Final Piece

I started with a sketch of what I wanted to do for the final. I wanted to keep going with my shadow illustration because it was really interesting working with a big piece. I was sad that the paper crumpled though, so I decided to go with making a frame and ready some air dry clay. Since I enjoyed the air dry clay as this new medium, I wanted to explore it more and how it can work for this piece. In the sketch above the green would be air dry clay. So Nightmare would appear to be oozing out dream matter from his eye. Yum.

Made from the finest woods home depot has to offer, I built a frame that resembles the sketch size. Was it a challenge? Yes.... But there is a first time for everything. I liked how it came out and can't wait to apply the illustration to it.

Here is Nightmare's "portrait". This will be copied over to the frame. I'm not cutting the paper, but instead redrawing it. This serves as my 50% as inspiration and is the same art that will be applied yo the wood.

Here is the completed piece! I used the dyed fabric from my wax challenge for his eye. It gave it some depth and a galaxy / starry feel. Around the main Nightmare are cloudy purple and blue auras from other shadows. The light colors and layering technique was accomplished with watercolors and the colors were brought out with a few layers of gel medium.  The gel medium was also used for the dripping pink/ red matter. Looks wet, but is completely dry!

I wanted to keep the grain of the wood visible in some places because of the way it contrasted with the bright colors. It also provided a root to something "earthy" when the overall feel the piece gives off is "celestial" or even "other worldly".

Shadow Drawing

I decided to use Nightmare for my shadow project since he was such a kind model. For materials I used ink and later went back with a colored pencil and some white pens. I had a fun time working on it and manipulating angles. The size of this piece was tough to transport, but well worth it.

    

Moved the light and the board that the paper was on ten times to get the unique shadow patterns. 

My favorite photo that captures the line work as well as the creepiness of his eye. Most of my work seems to have a weird mix of cute and creepy. This project really brought out a different side and was fun to work on. The scale of it was much larger than anything I have worked on though. Setting up in my room was a challenge. With a little ( well a lot...I am a messy artist), cleaning I made a space. Visitors love it haha

Drawing on an Object

Ever since I was young I have always made my own stuffed animals and toys. So I figured I would keep that idea in this project. First having to draw the object and then cutting out was a process. In the end I created a pillow named Nightmare. On him I have illustrated nightmares as well as some stitched drawings of nightmares.

Video on Landscape

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Q9D9DNBOA

For the video I decided to take a light hearted route since a lot of the contemporary art films were serious. ( I also scratched my animation cause it was time consuming and a bit too dark.) So the idea behind this is drawing in a space and on a landscape through dance and typography. The stills of what appears to be scribbles in the sand are typographic structures and at the end is a message in a script. I love type and wanted a way to show that. Type is a drawing with words and symbols and finding type on the beach is some what common, and super fun.