Shores of California

That's the way we do it.


These are photos of a steampunk papercraft rabbit I made for the steampunk symposium art show hosted at the Fall tattooing in Vancouver! One of several pieces I'll show you soon.
this rabbit went through much peril in it's contruction. Originally it was smaller, and originally it was sitting. Then it morphed into a paper sculpture that was to be mounted and running in a glas globe(first image), but, when the rabbit was al well and crafted, she didn't fit. So she made her home in a shadow box with scrap paper and wire and that's where she stayed.
Now she lives in a private collection somewhere I do not know.

Dixie was a proud rabbit of the United Hare Postal Service.

peace out!

Let's Get DOOWN

Hello cats and jammers!

My Dad says that...a lot.
anyhoo. Check out these Nautical (I always seem to want to capitalize Nautical) collages!




More things to come I promise! Exciting things.
Lots of love.

Alison

ps. final projects will surely do me in this year.
pms. I miss Uriel and Catherine

Ima Engine Drivhurr

One of my projects for a class is to recreate a historic piece. My instructor picked the artist for my class, and we were lucky cause she picked Hieronomyus Bosch. If you don't know who he is, he's a wicked dutch master, look im up.
SO one of the one's I did was from his piece the temptation of St. Anthony:



And I took that and redrew the white tree fellow:



mhmm! I'm still getting the hang of this digital bit. All of my pieces are lacking a bit of clarity methinks. We'll see where that goes. Larger version here: http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l153/poofmongoose/bosch2.jpg
Love you!

Alison

Bornes Bornes Bornes

I will start this the way I always do;

I have been so busy!

I made this scary dood and the little forest he lives in.
He'll eat you if you go out on your own!



He's made out of plasicine and air hardening natural clay painted with acrylic. The setting is a hodgepodge of other things. If you like this sort of deal, you should checkout Red Nose Blog by Red Nose Studios. His site is AMAZING. I want to get down with his brain. Amazing.

coming soon: the steam punk show! woo hoo!

love
Alison

Apathy and the Whales

I think if anyone ever read more than one entry in my journals, they'd realize that Titles are not usually related.
The same goes for this one. I just think Apathy is a cute name for a girl...who likes to live with a pod of whales....


Who am I? Well I don't know...

I do stuff.


I go to a certain University, and walk on giant streets of cloth.


I 'splore the trees.

I belong to a rad collective.


I'm the crazy old man who runs the goat circus down the road.


I turn into a fruit eating ferret by night.

This was a huge amount of time, that I'm not sure was spent efficiently....we'll see how it plays out. Who I am does not fit into pictures of my life. This is what I have learned.


Now go find those whales, Apathy.

Love
Alison

When I was small

As an alternate project for Illustration, I made little card board cut outs of me and my housemates. With out any context, I am a peculiar girl.

Ah yes, the days when I was made of paper.

I am very excited that friends of mine are moving. I can mail them letters. I do like to send letters once in a while.
Also, I think probably in the new year, I would like to make a dream boat, like the ones ann wood makes. Her blog is awe inspiring: http://annwood.net/blog/

Also, she has the name I was going to use as a pen name, because it is my middle name and first part of my last.


Lots of love,
Alison

ps. sorry the images are tiny.

Catfish Cemetary

School is crazier than a cat that only eats jello. More crazy than that. Crazy busy.
I have however been producing some neato things with this crazy-business.

I'm taking a print media class called book media where we learn the development of tradition and non traditional bound and 3D folded books. It is an excellent class. It's a combination of art and craft at just the right amount of each.

So I have pictures to show you.

So the concept of this project is about space relating to the reader. It can be looked upon from the front to get a layered distant effect, or unfolded from the side, to show distance, and wide open spaces. And everything is underlined. Not so sure why.

The whole thing is made of Canson C-Cream drawing paper. It's kind of like a thin bristol. It was cut with a exacto with a pointed tip, and i did not count the hours.

In the first picture you can see the case that is fits in. If you look reaaaaally carrefully, you can see the small deer head that is hlding the case together. It is very faint because it is clear.
There are also little things hidden in some of the pages, like the antlers in the next image.

There are more pictures to show, but my images are processed by evil spirits of bad formatting, so I'll shoe them later.

ciao!