Monday, February 28th, 2011
For over a year now I’ve been sporadically doing drawings on the backs of Argentine Subway passes. Sometimes they’re of people I see, other times they’re based off of images I find, and some I just make up. A few weeks ago a fellow artist, welder Josh Welton, commissioned me to do the above passes. You can check out the entire gallery of Subway Pass drawings here.
To get your own custom Subway Pass, or to purchase existing passes contact me at jimmy@jimmydanko.com and we’ll make it happen.
You can check out Josh’s work at browndogwelding.com.
Tags: argentina, buenos aires, drawing, sketch, subte, subway pass
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
MADLY
14″ x 19″ (36cm x 48cm)
Acrylic and Argentine newsprint on wood panel
2010
This piece started as a commission based off of the original Orange Gorilla painting I did earlier in the year. The commission fell through but still thought it was a piece worth finishing.
Click on the image above to see the original Orange Gorilla painting.
Tags: acrylic, argentina, danko, gorilla, newsprint, orange, orange gorilla, wood, wood panel
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
LOCATION
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Went for a Halloween walk with a ghost and some paint.
Tags: argentina, buenos aires, graffiti, halloween, pacman, spray paint, stencil
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Sketch of the Day + Xacto knife + Spray Paint = new Gorilla decorations around the city
Tags: argentina, buenos aires, gorilla, sketch, spray paint, stencil, xacto
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
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For this past year my art studio has also been known as the living room in our apartment. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages of working at home. On the plus side no one would care if the only thing I wore to work was a feathered headdress and moon boots. On the down side, work and home life have an easy way of blending together making it difficult to focus and/or un-focus.
Last week though we decided to make a change. My canvases and paints now occupy a space I rent 19 blocks away on the 3rd floor of an old building in the neighborhood of Recoleta. The faded yellow room that I now dump my creative revelations and failures into sits atop two flights of worn creaky stairs, and was formerly part of a hostel that, until recently, filled both the second and third floors. As my easels moved into the 10″ x 10″ (3m x 3m) former dormitory, two simple wooden beds moved out.
In a bit of irony, not only does my studio reside in a former hostel, but on the first floor lives an old bar owned by Americans called El Alamo. The whole thing has me feeling a bit like Davy Crockett when I head to work each morning.
I’ve only been here a week, but I have a feeling some good things are gonna come out of this room.
Tags: alamo, argentina, art studio, buenos aires, danko, recoleta, studio
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