Might not look like it, but a lot of work went into this piece. This body alone features 13 hexagons and a hidden side pocket! Very happy with the results! #fursuit#workinprogress
Merry Christmas! 🎄✨
it's been a while I'm not on mastodon, here have a newest drawing wip! it's been a tough end of year for me, but I'm alive. I hope you're all doing fine here.
Before going back to my ‘normal’ work, I wanted to share some works in progress. I am doing this for a few reasons. The first being I’d like some feedback. I really like where I’m going with these pieces but I’d welcome thoughts on the direction. One thing I’m noticing with these three together is I seem to be leaning more towards a pink hue in the sky that I liked individually but not sure I’d want all my abstract landscapes to just be pink clouds.
Tomorrow is Xenon day! Jon from work fabbed the aluminum holder. I finished an pumped the rest of the current jobs tubes (34 tubes) an then fabbed this little sidearm.
I actually had to wipe out the seacrest phosphor from the tube as 9mm is sort of a hard to find size.
I opened the robbins and dumped the propane left between valves. Gonna let it vacuum out overnight. I can't believe I got a vacuum seal first try!
Re-generating input datasets for our network merging methods + reproducible #DataScience + geocomputation + visualisation for sustainable transport planning paper. #workinprogress 🏗️
If anyone knows of any good examples of 'braiding' like this let us know!
Switching gears and working on Pixelated Vermeer No5 -- Woman with a Lute. This will be a challenge! And definitely the most abstract piece in the series. She's relatively tiny and the color palette is so limited. Oh well! Only time will tell how the final product turns out.
First iteration of Girl with a Red Hat. I'm taking a slightly different tactic with Vermeer's portraits vs his genre paintings. The next iteration will involve pinning the pearl grid to the final wood panel. But instead of stopping there, I'm going to fill in and deconstruct the grid so the image is softer and more organic. More painterly, less computer generated. We'll see how the next two iterations go! #workinprogress#artinprogress#artwork#artistsonmastodon#artistsofmastondon
Pt 1• I was exploring an abandoned schoolhouse. I found a shredded book with a photo portrait of an old woman with an interesting face. I tried to focus my camera to take a picture of the picture, but the more I tried to focus, the more the expression on her face changed. I decided to research the woman, and found she was an artist. Her paintings had been installations, painted on many layers of glass and layered together to give a three-dimensional effect. Most of her paintings had not survived intact. But one had, and a hotel had been built around it.
Pt 2• I booked a room at the hotel. The painting took up a whole room, and there were rooms around the painting, so you could see it from different angles. [I sketched what I remembered as soon as I woke up] The painting was of a nude cis white woman standing barefoot in a field, with the edges of a forest on either side. Lush vegetation and mushrooms grew at her feet. All the plants, trees, and mushrooms, had a fiery quality to them; they seemed to flicker like flames. The mushrooms spelled out words. Some I recognized as the names of mythological figures. I had a feeling that ALL the plants spelled out something, but in a form that I didn't recognize as language. There was definitely something being communicated through shape and pattern. Everything was painted on layers of glass, stacked upon each other, giving a vast sense of depth. The lighting seemed to change throughout the day, from flaming reds in the morning to pale blues in the night. There were also ambient sounds coming from the painting, that built to a deafening roar at dawn.
The woman in the painting had a loose, wispy, Gibson Girl hairdo. Her eyes were downcast, as her hands protected her modesty. She was central in the painting, facing towards the viewer. She seemed to float just a little bit above the ground.
The hotel was all built around the themes of the painting, with elements of the painting used as icons throughout the design, particularly the mushrooms from the foreground. There were small blue trolleys that ran on tracks built into the floors within the hotel, disappearing into tunnels in the walls. Many guests and visitors were there. People wanted to stay for a few days, because the painting changed throughout the day, and they wanted to see as many of those changes as they could. The changes were so subtle, that one had to spend quite a bit of time with the painting to notice the changes or come back during different hours of the day or night. I was very pleased and impressed that so many people took the painting seriously; they weren't just gawking tourists. They had made a special trip SPECIFICALLY to see/experience THIS painting! They all had some level of education about the painting before they'd arrived, and everyone was so respectful and reverent. I was proud to be among them and hoped to make some friends. In the rooms around the painting were beautiful pale blue sofas, that mimicked the shape of the woman's hairdo. One could just sit and watch the painting as long as one liked. It was such a welcoming place, that seemed to reward viewers for paying attention to art.
I wish I could remember the artist's name, or the name of the painting. And this was her only work that had survived the ages intact. Only fragments remained of her other works.