Day 98: Time

Title: Cthulhu Kitty
Assignment: Work with time. Try making something tat is only visible in a long-exposure photograph. Drawing with a laser pointer, flashlight, or a sparkler are a few options; you can even create an imate by moving the camera itself.

Materials: Spike, fringey bouncy cat toy, a lot of PS.

Inspiration: My new camera is nice for most of what I do, but a long exposure isn't one of them, so I strayed a bit from the brief. I experimented with catching Spike in fierce midswat, then played with adding some PS filtering to make him look a bit like a pet of one of the Old Ones. ;-)

Day 97: Invitation

Title: Procrastinationmonster
Assignment: Make an invitation to an everyday event you wouldn't normally invite people to.

Materials: Pen, pencil, colored pencil, Scalin book.
Inspiration: As this is definitely an everyday event, I created the grinning idiot monster in my brain that always keeps me from putting pen to paper.

Day 96: Work Backwards

Title: Jack
Assignment: Work in front of a mirror, looking at what you're creating only in the mirror until you're finished.
Materials: Pencil and paper

Inspiration: This was a quick sketch, as my hand started cramping! I just started doodling and this guy appeared. REALLY difficult to get my hand and eye coordinated. I do like the "disturbed child" aspect to it and decided to leave it as is - along with regular dolls, these jumpy-outy buggers always scared me!

Day 95: Ask a Stranger

Title: Sandy's Demon House

Assignment: Ask a stranger for a suggestion of what to do today. Explaining what you're up to is part of the experience!

Inspiration: The other day I happened upon a great swap meet up by Everett, and decided to spring the assignment upon Sandy and Stan, a friendly couple who sold me some cast iron pans. I was a bit leery about imposing, but I'd brought the book and showed them the assignment, talked a bit about it and Sandy IMMEDIATELY went into this amazing story about the most DEMONIC thing she'd ever seen. One of the houses they'd been paid to clean out had belonged to a family of Orthodox Ukrainians. Now just about ANY house that has years of accumulated STUFF and has been left to the elements and the meth heads is understandably horrible, but she said this had one especially creepy room where the owners had kept their mentally ill daughter, and IN THE ROOM was this ghastly "sewn together stuffed animal/doll thing" with a unicorn head and Sandy couldn't remember what else but it still gave her shivers to think of it. That, along with telling me that they could still see the shadows of the Ukrainian crosses that had hung on the walls and her sinking feeling there would be a ghost around every corner gave me the inspiration for this picture.

Thanks so much for the help, Sandy and Stan! Hope this doesn't give you nightmares! :-)))))


Materials: Pencil, pen, crayons, pastel, on the 2nd draft I tried adding some PhotoShop warping, but I think I prefer the original now; the colors are better and it gives a little more focus to the ghost and toy, rather than the whole picture being nightmarish.

Day 94: Nothing Rhymes With Orange

Title: Look Inside Yourself, Clarice

Assignment: Work only with orange materials today.

Materials: watercolor, pen, pencil, PS

Inspiration: Rather than get bogged down in the question of ALL ORANGE materials, I decided to make that my primary color, and pondered whether anything DOES in fact rhyme with orange.
No, but there ARE half rhymes: 4 inch, door hinge, and storage came to mind, which then made me think of a scene from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS...

Day 93: Nuts and Bolts

Title: We Are Totally Screwed

Assignment: Make something with any nuts, bolts, screws or nails you have lying around.

Inspiration: Rifling through my tool boxes to find the needed materials, I came upon a light switch and saw two shocked faces looking up at me as if they were found in flagrante delicto.

Day 92: Letter to Myself. Or not.

Assignment: Write a letter to yourself at another time in your life (past or future). Bonus: Send it to someone who is that age and discuss it with them.

HELLLLLOOOO there!
I've been out of the 'studio' here for quite a while, unfortunately. Lots of art seen and done in other formats, though. Spent a great week in NYC seeing shows, did some fun traveling with Kris, then got submerged in directing two shows at once. No excuses any more, though, other than the fact that this frickin' ASSIGNMENT #92 kept pissing me off. It seems so UNart-inspiring and a little too personal psycho-therapy cute. So take it as given, I've written a note to myself at age 64. You'll just have to wait ten years to read it.

NOW ON WITH THE MONSTERS!