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Portraits of Dave:

Normal.


Punked Out! lol

Phases

Lotus Pond. Two images - make an average in your mind and you will see its true color.


Ensnared. Experimenting with gouache and granulation fluid.


Break At Dawn. More granulated gouache.


Sunless Sea. And again.


Megature. All the shapes finally blocked. I'm worried that I may have miscalculated the figure-ground weight on the right vs. left sides :/

More Bookmaking

Another book I made; A Truncated Bestiary. The cover has an inlaid collage-piece (the paper substrate is cut away so that the thick cardboard frog lies flush with the box-surface. Nerdy:)

Bookmaking

Yesterday I did a little bookmaking. Here's my setup (to use the term loosely. I still have a lot of materials left over from when I was in Orvieto, Italy in 2005, that I get out when I start a project like this.

Here are all my collage matirials, most of them collected in Orvieto, Florence and Rome. They're organized by color in little envelopes. Going through them again after 2 or 3 years really made me want to do some collage again. You can see some printed and hand-marbled Florentine paper underneath the envelopes.

The book is is its own slipcase, all labelled correspondingly with text from some Korean green tea bags.





I needed more pages to complete the signature than there was content for, so I made the middle of the signature a four-fold spread and used my page-planning notes for a touch of ephemera.



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Working on Lotus Pond for Silver Worlds. yes, I am still having a show! :D

Flickering In And Out

Eu...this hasn't been updated in a while. And it won't be for a little while longer as I finish up some freelance jobs and ease back into the studio after a summer hiatus.

But, if you want to see more stuff, I've just joined Flickr and you can view my photostream here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabbitengine/

The Much-Maligned Gull

I know everyone hates seagulls, but I love them. I think they are adorable and hilarious. They always have that grumpy, sour look in their beaks, as if they were displeased, vinegary cats, and their feathers are so white and smooth that I imagine petting one would be incredibly soft and satisfying.

I just found these gulls photos from Schoodic in Maine that I took on my vacation back in May. I don't know if anyone will love them like I do, but it's my blog so I'm just posting all of them :D haha!
The gulls in Schoodic seemed more ecologically naive than others I'd seen, so I was able to get pretty close and took pictures of this one (later joined by a friend) for about 20 minutes.




How terpsichorean!


At the end there were two that got into all kinds of tableaux.






Just hating everything!




The awkward, ballerinalike things they do as they clean themselves are another thing that reminds me of a cat, trying to lick every bit of its legs.


I love how abstract they become as they preen - like little headless puffs.

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Portrait of Sufjan Stevens