Promo piece beginnings

This weekend I began my promotional mailer assignment for Illustration 5. Our requirements were to make something that could be mailed (duh!), that included a stamped response card, and that contained at least 5 examples of our art. I came up with a rounded sort of envelope, printed on both sides and a response card insert. The first picture below is the outside of the envelope.

Yes, I'm aware that the red tabs are much larger, but they are designed with a bleed. I'll have to cut tabs on the outside, then flip the piece over to know where to cut the other pair.


This is the inside.


And this is the response card (not proportionate to other pieces!), my favorite part of the piece.


Sorry I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. With my BFA piece and the holidays, things have been rather busy, but I will have another post soon.

Holiday Bazaar Special (Ed)

So, I put a LOT of stuff in this year's Holiday Bazaar. Some of it was past work that I revamped, like the piece below, and some I've done within the last two weeks.

IPC piece. Acrylic, ready-made DollarTree doll, rhinestones, and dirt on canvas.


New. Real leaves and acrylic paint coated with acrylic matte medium on panel.


New. Markers, colored pencil, watercolor on panel.


A new copy of an old painting I did in high school. Acrylic on panel.


Old, Painting I. Oil on canvas, about 3' x 4', too.


New abstract. Acrylic on panel.

BELOW:
New. These next four photos are shots of a wooden container purchased from Hobby Lobby. It's painted with acrylic, and the "water drops" were created with good, ol' hot glue. On the inside are rhinestones, glitter, and floral stones.





And the drawing I posted last week transformed into this painting. Acrylic on panel. I must say I won't be too sad if it doesn't sell. I love the thing.

Robot chickens and guns

So, ignoring the fact that these are Tom and Jerry strips, this is how my BFA stuff has evolved. Tom and Jerry will be replaced with two amazing pages from my comic. The character lineup is finished and the painting is still at 75-80% done. I've already made all the wooden panels the pieces will be mounted to, and they are ready to go. Now, what's left: I have to choose 2 pages to display. I'm not really sure how to do that, do they need to be in order? Should they show essential plot points? We shall see...



This is my robot chicken I'm working on in Sculpture I. Well, I should say that this is a model made out of foam core and held together by sewing pens, tape, and luck. The jaw moves, and I intend to make the feet and legs posable when I get to them. The final chicken will be constructed with construction insulating foam—you know, the pink or blue stuff that you buy in 4' x 8' sheets at Home Depot. And I'm hoping to make it about 3 or 4 feet tall.




My husband was my model long before I married him. He's always ready to do the most ridiculous things for me. I translated this photo of him into a scene from my Red Forest comic. Sorry the words are whited out; you can't read them until you see the actual book. No spoilers.

Important Picture

Personal work.
I'll put more meaningful post tomorrow.

More Nine and Chupacabras

My acrylic painting of the Nine-Story hotel that will become part of my graduation exhibition late this month. I'd say the painting is about 50-70% finished; I still need to make the building look really grungy and apply shadows.


A bad photo of my character line-up, also for my graduation stuff. This is probably about 95% done, as it may need some touch-ups after critique. I used the wonderfully fun wax resist technique, and I am very pleased with its results.


For the Holiday Bazaar Art Sale, I've been working on sewing multiple stuffed-toy chupacabras with different accent colors, such as different colored arms (upper left corner of box) and eyes (see pics below). They've been an exceptional hit, and I've practically sold all four all ready. Wish I had more time to make more...


Chupis, as I call them, have two sets of eyes, a snake-like tongue, and claws.



Their backs are laced with ribbon, imitating those really hard-core back piercings. Yeah, a chupi can handle it.