I go walking

It's my latest papercut piece. I'm rather happy how this turned out, as it was an experiment in using floating frames with paper cutting.

If you are in Vancouver right now, this piece is hanging in the Freaks and Geeks show at the Fall Tattooing and Artist Gallery on Seymour street downtown. The show will be up from April 9th to the 30th. So go check it out. Lots of good things.

ciao for now.

let's ride bikes into the sea

Haldo!
so so so, for a class this semester we had a super duper project where everyone in the class made a zine, and we traded! It was wonderful! And I think it means I'll be making more artist zines in the fuuuture.
Mine is titled Nautical Nonsense and was printed in an edition of 22 using a laser printer and a really basic lithography method called Pronto Plates.


Check out all the neato pictures inside under de


This is a shot of all of the zines tiled together. Like I said there were 22 of them ( think one is missing from this image). The were printed on three different colours of rag paper, and the pages inside were printed on off white for the darker editions and white for the light editions. This shot shows the front and the back of the zines. each was about 2 x 3 inches folded. I love them, I think they are super cute.
that's why i'm uploading the difficult badly designed pattern so that if anyone feels so inclined they can have this zine too! I mean, without the printed cover of course.
These are the stickers that were inside the zine! I used a sewing machine to perforate them apart. I used a recipe for sticker glue I found on instructables.
so these two pages back to back as they are and make up the first page of the zine! They are the box that makes the diorama/zine/shrine, in the versions I made, the tabs we pre glued like the stickers. It's a bit wonky...you have to get breqative when putting this together and do what you have to to make sure it lines up. It's a bit tricky.
And these are the pieces that go inside! they also have the cryptic instructions!
and wouldn't ya know, it all folds into this:

excellent!
an important note, you have to make your own hole on the side for the movable wave. Forgot to mention that.
my roommate got creative and coloured hers : )

enjoy!

wokka wokka wokka

Hello everyone!
I have some images of a book project I have recently completed entirely printed using the cyanotype method(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotype).
A FULL documentation is available under the
This book begins with a cloth covered box:
And then all of the little paper books unfold to become....

a cyanotype forest!

detail of the sail boat and the sky, two of my favorite parts.



And we finish off with a view from the mountains.
thanks for looking

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.