She is a Venus type illustration, or perhaps Justice... she held up a candle in the original illustration and I added an inverted, world-like structure where the light would be to represent some odd world. Faces watch her and the hands, using sign language talk to each other about her posturing. To be honest, I'd … Continue reading Building an Idea – She held up the world as others watched and talked.
Building an Idea – A Specialty for Infants
If you can image it, the collage by itself felt very blank... I needed to add some ink and connect the components for it to feel right. I can't say I planned a great narrative, but this is about how children perceive play. Play is often judged as good or bad; it can be under … Continue reading Building an Idea – A Specialty for Infants
Building an Idea – Collage in the drawing class???
Here's another strange activity from our drawing teacher. Again, I really don't know the reason behind this project... perhaps it was to think of different ways of seeing. Maybe it was to get inspired by the lone drawings of others. Maybe it was to visit and come to appreciate aspects of classic illustrations. Maybe to … Continue reading Building an Idea – Collage in the drawing class???
Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project #4
Again, we find some Steampunk influences in this one and I feel I'm getting closer to what I want to play with. There's a bit of Tim Burton's Mayor (Nightmare Before Christmas) character and I wonder if this guy is some sort of combination of Tin Man and Scarecrow. The moustache does lend a voice … Continue reading Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project #4
Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project #3
Ok, so every character from this illustrator's versions of this book seem to suffering from an excess of gravity. It is deeply amusing. Moreover, the possibility that this non-traditional Tin Man also suffers from the gluttony usually attributed to the lion is very funny to me. I beefed up the affect (pun intended) by further … Continue reading Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project #3
Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project #2
Now we find ourselves diving into the Steampunk stylings I'm so fascinated by. I also realize this Tin Man has a little of the feel I get from the Samurai Jack robots: It must be the cowboy boots! Hmmm... my mind is wandering and went to wondering what inspired the Droid K-2SO in Rogue One … Continue reading Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project #2
Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project #1
These are the only two characters from the stack of photocopied images the teacher gave us that really tickled my fancy. There was another one of the Scarecrow that looked a little like a rag doll, but another student grabbed it. There was also one of an old crone sewing the scarecrow together that I … Continue reading Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project #1
Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project
The original prompt from my drawing teacher (as I understood it) was that we were to take some old illustration from a Wizard of Oz book and distort them: ie: draw a measurable grid over the photocopied image, then draw various grids with distorted dimensions and then use those new distortions as guidelines for distorting … Continue reading Building An Idea – Distorted Ozs Project
Building An Idea – Talk to the hand (Linked Dreams #4)
This one is closer to nightmare than humorous meme... somewhere in my unconscious are demons with eyes in the palms of their hands. The odd faces are now growing from the fingers and this too, I now realize, comes from one of the Nightmare on Elm Street films. I didn't have the right colours, but … Continue reading Building An Idea – Talk to the hand (Linked Dreams #4)
Building An Idea – The Gallery (Linked Dreams #3)
I feel that I might have admittedly been a little lazy with this one, but I is better than I hoped for. It reminds me of the screen saver I have on my laptop... framed images in my photo files, slowly scrolling across the screen and over one another in a random pattern. I could … Continue reading Building An Idea – The Gallery (Linked Dreams #3)
The New Renaissance Mindset 