the apOCTOlypse

for my printmaking assignment, we had to do a reduction print about the apocalypse. a reduction print is where you use the same block to do every color and you start with the lightest color first, and then cut away where you want that color to remain and do the next one, repeat, etc. i did a five color print which was really laborious but i'm so happy with how it came out. i took the apocalypse and decided to do something kind of fun, but still morbid. i based the squid creature off of the idea of a Humboldt squid... these squid are very interesting yet not that researched sea creatures... they are so quizzical to scientists that they may just take over the world one day. mwahaha!

a plethora of fantastic thangs

so i had to shoot out home to long island for a doctors appointment thursday night and i can't believe i was already back in brooklyn last night. eesh! well the weather by us was rather scummy but it made a for a gorgeous front yard panoramic! that is the sod field across the street and i love how it just seems absolutely endless. and on the left is this incredibly old and dilapidated barn that i hope they never knock down because its been there since i can remember and theres been a few barns that i loved that were knocked/fell down.

now, for another fun thing to add, i was walking home from the printmaking studio today and i came upon a crate of book in the garbage and oh my god was there a great selection. i basically took all of them, i left a history book (booooring). and i got home very excitedly and plopped on my bed and began flipping through, and out slips a polaroid picture! of very nutty looking people! hahahah i couldn't believe how a great dumpster dive turned into an even better find! woohooo

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IF: poise

yesterday morning was nice and relaxing, poised in the kitchen with a book and some tea. i had a very relaxing day of drawing and reading. today i have to go to the sculpture studio and throw 20 cylinders on the wheel for tuesday. oh joy! (click for larger images)

coney island parachute jump print

so our first multiple-block assignment was to do a three colored landscape. we were showed a 'rainbow roll' (which makes me want sushi) but its a certain method of creating a gradient between colors by rolling both colors on the same brayer. so i made my sky fade into a lightblue/white color. i've always loved the silhouette of the parachute drop from coney island. i never knew what it was exactly, ive just seen it so many times driving into brooklyn, going to coney island and from seeing images of it. i never realized it was an actual ride at one point! it sure was a pain in the ass to cut out all the little shapes from the linoleum but it really paid off because i loooove how the print came out. i made a t-shirt too that my roommate wore yesterday. i have 10 prints, but some of the others have really bad registration, so i think im going to elaborate on those and draw directly on the print to continue making it an interesting image.

sweet yo

subject sketch books

so i bought a bunch of sketchbooks and journals from kate's paperie a couple months ago and i got this pack of 6 little sketchbooks which all had different types of paper. one has vellum, the other has natural paper and there all different kinds and they're GREAT. so i decided i was going to make them subject books and draw certain kinds of things pertaining to the subject in all of them. i've started, and i've been working on it slowly.. i'm still trying to figure out other subjects i could do for them. (just to clarify, the 'trains' book is drawings of people i see on the subway or the train that i draw right then and there.)

IF: intricate

here's some intricate houndstooth from a girl that sat in front of me in math class