Crayola President
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I’ve been chewing over a series of crayon portraits of politicians for a few months now. Over the past two days, I finally took the idea a little further. I’m not entirely sure yet what will become of it/them, but I’m enjoying the work. Crayon (crayola, not conte) is a neat medium; great for building. I’m posting this morning’s round of portraits. It’s a toss up whether I prefer Obama Green or McCain Red (not to ignore The Honorable, of course…).
This post also reminds me of my need to secure a scanner.
Yeah, about that “Dear Sawa”…I’m trying to recycle pages of my art pad. On this particular page there was a half-drawn truck and, apparently, a draft page I used when writing a *giant* letter to my dear friend, Sara. “Sawa” is, of course, Big Stupid Monster from Labyrinth for “Sara.” So, that makes sense. (Ahem.)
Ruth Bader-Ginsberg. Gotta send some love to the third branch. Ruthie’s portrait is not done yet — note the demon eyes (or lack thereof) — but she’s close. She’s currently sharing a page with a rough outline for Hillary Clinton (see yellow stripe, bottom right). You can tell from her eyebrows that she has mixed feelings about it.
John McCain. The campaign trail line-up (+ Justice Bader-Ginsberg and some freak combination of Joe Biden, John McCain, and G. Dub — “Joe John Bush”*) was a bit of an accident…Although I did follow it up by adding a certain ex-governor to an updated portrait of my first crayola president. I’d like to be more creative than using this series/medium to simply rehash the ‘08 Campaign, so consider the above a warm up for a budding project.
More pictures to come.
P.S. You can take a peek at “Joe John”* in the first image in this post — he’s on the left, winkin’ atcha. Kinda.
Categories: Look, Muse
