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In 1986 when I was working on my Autographs project, I was able to contact Elizabeth Taylor, through her agent, and she was gracious enough to autograph this drawing that I did of her. I didn't meet her, but I was very pleased she liked the drawing enough to sign it. Also, I think it was because of her signing this drawing that got Michael Jackson to take notice of my work. They were great friends, and when I contacted his office to sign a drawing, he eventually saw this drawing and he agreed to sign the drawing I did of him. Which led to Michael hiring me to illustrate his coloring book, Moonwalker - The Coloring Book.
My Autographs project was something I came up with and worked on during the 1980s and early 1990s. I would do a drawing of a famous person and search them out to see if they would autograph it. I met many of them. Some of the people who signed my drawings were; President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan (this was when he was President and my drawing was in the Oval Office in the White House!), Andy Warhol, Al Hirschfeld, David Levine, Liza Minnelli, Stephen Sondheim, Spike Lee, Paloma Picasso (I have a signed Picasso!), Lucille Ball, Jeremy Irons, Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Malcom Forbes, The Eurythmics (Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart) and Molly Ringwald to name a few.
I also had a number of rejections; Jacqueline Onassis, Bette Midler, Yoko Ono, Donald Trump, Katherine Hepburn (who wrote me a wonderful note - which she signed - so I got my autograph) and Jerry Seinfeld. There were some others. But, most of the people I contacted autographed their drawings.
It was a great project, I just did it for myself and I had a lot of fun. Meeting many of these people was a thrill!! I would have loved to have met Elizabeth Taylor in person, just to look into those beautiful violet eyes of hers!!
I was working on this drawing yesterday, but got in a smudgy old mess so abandoned it! Not sure what more I could do to it anyway! I'm not sure whether to invest in a can of fixative. I did a quick spray of hairspray over this, but it seemed to give her freckles (and a kind of impressionist look!)!
ball-pen drawing with water colour
drawn onto Yann Jarsalle's page in "Ever since I was a young boy I've been drawing cars in my sketch book"
Interior Portrait
You don't survive in me
because of memories;
nor are you mine because
of a lovely longing's strength.
What does make you present
is the ardent detour
that a slow tenderness
traces in my blood.
I do not need
to see you appear;
being born sufficed for me
to lose you a little less.
Translated by A. Poulin
Rainer Maria Rilke
neocolor, watercolor
it ended up not looking like him too bad, you can't rework neocolor much.
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I have been obsessed with cones this week - more on my photostream if you want to check out some variations
My zine printed by the awesome Kaugummi Books.
20 pages B/W, 14 x 21
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And check out the rest of the awesome catalogue while you're there, Dean Sullivan, Antony Record etc etc etc!
On December 21st during the daylight hours Jupiter and Saturn passed each other in the sky. I will never see the two planets closer to each other than I did just after sunset on the 21st. The quality of the sky was not as good as it was 24 hours ago (See: www.flickr.com/photos/dragonflyhunter/50743411231/in/date...), so I was only able to get the moon Titan in the Saturn System (to the upper right of the planet) and the four moons of Jupiter, Europe to the right and Ganymede, Io and Callisto to the left.
The 7.4 magnitude star that was between Ganymede and Callisto, in my drawing yesterday, was out of my field-of-view in the 4:00 o’clock position (not shown). Of course, it was the two planets that had moved and not the background star.
To see additional astronomy drawings visit: www.orrastrodrawing.com
I drew this on a red-eye flight while I was bored. I made it with a pilot pen, and added some values with a water brush pen after we landed.
One of my early experiments with drawing with pins. I might try making some more of these with some colour over the pinholes to highlight them a bit.
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