Creepy Crawlies

Here's a new piece! This was done for Good Gallery's April show, Creepy Crawlies, and it's called Forest Floor. Come see it in person at Good, the opening is first Friday.

Also, it's one of the larger pieces I've finished at 18x24 inches.

ALSO! I'm making prints of this. Not sure what for yet, but it's happening people!

science!

I'd love to know if these are accurate. It's surprising how many different terms there are for the same thing. To keep it under control I made them very general. Hope you like them!

chickenosaurus

I recently checked out a book from the library called How to Build a Dinosaur, by Jack Horner. It overviews research into reverse engineering dinosaurs from chicken eggs. Here is a link to an article that can give a better overview than I can:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/dinosaurs/6090313/Chickenosaurus-Canadian-scientist-says-he-can-create-dinosaurs-from-chickens.html

I haven't gotten very far in the book, it was enough for me just to know the basics of what they're experimenting with and let my imagination fill in the blanks. Part of what I love about paleontology is the educated guesswork, it really is awesome how much paleontologists can infer from the little clues they get. I think that if they were able to do this it would be like catching bigfoot; it'd be awesome to see but it might take out some of the mystery.

Anyway, that was a lot of text, here's the picture:



This is my first attempt at illustration in a long time. I tried out a few lighting scenarios and then manipulated it a bit in post. Is it working? I'd really love to make more like this, and a couple of good critiques would be helpful.

New work from the show

Going along with the previous post, here is some new work from the show at Tyson Gallery. I've been experimenting with matting and working in a shallower depth of shadow box, and I feel these were some of my more successful boxes. What do you think?

First up is Green.
He is in camouflage.


Next is Mr. Fancypants. He is decidedly not camouflaged.


Blue.

And this is the largest piece I've made yet. It's about 2 feet across by i foot down, un-matted. I'd like to do some more large pieces, but with a different method than this. Making a large bird was pretty unwieldy, but I'd love to make a large image that's filled with small birds. Some day soon?
Here is a detail:
I'm thinking some of these shallow-depth pieces would make good prints. Can I gauge your interest? Any suggestions for how to go about it?

Art Show!

On July 2nd, first thursday, I had my very show solo show. Thanks to everybody who came out! I know I said I update this blog more than my website, but I'm even pretty slow at updating this. Admitting it is the first step to recovery, right? Without further ado, here are some pictures from the show...


This local celebrity stopped by:

There were curated groupings of art:

A big old waterfall made out of cardboard and fabric:

All at the Tyson Gallery


The show will be up through the month of July. If you get the chance to see it, it will be open on the weekends. Tyson gallery is located on the corner of NW Broadway and Flanders and is part of the Everett station lofts.

More Boxes

I haven't posted in a while since the internet was down at my house. I've got a sort of backlog of work, and something big-ish in the works, so I'll try and keep up from now on.

I was working on the first image for a while. I had the pieces finished, but the frame wasn't coming together the way I liked. It's finished now, and I like it.

The next piece is loosely based on the puzzle: find a little red house with no doors and no windows, and a star inside. The answer is an apple, because the seed casings make a star pattern when you cut it in half cross-wise. Anyway, this little old lady figured out the riddle, and moved in. Adding a door and window for convenience.

Owls and Jars

Heres a couple more plants in jars. I don't know if you can tell, but the one in the test tube needs to be transplanted.



This is another shadow box (sorry about the poor quality). The owl is irate because it's too early for him/ he had a long day.

Warm Fuzzies

These are pictures of some shadow boxes I made for a show called "Warm Fuzzies". I'm not too fond of the one of the foxes in their den. I'd like to re-do it, so I'm not submitting it. Any crits/ suggestions about that one? The other one is going in. It will be viewable at Good Gallery starting Dec. 5th. It's the gallery's first show (and my first time showing) so come out if you can! Heres a link to the site:
http://goodpdx.com/events/