SPACE

I realized while doing this that this is the only way I've ever really seen space and probably the only way I ever will.  That's ok though, because it's still crazy beautiful.

For Illustration Friday, topic: "space".

And while we're on the topic, do yourself a favor and download Stellarium if you haven't already.

if - launch

Illustration Friday, topic: launch.

Growing up in Florida I've had the opportunity to watch a lot of shuttle launches. I've seen them on tv, at home, at the beach, and even as far away as Sarasota. It's not all that exciting as a sight itself. It's really just a dot in the east going up and leaving a short lived plume of smoke in its wake. But when you remember that there are people on that dot, and it's going to space AND coming back, it's just way cool. The final flight of the space shuttle program will be made by the shuttle Atlantis as mission STS-135 and is tentatively scheduled for July 8th. If you're in Florida don't you dare miss it.

if - bicycle

Steep hills are scary.


No mailroom inventory => find stuff and put it together time.

This particular incident features a torn discarded priority mail box, discarded bubble wrap (rain cloud), a used pink package slip, gouache, a paper clip, and an animal cracker (horse, pony, or similar ungulate). Oh, and photoshop too.

For Ilustration Friday, topic: bicycle.

if - bottled

diptych on scrap wood. Left is acrylic gouache on transparencies, glued. Right is silver spray paint, ink, acrylic gouache, photographs that were taken and then lacquer transfered onto paper, and a picture of a wolf from a children's book.

For Illustration Friday, topic: bottled.

if - warning

A warning about scissors and keeping the appropriate amount of digits.

again, no inventory in the mailroom this friday. Couple that with an anthroplogie catalog found in the trash and some scrap wood found over at the woodshop and we arrive at what you see above.

illustration friday

if - swarm

For Illustration Friday: swarm.
I haven't been doing much IF lately, but this Friday at the mail room taking inventory was canceled.

if - racing

I think it's funny when people argue over who is older. It's like they're racing to die. This was the first thing to come to mind for the topic, after things involving cars of course.

illustration friday.

if - caged

For the Illustration Friday topic "Caged".
I'd also like to start listing stuff on etsy, so I'm kicking it off this this one :).

if - double

For Illustration Friday, topic: double.
Kind of cool, kind of creepy. Happened upon some neat stuff in making this.

slither

I just realized how much I like messing around in photoshop and just making stupid crazy stuff and exploring aesthetics without any of the pressures of usability. So, I've taken the illustration friday topic of the week, "slither" and made this,



grass photo from
illustration friday