I'm gonna post a little early this week because I'm gonna be gone for about a week... takin a trip to New York for some vacationage.I'm branching out into accessories or something. Here's a version of the Shadows / Screamer on a raw canvas tote I threw together. The black background was laid down with black acrylic & fabric medium, (the images are spray paint). The circles were done with my new favorite painting tool: a cork from a wine bottle. It's 14x15 inches.
Other than that, I passed along the Swirl Corset Girl onto the Cyberia Café. It's located at 1331 N. Ashland and they'll be showing her for the month of April.
Posted at 4:44 PM on Tuesday, March 29, 2005
So here we have a blue version of my Caution Girl. She's painted on the seat of that wooden chair that I found (and did battle with) a few weeks back. The 'gunshots' in this composition are actual holes in the chair (from where the back support posts were mounted). You can see a better pic of that here.
After painting, I used my trusty, yet increasingly dull, wood chisel around the holes to get the affect you see.
I also found out that the other piece that I'd sent over to the Melbourne StencilFest sold during the show. Woo Hoo! It was another version of the Shadows / Screamer if ya remember. So... uhhhh, na na na naaaa.
So here we have a blue version of my Caution Girl. She's painted on the seat of that wooden chair that I found (and did battle with) a few weeks back. The 'gunshots' in this composition are actual holes in the chair (from where the back support posts were mounted). You can see a better pic of that here.After painting, I used my trusty, yet increasingly dull, wood chisel around the holes to get the affect you see.
I also found out that the other piece that I'd sent over to the Melbourne StencilFest sold during the show. Woo Hoo! It was another version of the Shadows / Screamer if ya remember. So... uhhhh, na na na naaaa.
Posted at 11:53 PM on Wednesday, March 23, 2005
So are there any stencils being made?! Of course there are. Some new stuff being planned, plotted, and cut and some alternate versions of recent, yet soon to be classic, pieces. In the meantime here's four quick sketches for your amusement.
Of course I still sketch... just because I seem somewhat obsessed with stenciling as a medium doesn't mean I've stopped drawing. You so crazy sometimes.
Angel
Trashy
Kung-fu Robot wif da phat strings
So are there any stencils being made?! Of course there are. Some new stuff being planned, plotted, and cut and some alternate versions of recent, yet soon to be classic, pieces. In the meantime here's four quick sketches for your amusement. Of course I still sketch... just because I seem somewhat obsessed with stenciling as a medium doesn't mean I've stopped drawing. You so crazy sometimes.
Angel
Trashy
Kung-fu Robot wif da phat strings
Posted at 5:51 PM on Thursday, March 17, 2005
Finished another new stencil last week. This one has six-layers on the figure (btw, same as the last piece), with a wave stencil and text in the background. As you might have guessed, it was painted on a broked-up board from a roadside construction horse, one bolt left in it even. Since this type of board has a reflective surface, the piece looks a bit different when light shines directly at it: like so.
This one had a lot of revisions for sure. The waves were painted over about 4-5 times each before I got a color balance that I was happy with. A couple of the waves have a gradation of color within them, I was quite pleased with how that turned out. The thin black lines that divide the white and orange stripes are an understated element within this piece, but I felt they were necessary. I was surprised that they turned out to be one of the more time-consuming parts of this artwork.
As a complete bonus to you the viewer, here's one of the stencil layers.
Finished another new stencil last week. This one has six-layers on the figure (btw, same as the last piece), with a wave stencil and text in the background. As you might have guessed, it was painted on a broked-up board from a roadside construction horse, one bolt left in it even. Since this type of board has a reflective surface, the piece looks a bit different when light shines directly at it: like so.This one had a lot of revisions for sure. The waves were painted over about 4-5 times each before I got a color balance that I was happy with. A couple of the waves have a gradation of color within them, I was quite pleased with how that turned out. The thin black lines that divide the white and orange stripes are an understated element within this piece, but I felt they were necessary. I was surprised that they turned out to be one of the more time-consuming parts of this artwork.
As a complete bonus to you the viewer, here's one of the stencil layers.
Posted at 10:04 PM on Thursday, March 10, 2005
This 2nd version was done on a 16x20 piece of board, cut from a the larger advertisement I'd mentioned in my previous post. After blocking out the background, I cut a stencil for the background: the spiraling, swirls that you see to the left of the figure. Then I added some of my abstract shapes up near the top there sprayed with a right propa' fade. Some misting and spatters were also added.
My girl was added next. The 'bed' that she's sitting on is a collaged piece of paper that was stenciled a bit with the same spiral-swirl stencil.
Corset Girl version one sold on opening night of the Melbourne Stencilfest a few hours into the show I'm told. Sweet.
This 2nd version was done on a 16x20 piece of board, cut from a the larger advertisement I'd mentioned in my previous post. After blocking out the background, I cut a stencil for the background: the spiraling, swirls that you see to the left of the figure. Then I added some of my abstract shapes up near the top there sprayed with a right propa' fade. Some misting and spatters were also added.My girl was added next. The 'bed' that she's sitting on is a collaged piece of paper that was stenciled a bit with the same spiral-swirl stencil.
Corset Girl version one sold on opening night of the Melbourne Stencilfest a few hours into the show I'm told. Sweet.
