CRAZYOLOGY (David Normal)

"Scissor Dancer," Marke Sketch, 2013.
#crazyology #sketchbook #pendrawing #blueskyart

"Chemical Imbalance," Oil on Panel, 2010. The entire time I was painting this I kept thinking it resembled the Kabbalistic "Tree of Life". #chemicalimbalance #crazyology #oilonpanel #davidnormal #dystopic

"Cloud Tapirs" Marker sketch, 2013

#tapirs #crazyology #markerdrawing #sketchbook

"Family Planning", digital collage 2018

"Lovechild" digital collage "study" for "Family Planning." Not a primatologist, but I believe this is a Japanese Snow Macaque, the type that are famous for bathing in their very own onsen.

#crazyology #snowmonkey #animalgamation #collage #digitalcollage #blueskyart

"Madame Crocodile," a faux side show banner, based on a 3D animated character I created and used in my short, "The Bicycle Ride." This banner was for a circus themed party in Point Reyes, CA. #crazyology #sideshow #davidnormal #animalgamation

"Sanaz" Marker sketch of a friend of mine by that name. 2013. This was made on a kind of "marker paper" that pungently outgassed toxic fumes. It's an example of #inhalantart #gluesniffing #markersketch #crazyology #davidnormal #blueskyart #animalgamation

"Lord of Misrule," 2008, Oil on Panel. I had "quit" painting for about 14 years and this was the first piece after resuming the practice. Now I think it has been 5 or 6 years since I was a painter.
#crazyology #lordofmisrule #oilpainting #painting #fool

"The Human Tree" 2010, Oil Painting on wood panel. There are a lot of "cosmic tree" paintings. It seems to be a niche. However, only mine tells the truth of the cosmic tree cut down.

#crazyology #davidnormal #cosmictree #humantree #anvil #evil #artbluesky #whynot #oilpaint #painting

"Contraband IV" Collage Series, collagr 4 of 4. Made by ripping up old Wired Magazines (mostly), and overpainting with acrylics.

#crazyology #collageart #acrylicpainting #davidnormal #blueskyart #handcutcollage

To anyone that, by the off chance, is paying attention: Yes, I am cutting and pasting the blurb from yesterday to today. I get "blurb fatigue," (you know what I mean?) and I just don't have the energy to make up a new blurb everytime. I hope you understand.

#blurb #blurbfatigue #blurble

"Contraband III" Collage Series, collagr 3 of 4. Made by tearing up old Wired Magazines (mostly), and overpainting with acrylics.

#crazyology #collageart #acrylicpainting #davidnormal #blueskyart #handcutcollage

"Contraband II" Collage Series, collagr 2 of 4. Made by ripping up old Wired Magazines (mostly), and overpainting with acrylics.

#crazyology #collageart #acrylicpainting #davidnormal #blueskyart #handcutcollage

Collage series, "Contraband I" 1 of 4. Made from a stack of back issues of Wired Magazine torn up (mostly) and painted over in acrylics.

#collage #crazyology #acrylicpainting #davidnormal #blueskyart #contraband #handcutcollage #wiredmagazine #

This is a small pen sketch made in the early 2000s while traveling in SE Asia. Possibly Thailand. Yeah, I know every other tourist was having fun, but I stayed alone on a tiny remote island.

#crazyology #penandink #horror #schizo #tourist #davidnormal #drawing #sketch #blueskyart

Hi Dadara, Nice to meet you here. So far, I find BlueSky refreshing (there used to be a soft drink company by that name). What I notice is that if I use tags, it appears to me that the people with those interests are finding my posts. On IG, it seemed to me, that the tags had no effect at all.

Thanks so much!!

"Traffic Jam," Oil on Panel, 2010. (Continuing with the ongoing random retrospective here on BlueSky.)

#crazyology #oilpainting #davidnormal #blueskyart

It's raining again, oh no! And I have only one eye! Print on acetate taped to my window. It's not what I would call a good drawing, but I like it anyway, and the original is tiny, but I enlarged it to make silkscreens.
#crazyology #rainyweather #cyclops #windowart #linedrawing

Black and white ink sketch on brown paper.
#blackandwhite #inkdrawing #tonedground #crazyology #davidnormal

A Mechanoid Misperspective!
#mechoid #perspective #futurist #crazyology #whitegouache #metallicprint

Misperspective!

These are pen and ink on a toned ground highlighted with white ink. These were also printed on silver paper which was a good look for these kind of "mechanoid" misperspective studies. Ah! "Misperspective" is a nice term. #crazyology #inkwash #tonedground #mechanoid #metallic #davidnormal

Fast forward to the relatively recent: "Six of Cups," 2023. This small mural was made for my parents apartment in Washington, DC. They've just moved to SF! It will be installed in their new apartment here. #crazyology #sixofcups #acrylicpainting #smallmural

It looks great!!

Hi Mangor! Are you doing this animation with AI?

This is super early work. Maybe painted this when I was 18-19. Experimenting with an expressionist (neo-expressionist?) style that might have made me rich and famous had I stuck with it. Ca. 1989 #crazyology #earlywork #neoexpressionism #davidnormal

Possibly multiple versions of this were made. A repeated cycle of digital collaging, printing, hand-painting, scanning, further manipulation in Photoshop and repeat. #crazyology #collage #acrylicpaint #digitalprinting

This is an example of experimentation in printing digital collages and painting over them. Maybe ca. 2013?

This collage, based on 19th Century wood engraving illustrations in the collection of the British Library, is an outtake from the "Crossroads of Curiosity" series of 2014.

YouTube video by koollatter Dinah Washington - Blue Skies

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