It’s Maaaaaagic!

• July 10th, 2008 • 0 Comments • experiments, fun stuff, pottery •

Honestly, these are probably prototypes. I’m still getting used to this whole “painting with glass” thing. The “photographing super-shiny objects” issue is a learning experience as well. In any event! Here is my magical plate and bowl set. Glitter is difficult to photograph in the first place, the glitter detail I put on the unicorn and the fairy don’t seem to photograph well at all! (I promise, they’re all sparkley and cute.)

My intent was to create something just a little cheesy, hence the “Believe in your dreams!” and “Magical Bowl” bits on each plate. I assume the urge to write on stuff will pass; as of now I find the idea of labeling kitchenware hilarious for some reason. How delightfully juvenile.

So I got a job…

• June 5th, 2008 • 0 Comments • fun stuff, jobs, pottery •

What? A job? After months of struggling doing freelance? Actually I love my new job. Without naming names, I work in a paint-your-own ceramics shop. While I’ve never worked with ceramics before (Save that awesome plate I made in middle school art class…) I must say this job is awesome. One, it puts me back in a shop atmosphere. Two, I have the opportunity to teach people something new about art. Three, somehow, I got a boss that actually listens to my opinion rather than nod like a bobble-head doll. Four, did I mention the DISCOUNT? Hello, customized new dishes for my kitchen. Five, I get paid to paint. It dawned on me the other day while I was painting shop samples that someone is paying me to paint. I sat there for three hours intermittently helping customers and painting. For money. Realizations like this require the use of both bold and italics.

While I have been working on various drawings and paintings at home, I present without further ado my first finished ceramic piece, a faux Talavera bowl with a wiener dog on it I painted for what else? Mother’s Day. (My mother absoulutly adores Talavera.)

Whoops.

• February 5th, 2008 • 0 Comments • food, fun stuff, meandering •

So, uh, I’ve been busy! Well, not entirely; I was sick most of January which put a damper on projects. (LIKE EPICYCLOID-A-DAY. I SWEAR THAT BLOG IS DOOMED TO FAIL.)

Lacking any other photos of current plots, I present you with a photo of a delicious King Cake I made today with the help of a dear friend. The only sweet part is the icing; everything else is fairly easy on the sugar and cinnamon. Still, my first King Cake turned out pretty good I’d say!

Also, for those interested, I will be sharing a table with Nicole Mills a.k.a. pinkfairywand at ConDFW in Richardson, TX this year. We will be hocking a number of hand-made items to those interested in buying! The SciFi/Fantasy event is from February 22-24.

Wizards

• January 5th, 2008 • 0 Comments • animation, fun stuff •

Last night I finally got to watch my new copy of Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards. I’ve been wanting to see it since reading about it in one of my animation history books when I was oh, about 15 years old.

Bakshi doesn’t typically have great animation but I like the films for the conceptual value. I was really enamored with the weird overlays and rotoscoping. The background art outshone the animation, music, and dialog by leaps and bounds.

Story was pretty boss too; I enjoy stories of the post-apocalypse that don’t involve cyberpunks fighting the machine. The soundtrack was filled with odd “bow chicka wow” guitars that kinda set me off, but it added a weird quirk to the whole thing. I imagine if it had a heavy metal track I would’ve been completely starry-eyed just because of the part of me deep down that loves shitty animation paired with a sweet guitar solos. Speaking of which, where’s my copy of Heavy Metal anyway?

Resolution

• December 31st, 2007 • 0 Comments • computers, drawing, fun stuff •

At first I figured this was arbitrary, but I can probably slip it in under the radar as a New Year’s Resolution!

I’m not the most disiplined person in the world, as evidenced by my failure to upkeep various blogs and other dated material. There is nothing to indicate I reguarly produce work so I shall do so here! I will post more screenshots, photos and jps of my work.

Let’s start with something I did purely for fun yesterday, a LiveJournal mood icon set for my friend Nicole. She enjoys a Japanese comic book called Naruto so I made some of a character she likes named Temari.

(Please click to see a larger version.)

I don’t usually do pixel-work, but it’s fun to do every once in a while. I just started with a head base and put the different facial expressions in different layers. Easy to do and produced a fairly nice result, I think.