Encostic Wax and Found Materials

Sunday, June 28, 2009




So, this was supposed to be my "traditional" inside of a closet piece, but it turned out different. I get a little carried away. I experimented with new mediums, this is sharpie on colored tissue paper, then pasted onto a harder, courser toothed paper. then it was lacking color in the background, so I added some tissue on the matte paper under it. (not real matte paper, too expensive for a kid without a job). And uh, yeah, I'm liking it. I drew my shoes from observation. Those are the original, Easler Aqua Converse. I think I might like this drawing then designing thing. Good idea Brandt. :D

So this is the inside of the dishwasher piece, I played around with typography a little, and pattern detail. The original idea was to do the pattern across the whole piece in the background...but I don't know, it didn't seem like it would turn out too well. I still need to add some things to this one, like, I think I want to do a solid background color, burgundy maybe. I like my different take on the prompt again, drawing is boring, but I still did what you asked Brandt, I started with drawing from observation. :D.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

TRAPPED INSIDE OF A CLOSET




This is the inside of a closet prompt and...I meant to have completed a more "traditional" inside of a closet piece today also, but I need acrylic paint. SO...maybe by next monday. But, I like the idea that I took for this piece, my focus being texture. The photo doesn't do this piece justice, however, the hands I drew from observation, are bonded with twine, On this piece, I used rough twine for my medium and painted it black with red. I'm not much of a drawer so I really ventured out for this piece. On the bottom of the piece, again the photo doesn't really show, I wrote, "trapped inside of a closet." That's it for June 15th, I'll keep it coming.