the model today was dressed as frida kahlo.
what if frida was a cougar?!
how nice that the 100th post is about something truly awesome! my wonderful friend steph had her birthday this week so i made her a set of journals (per her request - i wasn’t clever enough to think of that gift on my own, total fail). she asked for some of my artwork to be in it so i put it in the first page. she also only asked for one journal, but i folded too many pages, so she got four! :P
the paper is a warm white linen finish paper from neenah paper.
codex binding.
8.5.”x5.5”
also i apologize for the lack of updates. basically school ended, i was on break, i was burned out, and i did nothing but play in the sun. now i’m back at school and it’s back to the grind so expect to see more. :)
my type 2 final book. it contains the best work i’ve done throughout the term. man this thing is a monster. it’s definitely the heftiest book i’ve ever bound.
cycloptopus the dog toy!! each arm has a squeaker in it as well as the head, bringing the grand total to 9 squeakers!
this was my final for digital illustration where we had to create a character and then make a product.
my dog paw paw liked it at first and now she won’t look at it, so what is up with that?!
my final for drawing for illustration. it’s called ‘unforeseen’ and it features four dark short stories. i made 15 little books and 1 large book so that everybody in class got a copy. i have no idea how i finished, but i did! woohoo!
the little book was 5.5”x8.5” and it was stitched and glued together. the big one was 8.5”x11” and was stab-stitched. the inside typeface used was palatino and the title typeface was the lovely sabon.
the short stories featured:
- “the lottery” by shirley jackson
- “a jury of her peers” by susan glaspell
- “life after high school” by joyce carol oates
- “hunters in the snow” by tobias wolff
FINALS round 3
i have three finals left in this term and boy are they good ones:
- a book for my pen and ink class, but it’s not one book, it’s 15! yes, that’s right, i’m hand binding 15 books so that each of my classmates get a copy. i know, i’m crazy. i should really learn how to trust kinkos or another place to make my life easier.
- another book (a fat one) for type 2.
- a dog toy - very random, but i know my dog will like it.
“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.
- Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
As the truck twisted through the gentle hills the star went back and forth between Kenny’s boots, staying always in his sight. “I’m going to the hospital,” Kenny said. But he was wrong. They had taken a different turn a long way back.
- Tobias Wolff, “Hunters in the Snow”
