Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

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:

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

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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.

Monday, March 2, 2009

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:

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

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Detail, woo!

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

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

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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!