Painterly Happenings

This first painting was done recently in my developing design class. We were supposed to try using a different color palette than we normally would and do something from our imagination. I wasn't feeling particularly imaginative that day so I played 'adjective, adjective, noun'. It's a game that they play in the kids class where they pick 2 adjectives and a noun out of two empty yogurt containers and then the kids would have to draw whatever was picked out. I happened to pick quiet, muddy and pizza. This is what I came up with...

The second painting I did a while ago while waiting for a portfolio review in my painting class. It was of a drawing that I had in my sketchbook. I call it, 'Wiggly Legged Fiend.'

Modeling a Portrait Head

I took a modeling and casting a portrait head class last term where we had to make a sculpture of a head from a model and then create a mold for it to cast it in wax. The first couple of classes were spent filling out the basic shapes and forms of the head. We ran out of the darker plasticine after my head was 'bulked out' and so I had to use a lighter color to actually create the face and rest of the head on top of the darker stuff. Mine started to look quite a bit like a Mrs. Doubtfire facial mask so I made it some eye cucumbers...

My head then decided to join Cirque du Soleil.


We had the model in for one last class when we were close to being done the modeling part of the class to make sure that we had the correct measurements for the different parts of the face. Mine looked like the model from certain angles, but also looked a bit like Christopher Walken. Especially when viewed looking down at the forehead... I thought that it needed a little something extra so I made it a monocle and some tiny hands to hold it.

A very late Halloween post

Guess who likes Disney/Pixar's "Up"?!... If you guessed me then you sir and/or madam are correct! Because of my love for Up I decided to would go as one of the characters for Halloween. And of course I had to pick the most ridiculous character...Kevin! I made the costume out of wire, cardboard, felt, fun foam, and lots and lots of hot glue and duct tape.

I also made the body out of a cardboard box, some fibrefill and many feathers. Without the feathers it looked like the body of a very out of shape elderly woman. It was kind of gross.

Many feathers and hot glue gun burns later....

Tada!

I wore it to work on Halloween and won the costume contest! I recieved a lot of interesting comments from customers, some calling me Big Bird and some just giving me looks as if they had never seen a crazy person inside of a giant bird costume before. Even though the head kept hitting the menu boards behind me and my neck and back were really sore afterwards I still think that it was worth it. It was also really interesting trying to reach around an enormous bird belly to get change out of a till...

"You didn't take your tent number!"

Hey look, it's a picture of me! With stuff exploding out of my head... Yay!

And now to proove that I'm not completely terrible at life drawing, here's some more!

Kendall's Girlfriend

So I was looking through some of my old life drawing and I found this little gem... I think that we were working on portrait type things and I somehow managed to make the model look like she was part rodent or something. It's just generally ridiculous looking and I kind of love it for that.

So because it turned out so beautifully, I made her my good friend Kendall's girlfriend! What a lucky guy!

So I know it's been pretty much forever since I last posted something, but I've been busy working all summer ok! So here's some stuff that I entered in the Saskatoon EX, for their art show thinger.

This painting was for the 'theme class' which for this year was 'Call of the Wild'. I decided to take them literally. My painting skills still leave a lot to be desired.... I mostly just like the fact that the zebra looks like it's dishing some pretty juicy gossip to the other animals...

I also entered a sculpture of one of my favorite people ever...Ellen Degeneres! So what if I'm a super dork? I made Ellen out of sculpy, and then the chair was a result of wire, cardboard, cottonballs and many hot glue gun burns.

The hands unfortunately broke, probably because Ellen got too tired of holding herself up like that in her chair. She does have super talkshow host muscles, but that's got to get tiring after a while!