VIEW IN MY ROOM
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Drawing, Graphite on Paper
Size: 33 W x 26.5 H x 0.1 D in
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This was my first attempt at drawing my silver, 1950’s Horikawa Attacking Martian Robot. The problem was that my drawing was so large laid out on my drawing table when I finished, I realized I had forced the perspective of the entire drawing. The head was large, the body was small and the feet were tiny — too funny! I decided to trim the image to this shape because it was still pretty darn cool. I also loved how some of the burnished graphite really looked like stamped chrome. I think the best part for me is the dent by the upper right eye. It happen when our housekeeper Maria didn’t realize when these fall off the bookshelf, yeah, they can break. My robot survived but a couple of my die-cast bicycles didn’t. =-( This also was one of my featured drawings in my first professional art show at the Fig Tree Gallery in Fresno, CA. ##### You can read about my “Happy Art" series in my bio and why drawing these parts of my childhood bring me such happiness today. You can also follow me on Facebook to see my latest work and also join in and read what others are saying about the memories they have too. https://www.facebook.com/michael.pitzer.73/ PLEASE NOTE: This drawing actually ships in its frame and will require a little extra time to safely pack it for shipping. A Certificate of Authenticity, signed and dated by me is also placed in the packaging prior to shipping. If you’re interested in my artistic associations: • Member Artist, Pasadena Association of Artists • Member Artist, Paso Robles Art Association • Member Artist, Morro Bay Art Association • Member Artist, Cambria Center for the Arts Gallery • Member Artist, Los Angeles Art Association • Member Artist, The Fig Tree Gallery
Original Created:2018
Subjects:Still Life
Materials:Paper
Styles:IllustrationPop ArtRealism
Mediums:Graphitecolored pencilPencil
Drawing:Graphite on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:33 W x 26.5 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Other
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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My drawings are highly rendered personal items that come from my childhood growing up on the St. Clair River in Algonac, Michigan. I call my work “Happy Art” because the inspiration to create each piece is simple to appreciate, easy to understand, and the work makes me -- and others, happy. Before I started drawing again, I spent 40 years of my life working in advertising, an industry I still love. Twenty of those years were spent as an international, award-winning Executive Creative Director working for some of the largest ad agencies in the country on some of the most creative accounts in the world. Much of that career was spent in vibrant, competitive, creative advertising markets like Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Phoenix. Then, in 2010, we moved to Fresno… where for the first time in my professional career I experienced, what it’s like to have my creative soul sucked dry. That was just my experience, and as they say, “your mileage may vary.” It was awful — but here’s the amazing part; my wife, Lynn, knew how unhappy I was and, without any job offer or freelance prospects to provide income, she told me to quit. I think her exact words were, “Get the f**k out of there now! Please.” I did. That’s where this journey truly begins. Lynn encouraged me to start drawing again — something I hadn’t done in many years. My natural instinct was to pour what I was feeling emotionally into my art. My first attempts at painting captured the emotional struggle I was feeling of being trapped in darkness, yet needing to let my creativity out. But, these pieces were dark and somewhat foreboding. The issue for me was that this direction (while true) was not cathartic and was not making me happy. I’d always found drawing with a pencil to be meditative, so one day, I sat down at my desk and started drawing my Stan Smith tennis shoes. They were so beat-up, just like me. The leather was incredibly soft with some scars and scuffs, like me. And yet they still had a lot of life left in them, once again, like me. When Lynn saw what I was doing she wanted it framed and hung by our front door so that everyone coming to our home could see what her husband had drawn. That felt so great. It was like being a kid again and having a drawing put on the refrigerator for everyone to see. Then it hit me, I was feeling really happy. What to draw next? I started thinking about the things that made me happy as a child. As I drew, I put progressive drawings up on Facebook.
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