Yellow Kimono

'Gaijin No Bijinga' at Galeria Nuble in Santander.


My show, up now until July 4th, originally started with the Yellow Kimono, my first picture of the show that inspired the direction I was going to go. Originally called 'Sykimono' for the postcards, short for 'system-kimono', it is now called 'Kikimono', Kiiro(Yellow) - Kimono, basically short for Yellow Kimono. Paper and antique calligraphy pages wood glued to canvas before painting acrylic and dye.
The main head decoration is based on the traditional Geisha 'Kanzashi' hair ornaments. In place of the flowers is my 'System' piece.



I mostly stopped painting lettering in my graff when I joined Ikonoklast in 1989 and went through my Gigerism biomechanical style. And I always just liked painting characters anyway, and was always happy to be the character guy when doing productions. I still do outlines in my sketchbook or doodle on old paper and even hide them in my illustration work now and then but you won't see them very often. When I worked in computer games I would hide my name somewhere in each game I worked on. Lettering is something that never leaves you, and it's what makes the graff art movement so unique. After all these years I still love all graffiti. A city just doesn't feel right for me if it isn't written on.
But I still also like drawing. This is the original sketch on old newsprint paper.