The drawing to the left is entitled “She is My Sunshine”.
The artist is Sam Brown out of Denver, Colorado. I stumbled upon his work at Exploding Dog through a friend a few years ago and fell in love with the art. The drawings have a simple aesthetic appeal but what I love most about them is their ability to capture very specific emotions. Each drawing has a little title like, “since when did you have lazer eyes?” or “without you i am completely incomplete”. One is called “I’d slay a dragon for you” and the drawing says “but why?”.
So much of emotion is a moment. You may have a thousand sad or melancholoy moments but each one is a little different; aach happy moment is tender in its own way. And that’s what resonates with me – many of these quirky pieces of art have a universal appeal to them. They might be kind of weird but you “get it” for lack of a better phrase. People can send in ideas for him to draw -
Go forth and explode! I mean explore…
Checked them out! My favourites (thus far) are “At the bottom of everything,” “I think about you a lot,” “I’m afraid to go back home,” and “can you draw some sheep?” The last one reminds me of The Little Prince. Haha. I’m bookmarking it, by the by.
And the Laika one. “thought this was a good start.” I just saw that one just now. Just a moment ago.