IF - Foggy

The foggy smog of air trash overcame the butterfly.  :(

Cock-Tail Lounge

There is a wonderful theme this week at Monday Artday... "Cocktail Lounge."  :)   I had a ton of fun with this so I decided to post it here as well.  Phew!  That's three illustrations in three days... COMPLETED.  Rare for me, I guess I am motivated.  Cheers!

IF - SOUR

I just finished this up... inspired by yummy summer treats.  Wow, this is really not my typical subject matter :D

Old Boy's Club on the Brink of Rocketing to Saturn.

phew.

Ok, I'm Obsessed

...with sign faces, old pictures, small gestures and substrates with history.  Here are a few of the pieces I have worked on from April until now.  Most of them combine furniture items from ReSource 2000 and painting, drawing and digital transfer process.  I am psyched to finally feel like I am developing a series of work.  Enjoy!

Recent Work - Part 2

So here is part 2 of my newest work.  It's coming along, but I am not sure about ways in which I might display these?  Any ideas, please comment.  I thought about building a wooden frame for them since they are canvas-board material, but I hate canvas-board so much I wouldn't want it to be visible from the surface.   It would be ideal to have the edges of them hidden, but still keep them together, not in separate frames.

Related to process, after I applied acrylic gesso and tons of gloss gel medium, I experimented with the Lazertran images over the collage pieces.  The part that will make this piece or break it is really the final display that I chose.

Been a while... here's some new shiz

I've been experimenting with collage, acrylic, gel medium and digital images via lazertran, (which is the most versatile stuff I have ever used...)  Right... so I have four panels, that look similar to this and I am overlaying digital work based on several photographs and paintings in Photoshop.  I am unsure about how I might display this work or how this might end up looking.  I like the idea of building layers, then subtracting, re-  building, etc.  I'll keep progress posted.

A.

IF - Wrinkles

yep... here she is in all of her charcoal glory :)

working on....

Tibetan Protests

I saw pictures yesterday of dead Tibetan civilian protesters.  They were leaked photos that keep getting shut down in an attempt to seal the evidence of what is truly happening.  (Or possibly because they are so graphic.)  All of the photos were of people with a single shot wound, some lying in pools of blood, several on doors used as temporary stretchers, some with organs lying near them.

It must have made me think because I am still a little charged from seeing them.  I wonder what direction I am being pushed though.  When I first saw them, I was sort of fascinated by what it actually looked like and what must have physically happened in terms of why there might have been marks in some places on a body, etc.  Then I started reading the captions which listed the name of the person in the photo who was killed as well as their parents' names, age, and city of residence.  I don't know what happened, but I read that information and it made me feel ill.

Whatever is causing people to hurt and kill each other, I have to think it's stronger than I comprehend.  I now realize how much I don't understand.  My life isn't long enough to understand.

I highly recommend this site though:

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks

Illustration Friday - Fail

Poor little mosquito.  Everyone is down on mosquitos.... so this is for all neglected beings :)

Illustration Friday - Save

This is my submission for Illustration Friday's theme, "save."

Cheers and lamprey grins!

Anna

Flip Book Project

I know it's short.... but here is my flip book project.

Scratch That

Ok.... scratch the last post. I am moving in a different direction. Here are some images that I have taken into consideration. Some of them I find completely hilarious.

"Elysium"

This is a sketch of sorts to work out issues that I am thinking about for my next project.

Creeping myself out... again.

Apparently, I like to scare myself. I am not really sure on what level this image scares me, but I'll think about that. Partly the Tammy Fay-Baker ass make-up, partly the bird theme, partly the chubby sinister little girl that appears to have the build of a 50 year old man. eew.

Feedback welcome. I do art direction and graphic design for the environmental center at CU. Most of my work is for Sustainable Transportation... so we are gathering ideas for "pro biking" sort of shirts. Anyhow.... any ideas, crits.

नमस्ते! - Namaste'

मैं आर्ट को कर रहे हूँ। aka.... just doodling. Does anyone actually read this stuff?

My mind is too busy. I have too many ideas for just one lifetime.

Lovely Things

the smell of cold air
the feel of a different language in your mouth
blurred vision
to obtain the superpower of complete invisibility
visual representations of abstract ideas

Hoohaa

नमस्ते!
मेरा नाम अन्ना है
Yep... learning Hindi :)