Prints, Giveaway Boxes, etc!

Happy Tuesday, all; here's what I've been up to! I made 20 prints with digital photos I took combined with screenprinting; here are three of them:

In other news, last night I put up this installation of about 40 boxes. This was an exquisite corpse-esque collaboration between two other people and me; we took 40 of these little cardboard boxes, printed out a bunch of stuff, painted, drew on them, and passed them between the three of us until they were suitably worked over. Then we hung them from the ceiling and decorated a big pair of hedge clippers to hang with them so that people could cut down a box and keep it. I think this might be something that you kind of have to see in person, but I tried to get a couple of pictures anyway:



















I passed by it later today and there were only four boxes left, so I guess people were into the idea! Speaking of people taking art (although not with permission this time), if you want to see my grand television debut, you can do so here. Wooo!

I've also been playing around with Illustrator for my next project, and although I'm having a great time using it, I still have a LOT to learn. Here are some sneak previews:




What does it all mean? In a couple of weeks, hopefully it will all make sense! I feel as though this post has been a lot of stuff that doesn't really look like the kind of thing I'd usually make, but there you are. I sort of mentioned in the last post, but I've been thinking lately about including more than just finished art related things on this blog (more videos, sketches, little comics, etc.) Still up in the air about that. Stay tuned!

Magnets, Prints, Photographs, and...a Video Blog?!

Hey gang!
First of all, I recently had the awesome opportunity to screenprint these posters designed by artist Joshua Ray Stephens for the AUX 4 experimental arts festival here in Athens, GA:




So other than that, for one of my classes, I was asked to make magnets with a "springtime" theme. Maybe I'm just jaded, but I thought that was a little cheesy, so I got kind of "creative" with my springy magnets. Here's Spring, but why is there a knife in her mouth?

Because she killed Winter:

This next on was my roommate's (brilliant) idea:




And this quaint little Easter scene was mine:



Here are a couple more 35mm photographs! First, the always-unnerving Patrick:



Here's my awesome dad, working in his woodshop:



This is a photograph taken by photographer Diane Arbus:



And here's my copycat version (with aforementioned awesome roommate Lauren):



And for the last photo, a self portrait. Embarrassing. Thanks Kathryn for helping me on this one!



But what's even more embarrassing than a self portrait? A video blog. Yep, I've thought for a long time that making a vlog would be fun, if not pretty self-indulgent. So I'm going to try and give it a shot. Nothing deep, just a kind of anecdotal diary-type thing. Anyway, here's the first one:

Squid vs. Ship Mini Installation

Hello everyone!
So this project is based on the idea shown in this blog, the idea of making an installation in a tiny gallery space. I really encourage you to check the stuff out there; I love the idea of a tiny installation, and building this was super fun! I made my own box out of foamcore and filled it with stuff I had printed with an inkjet printer and screenprinted:



It's difficult to tell in the photo, but the space actually goes quite far back. And what are those four switches at the front for? They control the lightning, the most fun of the whole project! Here's a video in total darkness of my friend Patrick demonstrating how you can make your own lightning (and adding his own sound effects.)



I really enjoyed putting circuitry into this thing, so look out for more electronic things in the future! Here's one more 35mm photograph of my lovely friend Eric to rap up the post:

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!