x.20

No, not the 1950's era spaceplane x-20,

Alien menagerie x.20! Painted from a pencil sketch that's dated 12/01/05. I enjoy going through the stacks of sketches I've saved looking for the next one to paint. The approach I've taken to these characters shifts over time, and I often find things I wouldn't think of drawing the same way today.

This one seems like a jaunty if corpulent fellow.

acrylic on Rives BFK paper 8"

x.20 in progress

phone photo of of one of the pieces I'm working on, 宇宙人x.20

snowman from outer space

Is September an odd time to be considering snowmen? This is "winter" in alien menagerie. Somewhere in the galaxy it's snowing right now.

oil on wood panel 19" x 20"

Diversions

OK. I've been playing with toys.

I first wrote about Mel Birnkrant's Outer Space Men here in a post "Inspirations". It's a toy line from the late 60's that has been revived by The Four Horsemen. The figures they made are modular. You can mix and match pieces to make new characters if you choose. For fun, I photographed the bodies and applied my own sensibilities to a new set of heads.

The unaltered toys below, (they are about 3 3/4" tall):

Mel Birnkrant's Outer Space Men website

Outer Space Men at Four Horsemen

new alien

I believe this one is extracting caffeinium.

acrylic on Rives BFK paper 8" x 10"

alien menagerie x.18

~ observed late June 2011

acrylic on Rives BFK paper 8" x 10"

post-it note alien #2

~ oxide red on 3"X3" post-it.