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Olivia Matthew You Are So Cute

Published by Lee-Roy February 4th, 2007 in Field

It was a beautiful day today. Sitting and painting in the dining room, with the windows open, I could smell the neighbors’ barbecue and hear super bowl partiers. I had just laid down the blue of the sky, when I noticed some odd cloud formations. They spelled, “OLIVIA MATTHEW” and I watched as it completed with, “YOU ARE SO CUTE.”

Trying to make out all the tangled wires was a bit frightening. And more frightening to know that I live next to this thing.

5 Responses to “Olivia Matthew You Are So Cute”

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1 martha Feb 6th, 2007 at 9:27 pm

You have made something mundane truly beautiful here. Great sketch!
2 Lee-Roy Feb 7th, 2007 at 5:38 pm

Thanks so much, Martha! I find telephone poles and their tangled and criss-crossing wires rather fascinating and have since I was a kid. Not entirely sure why. I have a few ideas, maybe. One is that they seem to automatically make for some interesting compositions. And they’re so iconic of our era. This one says volumes about my neighborhood and of Los Angeles itself. It’s such a mess, but somehow it keeps functioning.
3 Gerald Feb 9th, 2007 at 2:52 pm

Great illustration! You really got all 54, 55, 56….(wait, I’m still counting the lines).
4 TM Feb 23rd, 2007 at 6:52 am

VERY nice. Reminds me of the Robert Crumb series on these - he’d get friends to drive him around the city so he could sketch them.
5 Lee-Roy Feb 23rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm

Gerald — Thanks! Yes, I’m still counting as well. Believe it or not, I did not get all of them.

TM — Yes! I LOVE R. Crumb’s telephone poles! Though I think his have a bit more character than this one. Also, check out my drawings from Sketchcrawl 12 1/2. More telephone poles can be found in one of the sketches there. Just quickies with ink & brush. Thanks for your comment! I’m linking you in “Who’s Commented Here.”

About Lee-Roy

I’m a Storyboard Artist and Illustrator currently in Los Angeles, where I live with my wife, three cats, and several colonies of ants. My earliest memory is as a three-year-old, drawing a picture. About three decades later, the picture is still being drawn. It’s one I never want to finish.