uh so this is dorky

but



did you know you can add water/smear those PITT pens? also i learned today that with copic markers, you can draw with one colored marker onto the tip of another, different colored marker to create a blend of the two, and you won't ruin the tip of either marker.*

things and stuff and origami

Ach stressin. I have too many jobs.

But check this out



Master origami maker turns 101! what a great photo :)

I've met some really cute/cool elderly crafters over the past few weeks while working at Collage. This guy the other day brought in his most recent woodworking project to show me--it was this wooden bible box with a gavel inside. It was a commission. his name is George Starbuck! Apparently he's in the yellow pages.
I had the idea the other day to start a blog for older crafters--like do write-ups and take photos of studio spaces of older people who are master quilters, embroiderers, woodworkers, etc., but who don't have a website/Internet presence because they don't do the web. ...maybe i could apply for a grant some time. you'd get to meet some great people.

This is the performance I saw the other day



wish you coulda been there! i had a free ticket that no one wanted. the puppet comes to life and kills his master. the dancing was AMAZING though. holy shit. *i thought they were israeli, but they're actually canadian. this week is when the israeli dance troope is coming to town. p.s. i'm interviewing the artistic director of cirque du soleil on wednesday. bahahah. my life is so weird right now.

Oh, and this is cool

http://4cp.posterous.com/in-defense-of-dots-the-lost-art-of-comic-book

about the lost art of comic books. do you follow ArtsWatch on facebook? they post some good links sometimes

i like/just found this illustration done in 1928 of the agit-prop group blue blouse, of russia :)

socket city

This is my favorite thing of what we did at the Washburn today. A collaborative piece between me and Lizka- she started the drawing by doing the 2 fake switches next to the real switch!

collaging et. al

yay posting. this is fun. i'm glad we keep this blog jenny :) so i've been working on some trash collages. right now they're pretty much just color studies, but i think there could be something good that happens, where i put together pieces, photograph them, print them, then re-collage them into other pieces. i've also been taking my camera everywhere, and photographing things which fit into the color palettes that i'm working with at my desk--i think something interesting could come from that back and forth; i like the democratic spirit of it. like i take a photo for the purpose of a collage, or i fit a collage into a photograph--treating all the mediums equally and flitting back and forth between the two.








not great as is, but something could come of these. i'll keep working on them.

also, i taught this caricature class the other day! it was fun; i made everyone draw Abe Lincoln. They did some cool stuff. I need to take photos of the students' work next time :) This was my handout for it



maira kalman and i share the same feelings about abraham lincoln. i wish he was my boyfriend

LaughBox Broke

Sorry I haven't posted in so long! It has been crazy.
Here is a really badly made animation that I've started two weeks ago and finished this morning.
I drew it on a flip book one night, and the actual drawing animation took much less time then for the stupid thing to render on the program.
It needs to be reshot and to be edited better, and the background needs fixing. but I don't think it's funny enough ot be worth the trouble.
I think it's the most 90's animation I've done to date (and by "90's", I mean "annoying"), or even Zagreb-inspired (if you could see the characters, maybe you'd agree. But they are too small pixelated).

And this is why I should not be allowed access to garage band or to after-effects.

videos

found this movie today:



it's a documentary about animation and chuck jones. interesting stuff! the whole thing is on youtube. that segment specifically is about storyboarding. maybe it could be something you use/recommend in a class?

And, I watched this movie the other night, on Netflix instant queue, about the puppeteer who does Elmo:



It's so good! It will make you cry :)

ULTIMATE DANCE-OFF!