HanumanMuch to my surprise and delight, I was recently asked to do my first piece of tattoo flash art.
My good friend and fellow artist Richard Russell, who is already significantly illustrated, approached me to design a tattoo for him. He wants a drawing of the Hindu deity Hanuman. He will be holding up a symbol for the heart chakra because according to Richard, Hanuman is the deity of devotion.
OK, not sure I get any of that stuff, but I'm down with drawing pictures of a holy monkey-boy.
Maybe Richard asked me to take this on because I have a long history of anthropomorphizing chimpanzees in my own work (see below for two images from the series "The Impossible Highway Volume I: Duty Before Roses").
Title - Nobody Sends me Flowers: the Song of Colonel Beauchamp
Title - Heroes of the Air
When you're done with Russell's tat I'd like to commission a bust of Marshall Brickman, co-writer of Annie Hall.
ReplyDelete"They did not take me in the Army. I was, um, interestingly enough, I was, I was 4-P. Yes. In the, in the event of war, I'm a hostage."
That was Marshall Brickman? I always thought that was a Woody Allen line.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I can do a portrait of Brickman as a chimp?
Good Richard has been talking about this monkey god tatoo for almost a year now....the illustration at the top of "Hanuman" has a striking resemblance to Richard....i think it the eyes and the hairpiece.
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