Flipside art

[jrw]

I never ended up writing anything about going to Burning Flipside, but I did make a number of drawings in my sketchbook, as well as one painted canvas (embelleshed with ballpoint). The sketches were rather on the loose side - there was something about the raging heat that made the idea of laboring over a drawing not as immediately appealing as

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[jotasbrane]

Are these drawn from life or from imagination?

[jrw]

Well, most of them were things I witnessed during the course of a day or two then sat down later and drew them all in a bunch.

The fourth one is of Silona brushing her hair, drawn while watching her brushing her hair.

whoa! lovely!

[sheilagh]

Is that GigaMatt in the second one?

I really, really like #7, with the golden lady in the lake...

Re: whoa! lovely!

[jrw]

Actually that is Silona lying in our tent, ailing but beautiful in her frailty...

[sheilagh]

the flipside bathers works well. is that a remote control plane in the upper right?

[jrw]

That was some camp's rigging on the top of the cliff. It had a scaffolding and then a mannequin torso hanging from it.

[limax]

Wow