practice

this is a little study for a triptych i'm working on. i wonder why doll makers put such a blank and creepy expression on their little faces? whatever the reason, i like blank and creepy.

fig-er draw'n

I've been attending life drawing sessions again - always good to exercise those people drawing muscles.

thank you.

I did illustrations for an annual report earlier this year, found out not long ago that it won an award from Black Book AR100- Top Ten Illustrated Annual Reports. :) Thank you to Zahra for art direction and to Jake for being such a good model!

Illustration Friday - Trouble

screenprinting

I took a 'silkscreening on textiles' workshop this past weekend and it was super fun. we learned about paper and mylar stencils, and photo emulsion (which was the funnest out of the three). I'm looking forward to incorporating this medium into my existing work. I have a triptych that's in progress right now, and the only thing that was holding it up was that I wasn't quite sure how to do the screenprinting part. but now i know. Time to finish that project. Pics of that to come.... The picture of the iron is the paper stencil, the flowery thing is the mylar stencil, and the birds and flowers are from the photo emulsion process. The birds and flowers are some of my drawings from the triptych I mentioned, I printed a small yardage of fabric with that pattern...good test. cheerio, k