the cupcake obsession continues...

I did my drawing/painting assigment using cupcakes and I think I have fallen in love with this process. I first just put a thin coat of pink acrylic. Then proceeded w/ my drawings, then used fabrics for the shape of the frosting, cupcake liner, and gumdrop on top.

Post-Sims Opening

Thank you to all you out there that came to the opening of The Sims: In the Hand of Artists. There were some very last minute changes with my project to appease the people at EA Games. I guess the use of the word 'cigarettes' in my final version didn't sit well w/ PR, so I had to change it the night before. Instead of the cigarette cartons that I made by mounting my printed out illustrations onto wood blocks, they put up print outs of my work. They are sized up to be around 18x26. Here are some pictures of my original project and then the one that is up now. I also put up pictures of some of my favs. I can't figure out how to put captions right below the pictures, so following my project is the lovely Peter Sriployrung's Garden of Eden, Jessi Kempin [http://iamjessik.com] who won a prize for her painting pictured here, and Florian Sanger [http://www.littlebunch.net].



















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I also am starting a project in concepts dealing with candy. I was drawing cupcakes to get some inspiration and I thought that these came out well. I bought my domain name yesterday night, so my website should be up in the next week or two. I'll post when I get it up. Well...gotta go back to work. That's it for now xoxo

Come See My Work!

Thursday April 19th marks the opening of The Sims: In the Hands of Artists, a collaborative project between Parsons and EA Games, the creators of the game. I will be having an instillation of the three cigarette cartons that I posted a little bit ago. I should also have some business cards there, so pick one up. A great deal of talent dealing with a variety of aesthetics will be there. Go check it out!

Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street
Tues -Sat 12-6pm
Thurs 12-8 pm

Opening:
(this!) Thursday April 19 6-8pm

some websites:

chelseaartmuseum.org
cdt.parsons.edu/sims

Flaming Lips Album

I really enjoyed working on this project: redoing a album cover. The Flaming Lips just have an awesome, quirky sound to them that I thought would be a good match with my illustration style.

Promo piece continued

I finished up the promotional piece this weekend. I like the idea, but the actual construction of it took about half a day for just this one. I think I have to develop a better solution for the ones that I will send out.

promotional piece

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This is a promotional piece that I have been working on for my children's book class. The original work is watercolored, then I scanned it, and put the dotted design in w/ a scanned fabric swatch. The pattern of the fabric is red, so I changed it to a bluish-green. My final will be a mobile, where the fish, whale and shark will all hang down from the water/ocean area.

One for the birds

These are a series of drawings I made, sort of autobiographical. These are really different for me, I dont really like using ink washes w/ brush, but I am happy w/ how they came out.

The Sims Project

The finals for The Sims project. Pictures for now, Ill try to write about them later.