I'm workin a sweat, but it's all good.

HOLY CATTLE.

It's been a busy time!

There was a really big shooo on friday night at the Fall tattooing and artist gallery! and guess what, I had some stuff in it.
So i'll get some photos of the gallery to show off soon. If you are in the Vancouver area, drop in and check it out, it's on for another couple weeks.

I also just documented all 'o my spring print projects, take a gander at a few..or a goose.oh ho ho.

interesting fact: these are at the art show previously mentioned.




also our dragon is having sheeddy times. Summers a commin'!



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Butter for my pizza bun

Things are REDONK in life right now. Things are rockin' and I'm trying to keep up. Good things are on the way . I swear it/

And in the meantime, I show you dees:



The book plate I'm very fond of and i think I will put on my business cards. The other...I've been told it's okay, There are some design things going on I'd like altered. but you know, I like to post images.

In the next few days, zines, scenes, and lucid dreams!

until then
xoxo

Oh, Oh, you do me wrong

So I promised to show pictures from the steampunk show A LONG TIME AGO. So here we go. I only had three pieces in the show and I managed to rid myself of all of them! I was quite pleased and flattered. It was an excellent event. Here was my main deal:


Apologies for the image quality, it is an oil painting, so the luminosity just isn't the same as in real life or a darkly lit gallery. It glows internally and refracts light much better in real life.
This piece encompasses my idea of what steampunk it. It's not really the same, it's more catastrophic and post apocalyptic than an basic alternate history.
I'll make some comments about this piece, which I don't usually like to do, and most artist don't...but here we go. The bodies are awkward, and parts of this are fairly unfinished. But I do really appreciate the glow this picture has, and I think narrative-wise, it was a huge success. it's now in the care of a very dear friend. The actual piece is two feet by three feet.




So, I read a really good graphic novel*** last night, it was Blankets by Craig Thompson, (blog.dootdootgarden.com/). It was VERY well drawn and very beautiful over all. It is a very honest and wonderful representation of brand new affection and doings things like that for the first time. Quite precious. I wont tell you how it ends, but I will say I kinda wish it had gone the way you want it to as you read it. Technically, Thompson is a master of contemporary paneling. He has very consistent and beautiful layouts. check it out:


***has some one made up a better phrase for that yet? Like can we call them something else? I find myself disliking the Frankenstein term "graphic novel" it's about as dry as a sac not moisture and I think the medium deserves more.

Anyways, Talk to you soon!
much love

Alison

Frinke Frinkle little far

Yesterday, our little boy ferret had to be put down. I took him to the vet to get some lethargy check out and what we thought was swallowed foreign object that had perforated his intestine, was actually a whole lot of cancer and lymphoma. Frank would not have mad it into the night in his condition, but didn't suffer at all through his life. He was just one of those predisposed ferrets who would become a tumor machine. We loved that tumor machine so so very much. He still had a place in all of our hearts. Rest in peace Franky boy.
Yesterday was a hard day.

to not be a constant downer, I don't think I introduced you to how much I dig this boy I go with.
let me demonstrate:





Sorry for the poor quality doods.

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!