February Sketch Challenge: Day Eleven

by on February 11, 2015 at 9:02 am
Posted In: Art

I think I’m beginning to get into my grove at last here. So today, the slip of paper in the bag told me to draw Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. And what says Clockwork Orange better than Alec holding court with his droogs Georgie and Dim (didn’t have room to include Pete) at the Korova milk bar trying to make up their rassoodocks what to do with the evening. (Hint. It’s going to be the old ultra-violence)

In hindsight I considered doing this at more of an angle rather than stick mostly to Kubrick’s signature two point perspective but regrettably I was halfway done when I thought of that. Also the Kubrick Stare is harder to draw than it looks.

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Ten

by on February 10, 2015 at 10:15 am
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This was another hard one since Woody Allen‘s Annie Hall is mostly just people talking. Which while fun to watch is hell for the cartoonist looking for ideas. For me what I remember about it most (besides all of the great surreal bits) Was Annie’s first appearance (not counting her in the tennis courts) in her street clothes which consist of the white blouse, black slacks (possibly mens) black vest and the completely incongruous sunhat. Is this what she as a free spirit feels comfortable in? or is this something a hick from Wisconsin mistakenly thought would look hip in the big city? Who cares, it’s her!

I have to say I think that this is one of the sketches where the “don’t refresh your memory” rule is paying off. I like the way “Alvy”, while having all of the necessary “Woody” qualities, does not really look that much like Woody Allen.

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Nine

by on February 9, 2015 at 9:24 am
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I think one of the reasons that this sketch challenge has been a bit of a… well you know…challenge,  is because I have been over thinking things and trying to come up with an image that covers the whole of the movie as opposed to just one good image from the movies even if this is not actually in my list of rules.

I almost let this get the better of me for todays sketch for  2001: A Space Odyssey,. For the principle image I was inspired by the fact we know a lot more about Australopithecus than Kubrick and Clarke did so I was trying to do the scene as the bipedal hominid we know of today as opposed to a man in an ape suit.

I tried to work out a transitional image to the scenes in space which led to a huge mess that I couldn’t clean up in the allotted thirty minutes and putting Jupiter on the top of the picture just made it look like the scene was taking place on one of it’s moons.

So I just went with the final scene of 2001’s first act with the ape, the femur and the monolith and just remember this is better appreciated listening to Also sprach Zarasthustra while viewing

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Eight

by on February 8, 2015 at 7:48 pm
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I was busy today so this was a real rush job… I’m afraid that it shows.

Today’s sketch is from one of my favorite swashbuckler films Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn.

It was tempting to  go for the “Welcome to Sherwood” scene where Robin of Locksley is publicly announce as Robin Hood but for me the key scene is him bursting into the palace with a deer poached from the king’s forrest over his shoulder. For me this was Robin’s official statement of rebellion.

Maid Marion: You speak treason!

Robin Hood: Fluently.

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Mushroom Paradise

by on February 8, 2015 at 8:54 am
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Well I decided to give that Mushroom Pastry recipe from Food Through The Pages. I wanted to try it again for several reasons.

Reason # 1 I had one sheet of puff pastry left over  in the freezer.

Reason # 2 I thought it might be better in smaller portions… and finally

Reason # 3 I couldn’t help wondering what it would taste like adding sausage to the mix.

Any way this batch came out really good. I don’t think the sausage made that much of a difference… In fact I think most of the improvements were due to a longer cooking time for the filling… or possibly from mixing shitake mushrooms with the usual criminis.

I also made a Mushroom Rissoto which came out equally well. I usually have very bad luck with risottos. No matter how long I cook them and how much liquid I add they come out kind of chewy. Happily this was an exception. Wit any luck I’ll be able to figure out what I did right.

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