A QUICK FUSE, group discussion #4
PROF. FOXGLOVE: Hm. I don't think I like this. There's something unwholesome about your approach... I don't know how else to put it.JIM: Gee, I'm sorry you feel that way.
posted by Jim Woodring at 11:42 PM
Friday, August 18, 2006
PROF. FOXGLOVE: Hm. I don't think I like this. There's something unwholesome about your approach... I don't know how else to put it.JIM: Gee, I'm sorry you feel that way.
About Me
- Name: Jim Woodring
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
I was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and enjoyed an exciting childhood full of poetry and paroniria among the snakes, rats and tarantulas of that enchanted realm. I eventually grew into an inquisitive bearlike man who has had three exciting careers; garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. Some of my work is collected in THE BOOK OF JIM, THE FRANK BOOK and SEEING THINGS (all published by Fantagraphics) and in various toys, fabrics, prints and urban legends. Thank you for your interest.
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12 Comments:
Do you draw with gloves on?
As a leftie, there is no chance that I would be able to draw anything like this without smudging it.
Well, there is no chance that I would be able to draw anything like this at all.
And I say that without a sketchpad in sight, so I guess it's my own fault.
Your work inspires a "why bother" attitude in me that only the drawings of Beksinski has managed to do before.
I was certain I put my name on my previous post.
That's funny -- even though you draw unwholesome things, I've never thought of your art as unwholesome. In fact, I'm not sure the shit you draw is unwholesome.
Funny Beksinski should be mentioned -- he's another artist who makes me feel the way you do. I'd put you two in the same category -- Jim, do you like his work?
Actually, seeing your work in progress like this makes me more likely to draw. When I only see the finished images they are much, MUCH more intimidating technically.
So, thanks!
i'm not sure its the approach thats unwholesome?
That foot looks extra painful now.
jim, what is it about frogs that seems to fascinate you so much it has become such a recurring image in most of your art? pardon me for being ignorant.
Are you sure that firecracker is attached to a seedpod rather than a clutch of frog eggs? Not to encourage ovacidal thinking - but, well, it sort of looks like frog eggs to me.
Now I feel unwholesome for having asked.
Regarding the "seedpod".
The first thing I thought of when trying to understand this picture was that the desiccated body in the tree was the "mother" of the... whatever it is.
The frogs are merely trying to keep something bad from procreating. Or maybe it's the frogs that are bad.
Remember, frogs' eggs have to be immersed in order to hatch. Clearly the frogs sent in this one poor guy to wrest control of the delicious fruit from the skeletal monitor in the tree above -- from their angle behind the rocks they didn't see the firecracker initially.
That's my guess, anyway. :)
Beksinski with frogs...lol
Jim! your pic of the skeletal figure in the tree actually reminded me of a woodcut I have a copy of, either by Durer or lucas cranach, or even albrecht altdorfer
crazy little skeleton pointing at a sandclock with a raven perched on it, with two swarthy looking landsnect soldiers and a crazy woman holding a puppy
bizarre
Thanks for showing us your process, very interesting to watch.
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