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Tarzan and Jane

11/29/2015

 
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Jim asked Sandy about the above painting

Sandy:

This piece was something of an exercise. Most of my color work is done kind of coloring book style. I do a black and white drawing and then start coloring in, trying not to go outside the black line. One gets a MUCH different effect if one eliminates the line drawing. The piece will feel much more like a true painting and less like an illustration.


This portrait of Tarzan and Jane was one my numerous attempts to ween myself off the use of line and paint directly over the penciled drawing. Unfortunately, the illustration board I was using began to behave badly—it started to produce what's known as a 'granulated texture' as I put down the glazes of color. Sometimes you can make that effect work for you, but not when trying to capture the texture of flesh, and this was a particularly bad case of granulation. So, after a good cry, I abandoned the piece.

Bodacious Berries

11/24/2015

 
three bodies with berry heads by sandy plunkett - logo for bodacious berries in SE Ohio
Jim asked Sandy about the above drawing

Sandy:

A fellow by the name of Rod Nippert gave me a call one day way back when, wanting me to come up with something to use for a new venture he was embarking on: raspberry farming. Seemed like my big chance—an opportunity to break into into the lucrative field of southeastern Ohio produce art.


Well, not really.

Rod didn't have much money to pay for the work, but for a month or two I was eating more red raspberries than you could imagine. He used the logo on his business cards and eventual had it blown up and put on the side of his pickup.

Anthropomorphic Elephant

11/9/2015

 
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Jim asked Sandy about the above drawing

Sandy:

This is one of the rare occasions when I inked someone else's pencils. Fortunately, I was working over a blue line reproduction of the art which meant that I wouldn't be ruining the original drawing if I blew the inks.

The pencils were by Linda Medley, well know creator of the award-winning Castle Waiting graphic novels. Turns out that both of us had played around with anthropomorphic elephant characters somewhere along the line, though the results were vastly different.

​Hers (in my opinion) was full of pathos and mine...not so much. In any case this drawing was the result of our collaboration.


Another image from Sandy's archive:
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A panel from a comic strip invented for my sketchbooks called "Jungleland." The elephant in question never did receive a name.

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