Friday, June 12, 2009

drawings that I did from the balcony in the dark




I saw Camera Obscura last night at the Henry Fonda in Hollywood. They are sooooo great! The not great thing was that we had balcony seats. They are good for seeing the stage, but not so good for dancing around like you are supposed to do at a show. I tried to make the best of the situation by busting out my brush pen to doodle...but the only surface available to draw upon were cocktail napkins from the bar. So here are some doodles that I doodled out in the hot smelly balcony in the dark!

Anni Rossi opened. She plays the viola and sings and stomps on a suitcase wearing big boots for percussion. It took me a few minutes of watching her to realize that I went to CalArts with her! I think we had some classes together. People used to say she was awesome, but I never saw her perform until last night. Sean says I jacked her pretty hard in this drawing. Sorry Anni. You stomp out a song real good, though!



...THEN a band called Agent Ribbons played. They looked like a band of wind up dolls that played instruments! They had a great cello/violin player. She had a flower in her hair that was probably as big as her head.






I could not tell you what this bird guy was all about. He must have been over six feet tall, wearing a bright pink suit with a bird mask, and a moon shaped tambourine in one hand and a boxing glove on the other. If you are confused by these drawings, then imagine how I felt when this was actually happening in front of me.




Camera Obscura! They are a big band, and their lead singer has what I call a "cupcake" body: kinda thick, but not fat, but cute and appealing all over. Like a cupcake.






Yay!

9 comments:

Kim Caro said...

ur so-- awesome!

Charlene Fleming said...

Haha, wow... I totally just saw Camera Obscura a few days ago, but in San Francisco. They were great and I definitely recognize that violin player. Cute drawings... and the texture of the napkins adds even more character. ^_^

mannyfresh said...

Wow these are great. It just goes to show us all that an artist will draw on anything to get the sketch monkey off our back. Awesome.

Louie said...

i think these sketches are great!

samacleod said...

These are fantastic Brigette. Amazing.

Johnny Caracarton said...

you're a napkin-master!!!

Vi said...

Nice studies. I am a fan of the brush pen.

She Can't Decide said...

best recap of a show ever!

Hobo Divine said...

WOW! Very very nice! Apparently this is what Hirschfeld would do too!

These are fantastic!

(bye for now)