelope!!!
More skulls bro. Just can’t help myself. Another faff about with colour – and form! Easy there turbo!
Trying some more stuff with colours. The roundrels are inspired by Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso. Every time we watched it (my wee lad is a huge fan – so we’ve watched it many times) I was planning what colours to paint my roundrels. Now I’m happy. More or less. And if anyone were to shout “Show us yer roundrels!!” at me – I could! Mmmmmm… Roundrels…
Have been working on a few exercises in colour – need to get ’em finished before I start on a new body of work that I’m quite excited about.
Heres on that I finished a week or so ago:
I also started instantgramming https://www.instagram.com/kiramekisan/ . Very exciting.
Was also excited (easy there!) by this http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/12/silver-rest-vw-type2-panel-van/ – always like Dino’s stuff, unlike some of the other speedhunters (the whiney ones specifically), but this article also touches on some social issues in Japan that echo my thoughts from living there and marrying into the madness…
kirameki san experiences sustained loss of traction 