Paper Mache Fish

Hello there! Sorry I haven't been updating for awhile; rest assured, I've been busy. Here's something quick until the next post; I had to design a fish for my marine biology course; the assignment was basically a nice easy grade for the end of the semester. So here's mine, a huge-mouthed monstrosity with a city in its mouth. The story was that a certain breed of sea monkeys take residence in its mouth, hollowing out its teeth into the plastic aquarium props/buildings they're so used to seeing. I was hoping to make it really cool and intricate...but then I waited until the last day to start, and it ended up pretty kindergarten-projecty. Ahh well.

Woodblock print of I Monster's "These Are Our Children"

So here's my newest print, which I did with four separate blocks. I had to choose a song or band to represent, so I chose I Monster's "These Are Our Children." I listened to a shitload of music before I settled on this one, but I couldn't resist the creepy children's chorus. Here was my preliminary sketch:



And here's the final product with closeups (sorry, forgot to take in progress shots this time!)









Yep. I know the registration's a little off, but I found out a way to fix it that I'll use next time. I couldn't find a link to the specific song, but they have an album called These Are Our Children that you can download here.

Watercolors and Drawings

Here are some drawings and watercolors I did last semester. I had them lying around so I figured I should document a bit. For this first one, we had to cut a bunch of pictures out of magazines, make a collage, and then copy it exactly using watercolor:



This watercolor was supposed to be either a dreamscape or a nightmarescape...

Detail, woo!

This one's actually huge, although it's hard to tell here:



And this one's just a generic scary scientist with disturbing specimens, I suppose...



I'm currently working on my first multi-block woodcut print, based on the song "These Are Our Children" by I Monster. I'm done carving the first block (out of four) and should be done with block two today and have layer one printed tomorrow. Should be delightfully creepy!