9 posts tagged “art”
Here's another small print I made recently (4"x6"; the hummingbird is 5"x7"). It's a "seacow" made for an alphabet
zine collaboration in my printmaking class. I printed an extra edition of 50 because it was made using a Gocco machine, an extremely convenient form of screen-printing.
Hello again, everyone! I've been quite busy with final projects and preparing for my foundation review, but here's a bit of art for you:
Show us your favorite t-shirt.
I have a lot of tee shirts; I collect them almost like art prints. Most of my favorite tees come from either Threadless or Design By Humans. They're all awesome, really, but right now I particularly love this one:
"Bird Brains" ended up being an edition of six, plus two proofs and this one. All were printed in black oil-based ink on cream BFK Rives paper. The hand-coloring on the print I've posted was done with Prismacolor pencils.*
*in a dark room with multiple strobe lights going. It came out pretty well, considering.
Just as I've figured out the upload issue, another problem presents itself: my camera's battery has gone missing. It's not expensive to replace, but until I get a new one I will not be able to take or import new photos. Argh.
Anyway, here s something I happened to have uploaded to my FirstClass account already: the rough sketch for my first printmaking project:
As you can see, it's backwards. I didn't draw it that way, but it was flipped in Photoshop before I started transferring it to the block (it'll be cut into cherry-faced plywood). Our assignment was to take a piece from a historical printmaker and re-interpret. I chose Thomas Bewick, illustrator of a couple of British bird guides.
Here is the original blackbird, which I chose because of his silly expression:
A while back, I went to a student show at MECA that featured senior students from all majors. There was a lot of great stuff there, but there was one piece that really made an impression... because I took it home with me. Let me now introduce Unidentified Tomato Plant, planted in an interactive and highly instructional display:
Allow me to introduce you to one of my new favorite websites: Fresh Spam, in which artist Kipling West illustrates the subject headings of various junk emails.
Show us a drawing of an animal.
These two are a girl named Elsa and her polar bear, Mr. Berry. They are going on an adventure.
This image is a detail from an illustration I made a while back. The photo was taken when the picture was unfinished, and I've lightened/desaturated the background a bit here to de-emphasize that fact. It would've been nice to get the end of Mr. Berry's scarf, but this was the only photo I could dig up.
Graffiti, please.
