Portable Texas
Because a showdown can occur in any location at any moment.
(filmed on-location in Portable Texas)
You might possibly have encountered this older version.
I wanted to touch it up for printing, but I had some issues with the background. First of all, it does not demonstrate Portable Texas well to show it being used in a Texas-like environment.
Also, it was from a period when I was obsessed with creating the impression of otherworldliness through the color-shifting of commonplace things, until I got around to coming up completely with non-common things. So grass became yellow, tree trunks became blue, rocks became purple and all that. But these were not necessarily aesthetically pleasing, since all natural objects have a flow to them that my arbitrary shifts lacked, and in fact real grass can be yellow, real tree trunks can be blue and real rocks can be purple, given the proper circumstances and lighting. So it just looked like I had no grasp of light. On this occasion I seem to also have decided that cactuses should be red, even though I already shifted another green object to yellow, so the ugliness was not even consistent, and that desert rocks were green, so that people would just assume I was taking a lazy shortcut to drawing grass, because nobody else would know that I only drew YELLOW grass. I cannot trust people to do their research so those needed to go!
The original probably is funnier, because the more I work over a drawing, the less sincere positive energy it has, but at least less people will think I do not know how to draw grass.
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Indighost sez:
My thoughts:
* The more details version feels more positive and exuberant. The lines only version feels evil and cynical somehow.
* The otherworldliness of your backgrounds, via color or otherwise, is the #2 reason I love your art.
Frimpinheap sez:
Evil is a surprise! Although the central figure certainly does not look inclined to be friendly.
I am curious about your specific use of “#2.” Does that mean there is one or more other ordered reasons?
chesse20 sez:
he doesn’t look like someone who lives in Texas, but he sure does love the asthetic
Indighost sez:
Yes. #1 is the plant thing.
Indighost sez:
Also yes. The addition detail allows the central figure’s facial features to become more apparent as a mischevious, almost playful grin rather than a unfeeling, blank stare. Similar effects on the other figures.
If I were rich enough to have my own art museum, the above is the blurb I would put next to your painting.
Charmlaton sez:
Everything’s bigger in Texas. Portable Texas is bigger than Texas.