MOSS MAN

Here is Moss Man, he was my favorite he-man action figure as a kid. cool he-man article, Happy Holidays.

Hordak

HORDAK

BAC

Lucky♦Johan
http://www.flickr.com/luckyjohan

~Skeletor and Orko chillin' (He-man Theme)

Be Golden
BAC
12/23/09
http://brooksbegolden.com

http://brooksblairgolden.blogspot.com

Flip the script...

This past Tuesday I rented Angles & Demons and after watching it I wanted to try my brain at creating an ambigram of my name. Ambigrams are those typographical treatments that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation. In my research I found that this display-type form originated in the late nineteenth century, rendering the stories claim of them dating back some 400 years historically incorrect. The ones featured in the film (earth, wind, fire, water, and illuminati) were created in blackletter by current king-supreme of ambigrams is Mr. John Langdon. 

Ambgrams are not mutually exclusive to blackletter-type, they can be created in any style in which the artist is comfortable and/or competent. I did feel the pairing was complimentary and stayed with it. Rather than using contemporary blackletter I used characteristics indicative the late 19th century blackletter based off the of Albion-Gotisch created in 1880 by Hausschnitt Von Benjamin Krebs Nachf. The other type on this page is based off 19th century letterpress.

 

and flipped....

 

Sniff...

I went through a period of time where I drew a lot of stuff like this. Not so much any more. The big difference is I don't use Design markers anymore as water colors suit my temperament much better and are way more forgiving. They also never dry up so they are definitely one of the more frugal mediums. I just brought an old tooth brush to the office/studio for spattering stuff but I forgot to bring some india ink. I have been wanting to play with india ink for weeks now. I have a huge bottle somewhere.

Ink and watercolor and acrylic on paper

The Best Part of Waking up...

I'm going to be in mexico the next two weeks, I'll try to post but I won't have a scanner so we'll see how that goes. Happy Holidays Art people.