Alien Alphabet

Inspired by the unintelligible but gracefully self-consistent writing in Luigi Serafini's Codex, I have begun attempting to originate my own alphabet of alien writing. I probably should just study sanskrit instead, as it already seems to embody the types of lines and linear relations I am contemplating.  

Anyway, here's a page of it.  When I look at the symbols long enough, they start to mean something.

Alien Alphabet

Rift Portal Sketch

Sometimes the rift opens up before you, spreading open like an orifice, bursting, portal-like with teeming weirdies from nether regions, strange dimensions, converging on this nexus of hyperspatial awareness.  Dig it!

Rift Portal
2015

Vision Sketch: Abstract Tower

This tower, or something that looked quite similar to it, appeared in my mind's eye as I lay down to sleep recently.  

Abstract Tower 2015

Additional Vision Paintings

 

These few paintings were completed awhile ago, maybe a year or more, but for some reason, I neglected to post them to this blog. Now here they are.

My vision paintings are paintings of visions that I have, in dreams, or sub-conscious states.  I try to remember them when I have them, and sketch them down on paper, to be later finalized in paint.

 

Gnomes in Sentient Forest

Spiral Energy Beam

Energy Cone

 

 

 

 

 

Light Show



Energy Beam Omega



Spirits of Consciousness



Energy Field

The following paintings aren't exactly vision paintings, in that they are not based on any vision I had.
Rather, they represent a style I experiment with, of filling in the visual field with swirls and splotches of bright color, then finding faces in the jagged edges of the splotches and bringing them out with additional paint.  As such, abstract and naturalistic-looking creatures and spirits emerge.  Enjoy.

Paint Spirits I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paint Spirits II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paint Spirits III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paint Spirits IV

Practice Oil Painting

 

Trying to get familiar with oil paints as a medium, this scrapey design emerged.

Security Man: Political Comic Strip

 



This is an old one.  An idea for a political cartoon featuring a psychopathic superhero, whose heinous acts are all in the name of "security."  You can probably guess this was around the time of the invasion of Iraq, following the September 11th bombings, which Iraq had nothing to do with.  At that time, many wrongheaded and destructive policies emerged out of blind calls for "heightened security," "homeland security," and "think of the children!"  I can't apologize for the violence of the cartoon: it's a cartoon.  The real violence and terror committed by our country in the name of "security", can never be apologized for.

Pardon my penmanship; translation below comic.

SECURITY MAN
Woman: You know, it's prob'ly nothing, but I just don't feel as safe as I used to, before that big unpleasantness a few years back.
>BAM!<
Security Man: Someone feeling unsafe?
Man: Security Man!
Woman: Oh Thank God!
Man: What the-?
(gun sounds) Klik!, Ch-chik!
Woman: NOOO!!
Crowd: AAAAAARRRGHH!!
(gunfire) Bada-bada-bow! Blammo!
Woman: No!! Please!!
(gun) Klik
KA-KOW!!!
>squish<
Security Man: Security Man is Secure.
Narrator: HOOORAHH!!!

by David Fleischmann
Copyright 2004

Vision Sketch: Alien picture frame

 

Barely just started on this one.  Another vision sketch, to become a vision painting, perhaps starting with a page-sized watercolor, and then stepping up to a large-sized acrylic painting.  Just the elaborate, alien architecture of a picture frame for now, to contain an idyllic pastoral mountain scene, but I may have said too much.  The image will speak for itself, once completed.  For a drawing with this much detail, documenting progress in stages is wise, kind of like saving a backup, in case the computer goes kerflooey.  Anyway, enjoy.

 

I'm out drawing on Main Beach, Laguna Beach, California every weekend, at the south end of the boardwalk by the kids' playground, just south of the historic lifeguard tower.  Look for me in the afternoons and evenings, and get your caricature drawn, free of charge!