10.09.2010

Sketchbook Class- Pen and Ink

Hi guys!  Here's some highlights and useful links for today's class.


Optional Materials

10.02.2010

Sketchbook Class

Cambridge Community Education is having me teach a Sketchbook Class this fall, and I directed the class here for useful links on bookbinding, sketchbooks, and media techniques.  Hi guys!  Two points to you for being tech savvy!

Bookbinding
Japanese Stab Binding- here are some excellent examples of different stitching.  More can be found with a simple google search.
from papercurious.blogspot.com
from Cassandra Crafts
This last one is from Carrington Arts, which has a lot of excellent examples of different books, I encourage you to peruse.


Traditional Western-style bound books (codex)
Here is an Instructable on binding books.  It has helpful pictures!  More pictures of book binding, but no instructions.

This website is extremely dry, but very information-dense.
An extreme version to better illustrate how it's done.

More later...

9.27.2010

In Progress Painting

Here's a painting I've been working on.


Or perhaps more accurately, worked on for three days then stuck in a closet.

9.26.2010

Sticks and Stones

If I was an individual with the capability of being responsible I would have written two days ago that I was going to be at Sticks and Stones Art Event in Mora, Minnesota on Saturday from 1-6 and Sunday from 11-4.

Mostly, likenesses were rendered, but occasionally I would draw a picture bearing no resemblance to the person sitting in front of me.  Fortunately the masses were forgiving, probably because it was free.

My doodle-buddy was Karen Kiefer, a seriously awesome painter doing oil sketches.  Someone may have been a tad intimidated, sitting next to a major-leaguer with gobs of skill, trying to do almost the same thing with the multitude standing silently behind you,- watching, judging.  Someone also might have been a little embarrassed to hang the pitiful remnants of her collection within six inches of paintings that were perpetually surrounded by divine light.  They were also neatly framed and not covered in closet-skank.

And holy moses were we busy.  I drew about 60 people, including several that came through twice, and four that came through three times.  And a freaking baby.  A sitting takes 10-15 minutes.  Toddlers have a rough time sitting still for 10-15 seconds.  And it actually kind of looked like him, so I'll call that a win.



Had a chat with Anonymous Lady from the Pine Center for the Arts.  She was super-pumped about upcoming David Waid's incredibly (low) priced jewelery making class, and Dee Kotaska's October 8th gallery opening.  I, too, am now super-pumped.  w00t!

Admired the crap out of Bill Gossman's pottery, Margie Johnstone's leatherworks, and about half a dozen other artists and craftsmen whose information I neglected to collect.

Here, have a weird little creature.
He hates being a weird little creature.  He expresses this with a frustrated "hronk".

8.29.2010

Sketchbook Creatures

Put this in your eyeballs.
Indeed.

Disease carrier.


These amuse me with their infinite creepiness.

8.23.2010

Sketchbook Creatures - Pplz

Roommate from Senior year.
Erin "Bite Me" Miller
You, with all your infinite complexities, subtle gradations in thought and emotion, and myriad stratum of unique and defining experiences have just been quantified with a doodle and a caption.  You're welcome.
Husband.

8.18.2010

G-pa

The husband's grandpa.


He (g-pa) hates this picture because I "made him look old".

Sketchbook Creatures - Puppies!

Is a puppy!
d'awwww!

Basset hounds.  I tell you what, you have not seen adorable awkwardness until you've seen a basset hound do a faceplant from stepping on its own ears.
Have another canine.

8.17.2010

Sketchbook Creatures

There are not enough Sassy Old Ladies.
The kind that use racial slurs with impunity.
One day, God willing, I shall become one.

Sketchbook Creatures

The Vicious Slayer of Roaches
Tiny, yet fierce.
It trots proudly under that edge at the bottom of your kitchen cabinets,- its fine perky tail bouncing gaily,- hunting its quarry.  Maulings are messy and frequent.


Whatever it is, it wants to play!
Rabbits.  They're like nature's little crack addicts.  Rabbits should be more like friendly, awkward dogs.  Get on that, leporids.

Sketchbook Creatures - Fish

Fish always have something to say.
Sometimes you don't want to hear it.



Also, noodles think a lot.  What is up with that, noodles?

We Like Germany

From the Europe Sketchbook.
Just for the pretzels.


We had one hell of a night at the Munich Beer Gardens.
Exaggeration?  Clearly you have never been to Munich.

Well, more specifically, Kenny had one hell of a night.  At least that's what I tell him.

Skeletal Study

This thing.  I tell you what,- this thing.
Right here.  You have no idea.
It took a long time, anyway.

White charcoal on black Stonehenge paper.  32"x24"?  Something like that.  Supposed to be life-sized.

You would not believe how many people give me dirty looks for my pretty little skeletal study.  I thought it was understood that artists studied anatomy,- but not so!  I might seem normal, but this proves I am a Troubled Child.

Sold.

Sketchbook Creatures - Balloon

Just happy to be a balloon.
Happy Balloon is blissfully unaware of tyrannical government censorship.  Hooray!

Sketchbook Creatures

Behold indeed.

2.23.2010

Stanley Kubricks "A Clockwork Orange": A Comprehensive Overview

Stanley Kubricks A Clockwork Orange
A Comprehensive Overview
  1. Adorable vernacular.
  2. You damn kids!
  3. Titties.


On that vein, an excellent dystopian artist. Much better than that movie.