So with my fifth animal, I’m really trying to focus on personality and cuteness and use the real animal only as inspiration. This is things where are getting to be more challenging. I’m searching the house looking for things as stencils to make the oval to make the pig shape. I used the coffee grinder [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Foam Animal: Domestic Pig
Posted in Animal Kingdom, art stuff on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Foam Animal: Tree Frog
Posted in Animal Kingdom, art stuff on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With my forth animal, I’m much more comfortable so I can focus on giving the animals more personality like with Mr. Tree Frog here. I can start creating my own sense of animal style.
Foam Animal: Box Turtle
Posted in Animal Kingdom, art stuff on February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My third animal sketch, box turtle. As you can see, I’m becoming more comfortable with the foam. I’m trying to use the foam shapes that already exist to create the animal parts so I don’t have to cut them. This is where my memory of pieces comes in handy. The only piece I had to [...]
Foam Animal: Hippopotamus
Posted in Animal Kingdom, art stuff on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My second completed animal, the hippopotamus. I was going to post an animal once a week as I complete them but I am working alot faster that I thought I would be so I’ll just post them as I complete them. This might be hard to believe, but this hippo was freaking hard to do [...]
Foam Animal: Domestic Duck
Posted in Animal Kingdom, art stuff on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I finished my first animal, a domestic duck. I did it twice because I wasn’t completely happy with my first one. After I completed my first one, I had to go out and buy more supplies like better scissors and glue because I realized the ones I had weren’t adequate. Working with foam has it’s [...]
Mission: Animal Kingdom step 1: organization
Posted in Animal Kingdom, art stuff on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When dealing with any new medium, it tends to be overwhelming so I try to be as organized as possible. As with the above photo, I’ve organized the foam shapes into zip lock bags. As with the project this is what I have done so far. 1) Bought foam shapes in bulk buckets and organizes [...]
A new direction for me. Foam Kingdom.
Posted in Animal Kingdom, art stuff on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As I have been saying over and over, business has been slow. In a way, it’s good because this gives me time to reflect over the past two years and try to improve as an artist. I know what has been my best sellers and worst sellers. What products I’ll bring back and what will [...]
“May we dance?” collage
Posted in art stuff on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another one of my collages. If you know your art history, this piece will have even more meaning to you.
What makes a Superhero?
Posted in just plain ranting on February 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a superhero as “A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime.” Let me set the scene. Here’s a struggling artist in in a struggling economy in a struggling NYC. It’s winter. No one is out shopping. No one [...]
Remember! Your tattoo is permanent! Choose a good tattoo artist!
Posted in art stuff, just plain ranting on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For my birthday Adam set me up with a tumblr blog so I could experience a different way to blog. What I have been able to check out are other bloggers, one of them is called http://fuckyeahtattoos.tumblr.com/. It’s a site where you can upload a pic of your tattoo. Now, I love tattoo art. And [...]
