Robot Love!

Here's a couple pieces I made for the Good Gallery February show. It's all about robots and it's up for the whole month, so go check it out!
Gallery site is: goodpdx.com


Melvin is small and lost in your backyard. Help him out, won't you?

Penelope is too big to realize that those things she's picking are windmills and not flowers. Somebody stop her!

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!

mmmm... leftovers

I made this piece a couple of months ago for a Good: Gallery show called "Preserved".
The current group show is "The Present", and there's lots of great art up there this month. Go check it out!

Nosferatu and other happenings

I won't apologize for not posting lately. I just won't. Instead I'll try to prove to you how much I've been working since my last update.






First of all, I had the honor of being a part of a play! Atomic Arts, a theater troupe here in Portland, asked me if I would like to create some backgrounds for a production of Nosferatu. The idea was to make little paper craft sets, photograph them, then set them up in an interactive sequence using flash so that the lighting technician could simply advance through the sequence whenever there was a scene change. I had to learn a lot to accomplish all that, but I had a really good time doing it, and would love to do something like it again in the future. The play has completed it's scheduled run, but I hope you'll enjoy a few of the more interesting backdrops I've posted here.

In addition to that, I've been working with bent on some cool projects and I got to animate on a couple really fun ones. Hopefully I can link to them soon!

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.

art for love

This is a cake topper I made recently for a friend's wedding. I'll probably get pictures of it on the cake itself soon. It looked really neat, another friend of the Bride, Kitana, made the cake and really decked them out with flowers. She integrated the topper beautifully! It was an honer to be a part of it.

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?