Daily Gouache 7/30-8/4

Daily Gouache 7/20-7/29

I started to geek out on dinosaur skulls for a bit. My humble career as an artist started in the second grade, where many thunder lizard drawings were made in the margins of my workbooks.

The bottom image is another music-inspired piece, the strange love child of a Florence and the Machine song and a few other songs that were on my iPod shuffle playlist. These drawings are a lot of fun and usually involve a lot of of experimentation with media and process.

Daily Gouache 7/10-7/19

Another slew of paintings and sketches. I had a particularly fun time with these. Some were experiments in technique, others were just me playing with a few concepts, some of which were influenced by what I happened to be reading or watching at the time.

On a personal note, I've been looking at Barron Storey's journals for some inspiration. He came down to Memphis College of Art some time years ago and shared his sketchbooks with a captivated audience, an experience that left a lasting impression on me. In an interview, he mentioned how those journals were vital for him during periods of isolation and introspection. That said, Barron was going through some serious stuff; my occasional rounds of short term solitude and the resulting lonely lil' hearts are certainly light by comparison. The point of my tangent, however, is that Storey's journals remind me of what a sketchbook could be, and that the process of drawing can be a vehicle for both ideation and emotional respite.

Daily Gouache 6/20-7/9

I've been away from the blog for way too long, embarrassingly so. The Daily Gouache project became the background noise to moving, a lot of teaching, and a sudden influx of freelance work (which is always good). That said, this project is certainly not dead, and here's the backlog from the past two weeks.














NOTE: I've excluded the work from 6/25-6/29 and 7/5, as it's being used for assignments that are pending publication. I'll definitely post them later.

The Daily Gouache Giveaway Winner: Kayla Cline!

The winner of the Daily Gouache Giveaway is the ink-slinging corgi enthusiast Kayla Cline!
Speaking of Daily Gouache, I've been working on a super cool project this week that involves A LOT of gouache paintings. Non-disclosures are keeping me from posting them now, but in the next week I'll have a big process/catchup post :)

The Daily Gouache 63 Day Anniversary/ Gouache Sale/ Gouache Giveaway

Hey guys! I just did the count today and found out that the Daily Gouache Project is 63 days strong! That means there's a little gouache painting for 63 days of the calender year! To celebrate the roughly two month anniversary, I'm offering you guys the chance to receive a free 6"x6" gouache painting of anything you want! ANYTHING! Just send me an email at me@derrickdent.com by June 26th with your suggestion for what you think I should paint for a one of my project pieces. The winner will be announced the following Monday with the finished piece posted that Wednesday.

ALSO:
I am having a sale of some of my pieces from the collection thus far. I'm going to be moving soon and this kind of project tends to create a healthy backlog of artwork. As much as I would like to hold on to all of these pieces, I'd rather they were appreciated by someone who likes them. Plus, moving is expensive (you'd REALLY be helping me out)!
A lot of them fall under the dimensions of 8"x10", which run at $80, and 6"x6" which will go at $60. There are some odd pieces that will be priced differently, but we're talking MAJOR DISCOUNTS for original art here. Here's a list of what's up for sale:

Wrong Side of the Street, 6"x 6" ($70)
Wakka Wakka, 6"x 6" ($20)
Boys Room, 6"x 6" ($20)
Leftover Paint Lady, 6"x 6" ($60)
Super Dawn of Man Fighter 2001, 6"x 12" ($70)
Where are My Teef?, 6"x 6" ($40)
Do the Dog, 6"x 6" (SOLD)
Funky Chickens, 6"x 6" ($60)
Penguins, 6"x 6" ($60)
Lucha Lady, 6"x 6" ($60)
Lucha Lady 2, 6"x 6" ($60)
Lucha Lady 3, 5.5"x8" (SOLD)
Lucha Lady 4, 5.5"x 8" (SOLD)
Red in the Face, 5.5"x 8" ($70)
Coat, 6"x 6" ($40)
Scarf, 4.5"x 8" (SOLD)
Doom, 6"x 6" ($60)
Doomette, 6"x 6" ($60)
Lucha Lady Pin-up, 9"x 15" ($110)
Football Pic, 8"x 10" ($80)
BOOOM!, 8"x 10" ($80)
Pig-Out, 8"x 10" (SOLD)
Bathroom, 8"x 10" ($40)
Elephant, 9"x 12" (SOLD)
Samus, 8"x 10" (SOLD)
Pearce, 7"x 9" ($40)
Hanna Poster, 8"x 10" ($40)
Step Right Up, 3.75"x 5.75" ($20)

The cost for each includes $2 shipping and handling ($5 international). Email me for more ordering information.

Thanks a ton, guys!

Daily Gouache 6/12- 6/19

I've been teaching drawing and comics classes for the past week, and there are still three more weeks of that ahead of me, so the blogging may be taking a bit of a back seat. That said, here's a big catch-up post to show that gouache paintings are still coming along.

The image above was a Father's Day present. Here it is sitting in its rightful place amongst my dad's snapshots and counter ephemera.