Paintings/Drawings that show Bukowski (not BY Bukowski)

We've been talking about art that shows Bukowski many a times. rekrab and BlackSwan do paintings and others have done so too. But I think, we've never had a special thread dedicated to the topic so we can gather all these things. I'll start now.

Here's my latest find:
http://wellensaegerblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/charles-bukowski-auf-dem-weg-zur.html

According to Black Swan,
Buk's lips are the most difficult part of his face to paint.
She is right.

Here's a watercolour that I bought earlier this year.

That's a NICE one!
I like it!

I think it's his eyes - maybe I've done the lips wrong?

I mean the first painting.
The water color is pretty good.

I'm very happy about that watercolour, framed it only a couple of weeks ago and it looks great. Bought it on eBay from an Italian guy; he has another one on sale here.

That watercolor ain´t too bad either, and $50 seems a very reasonable price.

Not an easy beast to capture! unconsciously I always try to make him look better.

He has a very complex face -- all those lines and scars, angular planes. When you paint him, Black Swan, he does look a little better, but still like Bukowski.

There's a very famous (in Germany that is) author and illustrator of children's books named Janosch.

Here's a lithograph showing his version of Charles Bukowski:



(seems he didn't bother too much with the lips.)

Wish I had the portrait I did of him back in 1989/90. I sold it right after I finished it and never took a pic. The guy I sold it to, Paul Bushnell (he was the music director for The Commitments movie) lost it in a storage locker auction. It could be anywhere, even firewood for all I know.

I do have a pic of a Bukowski-related painting I did around the same time. It's not great, nor is it a great pic, but I can find it and scan it.

too bad you don't have a pic of that portrait.
show us your other one then.

esart: I bet that lost painting still exists. It's not too likely that someone who bought a storage locker would destroy or trash an art work. They may have it hoarded away or it may have been resold, but I bet it's still out there. You might even see it on eBay some day.

I took photos of all of the Bukowski portraits I've painted and sold, but the early ones were taken with a very crappy digital camera, the Kodak Smile, and are heavily pixilated. I have the photos but they are quite funky.

30 x 40 in., acrylic on board. circa 1990.

Here's a kind of 'motivational painting' I did for my writing room.

I like that, Hosh. It's as if he's yelling at you to get your ass busy writing, and make it good while you're at it.

That's exactly what it's like! And there's also a touch of him (in the original photo at least) laughing...which is an important thing to remember when writing!