Category: art

I have no future as a forger

The number of hits on my blog spiked yesterday. SPIKED, really. There was a 8000+% traffic increase.

Most of it was directed to where I posted the last six pieces of my 2016 Inktober drawings. Day 28 was “burn”, a prompt that compelled me to work on a black ink reproduction of John Byrne’s Jean Grey as Phoenix.

“Definitely a forged signature” wrote John Byrne (yes, THE John Byrne!) after linking to a page of results for the “dessin” (“drawing”) tag, and instructing to scroll down a bit.

The post title in the John Byrne Forum bugs me: “Forgery or Bad Inks?”

Obviously I don’t have a future in art or as a forger (not that I want to), but “Bad inks”?! Pssh, that’s just harsh.

Then, active Byrne Robotics Members of the forum, seemingly all male (Brian, Tim, Kevin, Steve, Matt and Peter, to date) went on about whether mine was a reproduction or a “re-creation”. I have to say the nuance is lost on me.

I have not registered to join them in the forum and further shave the yak or tell them that they’ve mis-gendered me with their myriad assumptions “he”, “the guy” or even “the devil” since one of them played the devil’s advocate 🙂

screenshot of the first 3 posts
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screenshot of 2 other posts, one of which includes a copy of the original work by John Byrne

Art: Cranes on pine tree (+ time-lapse)

I made a simpler version of “two cranes on a pine tree” which I drew for a friend last year.

I used black, grey and ink brush pens, drew on a watercolour postcard, and painted a gold outline with a thin brush and liquid gold ink.

Black, grey and red ink drawing of two cranes on a pine tree branch

Time-lapse

22-second time-lapse of my hand drawing in black, grey and red ink two cranes on a pine tree branch

Art: (larger) Crane (+ time-lapse)

I made another ink drawing of a crane after some Chinese brushwork piece by artist Nanrae.

On a taupe toned paper I used a black ink brush pen, my Kuretake Light Grey and Geranium Red BrushWriters, and applied gold paint with a brush.

Finally, I went back to the piece afterwards to paint the body of the crane with a white ink Kuretake brushpen.

I gave the framed piece to Shadi.

Black, grey, white and red ink drawing on taupe toned paper of a Japanese crane standing between some reed and an old tree with red blossoms.

Time-lapse

21-second time-lapse of my two hands making with Black, grey, white and red ink drawing on taupe toned paper a Japanese crane standing between some reed and an old tree with red blossoms.