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“Mapplethorpe Dance” (2021) by Carson Grubaugh

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“Mapplethorpe Dance” (2021) by Carson Grubaugh Comic Art

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Title:	“Mapplethorpe Dance” (2021) by Carson Grubaugh
Artist:	Carson Grubaugh (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	272
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	1/7/2022
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“Mapplethorpe Dance” (2021)
by Carson Grubaugh (1981- )
8.5 x 11 in., ink on paper
Coppola Collection

At the Patreon site organized by Sean Michael Robinson and Carson Grubaugh, which accompanies their collaboration on “Living the Line,” they offer a premium based on Carson’s Google Grab-Bag schtick.

He offers an original straight-to-ink sketch. Here is how that works. You are asked to provide a word or phrase (and obviously you can game this a bit). Carson then searches this word or phrase using Google Images. The first photographic image listed by Google Images will be the source material for the straight-to-ink sketch.

Carson has got a great eye. In fact, it freaks me out. He can use a brush (or pen) on paper with NO underlying outline, lay down lines or brushstrokes all over the page, and in about 20-30 minutes he produces a sketch. And all without the training wheels! He records it live. There are videos of this on YouTube (and at the Patreon site).

The November 2021 Grab-Bag phrase came from me. In fact, all three words that were voted on came from me. Given the things you can put after the name Mapplethorpe, I am a kind devil, so “Mapplethorpe Dance,” “Mapplethorpe Kiss,” and “Mapplethorpe Hug.”

Mapplethorpe Dance was the winner. The picture that Carson worked from is in the additional images.

The Patreon Site:
https://www.patreon.com/livingtheline/posts

The Home Site:
https://www.livingthelinebooks.com

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Rob Stolzer
Member Since 2004

Posted on 1/8/2022

That is some beautiful, lush drawing Brian.

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/8/2022

Rob Stolzer wrote:

That is some beautiful, lush drawing Brian.

Agreed, Rob.

Blank page. Ink to paper. No sketch.

Time lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiyVmyAu6kE

Real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke1Lwcdt92Y&t=1s

Rob Stolzer
Member Since 2004

Posted on 1/8/2022

Brian Coppola wrote:

Agreed, Rob.

Blank page. Ink to paper. No sketch.

Time lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiyVmyAu6kE

Real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke1Lwcdt92Y&t=1s

That time lapse is crazy. He makes it look so damn easy, and that arm with the elbow coming out toward the viewer is anything but easy.

Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/11/2022

Dang !!! Now there are two pages that I covet from your gallery. This is just mesmerizing

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

Posted on 1/11/2022

Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy wrote:

Dang !!! Now there are two pages that I covet from your gallery. This is just mesmerizing

Capturing the sensitivity in the style that Carson created this is completely beyond my ken.

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