Patterns

Photographing cut-outs

Photographing cut-outs

A broken home

This is a 3D box I made for my self initiated project. It's supposed to illustrate the fact that many serial killers come from broken homes where their days have been filled with emotional and sexual abuse from the people who were supposed to be their primary caretakers. I like the tackiness of it, but it won't be amongst my finals.

OBSESSION

During these last weeks I have been working on my self initiated final project based around the word 'obsession'. I have been researching serial killers and read about their obsession with murder, their crimes, their nature, and their tragic childhoods. I developed a whole bunch of collages inspired by all the things I read about, and here they are. I have now transferred 6 of these collages onto wooden boards using Lazertran paper, and I will post some images of them after I have had my crit on thursday.

Design your own iPhone skin

When I was reading JUXTAPOZ yesterday there was a advert in it for a website where you can upload an image of your own art work and create an iPhone skin out of it. I haven't got an iPhone (yet), but this made me really want to get one! Thought I'd upload a screenshot of my own skin design just incase anyone was interested. Go visit the site by clicking here!

Pyrography might be my new obsession

You know I never ever really blog about anyone else's work apart from my own on this blog, but this girl has inspired me so much with her beautiful pyrography work that I thought I'd mention her on here. Her name is Genevieve Dionne and she lives and works in Vancouver in Canada.

Her work was featured in the most recent book I bought called 'Illustration Play'. In the book she says that: "My drawing style has always been very linear. When I saw a woodburning tool at a craft supply store I realized how lovely it would be to actually burn the line into the surface. I quickly fell in love with the colour and quality of the line, as well as the cozy smell of toasting wood."


Genevieve doesn't have her own website yet, but you can check her out on flickr. I find it quite peculiar that I haven't heard of her before now considering how talented she is, but I bet you she'll be well known in a couple of years.

Anyway, I love the style of her work so much that I decided to buy myself one of these:

For those of you who don't know what this is: it is a pyrography machine, or a 'wood burning' machine. Pyrography is the traditional art of burning into wood or leather. Both of Genevieve's pieces below were created using this method. Aren't they beautiful?

I will probably receive my pyrography machine in a couple of days, so I'll keep you updated about how it goes and if wood burning is anything for me! Thanks for the inspiration Genevieve!