This is NOT a painting of NYC, but of another dimension....
If you've ever watched the movie Super Mario Brothers The Movie, you'll probably recognize this skyline from Dinohattan. There's a brief "fly-over" of the city in the movie, and from a crumby Polaroid I took of the TV of that scene, I spent a day grounded back in 1994/95 painting this on a wooden board in my bedroom.
Recently I dug this out of my old bedroom at my Mom's house after finding a SMB website that's actually NEW, digging up a bunch of old information from the series. I was a HUGE addict of the movie, and I thought I'd share this little painting (although it's a pretty crappy photograph of it, my apologies, there's no daylight and I wanted to take a picture of it NOW...) The towers were drawn originally on line paper and then pressed into the wood, and painted using craft acrylic (my favorite medium) and probably finished over the course of 8 hours or so when I was a teenager. I remember painstakingly counting all of the stories of the buildings so I could get all of the little details right - pity I didn't have much eye for realism and still don't!
Just thought I'd share it since I don't put up many of my paintings.
When I was 13/14 I was obsessed with the Super Mario Brothers movie. I'm still a fan of the movie, and still have most of the stuff that I had collected back in the day. One of my obsessions was drawing little things from scenes of the movie. This is my version when I was 14 of the side of the Mario's van. This is the first of a couple of Mario-related drawings I thought I'd post since it's the 20th Anniversary of the movie this year. I love how "Brookln's Best" was spelled wrong. ^_^
So obsessed I was about the Koopa Tower logo that I used to draw this on my homework and wherever I had a spare scratch of paper. This is a scan of one of three "greeting cards" that I was attempting to make for my friends at the time. Probably drawn about 1993/1994, I would sometimes even draw the logo on my ankle with a marker and pretend it was a tattoo. Yup...I was obsessed, I still remember it fondly. Thought I'd post at least one more piece of old fan art to mark the 20th Anniversary of the movie. Oooh goodness, just realized that means this DRAWING is 20 years old. Oi vey, I'm old!!
