Some Drawing Fun

Atomic Robo Is a Graphic novel I have been reading. I have a few drawings here. Atomic Robo is a robot possessing "automatic intelligence", created by Nikola Tesla in 1923. He is a core member of Tesladyne Industries, "a thinktank dedicated to exploring the fringes of scientific inquiry", whose Action Scientists often respond to paranormal and supernatural emergencies. Robo has a developed sense of humor, a basic Smart-ass and makes numerous wise cracks at his foes' expense. In the past, he has secretly worked with theUnited States government as well as NASA.                                    

This is a rough ink wash. 1 hour

Marker drawing of  Robo dropping a bomb. 2 hours

More Work in Progress

Unlike drawing, painting is sometimes, not all... time/labor intensive , so it may not look like a much time has gone by but it has. The work on my  "Satchel" Paige from my last post to my new post is about 15 extra hours. 

Still Working on this

Still Working on this

My David pieces (20 hours) is part of a bigger idea, where I want to have 5-7 parts where I get diverse views of the statue of David after all it is a 360 degrees. What would be the front?  The variant images will be place at different heights and may have different size canvasses. Definite work in progress.












These are part of a series, my painted versions of the great pieces of Art I have seen. I like giving alternative perspectives to old works.

This a variant Fire Red Headed goddess Venus by Sandro Botticelli, the layers of hair I spent most of my time, I worked about 13 hours on this.


I will be making Post Card printed versions of most any piece I have done, so if anyone is interested email me.
martylongoria@gmail.com

Work in Progress

Sorry I haven't added much lately but I am working on a few things that are with a non-discloser agreement attached. Here is a painting I have been working on out of the shear love for Painting. This is the great Satchel Paige I have been working on for a while still working I"ll post more tomorrow of the stuff I can show.

Some folks at Barnes and Noble

These are from the coffee shop at Barnes and Noble, they are done in Marker COPIC, total of 1 1/2 hours.

The new updated time

592.5 hours done.......

407.5 hours  to  go!!!!

Mom waiting for her kid

Kid mad at her Dad

A work in Progress

One of my favorite stories and people is Josh Hamilton, I am a long suffering Ranger Fan I am still working on this I got about 2 1/2 hours in.
You can find a bit of his story,

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hamilton_(baseball)

DR Sketchy

Dr Sketchy is a Art class, but without the class. They meet once a month usually in a bar somewhere in Dallas and charge 10 bucks, but they have chapters all over the world. This was my first time for me at this event there were about 20 or so artist, it starts off one minute sketches, two minute, then five, ten, then 3 twenty minutes sessions. A model was brought in (Angela Ryan), with a Marie Antoinette persona. The theme was given, being October and Halloween looming, we were told to incorporate it in a drawing or two. Here are some of the sketches I did and I won a couple of prizes best incorporation of the Halloween theme, I had Marie Antoinette serving her head on a platter. And I won models choice where Angela picked a favorite, WOOHOO. I got a free session and a Moleskin sketchbook

Markers

Winner Markers

These were done in 3 hours had a great time and I will do some more at Dr Sketchy's

Drawing for Fun @ StarbucksFolks

Folks conversing 20 minutes Graphite

Starbuck Patron 20 minutes Graphite

Starbuck Patron 20 minutes Graphite

New Stuff

Fanta in graphite 15 minutes

Guiness Stout Markers and pencil 45 minutes

Drink and Draw is a biweekly activity in Dallas at a place called The Flying Saucer. About a dozen artist just hang out and drink, eat and draw, There are some really interesting people the best drawing individual was not an artist by trade but an economic grad student name Luis. He used a pen of white out for his highlights, I am stealing that idea.

Back in Texas

I have been off line for awhile  and I apologize. I forgot how hard it is to move much less a move overseas. This has been quite an adventure, now getting settled, and getting a job etc. I will be posting more frequently I hope you can join me.

my start of a face 20 minutes graphite

same person at Starbucks  20 minutes graphite

20 minutes graphite

Gallery drawing of the Castle of Milan

Castello Gallaria  Detail
Graphite 30 minutes

Castello Gallaria
Graphite 15 minutes

Castello Gallaria
Graphite 30 minutes

I went to The Castle Gallery which had many of the relics of 600 years of history of Milan, a lot of armor and weapons very unique hand made rifles. The craftsmanship of the etching is hard to describe on and almost impossible to photograph.

Cafe Drawings in Milan

Cafe Drawings
Graphite 30 minutes

Cafe' Drawing
Graphite 30 minutes

These are people I saw sitting around at a Cafe near the Doumo, in the city center In Milan. 

Having problems with loading some pictures so sorry about the lack of postings

Cafe' Drawing
Graphite 30 minutes

Cafe' Drawing
Graphite 1 hour

Drawing outside my Hotel

1 hour Graphite
Gallery drawing

2 women at a Cafe'
20 minutes Graphite

2 women at under the umbrella
20 minutes Graphite

Women reading
30 minutes Graphite

5 minutes Graphite

Man at Cafe'
30 minutes graphite 

Women under umbrella
30 minutes Graphite

As I stay in Milan I realize how warm it gets outside, so the basic search for airconditioning or shade is constant. I have a great shaded area next to my hotel with an open Palazzo with large umbrellas. The space is new the complex is very new, there is a mall across the street, Milan is as modern as a city can get in Italy, unlike Florence, Rome, Pisa, Genova. The highway system is wide and clean, the bus and metro is not as wild and crazy as the others.


Here are few people I did see around the Plaza, mostly woman... they are the people who sit for a while and chat and Guys not so much.

Just a few more days in Milan then back to Germany for 10 days

woman at Cafe'
30 minutes graphite

Drawing in the streets and Galleries in Milan

I am in Milan for a few weeks, So my plan is to go to the streets of Milan and the Galleries and just draw what I see. I have learned that many of the Galleries are closed for the summer and August many just shut down and use the time revamp for new shows in September.




In Europe life slows down many go "holiday" most people get 4-6 weeks vacation a year, most of that time off is August. I think it is because it is HOT a large amount people have no air conditioning and live in cramped spaces so they leave. I did find a few galleries open but on Monday they open at 2:30pm or as they post 14.30, on a side not almost every country in Europe uses military time. Any way the late open times I only made one Gallery on monday. I did walk all over for about 3 hours stopping to find shade then sitting and drawing. Here are a few of the things I saw, the gallery was along Palazzo Reale di Milano The PianoTerra section this had a show with Carla Maria Maggi.

Here is a bit of info  I Googled  on her, It would have taken to long to translate the Italian in the brochure.

This exhibition highlights eighteen of Italian artist Carla Maria Maggi’s (1913–2004) most accomplished paintings from 1933 to 1940 and shows her art to be part of a movement in the 1920s in Milan that sought to bridge the legacy of impressionism and post-impressionism with more traditional modes of figure painting, landscape, and still life. 

Woman sitting across from me at Cafe' 15 minutes

Lion next to the Doumo 25 minutes

One of the 3500 figures on the Doumo 25 minutes

Carla  Maria Maggi painting in the Gallery she was blue and the dress was red 15 minutes

A piece by Giuseppe Palanti 40 minutes

 

2 Hours of drawing

More Jesus and a pair of Pears

I am having a blast here, I will be in Milan for 2 weeks I have tickets to see the "Last Supper" for Sunday. Excited too see it it is the last Major work of Da Vinci I haven't seen. These past 10 months what I have seen has been remarkable, I got to see most every great artist major work, August I hit Amsterdam to see Van Gogh's Museum to end my time in Europe. Marla and I have been so blessed to be here, " I have seen enough to know I have seen to much".

I hope you like what you see.

Artist Trading Card
1 hour Mix Media

Acrylic on Canvass
4 hours

Artist Trading Card
1 hour Markers and Sharpie

Artist Trading Card
1 hour Markers and Sharpie 

As I am winding down my time in Germany, I am putting in my time with Expressionism, it was birthed here. Expressionism emerged as an 'avant-garde movement' in poetry and painting before the First World War; in theWeimar years was being appreciated by a mass audience,having its popularity peak 

in Berlin, during the 1920s.

 

Artist Trading Card
1 hour Mixed Media

Expressionism  Its typical trait is to present the world under an utterly subjective perspective, violently distorting it to obtain an emotional effect and vividly transmit personal moods and ideas.

Artist Trading Card
1 hour Mixed Media
More still life work