Knitted Animals

Animals are commonly recognizable forms, and many people empathize with a particular one, thus making Knitted Animals was a natural progression

New Art 3/15/08-3/21/08

Some One-off Photography and Drawings this week, but first I modeled at Rice this week and while there was a wide range of skills and styles, one student in particular was experimenting in an awesome way. Her name was Jessica Streets, and on the first day she was using painter's tape to describe the lines:


and then on the second day she was doing similar stuff, but with thread and glue:

It was particularly cool, and it's always neat to see someone doing a art technique that you wouldn't have ever thought of yourself.

On to what I did.
Starting with photography,
Skylight:

Morning

Express


I also played around with drawing in Flash with a kind of linear Flat Art Style. I like it, but no one else has said anything about it, so I have no idea if I'm onto anything or not:
The Business

Morning Time

The Vaguries of Love


knitted sculpture 1 on Monday

Exquisite Corpse

After first learning of the "exquisite corpse" (where in multiple artists make a single figure drawing, I wanted to take that as a spring board. I was especially taken with the notion of framing each section, and so I decided to take multiple shots of the subjects' head and shoulders, then torso, then legs, and seam them together, but noticeably. Let the viewer piece them together in their mind. I've only done two so far, and am looking for models for more. Here they are:
Matt

Trentyn

New Art 3/8/08 - 3/14/08

Some photos:
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and, while bored today at work I made my first ever collage:

Knitted Nudes

Knitted Nudes

While working at the Blaffer Gallery, one show that I particularly enjoyed was Girls Night Out. It was photography from female artists, including one of my favorites that I knew of before, Rineke Dijkstra. From that show I also learned about Katy Grannan and Salla Tykka. But my favorite piece of the whole show was The Wall by an English Photographer, Sarah Jones. I was most often positioned by it, and the whole of it fascinated me. Eventually I thought that I should make a blanket out of it, but then I thought about some photographs I had taken for a class project, and that I could use them as bases.
So, after learning to intarsia, and working with the photo in photoshop, I started the first one, and finished six weeks later. Even working at a job where I can knit virtually the entire time I'm at work, they take forever.
Most of the finished pieces I have made since then have been shot specifically for this project. and I am going to vary it soon. After the ninth one, (which I will begin tomorrow morning) some will be full pictures, and some will be sections thereof. I have already made some 9"x9" ones, and this next set will be 2'x2'
the piece of colour in each one is mainly for aesthetic reasons, and each picture is hand-knitted over 4-8 weeks.

Kerrisa's Back

Trinidad's Faith

Krystal, Poised

Morgan, Standing

Notes on where projects stand

Just some notes to myself

Con*Text
Models to shoot:
Laura M
Jojo M
Billie Jean H

Prints ready: Life is Sparkly, Perfect

Knitted Nudes
1. Retitle
2. Blog Post
3. Stretcher bars for 7&8
4. Plot 9
5.Models to shoot:
Maddie
Thuy
Xuan
Laura
Ivana
Kelly F
Jennifer S
Rachel
Kim
Brittany
Lindsay
Aisen
6.Plot out 2x2s

NudeSuits
inquire about florida article
Models to shoot:
Vonetta
Lindsay
Zac
Tala?

knitted sculptures to do
Zodiac: Rat`, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit`, Dragon`, Snake`, Horse`, Sheep`, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig`

Develop
Exquisite Corpse, Drift, Video, Metal process(es)

New Art 3/1/08 - 3/7/08

Not much this week, some more ninjas, and some One-off Photos:
Locks

Blue Ribbon

and Lumen

also, probably going to strike the artist profile and the regular event notices, as they seem to be bad luck.

Con*Text

Con*Text
This Project was first started to fill up time. The initial idea came from the ending credits to the Anime Full-Metal Alchemist, in which all the landscape has text from books printed on it. I thought that that was graphically interesting, so I adapted it to my own style. The first of my projects that dealt with closure (the human minds tendency to fill in gaps in information) The text is mostly stream-of-consciousness while looking at the image. Sometimes the text relates to the model, (as in Giving You a Free Soul) sometimes it relates to me (as in Life is Sparkly in the Dark Places), and sometimes it is free association. Often I come up with a title while sketching poses, but sometimes the titles don't present themselves until I reread the text.

New Art 2/22/08 - 2/29/08

only Knitted stuff this week:
these I'm thinking of putting on Etsy:

and this is for my sweet friend in Montreal.

(Hopefully it remains a secret until she gets it in the post)