Valkyrie

Hey there, well I finished the painting for my book last night and all that's left is to figure out a cover, scan everything and the graphic design and type forever. I'm hoping to get all the pages scanned at some point this week so I may throw a few preview pages up here at some point.

In the meantime here's something that I did last week that I just got around to editing for the web. I needed a break from the book so I took a day off to just work on something else and had this sketched out from a little bit ago. Something funny happened to the background color when it was scanned that I can't seem to fix so just imagine it more magenta-y. So now that my life isn't as consumed with my absurd book-page-finishing schedule hopefully the updates can be a bit more frequent, as I'm sure I'll need a fair amount of breaks from the editing and layout processes.

Oh and also t minus 26 days until my US visit/vacation/temporary reprieve.

GHOSTS!

some paintings from thesis thus far

as i said before my thesis is on animal portrayals is folklore myth and legend so each of these is based on a myth from somewhere in the world.



the deer comes from a shinto legend where the deer is seen as a messanger of the gods.



the owl. as a symbol of knoweledge is greek



the boar is from a celtic belief where the boar is connected to the hunt




the bear is from a germanic belief that the guardian/ wathcer figure in the sky is portrayed as a bear

bear (v) - to endure

this is a small piece that i did as part of my thesis, it's actually made of a sketch for an earlier one that didn't quite turn out. Although this one doesn't seem to get noticed much in the context of the group of works as a whole it's probably my favorite thus far

couple of new pieces

so last night i was working on the painting version of "why im not afraid of shadows anymore" and was getting bored with it so i was going through my supplies just to play around and found my watercolors, i haven't done watercolors in a while and really enjoy it and though "i wonder how watercolor will react on wood?' and just started playing around not thinking too much of it, i also had some left over acrylic that i didnt want to waste so thats in there too. After a while i was like "wow i really like this, maybe i should actually finish it off" so i added the collaged bit, tighened the whole thing up a bit and added the text. I feel like this piece was really refreshing especially cause i was feeling like i was in a bit of a rut.



this other one is me playing around with stencils, the other day i got this idea that i wanted to try working in spray paint. So, after a rather unsuccessful bit of freehand on cardboard, decided to mess around with a stencil and this is the outcome.