chief of Police, Vice chancellor

Look out below.
favorite illustrations from last year. It is a sequence.

Love,
Alison

Sailing along on Our ship, I could have been Whip

Hey Cows and Cyclones.

check out this business:



these are re dos of some of Hieronymus Bosch's characters for illustration class.
if you can guess what paintings their from, you are obviously very studious.

much love.

Add it up!

Last fall I started to get into paper cutting and have kept doing it for several different projects.
This is one of those projects.
In my illustration class we had to choose a myth from another culture and illustrate it. I chose the Maori creation myth.
I am not a Maori person, and do not intend to represent the Maori people, these images are made by a small, white, canadian girl. They are inspired by the carvings and motifs in Maori art but do not intend to copy them. I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't want to speak for something that isn't mine.
Anyways. Something that is mine are these papercuts...they are 11x17 inches and after a friend asked me to time...on average they take about 6 hours or more each. I really shouldn't have timed myself...



If you the viewer, would like some context to the freaky things that are going on in these images, check out this version of the story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangi_and_P

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There are variations to the story, but it's pretty much the same.

Also, all apologies for the post hiatus.

ciao bella!

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