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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Another Picture Post...
I've been wanting to do another post of my photos for a while, but just haven't gotten around to it. While I'm on a roll with blogging, I guess I'll go ahead and post these, lol. Again, they're from all over, no particular order or anything - just randomness! Like I've said before, I'm definitely no expert, I just take pics if I see something interesting.
Enjoy!
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Rock Boat Guitar ~ Tissue Paper Collage
I've been working on this a lot lately, and it's finally starting to come together a little bit more! It has also moved out of it's pastel colors phase where it looked like the Easter Bunny designed it :-) I've also FINALLY gotten the boat to look like I want it to. I think I drew/erased that thing about 6 times before I was happy with it.
I ended up ordering a new yellowish-gold color of paper online for the yellow balloons. I wasn't happy with the highlighter yellow color it was before, lol. I think the darker gold color looks much better. I got it from Blick Art Materials - they have the best selection of tissue paper I've found, if you ever happen to be looking...haha.
One thing that I will probably change is the pink of the balloon that is the farthest to the left...it's a bit darker, and I prefer the lighter pink I used on the balloon toward the center of the guitar. The darker pink looks too much like the red to me. Shouldn't be too hard of a change.
Other than that, it's coming together fairly well. I think I'm going to make the boat a tan/off-white color. I guess tecnically the paper I have is called "Vanilla" if that helps you picture it, lol. In the image that inspired the design of the guitar (on www.therockboat.com) the boat is blue, but if I use that color on here, it will be WAY too much blue since I have so much water. The 'Vanilla' should work just fine though.
I can't wait to finish all the tissue paper stuff so I can go back in and draw the details with marker. Hopefully it'll look cool when it's done!
Oh, and as usual, the colors in the photos are a bit off from real life, since once again, I took them at night and had poor lighting. One of these days I'll take some during the day...haha.
I ended up ordering a new yellowish-gold color of paper online for the yellow balloons. I wasn't happy with the highlighter yellow color it was before, lol. I think the darker gold color looks much better. I got it from Blick Art Materials - they have the best selection of tissue paper I've found, if you ever happen to be looking...haha.
One thing that I will probably change is the pink of the balloon that is the farthest to the left...it's a bit darker, and I prefer the lighter pink I used on the balloon toward the center of the guitar. The darker pink looks too much like the red to me. Shouldn't be too hard of a change.
Other than that, it's coming together fairly well. I think I'm going to make the boat a tan/off-white color. I guess tecnically the paper I have is called "Vanilla" if that helps you picture it, lol. In the image that inspired the design of the guitar (on www.therockboat.com) the boat is blue, but if I use that color on here, it will be WAY too much blue since I have so much water. The 'Vanilla' should work just fine though.
I can't wait to finish all the tissue paper stuff so I can go back in and draw the details with marker. Hopefully it'll look cool when it's done!
Oh, and as usual, the colors in the photos are a bit off from real life, since once again, I took them at night and had poor lighting. One of these days I'll take some during the day...haha.
Friday, October 16, 2009
SeaWorld Pottery Night!
So this isn't one of my normal art updates, but since I haven't posted in a while, and we did this, and it's technically artsy, I figured why not.
Every so often, SeaWorld has "Paint Your Own Pottery" night for employees and their family/friends. I've been every time they've done it...and this time I was able to drag Matt out there with me. Unfortunately we don't have the best shots of our masterpieces, but I'm just posting these for fun. Hopefully once they're fired they'll still look as good as they do now!
I DO have an actual update for my current guitar project...I just haven't posted it yet. Maybe I'll work on it a little bit more tomorrow and post updates then!
Enjoy our lovely creations...lol.
I did a plate with a pattern on it...once it's fired it should be silver, with orange, blue, white and brown dots/lines on it.
And Matt did a plate as well...he did a great job, considering he hates doing stuff like this more than anything! His plate has raised and indented little circles around the edges.
Every so often, SeaWorld has "Paint Your Own Pottery" night for employees and their family/friends. I've been every time they've done it...and this time I was able to drag Matt out there with me. Unfortunately we don't have the best shots of our masterpieces, but I'm just posting these for fun. Hopefully once they're fired they'll still look as good as they do now!
I DO have an actual update for my current guitar project...I just haven't posted it yet. Maybe I'll work on it a little bit more tomorrow and post updates then!
Enjoy our lovely creations...lol.
I did a plate with a pattern on it...once it's fired it should be silver, with orange, blue, white and brown dots/lines on it.
And Matt did a plate as well...he did a great job, considering he hates doing stuff like this more than anything! His plate has raised and indented little circles around the edges.
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