Day 104: Regress

Title: The Monster in the Blue Room
Assignment: Work as if you were a young child or baby. Use the materials they might have access to and/or with only the skills and abilities they have at that age.

Materials: Crayons, lined notebook paper

Inspiration: Like a lot of little kids, I had 'monster in the closet' issues, or at least I said I did. I can remember BEGGING my mom to leave the hall light on (which took on magical preventative properties, apparently) and my door opened more than a crack because of it, but I think I may have just not wanted to go to bed before everyone else did. My punishment for making this up, of course, was that I was promptly visited by something like this in my nightmares.

Day 103: Napkin

Title: KootieKatcher

Assignment: Create something with the napkin you use for a meal today.

Materials: One paper napkin from my kitchen table napkin holder.

Inspiration: Fooling around with the napkin from my lunch, I somehow remembered how to make one of these, a grade school 'fortune telling' trick, and serendipitously noticed that upon folding, it naturally created two eyes and a startled expression.

Day 102: Palindrome, Palindrome

Title: Evil Eve
Assignment: Write a palindrome. Bonus: Illustrate it.

Materials: Pencil, Pen, colored pencils, PS, shot in the shadow of the venetian blinds in my living room.

Inspiration: Palindromes are HARD!! I know this attempt at one is pretty simple, but I didn't want to cheat and use one I found via Google. Watching the "Adam and Eve" plot line in Dark Shadows right now with Kris (and Anne last week!) inspired me to make a little sketch of fabulous Marie Wallace as the titian-haired fury who wreaks havoc wherever she goes.

Day 101: Open a Book

Title: Moju
Assignment: Flip to a random page in a book at hand and make something inspired by the first sentence you read.
Materials: printed out images of body parts and the book entry, cardboard shoe box, tape, Sculpey, flashlight, PS

Inspiration: I opened up my ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORROR MOVIES and landed on the entry for a  'grotesquely fetishistic' Japanese film called MOJU aka THE BLOOD BEAST.
The plot deals with a "blind sculptor who kidnaps a young model and locks her up in a room with large blow-ups of various parts of the female anatomy." Madness and dismemberment ensue. Created this without looking at any stills from the movie itself - I can't watch movies like this.  The description alone was more than enough 'inspiration' for this little disturb-o-rama.

Whoops! Day 89 a little late...

Title: NCC-1701-A
Assignment: Work only with bubble wrap or any other packing materials you have on hand.

Materials: pressed paper packing box from espresso maker, styrofoam top from wine box packing, packing tape, Sharpie, a scrap of bubble wrap, a bit of PS to push the background.

Inspiration: Somehow I skipped right by this one a few weeks ago; just discovered the omission last night.

Every once in a while, my inability to throw away things comes in handy. While looking through my most dangerously crowded closet for bubble wrap, I came upon these weirdly shaped bits of packing box. I picked up the one from the espresso machine parts, turned it over and thought it looked rather familiar, like a nacelle...and a saucer section...I think for this one my handy black board and using the extra styrofoam bits as stars or exploding planets or an ion trail helped make it look like more than it actually is. And though The Enterprise is not monsterish in herself, I figured Kirk & Co were either on their way to or from a monster, escaping from a worm hole or wreaking their own special brand of mayhem.

Day 100!! T-Shirt

Title: Zizzle
Assignment: Make something new out of an old T-shirt.
Materials: One of the Ts I tie-dyed back on #80, ribbon, bells, green pipe cleaner, cloth paint, scissors, needle and thread, stuffing from #51.
Inspiration: Just wanted to see if I could make a stuffed creature freehand - without a pattern - and incorporate the pattern already on the shirt. I think he came out nicely cute-yet-creepy.

And hey! I've actually churned out ONE HUNDRED pieces. Yikes!!

Day 99: Insect

Title: Hellhopper
Assignment: Use the world of insects as your inspiration today

Materials: Pen, Pencil, Watercolors

Inspiration: When I was about 5 years old or so, I was over at Glenn McRae's house playing out back when Glenn ran into the shed we used for our clubhouse and slammed the door shut. I opened the door to follow and suddenly from off the door leapt this GIGANTIC MOTHERF***ING GRASSHOPPER - straight into my face. Needless to say, I now realize that grasshoppers don't have dripping fangs and red beady eyes, but this is what I saw in my nightmares after that. I've hated the damn things ever since. Come to think of it, Glenn provided me with a fear and loathing of SLUGS too when he threw one on my back sometime later, but that's fodder for another assignment. ;-)