Found Some Drawings From 2006

Trying to clear out some junk, and you know with me that is a major feat. But as they say, live in hope.

I tried to clear some stuff from the file cabinet and came across this pamphlet from 2006 when I was in London, UK. I went to White Chapel gallery which is at the end of Brick Lane, an incredible immigrant portion of London.

These drawings were made on the tube and I must have been passing Black Friars at the time.

Weird, I would have never remembered even doing these drawings but now that I look at this woman reading the paper I actually have a vague memory of this person, being in the manky tube. 

This show, Inner Worlds Outside, was full of outsider art and had images by current art darling, Darger, the Chicago janitor cum Art genius post 1970s death.



I love the cover image, it is at once Victorian and Cycladic at the same time, by Francis Picabia, definitely not an art outsider for reals.

Here is a close up of Darger's intense paintings of the Vivian Girls as they fight their epic battles.

Some of the artists in the show were also Madge Gill (a Clairvoyant), Dubuffet, James Ensor (Belgium's Famous Painter!!!yes, you TMBG fans) Miro and Adolf Wolfi. A real mix of established and outsiders who dealt with some similar issues.


here is that Wolfi guy, I like this image too.

If you wanna learn more about outsider art,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art   you can find a lot of artists to check out.

Its kinda a tricky thing as so many of the people who profess to be outsiders are part of the mainstream art world, obviously not your Darger types who are penniless insane hermits who get discovered after death.   Dubuffet, a "artist" coined the Art Brut or Raw Art term and that applied to the art of the insane, prisoners or naive artwork he collected. In today's 'nothing is really alternative' world, outsider art is kinda a genre- in this one man's opinion.

The view Jet fuel on a snowy Dec 20ish 2006

November 30th 2006 sketches

A couple of drawings with Pentel markers, I got from Leslie Kriekle in 1997 maybe.

October 25th, 2006 High School Year book ink sketches

What was the idea here? Well, I was rifting off a bunch of high school mug shots of people I knew in passing from my 1990 high school year book, a la Crumb I guess, there is another page full.

June 05 2006

Rifting on one of my favourite paintings in London, the lion hunt by Rubens.

May third, some park, 2006

Wow, When I started this blog I had no idea where I drew this Asian guy, I remember being in a grass area, it was warm, I thought it was London.....then I thought it was when I was in Paris, somewhere around Sacre Coeur where there is grass near the steps going up to it, now I am thinking maybe the V&A back in London, I have no idea anymore.

Jesus, I did not notice the steps behind him, it must be Paris, but I ain't certain.

43 South Moulton, April 28th, 2006.

A few watercolour sketches one messy night at the original 43 South Moulton, London.

April 27th, 2006 I stand corrected

I did these drawings, I was studying the hairstyles of these women in erotic drawings and prints in the gothic art movement of the 1770-1830s. The show was called Gothic Nightmares, it was alright, Fuseli and Blake obvi. I went to the old Tate to see the Turners, I had this dreadful day and insane night previous.

Bar Sketches April 27th, 2006

March 17th, 2006