Warday L.A.

war day los angeles

My friend Dante, currently a professional fine artist in the Chicago area, often drew with me, studying various effects and treatments. I decided I’d do a monochrome study of a cityscape ravaged by war. I’d been reading a book titled Warday, about the USA after a limited-strike nuclear exchange. In that book L.A. hadn’t been too badly affected. Being a Chicagoland native, I felt L.A. ought to have had a problem too. The drawing studies reflections, rubble, gradients, and handles most of its challenges rather effectively. I am not satisfied with the long grass in the cracks of the sidewalk, and the planklike look of the rubble. As an architect today, I am not sure curtainwall would have survived the strike. Produced 12 August 1987 = Tayya 374b, 12th grade, three dozen seventh phase (Ralys-Akimalal Xrga).

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