Chuck Close

A very cool and inspiring artist I’ve met recently went to art school with Chuck Close. Design Kompany’s seen Chuck Close’s stuff a couple of times now–nine years ago at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and two years ago at the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis:

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Have any of you guys seen Chuck’s work up Close? Huge impact. I’m not big on putting words to art or design, because I think you really have to have your own personal interpretation of a work, but these paintings and drawings make you really look with deeper consideration at the color, light, shade and tone of people and objects in the world around you.

John Coltrane Blue Note album coverAfter the MoMA show years ago, I got really inspired. I made a 6′x8′ portrait of John Coltrane, using this Blue Note album cover as a reference and a pencil and office inkpad (for thumbprints) as tools. Here’s a part of it, to give you an idea:

John Coltrane by Design Kompany 1998This was in 1999!

More recently, the Blue Note style and a Medeski Martin Scofield and Wood show here in Seattle inspired a Photoshop sketch I call ‘Edge Jazz on the Skid.’

Reinspired by the gridding up in scale method, this weekend I’m going to do a 16″x20″ portrait–probably ink thumbprints again–of a Secret Subject. –DK

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