Field Trips and work

I just recently chaperoned my kids to the MOMA and the Metropolitan.  I lucked out in seeing many of Diego Rivera's work and many of his sketches.  His composition ideas are inspiring for me to consider. Especially since I mostly focused on the figure. On the illustration boards I've been using the bull from Wall Street to symbolically attack protesters from various groups. The bull as a symbol has been creeping into a lot of my work(  Also looking at Sue Coe and Goya's art) has made it something to continue playing with. And its shitting one percent on top of them. Fellow artists had advised me to not ink it or write any text to it. The blue pencils are what comic illustrators generally use before inking the work. I've been using the protest signs and panels to make the narrative flow along with the clouds. People are angry and have been since 2008. What is it about and what can the president do ?  Something that brings the Tea Party and the occupy protesters together and it's the economic disparity that looms over everyone.

On the scroll I've continued working on several landscapes of places that have direct relation to the War on Terror. I wanted to leave the figures out of them.  Using brush and ink as suggested by a mentor, I'm doing stand alone sequential art that has no text around it. The text will be separated in specific areas on the scroll.  The locations and  items that have been forgotten and left behind had me thinking and wondering  

 My students introduced me to a master artist who had spent the day sketching classic sculpture. Much of what I looked at involved size and scale of artist work. Like Jose Clemente Orozco's Dive Bomber Tank in six panels. It just brings me back to how I've been setting up the comic panels in my work. I sat in the room for the Images Of War (At a Distance) interactive exhibit.by Harun Farocki. It showed the connection between video games and war and how it can be used to control and manipulate people into being desensitized.

  At the Met I saw the Bearden exhibit and the African display of sculptured works. Much of which I took notes about in just how it impacts my own work.