Andrew Beckham's Firmament

  Check out this article about the newest book by Andrew Beckham, a phenomenal artist and my high school art teacher: http://blogs.denverpost.com/books/2013/02/27/andrew-beckhams-firmament-an-open-eye-on-the-universe/?fb_action_ids=340813366018812&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%22340813366018812%22%3A298143883645739}&action_type_map={%22340813366018812%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[]

  Mr. Beckham has been continually supportive and encouraging throughout my development as an artist and continues to inspire me with his invested and intelligent work. Go be blown away by his photographs at the Walker Fine Art Gallery in Denver: http://www.walkerfineart.com/

 

Firmament book Cover by Andrew Beckham

Kendra Binney

http://www.kendra-binney.com

 

"Mismatched Parts #4"

This artist is phenomenal. Check out the magnificent use of colour and media. Not to mention the charm of the imagery and the technical mastery of form and anatomy. So excellent.
Of course I'm drawn to the bird images, but she's got quite a range of imagery on offer.
Yay!

That's No Moon

This is for you all, because I love you.
If you're wondering what the object is, it's a Death Star tea infuser.

Words that Don't Exist

 

The logo I made for the blog I am co-administrating with my partner. Hooray!

Photoshop. I'm not an Illustrator guy.

Check out the blog!!!!

www.wordsthatdontexist.com

Twitter

I went and did it:

https://twitter.com/FlyingBaggins

 Follow my odd and curtailed ramblings if you so desire! Hurrah! 

Have a work in progress:

Exploring my black and white on brown concept within the media of fabric. Tea dyed muslin, black in, black ballpoint pen, and white ink to come. I've found that using a rectangular embroidery frame to stretch the fabric really helps for illustrating on it. 

Today was my bloggeriffic day.

And the rest

And here's some other hodge-podge from the studio of late:

 

Jellyfish! A valentine for my partner. Freemotion machine embroidery on silk with interfacing reinforcement. Whee! 

 This is the scratch paper from my Ornithology Lab Practical. I didn't need to work out any equations, so this happened. A blank sheet of paper near me is just too tempting. Also, those RSVP ballpoint pens smudge like the dickens. What gives?

Another self-portrait

This one was very visceral to make. I'm still working on it, although I'm afraid of pushing it too far.

Stippling techniques take for freaking ever. About three hours to get to this stage. I modeled the wings off of duck wings- I wanted them to feel awkward.

COMING SOON! Working with imagery of my body post- GRS. This is a hard set of works for me, but I have to admit I feel very empowered and energetic about it.

Self Portraiture Investigations

Some work I've been doing for an upcoming gallery show about self-portraiture. Ostensibly these are going to be made into screens and printed on fabric, but I'm finding myself growing more and more attached to the illustrations on the acetates themselves. We'll see how it all shakes out.

 

Oil based paint pen on overhead projector film.

Acetates for Screenprinting

These are both for screenprints I'm making. I have a gallery installation coming up the end of March, and these are part of the larger work. Both are sharpie paint pen on overhead projector sheets.

 

Great Grey Owl Muslin

Part of work I'm doing for a large gallery installation in March.
Inspired in large part by the illustrated handkerchiefs by Chicano prisoners in Texas- called Penas.
Ballpoint pen and white pen on muslin cloth. Possibly going to be applique'd onto dyed cloth for the final rendering.