PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS… ROBERT L. STEVENSON
Emmy Award winning celebrity hair stylist Robert L. Stevenson turns hair into art with “Head Trips” exhibit. Presented by Electronic Urban Report.
Emmy Award-winning hairstylist Robert Louis Stevenson is taking his eye for hair, style, and headpieces down a new avenue.
The coiffure master, who would many times draw out his hair concepts, exhibited the masterpieces of those doodles at a recent art showing in Los Angeles he called “Head Trips.”
“[It’s] anything you put on your head, and then most people change so much, so I call it trips.” Stevenson said of the exhibit name. “One day you got a wig on, the next day you got your hair on, the next day you got a hat on, and the next day you’ve got a scarf on, so I just call it trips.”
The pen and ink art features an array of faces and heads with a diversity of hair styles and head gear.
“They are drawings with a sort of basic face, but detailed hair,” Stevenson described. “I just want people to see that you can have the same face, change your hair, and you’re a different person. It’s how people use their hair, their hats, and their scarf to change themselves, although they basically have the same face. They’re actually just basic eyes, mouth, and a nose with detailed hair. It’s more of a cartoon or character, but you can see somebody you know.”
Stevenson is a very busy film key/head hairstylist and worked specifically with stars like Sharon Stone, Angela Basset, Laurence Fishburne, and most often Samuel L. Jackson. He told EUR’s Lee Bailey that that he started his massive collection of 800 drawings doodling on a plane headed to another movie set.
“I actually started doing it on the plane to kill time because I don’t sleep on planes very well. While I was doodling, it just kind of created a style. I’ve been doing it four years,” he said. “I really don’t base them on anyone. I see something that I like and then through my eyes, I’ll change it and put it the way I see it. It’s not really anyone, but it reminds me of someone.”
“He would work on one thing, and I thought he was drawing people in the trailer,” good friend Jackson added, “but he’s making them up.”
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