WOAH...been slackin'!! Ehh...not really I guess. Resumé reconstruction is harder than I remember...and job application more daunting!
Anyway, I did finish a print today, (FINALLY) but I had to rush out of the print shop and wasn't able to scan that sucker in. Hopefully, I'll have a second one done tomorrow (One more separation! Fingers crossed!)
...BUT I was able to scan in this guy! It didn't want to be photographed...AT ALL! It was being too difficult. Thankfully, the scanner at the print shop is a higher being from a future dimension (...really that thing is amazing) and was able to put it in its place. I blogged before about three pieces from my
Don't Step on the Crack series. This is a fourth piece called
Milk Milk Lemonade...should be self explanatory if you were a kid in the past two decades...maybe? More comin' up!
Last time around I mentioned some "treats" I would share and thought it'd be interesting to post up some of the "greatest (ER...not) hits" from my time in school to kinda show my path to where I'm at now.
AH! My first "illustration" in school! It was a spot for a news article concerning Bush's resistance in cutting down the amount of troops being used in the war. Kinda cliché, but it was my first go...I remember feeling smart about it then. Hahaha!
For this one,
Yuko Shimizu had us pair up with a classmate and make conceptual portraits of each other. I remember the paralysis in my brain when she said we couldn't ACTUALLY draw each other. Another college meltdown overcome!
I sometimes forget I took Collage with
Victoria Kann. Now that I think about it...LOTS of portraiture going on. Plus, the development of my graphic sensibility! MIA and Billy Holiday...the materials were fun!
Once upon a time, I was obsessed with watercolor...I still am sometimes. Its just such a difficult, unforgiving medium! This was my take on the old practice of the vanitas, which is a still life (mostly) which metaphorically, and ironically, uses material possession to symbolize death and the importance of whats immaterial. Here's where I start being "clever" and a "smart ass" (direct quotation!) Score!
Fashion wars was the theme for this piece. Leave it to me to turn fighting furries into the cutest thing you've ever seen in your life! In real life, it'd probably be way more...interesting!
Anyway...thankfully, now I've resigned myself to printmaking. Watercolor and acrylics are fun for color proofs though! Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with scans of the new prints, but we all know how that goes.
Also, if you haven't already, check out the relaunch of my
website!
