Made some more stickers this week and worked along on my new piece, too. This is probably going to be quite a bit different than the other stencil series I've produced thus far. I'll most likely use the main image (you'll have to wait for it) over again, but because the layering in the bubble was done so "stream-of-conscious style", the series will probably vary quite a lot I'd guess.
The picture at right shows the complete state of "the bubble." To finish out the bubble I used: a few of my prior stencils, the hangers (mentioned in the previous post), a curvy-swirly stencil (cut for this piece) and some splattering. I can't even tell you how many layers this is, I totally lost count. It was a process of building and building and building until I finally felt it looked "right." At the top of the painting, you'll notice that there's paper hinged with tape. After the bubble was complete, I masked it off and created a paper mask over most of the board as well. All that was left bare and exposed was an outline around the bubble. Once in place, I painted a white outline around the bubble to give it a cleaner look.
Posted at 9:44 PM on Friday, October 29, 2004
I've been setting up some trades: making stickers this week and some alternate versions of stencil work done previously. Got some work going to southern Illinois, Victoria Australia and NY, NY. Sold some work on eBay this week as well.
Other than that, I've started a new piece. I'm gonna try and update you step-by-step on the process because I realized that I hadn't done that on the other heavily layered stencil piece I made (Dawn's portrait).
This particular work is being done on an 18x24 piece of masonite. It was started simply enough: I sprayed the whole board purple. (I know it doesn't look purple in the image, but I'm not worried about the color correctness of the image this early in the game, can you dig it?) I then covered the board with paper and cut out an oval.
Now I could've used spray adhesive to hold down the paper as I normally do when spraying my stencils, but in this case, I chose tape because it's just more practical. I taped around the edge of my oval and then, using the x-acto, I cut a smooth edge into the tape that followed the contour of my oval.
After that I began building up some layers within the oval. Here's the first state. The negative space rectangles were actually created using some cheap plastic hangers that we throw away at work. Resourceful, eh? Yeah.
I've been setting up some trades: making stickers this week and some alternate versions of stencil work done previously. Got some work going to southern Illinois, Victoria Australia and NY, NY. Sold some work on eBay this week as well.
Other than that, I've started a new piece. I'm gonna try and update you step-by-step on the process because I realized that I hadn't done that on the other heavily layered stencil piece I made (Dawn's portrait).
This particular work is being done on an 18x24 piece of masonite. It was started simply enough: I sprayed the whole board purple. (I know it doesn't look purple in the image, but I'm not worried about the color correctness of the image this early in the game, can you dig it?) I then covered the board with paper and cut out an oval.
Now I could've used spray adhesive to hold down the paper as I normally do when spraying my stencils, but in this case, I chose tape because it's just more practical. I taped around the edge of my oval and then, using the x-acto, I cut a smooth edge into the tape that followed the contour of my oval.
After that I began building up some layers within the oval. Here's the first state. The negative space rectangles were actually created using some cheap plastic hangers that we throw away at work. Resourceful, eh? Yeah.
Posted at 11:37 PM on Thursday, October 21, 2004
Here's another zombie. This zombie is quite special because he has a totally unique background. Sure most of the stencils I've produced have a unique background, but this one is exceptionally unique. Why you ask? Well because it wasn't even made by me and it was an interesting piece of art in its own right before my zombie ever walked onto it.
The substrate for this particular piece is a dark, atmospheric oil on canvas that was produced by my good friend Todd P. Todd went off to Phoenix to study graphic design and the canvas was produced somewhat early in his college years. While at home on a break, I had a chance to look through his portfolio and off-handedly remarked that I liked the mood of that particular painting. Lo and behold a few weeks later the canvas appeared on my doorstep. It had been hanging in my living room, above my computer ever since.
After I'd finished cutting the zombie stencil, divine inspiration struck: dark moody painting meet neon pink zombie. And so it was...
While I'm not absolutely sure that Todd would like the merging of the two arts, I'm pretty confident that he'd like this. This measures 42" high x 22" wide.
The moons were created using a couple different sized stencils along with some negative moon stencils as well. Here's what the canvas looked like after the moons were painted, prior to the zombie's introduction.
Oh incidentally, there are moons behind Zombie One as well, but they aren't as visible as I'd thought they'd be. Here's what they looked like. They were cut and sprayed just as the moons from oil canvas Zombie.
Here's another zombie. This zombie is quite special because he has a totally unique background. Sure most of the stencils I've produced have a unique background, but this one is exceptionally unique. Why you ask? Well because it wasn't even made by me and it was an interesting piece of art in its own right before my zombie ever walked onto it.
The substrate for this particular piece is a dark, atmospheric oil on canvas that was produced by my good friend Todd P. Todd went off to Phoenix to study graphic design and the canvas was produced somewhat early in his college years. While at home on a break, I had a chance to look through his portfolio and off-handedly remarked that I liked the mood of that particular painting. Lo and behold a few weeks later the canvas appeared on my doorstep. It had been hanging in my living room, above my computer ever since.
After I'd finished cutting the zombie stencil, divine inspiration struck: dark moody painting meet neon pink zombie. And so it was...
While I'm not absolutely sure that Todd would like the merging of the two arts, I'm pretty confident that he'd like this. This measures 42" high x 22" wide.
The moons were created using a couple different sized stencils along with some negative moon stencils as well. Here's what the canvas looked like after the moons were painted, prior to the zombie's introduction.
Oh incidentally, there are moons behind Zombie One as well, but they aren't as visible as I'd thought they'd be. Here's what they looked like. They were cut and sprayed just as the moons from oil canvas Zombie.
