Monday, December 20, 2010

Artists' Building

©chris mesarch 2010
This is the page I've been working on for a couple of weeks.  It started with a doodle I did in a very long meeting for my day job a year and a half ago.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The B & W Railroad Journey

Before I started the book, I hadn't been on the B & W (black and white) railroad for a long time.  I was on the color trail.
"Life On Mars", © chris Mesarch 2006  
But for the last four years, it's been the black white train all the way.  It's starts with a pencil on paper, and there's no stopping.  Or perhaps, it's better to say there are many stops.  Many that have nothing to do with my book, but are because of the book, because it made me want to draw lots of different things in black and white.  I loved the film from erasing that formed on the canvas covering my drawing table.  So I drew on canvas.
"Shadows in the Courtyard"





From this photo taken of shadows on concrete.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Unintended masterpiece?

© chris mesarch 2010
A friend showed me about a hundred photographs from her childhood.  This snapshot was taken on the boardwalk at Yosemite.  Did the photographer know he or she had created a masterpiece?