Last stages included:
-some finishing on both portraits,
-adding in the bubbles,
-the hand lettered text
-the black border on the inside of the bevel
-and some light sanding.
Here's an animation of the process.
And a still of the finished piece Chesterfield Queens.
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: Houseboy- "1455 tamarack street press room"
2: Damone- "out here all night"
3: Fugazi- "instrument"
4: Hum- "you'd prefer an astronaut"
5: Louis XIV- "the best little secrets are kept"
Posted at 6:00 PM on Sunday, December 30, 2007
Before I post the finished product for the left side, I'll show you steps from the right side. Iridescent pink ink in a diagonal-like field, then india ink outline.
After that I started to block in the figure:
Here's the figure being built up again...
fill stage one
fill stage two
Did you notice the circles / bubbles floating down and away from the figures?
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: Hum- "you'd prefer an astronaut"
2: Van Halen- "s/t"
3: Typical Cats- "civil service"
4: the Bronx- "s/t #2"
5: All Star Christmas- "holiday comp"
Before I post the finished product for the left side, I'll show you steps from the right side. Iridescent pink ink in a diagonal-like field, then india ink outline.
After that I started to block in the figure:
Here's the figure being built up again...
fill stage one
fill stage two
Did you notice the circles / bubbles floating down and away from the figures?
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: Hum- "you'd prefer an astronaut"
2: Van Halen- "s/t"
3: Typical Cats- "civil service"
4: the Bronx- "s/t #2"
5: All Star Christmas- "holiday comp"
Posted at 11:54 PM on Friday, December 21, 2007
The background was pretty much complete after the last post. Other than that, I added a color field of iridescent pink in a diagonal-like way. You can see it pretty clearly in this pic:
After that I added in the outline. And then I built up the figure...
fill stage one
fill stage two
and stage three
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: British Sea Power- "the decline of..."
2: Fugazi- "end hits"
3: Fugazi- "the argument"
4: Yule B Swingin- "christmas comp"
5: Ella Fitzgerald- "swingin christmas"
The background was pretty much complete after the last post. Other than that, I added a color field of iridescent pink in a diagonal-like way. You can see it pretty clearly in this pic:
After that I added in the outline. And then I built up the figure...
fill stage one
fill stage two
and stage three
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: British Sea Power- "the decline of..."
2: Fugazi- "end hits"
3: Fugazi- "the argument"
4: Yule B Swingin- "christmas comp"
5: Ella Fitzgerald- "swingin christmas"
Posted at 11:50 PM on Sunday, December 16, 2007
If you live in the Bay Area, and are the arty /crafty type, you probably know about Urban Ore. The name is appropriate I think, it's a goldmine of re-use and salvaged "junk." Junk to the everyman, gold to the arty man. I got the panels I'm using for this piece at UO.
The mitered-wood edge is likely to stay as it's natural finish throughout. In the first stages I laid in some background colors like so.
I then cut some stencils. You can see that Monkey oversaw the process to insure QC.
After that, I worked into the background some more...
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: Owen- "s/t"
2: Desaparecidos- "read music / speak spanish"
3: Not Rebecca- "rocketship to canada"
4: Oscar Peterson- "christmas album"
5: Echo & the Bunnymen- "ocean rain"
If you live in the Bay Area, and are the arty /crafty type, you probably know about Urban Ore. The name is appropriate I think, it's a goldmine of re-use and salvaged "junk." Junk to the everyman, gold to the arty man. I got the panels I'm using for this piece at UO.
The mitered-wood edge is likely to stay as it's natural finish throughout. In the first stages I laid in some background colors like so.
I then cut some stencils. You can see that Monkey oversaw the process to insure QC.
After that, I worked into the background some more...
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: Owen- "s/t"
2: Desaparecidos- "read music / speak spanish"
3: Not Rebecca- "rocketship to canada"
4: Oscar Peterson- "christmas album"
5: Echo & the Bunnymen- "ocean rain"
Posted at 8:53 PM on Sunday, December 09, 2007
Some stuff from Sketch Tuesday. This is the 3rd one I've drawn at since I found out about it awhile back. It's definitely one of my favorite things I've stumbled across since moving to SF.
This weekend was the opening of Post-Postcard [which I posted about last week]. Dawn and I also went to the CCSF Printmakers Annual Print Sale at Ft. Mason which features "etching, monotypes, lithographs, relief prints- Prices for the loose prints typically range from $10 to $100 and run the gamut of printmaking styles and techniques." It was pretty great, we got alot of new art.
That evening, we stopped by an art / fashion /music event at Mezzanine. I had one piece in the show; it was a huge group show of about 80 artists. After that, we went to last Juxtapoz 'get exposed' event.
This is one of the reasons I love SF. Amazing art events, over and over.
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: Naked Raygun- "all rise"
2: the Bollweevils- "heavyweight"
3: Winepress- "complete recordings"
4: Gods Reflex- "a brief lesson in affection"
5: the Ramones- "it's alive"
Some stuff from Sketch Tuesday. This is the 3rd one I've drawn at since I found out about it awhile back. It's definitely one of my favorite things I've stumbled across since moving to SF.
This weekend was the opening of Post-Postcard [which I posted about last week]. Dawn and I also went to the CCSF Printmakers Annual Print Sale at Ft. Mason which features "etching, monotypes, lithographs, relief prints- Prices for the loose prints typically range from $10 to $100 and run the gamut of printmaking styles and techniques." It was pretty great, we got alot of new art.
That evening, we stopped by an art / fashion /music event at Mezzanine. I had one piece in the show; it was a huge group show of about 80 artists. After that, we went to last Juxtapoz 'get exposed' event.
This is one of the reasons I love SF. Amazing art events, over and over.
:Top 5 CDs this week:
1: Naked Raygun- "all rise"
2: the Bollweevils- "heavyweight"
3: Winepress- "complete recordings"
4: Gods Reflex- "a brief lesson in affection"
5: the Ramones- "it's alive"