My First Attempt at Coloring in Photoshop

Yep, pretty self explanatory title. This is just a quick late night post; this is what I did today! I scanned in four drawings (three of each different person and one of the pig and chicken), and combined and colored them in photoshop. This is the first time I've tried this, and it took forever!

Click the picture to see it in a larger size!

My First 35mm Photography

In my endless quest to try as many mediums as is humanly possible, this year I am trying 35mm photography! So far, I'm not exactly the best at it; I've had some issues processing, and once I even opened the back of my camera before the film was completely rolled up. Nevertheless, here are some photos I've taken. Thanks to awesome models Kathryn (/Katy), Lauren, Ross, and Patrick!

Aaand just because I thought it was interesting, this is actually a rubber pipe (I had no idea rubber ever looked like this:)

Screenprinted Animal Pelt Headdress

Hello all! So this past week I built this bizarre headdress. Everything on it is screenprinted and attached to the foamcore structure I built, and yes, you can wear it. Wooo!

The Evolution of a Poster, and a Birthday!

Hello everyone! Happy Valentine's Day! Although it's actually after midnight, so I suppose I'm a bit late. I'm just going to go on pretending that it's still the 14th and tell you all that today is my 21st birthday! So to all my friends and family that helped me celebrate, thank you all so much! I got super-awesome art tools PHOTOSHOP and an awesome DIGITAL CAMERA that not only takes pictures but HD video! Expect movies from now on. Oh, there will be movies.

But for now, here's the evolution of a poster I made. To start, I googled one word ("propaganda") and made an image using only google images from that word:

Then, I printed the image out, and drew/painted on it, added paper and cardboard, etc, to get this:

I then scanned the new image, opened it in Photoshop, and added more things (because it didn't have enough dragons the first time, apparently.)



After that, I (you guessed it) printed it out yet again. At this point, I was getting kind of tired of looking at this image, so as my final product, I altered it quite drastically. Once it was printed out, I cut it all up and painted and screenprinted all over it:



So there it is, my final product...a 22x30 poster of this guy's head!

Collaborative Installation and a Poster in Progress

It's that updatey time again! I was able to borrow my super nice friend Patrick's digital camera in order to post the following installation I recently participated in:

These pixel-esque little squares are all mono prints! My portion is the third grid from the left on the bottom row...

They are all animals at a tea party; here are a couple up close:

I made these by printing a few layers of monoprint color on plexiglass, screenprinting the animals' shapes in yellow, red, and blue, and then using a pronto plate to print the black lines.

Here's one more thing I've been working on; I took a bunch of images from google image, photoshopped them together, printed it out, then painted/glued things onto it until it became this:

But this poster isn't done yet; I've already scanned it back into photoshop, messed with it a bit more, and printed it out again. Tonight I'm going to have fun cutting it up and rearranging it, so look out for more on this soon!

Abaca Paper Coptic Book, Photograms, and David Bowie

Hello everyone!

Yeah, I know it's been awhile...this is due, unfortunately, to the sad demise of my trusty digital camera. But never fear! Although I am still devoid of my camera's sweet, metallic embrace, I will post nonetheless. Here's a little coptic book I made before Christmas with samples of all of the handmade abaca paper I'd been making:







It's amazing to think that all of the paper in that book is made from the exact same fibers; the pages near the end have just been beaten a lot longer. Aaaanyway, last Friday, I made photograms for the first time! A photogram is when you take a sheet of photo paper and expose it with objects sitting on top of it. The light shines through certain items and it's blocked out by others, and it makes quite an interesting effect. Here's the one I made:



You can also take a piece of photo paper, place a finished photogram on top of it upside down, and create an inverted image, like this:



In the "what mediums are next to try" front, I'm soon going to start doing 35mm photography! Hurray! I'm also finally attempting to learn photoshop, that most elusive of beasts. I've just started, but here's a picture that I think accurately shows my progress; I made it using a scanned drawing, old scanned money from Honduras, and pictures of David Bowie from google:

If that doesn't show progress, I don't know what does.

Monkey King Tunnel Book

Here's another book-type project I've been working on: a tunnel book! These books are flat until you open them up, spreading out the pages and giving the image depth. This one's about some sort of Monkey King that lives above the clouds. Here it is when it's flat:

And here it is when it's extended (sorry for the weird green sheet in the background.)

Aaaaand here's the back: