wednesday pictures

here is some wednesday playing. i have scanned in some etchings and have added some bits and pieces. it is a good way of looking at how i can realise an image in the end. i used to be quite a purist etcher, it all had to be etching, but now that i am discovering new ways of making images and different tools... tactile things are too exciting to ignore. anyway, i am not completely happy with these images but its a start...

souvenirs

the snow has kept me indoors this week and so i have been finishing things and starting others. i bought some tins from a second hand shop the other day and i am creating little worlds inside them. i like the little faces who look like they are on a bus with the rain flying horizontally past... at least that is what i was thinking about when i made it. neither of the tins are finished, but i thought i'd air them on the blog to see what you thought of them. i am envisaging some pop-up elements in them... maybe some collapsible waves and buildings, and boats. i want the narrative to flow across the collection of 'souvenirs'.

the other piece here is a book that i have been making of prints... so far it is working well... i just need to consider a cover and maybe some more detailing. i'm happy with the colour palette.

broccoli

the next image for the cookbook. i am pretty happy with this one. its a bit different to dim sum, but each one needs to be unique to the feeling of the dish. i'm learning how to create shadows. i like that the shadows are a bit wrong, it suits my style.

wednesday

dim sum

log ladies

this is a work in progress for an animation that blake and i are making. it comes from some photos that blake took out on the farm at christmas of all the logs on the side of the path. there are photos of us walking along the track, so i have merged the two images to create the log ladies. it is just a sketch from my journal, but here, blake has superimposed textures and colours onto the the people. it is interesting seeing them walk out of your journal and jump to life. i love animation for this reason and would like to do more of it.

searching for invisible cities

finally i have come to the end of a long haul with a piece that i've been working on for a while. i have been trying to realise a two-dimensional piece in the style that i would like to make my three dimensional book that i am working towards for my masters project.

i am mostly happy with the outcome. the colours work well together, but if anything, i would take more care is the placement of images next time, and the use of space. however, i have learnt from this project and now i can be more conscious of it in the work to come.

now i am going to have a break from this kind of work (it is very labour intensive and all consuming...) and i am going to focus on some more commercial illustrations. i want to create a series of food-based images. i will let you know how it goes.