Rodan Attack - July 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 inches
The summer always brings out the Godzilla in me. I am sure this has to do with the memories of watching late-night Godzilla movies in my youth.
These two different paintings have two very similar Godzilla poses. These are two new works done a couple weeks apart and I plan on doing a third with using a similar pose. But why bother you ask? Well, yes there are other poses at my disposal, so I wonder too why I spend time doing similar work and the simple answer is that the original idea was not done yet. What I mean is that when I come up with a painting idea, have an image in my head of how I want it to look, but when I actually start to paint the work, it takes a left turn right from the first brush stroke and I realize right away that this painting is going to end up being a very different work than I intended. Which I think is great because I have something in front of me that I have never seen before and it's quite exciting. It is also a challenge though because you are confronted with color or design problems that you have not worked out previously in your mind or on paper, through your previous work or even through other peoples previous work that you may have been looking at or influenced by and they already figured out some of the problems.
Sometimes it has taken me three tries to finally get my original vision onto canvas. But then I end up with three different new works where otherwise I would only have one. So, I am going to try one more time for my original concept of this Godzilla pose which I think I will do on the computer in Adobe illustrator sometime.
Alter Ego Godzilla - July 2012 - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 inches
