The Hidden Worlds of Mishimi

Socialism and Modernity

2012-01-18T10:52:00.000-08:00

I went to the exhibition titled "Socialism and Modernity", held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. I felt that the exhibition was chock-full with artifacts raging from works of high-art, posters, furniture, architecture and what not, but still, this overflowing abundance enabled me to make a decent photo-album of today's tour.

En Plein Air

2012-01-14T08:38:00.000-08:00

New Developments

2012-01-10T13:24:00.000-08:00

Phase 5.0: Finishing (kind of)

2011-11-07T11:36:00.000-08:00

I think I'm on the right track, since I've stopped sketching and rendering and started to paint for a change.

Edit: decided to kill off the WIP posts below, it was kind of tedious to go through it all.

Today's Progress

2011-10-28T10:03:00.000-07:00

My World

2011-10-27T11:45:00.000-07:00

Thesis sketches

2011-10-26T11:42:00.001-07:00

This is my graduate yeear at the Art Academy, so I'm supposed to come up with a concept to develop into a thesis artwork - an artifact, or an art installation, or whatever - that would hopefully sum-up all that I've learned at the academy and hopefully provide insights into some formal and philosophical issues that I might like to raise. So, I'm focusing on cartography, which I think is a subject matter of considerable relevance to art, and particularly to painting. I believe that we live in a faulty world which is misrepresented by faulty maps that use manipulative projections and culturally imposed conventions (e.g. North must be up, while South must be down, etc.), and as such, maps are a poster child for a simulated reality that permeates our cultures. So anyways, here I present some smaller-scale sketches on paper or canvas that should help me develop the idea.

Frenkie goes to Pantovchak

2011-10-24T13:22:00.001-07:00

Effects of miniaturization on comic narration

2011-09-24T11:16:00.000-07:00

A great article on this link http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/09/steve-jobs-ruined-comics/?pid=4906, it really tells you a lot!.

Goodies

2011-09-10T12:32:00.001-07:00

Can't wait to try them out :D

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Artsy stuff

2011-08-30T04:37:00.000-07:00

Seiner "Ugor" docked in Makarska Harbor.

2011-07-30T06:50:00.001-07:00

Oilin' up

2011-07-28T13:35:00.000-07:00

Bocce Court in Dalmatia

2011-07-27T08:34:00.000-07:00

Pine Tree Bay Revisited

2011-07-25T01:09:00.001-07:00

Lady from the Sea

2011-07-23T08:08:00.001-07:00

Not Munch's though...

End of the Year Exhibition at ALU Zagreb

2011-06-01T11:22:00.000-07:00

This article, which features a photo of my colleagues and me, and our recent work, was published today in the Croatian weekly "Globus." The article announces end-of-the-year exhibition hosted at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts between 3 and 9 June 2011.

Pine Tree Bay En Plein Air

2011-05-21T13:16:00.001-07:00

Did this with a really cheap set of tempera from a supermarket, albeit on a relatively decent 50x60 canvas. I wish I had brought my oil colors with me during this short visit to the Pine Tree Bay, but what the heck.

The Last Nude

2011-05-19T12:20:00.001-07:00

Today was the last nude-drawing class I'll ever have at the Academy. During the last four years of studying, I had them four times a week, in two 45-minutes sessions, Monday through Thursday. Due to their abundance I have often posted nude drawings on this blog; they'd fill in nicely whenever I haven't had anything else to put. But now, all that is gone; the formal nude-drawing education is finished. I can hardly say that this drawing is the best one I've done in the last four years, but it'll certainly hold a special place for me.

Ink and Wash Painting (墨絵, sumi-e)

2011-05-14T07:08:00.000-07:00

I made these ink and wash pieces today at the park.

This Week's Charcoal Nudes

2011-05-13T12:09:00.001-07:00

En plein air

2011-04-30T12:19:00.000-07:00

Study of a nude obese man

2011-04-08T12:59:00.001-07:00

Portrait revisited

2011-03-24T01:57:00.000-07:00

To my Japanese brethren :(

2011-03-22T14:00:00.000-07:00

私の日本の兄弟や友人には：注意してください。あまり外に出るように注意してください。私は皆さんのために祈る！私はあなた達とあなたの家族の皆さんがこの不幸な出来事によって影響を受けないことを願っています。私は出来る何かがいたことを望む。

Nude drawing, March

2011-03-05T02:43:00.001-08:00

What's going on?

2011-02-24T13:55:00.001-08:00

Watercolor sketch of my son

2011-02-15T10:22:00.000-08:00

Current work

2010-12-25T13:44:00.000-08:00

A three-panel piece depicting some sort of post-futuristic wasteland, 106 x 55 inches, oil on canvas.

Put your hands in the air, if you's a true player!

2010-12-17T12:40:00.001-08:00

This is what I'm currently working on. Acrylics and oil on board.

Branding

2010-12-12T13:55:00.000-08:00

Just a sketch of an opening panel for a western story I'm working on.

Communist Partisan, Eastern Bosnia, late '42.

2010-11-07T16:21:00.001-08:00

I break a month-long hiatus with this sketch, depicting a communist partisan somewhere in Eastern Bosnia, late '42. I'd love to do a story set in WW2 Yugoslavia.

Eleven

2010-09-11T12:22:00.001-07:00

Mr. Horse

2010-09-08T09:37:00.001-07:00

Pinup

2010-09-03T02:40:00.000-07:00

120 x 80 cm (37 x 31") oil on canvas.

Dry Brush Sketch

2010-09-02T07:22:00.001-07:00

Lee Strasberg

2010-08-25T16:05:00.001-07:00

and some guy....

Doodlein

2010-08-21T12:21:00.000-07:00

Cowboy Doodle

2010-08-20T15:43:00.001-07:00

Colornaut

2010-08-14T07:49:00.000-07:00

Pinetree Bay Revisited

2010-08-12T09:01:00.000-07:00

Under the blazing sun

2010-08-10T07:17:00.001-07:00

Bacon & Beans

2010-08-06T01:45:00.000-07:00

Just trying out some things...

Form-tweaking

2010-07-31T15:18:00.000-07:00

Remains of the sunlight

2010-07-25T04:27:00.001-07:00

Old Dalmatian House

2010-07-21T06:19:00.001-07:00

A stark beauty of Brač

2010-07-14T07:56:00.001-07:00

Yet another iteration. I think its final.

Dalmatian Savannah

2010-07-13T08:31:00.000-07:00

...on the island of Brač.

Sepia underpainting

2010-07-11T10:14:00.001-07:00

Furano-san no okage de...

2010-07-11T06:35:00.000-07:00

I did a storyboard gig for a beer commercial, thanks to my friend Frano, who had recommended me for the job.

Today's progress

2010-07-10T07:32:00.001-07:00

Rusticating...

2010-07-09T10:16:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas.

Summer afternoon

2010-07-09T01:04:00.001-07:00

Again, a somewhat uneasy mixture of transparent washes and opaque applications of acrylics.

Harbour

2010-07-08T02:57:00.001-07:00

I did this with acrylics, in a technique that somewhat resembles gouache

The setting during the making.

An Old West Has-Been

2010-07-03T07:15:00.000-07:00

Chances are, I might do a western story. I'd love that.

Compositional studies

2010-06-22T06:15:00.000-07:00

A portrait of my father-in-law

2010-06-15T13:33:00.000-07:00

A new comic

2010-05-30T15:32:00.000-07:00

Page one out of ten. Will have an English version, too. Just ain't sure whether to keep it in bw or to use halftones...

RIP Dennis Hopper

2010-05-29T12:56:00.000-07:00

A quick one

2010-05-13T07:07:00.000-07:00

Nude Today

2010-05-12T12:22:00.001-07:00

A dump of recent stuff

2010-05-05T13:32:00.000-07:00

Just some lady

2010-04-05T07:55:00.001-07:00

Obama as Bogey

2010-04-02T05:52:00.001-07:00

How republican can a guy get?

2010-04-01T11:32:00.000-07:00

Sneaky weasel by an easel

2010-03-30T12:17:00.001-07:00

Two nudes

2010-03-06T01:02:00.001-08:00

Comrade Death

2010-03-05T13:14:00.001-08:00

Portrait of wife

2010-02-24T08:44:00.000-08:00

Harry Potter???

2010-02-22T12:31:00.000-08:00

No, just a nerd-kid from a commercial.

An Exercise With an Egg Tempera

2010-02-22T09:24:00.000-08:00

Flowers of Romance

2010-02-19T12:31:00.001-08:00

Lawman

2010-02-16T06:59:00.001-08:00

Just a head today

2010-02-12T12:35:00.001-08:00

Rusticating

2010-02-03T08:23:00.001-08:00

Steam Hoth

2010-01-27T14:33:00.001-08:00

Someone dead and gone

2010-01-27T11:15:00.001-08:00

Taking Comics to Art School

2010-01-21T07:59:00.001-08:00

Didn't know what to do at the nude figure-drawing class today, so I handled the model with a marker in an all-too-familiar fashion.

Nostalgic shots by Yasujiro Ozu

2010-01-15T13:12:00.000-08:00

One could learn many things from Ozu's visual style. However, this footage doesn't include his trademark dialogue filming technique and "tatami-shots" (save for very few scenes of train compartments etc.).

The drill continues

2010-01-15T08:48:00.000-08:00

Finished, I think

2009-12-22T07:22:00.001-08:00

Edit: Worked some more on it....

Gloria S.

2009-12-15T11:34:00.000-08:00

Yet another Work in Progress

2009-12-13T13:21:00.000-08:00

One of these days, I'll finish them all.

Oils, oils....

2009-12-12T12:29:00.000-08:00

A wartime minister

2009-12-10T14:44:00.000-08:00

Freestylin' with pen...

Sinkin'

2009-12-09T12:11:00.000-08:00

Pan

2009-12-08T09:44:00.001-08:00

The night was tepid...and fetid...

2009-12-03T08:50:00.000-08:00

Charcoal and Acrylics on paper

Won't go any further

2009-12-01T07:42:00.001-08:00

Still working on it

2009-11-30T11:28:00.000-08:00

Visiting my in-laws...

2009-11-28T10:36:00.000-08:00

I drew a sketch of my sister-in-law's daughter in her notebook.

Whats going on up there in the atelier???

2009-11-27T12:45:00.000-08:00

Cheap Shot

2009-11-25T08:29:00.001-08:00

Zombie sketch

2009-11-23T04:46:00.001-08:00

I think this one originated last summer in my old sketchbook.

There's always room to squeeze in a drawing

2009-11-22T12:26:00.000-08:00

Nude in 3D

2009-11-20T13:44:00.001-08:00

Lyin' down

2009-11-18T08:10:00.000-08:00

Sittin' in

2009-11-16T07:53:00.000-08:00

Rather blurry, sorry.

Ye cometh as lamb among wolves

2009-11-14T06:45:00.000-08:00

November pain

2009-11-11T07:43:00.001-08:00