New!

Helloooooo, it's been a while since the last art update. Well, I've been busy here doing this and that (everything) and I wanted to share my first screen print with y'all.


 This first print is called "What Goes Around." This is the first run:

and this is the second, infinitely more complicated run (the colors are a little off - the  yellow is not quite so overpowering in the physical one): 

But yeah. Screen printing is fun! 

this next thing is just the positive image that is going to be turned into my next screen print, but I kind of enjoyed it how it looks as ink on mylar: 

This image fits in with my thesis project, which I shall inform you on in a separate post when I have more concrete drawings to update you on. 

I recently was given a Pentax k1000 and have been fooling around with it. It's wonderful!! Of course the colors are butchered by blogger but you get the general gist I hope :)

These were all taken while tooling around Pasadena! 

More Doll-like Contraptions.

So, these are not legit photos as I have not been able to procure a good camera and a good photographing space for these little guys, but here are some iphone photos that give you the basic gist of what I did for my Concepts II project. (For a the post with the first half of the project, click HERE.)

So. Here's this little thing - it's kind of a snail-like thing with crouching legs.

And when you unroll it, it magically becomes a giant phallus. Funny, that. 

It's blue thermal shirt material, pink flannel, green vinyl cutouts, and embroidery thread. There's armature wire inside, like the other ones.

This is a little butt-hips-pillow type thing. Some nice detail shots there. This one's pink flannel, blue silky stuff (not quite sure the exact name of the material as it was found), blue beaded strings, and embroidery thread. 

Here are some more detail shots of the snailthing - its little upside-down face, and a close-up of the leaf details. Those are vinyl cutouts hand-stitched on.

And lastly, here's the finished version of that guy you saw before - I added a hot orange ponytail. Ooh La- La. It makes it more creepy, if that was ever thought to be possible. 

All of the stuff was hand-beaded, even the strings. A true labor of looove. 

Retro Aliens

So, these are an assignment for Character Design - we basically had to come up with 8 Characters that had a story behind them with a chosen theme. So, my chosen theme (from the teacher's list) was Alien Sprawl and Brave New World. These little aliens are confused aliens from a planet about 40 light-years away who are vaguely humanlike. They know we exist, and want to be like us, but their only form of correspondence from us is radio and TV waves from the 70s that they picked up. So, getting ready to come to our planet, they deck themselves out in garbled versions of what they think we will think is "cool," and gave themselves "earth names" of famous 70s icons. so here goes (Click to enlarge): 

Barbra

Karen

Donny

Farrah (couldn't help myself)

Dusty

Marie

Cher

And those are their character sheets and height charts. I guess I just felt like being silly when I made these - good not to take ourselves too seriously, right? 

Figure Sculptin'

Here is my last and most recent figure sculpture from class - it's the best one i've done all year :)

This one was two weeks! 

Conshepts

Here is my project I've been working on for illustration concepts - they're modified doll forms - all patterned and sewed and hand-beaded and embroidered by yours truly! (with the enormous help of the lovely Matt Reading.)

She's lookin' at YOU! 

The latter image is actually the first one I made - I know it's kind of creepy, but that was the intention. These are just meant to be fun/silly/sometimes creepy toys for adults - like "uglydolls," but weirder and prettier at the same time. 

This one's flannel, pleather and glass beads. The first one pictured is flannel, (hand-pleated) silk organza and glass beads. They're both hand-embroidered as well. They're stuffed with poly-fill with armature wire inside the arms and legs to maintain the pose. 

They're buddies :) They don't really have names yet - it's tentatively Sally and Pat. Any suggestions for names?

Also - these are still works-in-progress so any comments or things I should add would be greatly appreciated.

More Characters!

This is another assignment for character design - we had to go somewhere and caricature people, then turn those people into characters.  So, I went to the Starbucks on charles st. These were the characters I got!

Girl with tiny shorts

Guy with beer belly

Guy with Blackberry

Guy with skinny jeans

Guy with big curly hair. 

Soooooosan

This here is Susan. She has been popping up a lot in my assignments lately :) I think she's kind of cute - everyone else seems to think that she's really creepy. Oh well!

For this assignment, we had to come up with a character and draw the bones and musculature.

I think of her as one of those humans from Wall-E, just instead of fat she's all muscle and has also evolved with a very long neck :)