Yay, we did it! We’ve finally made it to part four of the four-part series counting down to MoCCA Fest and the debut of my anthology, Oak & Linden. Do you need to catch up on part 1, part 2 or part 3? Now all that’s left to do is come on down to the Lexington Ave. Armory (between 25th & 26th) this Saturday or Sunday sometime between 11:00 and 6:00 and visit my booth (it’s # 312 ½)! – Pushy Pat

An ode to Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bombay Sapphire inks. Dese. Dings. Iz. Da. Shit. I really love to use em. Every time I make something that looks like watercolor, that’s what I’m using. What I especially love about them is the way you can work in glazes and build colors on top of each other. I never much liked how watercolors will reactivate once you touch a wet brush to them, leaving you with mud colors—at least if you ain’t got watercolor skills, which I ain’t got. But ink is ink; it’s permanent! The colors go right on top of each other, with the underneath ones shining through the on top ones. I really think the outcome is much richer than anything I’ve ever pulled off with paint.

I started by making the background people a nice umber type of brown, since the foreground people would use lots of primaries, especially blue. At first this scene was gonna be in the middle of a nice summer day, but soon I realized that Lawrence the Projectorhead’s Pantone blue was really close to the color of the sky. I was really terrified that a sunset purple would look corny, but once I did it, I really liked the mood it brought of evening on the boardwalk, as things turn from weird to weirder.

And here you have it, the finished drawing. Now come visit me at MoCCA Fest and get yourself a copy of Oak & Linden issue one, which some are calling the Pat Barrett Sextravaganza.