Postcard & Artmarket

Artmarket is an arts sale at MICA on December 10-13th, 10am to 6pm in the Brown Center (the one that looks like an iceberg). Students and faculty sell fine art, crafts, jewelry, knitwear, books, clothing, prints, etc. I will have items at both the Knitting Club booth (fun hats) and the Illustration booth. (Hence the illustration of someone clad in various knitwear).

Just a little something

The bike will be lying, abandoned in a field, in the next illustration, but I had to give it it's own picture as well. [Bike: Hot glue, straws, wire, duck tape.]

Illustration Thesis

For the first semester of thesis I am illustrating four of Edward Lear's Limericks from The Book of Nonsense. Here are the first two.

There was an Old Man with a beard

Who said, "It is just as I feared!-

Two Owls and a Hen,

Four Larks and a Wren,

Have all built their nests in my beard!"

There was an Old Person whose habits,

Induced him to feed upon Rabbits;

When he'd eaten eighteen,

He turned perfectly green,

Upon which he relinquished those habits.

The six images that follow were done for my Illustrated Book class.  The pop-ups were engineered and illustrated by myself and accompany Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky poem.  I started with sketches and then made a dummy book with mock-up pop-ups to size.  I then disassembled the pop-ups and traced their components, which I painted in gouache.  The paintings were scanned and printed out (double-sided prints), cut out, and reassembled .  The product is what you see below.  

Jabberwocky pop-up for: "One two! One two! and through and through his vorpal blade went snicker-snack."

Scroll down to see different views.  

Title page for Jabberwocky.  Bone on right is a pull tab that makes the tail wave.  

Jabberwocky pop-up.  Boy's sword moves to slice Jabberwocky when tab is pulled.  

Jabberwocky pop-up.  Side view of "with eyes of flame."