First Oil Painting
In progress working on my first oil painting. The picture is of my girlfriend when we were at my favorite coffee shop.
Eventually, the painting will be in color, based on this photograph. I began in black and white to get the values right.
Black and white reference photo I’m using for the underpainting.
I know it’s not quite right! Her face isn’t nearly as lovely as it is in real life, but hey…it’s my first oil painting! Besides its still a work in progress.
Background. The coffee cup turned out nicely.
This is it so far. I’ll update this post as I make more progress.
Newport Beach: Minerature painting on stone
It has been a long time since my last post!…But check out this small gouache painting I did today. I found a surprisingly square and perfectly flat stone walking on the beach…in other words a Minerature canvas.
I also used water from the ocean to constitute the paint.
So It’s a painting of the beach, on a rock I found at the beach, using water I got from the beach…I think that’s cool.
The Norway Drawings
While I was in Norway this summer with my family, we were constantly on the move. I didn’t have time to sit and draw as much as I would have liked to, which makes these few drawing that I did, all the more valuable I think.
In the order I drew them, and the order they appear in my sketchbook:
Bergen, 7•30•15
Bergen, 8•2•15
Lillehammer, 8•6•15
Oslo Opera House, Oslo, 8•8•15
Bookbinding Insignia
It occurred to me when I finished the sketchbook for my cousin Camille, that I needed a way to sign or identify myself as the bookmaker.
Just signing the book like a drawing or painting felt off, and I figured a new medium deserves a new signature:
In my sketchbook I deigned this logo. The first pencil drawing included some flourishes, but in the end I settled on the cleaner, straight line version.
After I had the design I miniaturized it and carved this stamp from linoleum and made a base and handle. Here are the first tests of the stamp.
It isn’t perfect but here is the first ever use of it in action. I used it to “sign” the back endpage of the book near the bottom.
Soon I’m going to give the book to Camille, I think she’ll like it.
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Enjoy Choke
Here’s a t-shirt I’ve been meaning to make for ages. “ENJOY CHOKE”. My concept drawing for this shirt is on one of the very fist pages in my sketchbook that I’ve had going for over a year now.
(Above: t-shirt still stretched on the spraying board)
After I stretch the fabric over this board, it essentially is the same process as doing stencils on paper. You just have to be very careful with registration
(Above: me trying on the new shirt)
(Above: concept in my sketchbook)
This design is just intended to make people think twice and look twice when they see it. I think it’s rather clever and I also don’t like coke so it’s perfect.
Camille’s sketchbook
While on a family trip to Norway this summer, I saw my cousin Camille writing/drawing in a cool notebook, she said she got in Mexico. I told her I do bookbinding and offered to make her one when we got back…well we’ve been back for a few weeks and here it is.
The paper I used for the cover is handmade that I bought in a boutique while we were In Norway, so in addition to just looking cool it’s a good momento of our awesome trip. Below are some pictures of the book while in different stages of making it.
(Above: the text block and wrapped cover before joining them)
(Above: text block with endpages and bookmark)
(Above: spine of the sewed text block)
The Art Box
This is a side project I’m working on with my friend Anthony. I don’t remember exactly how the story went, but his dad happened upon this first aid cabinet and rescued it from its certain demise. (I know he reads my blog so maybe he’ll leave a comment with the real story)
He wanted to make it into a place to store some of his art supplies, he cleaned it up and we’ve been collaborating on redesigning it.
Below is a page from my sketchbook with some notes and the concept for the design the box to have. Obviously influenced by my love of MASH, we decided on a military style design.
It was coming nicely but we had a pretty major set back: After I sprayed the white layer, we left it in the sun to dry, unfortunately the heat melted the green base layer beneath and our stencil stuck to it. I eventually peeled it off using a hair dryer to reheat the paint, but the green layer will have to be sanded and redone and the stencil is too far gone.
I’m recutting the stencil and repainting the lid. More to come soon.
At the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
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I’ve been in Atlanta for the past few days, staying with my friend Tom. He’s a professional designer and I’m out here getting advice and absorbing what I can about it.
Had some downtime this evening and we went to the High Museum. That’s Tom in the background behind the Rodin (above)
Saw some great stuff there, I always take pictures of the stuff I want to try to emulate or use the technique in play, like this acrylic and cut paper piece.
A piece here by Vik Muniz, an artist I really admire. If you don’t know his work, I urge you to watch Wasteland, a documentary about him and his work in Brazil.
Münchenbryggeriet
Completed this project a few weeks ago after working on it for quite a while. It’s a screen print in three layers, the brown tones of the rock I created by layering the red layer over the green, and thinning the red to about 50% opacity.
The image comes from this photo I took last year while I was in Stockholm, Sweden. The name of the piece is the name of the factory compound you can see in the background, “Münchenbryggeriet” carved in the black stone marker on the right side. We asked a local what the factory was used for and were told it was historically a brick factory. However, I wanted to double-check so I researched that factory, one of the most iconic buildings in Stockholm, and found out that it actually meant “Munich Brewery”.
A Munich-based brewing company named The Munich Brewing Company expanded and opened this new location in Stockholm in 1857. The factory continued to produce beer until 1971. Since then it has been used as an event/conference center.
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