Day 33 - 365/2014

Day Thirty-Three

Tonight I finished front-wrapping the collage blocks for this edition of Animal People for Art-o-mat.  Now all one hundred blocks are ready for me to get to work with the collage part!

Remember these guys?  I also painted more on the white and black creatures.  IF I do these as a series for Art-o-mat (and I am still not sure if I want to paint that much) I will have to submit a prototype first.  I don't think I like the white creatures at all...I would stick with the black ones on light colored backgrounds...maybe do dark blue and dark purple creatures, maybe dark green...but definitely not white ones.  I don't like the black teeth on the white ones.  I like the white teeth on the dark ones and maybe the white teeth would show up on other very dark colors...but yeah...I don't know yet.

Day 29 - 365/2014

Day Twenty-Nine

Joan and Leann came over this morning for another delightful Wednesday Morning meet up.  Joan worked on some knitting, Leann worked on some carved stamping, and I worked on the collage blocks.  I front-wrapped 12 more...just 8 to go!  After that I worked on painting the possible prototypes I started a day or so ago.

The stuff I worked on.

Joan and Leann!

I was fairly happy with the way this guy was going.

And yeah...I think I like the creature in this form...for now.

This is the butcher paper wrapped block -- I don't think I will do more of these. 

The black creature got a blue with red dots border all the way around the block.  The white creature only has two long sides of dots because of the paper on the short ends.

This is the other wrapped block that I saw creatures emerging on...I considered doing a series of "find the picture" sort of thing but it is way beyond my capacity.  I was stressing waaaaay too much over this.

So I made one more black creature and two white ones on the plain MDF block with a dark blue background.

Later in the afternoon I had an unexpected surprise visit from another friend -- very enjoyable!  Then I went back to painting a bit more on the blocks...as of right now, I am not sure I care too much for the white creatures but I like the black ones.  I am not sure if I like any of them enough to try to paint fifty of them for a series...I am still thinking about it...we'll see how these end up.  I will poke at them a little more in the morning and blog them tomorrow.