I grew up in a family that loved the UFO field and my brother and I were surrounded by Flying Saucer magazines and books of all kinds. When we were small boys, about 8/9, we actually saw an orange disc shapped object over San Francisco. (It was spotty clouds and broad daylight...There were "two" suns in the sky that day)....The object was at 2 O'clock, right over City College. At first it appeared to be a ball about the size of the sun , but then it began to spin, lay over flat and formed the classic saucer shape.... it then arched upwards into the clouds disappearing into them. Growing up with that experience has made us realize UFO's were not an illusion, swamp gas, or a flock of geese reflecting a light beam off the planet Jupiter but something much more. 

 

      While reading an artistic review of the “American Gothic” by Grant Wood in an art magazine I was captivated by the writer describing how that artist had integrated some of the features of his main caricatures into the background. For example the hedges behind the farmer emulated the shape of his head… the bush on the front porch matched the three pronged pitchfork held in the farmers hand, and other subtle references.  At the time I was reading on the flying saucer / alien subject and thought how fun it would be to do that picture using aliens and reflect the hedges to match the shape of the alien’s head. In thinking about composition and style, I remembered a drawing I did in Jr. High school (of which I won an award in the school contest) that was comprised of many dots to show shape and roundness of a machine part. I appreciated the detail-aspect of this method.  So, after carefully penciling the images to correct proportions, I mutated it to conform to the alien look. Very little line work was used except for fill and in some cases, architectural edges. This took me months to do in my spare time. After it was completed the idea came along to call it a “Famous Alien”. 

Then to re-name the picture itself to:  “Alien Gothic”.

 I started a second drawing after that.... morphing the famous painting by Leonardo da Vince: ”Mona Lisa”. After some time, this one became Mona Lizard.

 Thus the series began.. Over the years I collected drawings of other “famous” art paintings and sculpture and accumulated a collection.

At the beginning of this year I picked up that old folder, dusted it off and began to work on the famous aliens again. In 6 months I completed the other ten on my list for a total of twelve portraits. All works copyright steve talbott.(please see privacy policy).

 

 

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