Chase Gallery

Chase.  This one began while I was living in West Los Angeles in 2011.  I used to frequent quite a few coffee shops while I was there to work on various drawings.  One was kind of near this bank if you walked west a few blocks beside a gas station.  As I walked by, I couldn’t help noticing that the logo kind of looked like a nazi symbol.

You’re just asking for it with a logo that much like a nazi symbol!  I did several drawings of this logo until I happened on an idea to put a plus symbol in the middle extending the white space legs of the Chase symbol halfway on each side, and you get my version!

There were lots of pigeons around this sign that liked to perch on this building as it was one of the lowest buildings in that area.  There were streams of pigeon crap all over the top of the building when I took the original photograph.  I even saw some on the logo itself when I looked closer, but this didn’t show up in the original photograph.

I tried to capture them when they landed on the logo, but none of them wanted to land on it that day, so I found a photo of a Bruce’s Green Pigeon that was quite colorful and included that instead.  It was too far away to make out the pigeons in the original photos I took, so I made him bigger.

This started out as an oil painting done on the dastardly Gessobord I’ve written about on here as having destroyed all my old paintings.  It really turned out great according to my impossible standards and only took me a few weeks to do.  I really liked how it turned out, but again, it wouldn’t have ever lasted until today as Gessobord is an inferior surface to what I use now.

As you can see, this painting before it was destroyed by poor foundations, didn’t have the columns extend like the digital version does now.  You can see in the reflection on the left how under the blue ribbon in the black area some of the decaying going on with Gessobord.  I use a way different series of mediums than I make now.

Here’s a better photo of this painting I used on my old 2015 website.