presents, oh there be presents

for my sisters kids.

caw caw -it's for losers

five minutes drawing with only some colouring done afterwards. enjoy

wind-up bird: done

don't forget to click on the picture in the "image link of the week" section to explore the artist work.

failure is just a state of mind

omg. worst upload this side of christmas, will hopefully re-upload this picture. soon. and chrome gold + red just tops of the christmas party. well, lets just say I'm not to happy about these two.

wallpaper texture

yeah well, I aimed to add these when they where done but in the end I don't really feel like working on 'em right now. might change my mind and finish them up in a week or in worst case next month.

wallpaper texture by KillxThexScenexStock over at deviantart.

free art stuff phase 3

there. phase 3 is done. phase 1 was planing while phase 2 was cutting. now the testspray is done and colours are more or less set in stone. it will be two versions. the lower right one and the two on the far left. had some misfortune with the spray adhesive on the first testspray but changed to 3M spray mount.

had some major problem with the spray cap for the background layer. if curious then just compare to the same piece I posted some weeks ago that turned out much better. I didn't align the layers correctly just to get some differences in between them, but perhaps I should try to get them a bit more in line. no need to go over the edge about being arty?

well anyhow. I know some of you people that visit do stencils yourself. I have a question for you guys -do you want a decent tutorial (stencil tutorial) on how to go about? I've noticed myself that most around lean towards quite crappy, in my humble opinion.

don't forget to check out this week image link of the week on the left hand side of the site. it's awesome.

other then that. a lot is going down. soon to come.

sketch: molly

should I share stuff like this? it's a sketch for a stencil I've been working on and off for the last month. finally I think it's done and ready to be cut. perhaps it's to much of a trivia to actually add it here?

this will be done for a friend so no hidden message or stuff like that. was cracking the idea while working on this one, a piece that will, if ever completed, be more political. photograph by Richard Kalvar, must check up on fair use also before I go forward doing anything else with this stencil.

pattern by killxthexscenexstock over at deviantart. taken months to find a appropriate place for it.

project: free art stuff

flowers, 'cause I'm all fresh out of hate

all in all I'm very pleased with the piece, some people have problems with halftone patterns but from the blind-test I did very few people had an actual problem. close to none to be frank.

almost no underspray at all, beside where I was aiming to get some. my goal was to get underspray at the lightest colour of orange to give some glow effect to the flower. didn't quite end up as I wanted. this is the piece that will lay the foundation to my "free art stuff"-project. looking forward.

okapi: rainbow

me messing around with colours. the image is quite big, so for details click on it. need signature and somewhat more then it's all done.

stock picture by darkrose42-stock over at deviantart.

flowers, 'cause I'm all fresh out of hate.

testspray, some underspray due to uneven surface.

sneak preview

next project looks something as seen in the picture. it will not be halftone based on dots though. due to lack of appropriate tools I'll postpone that until further notice. bear with me, the finished piece wont be nothing like this.

anyhow, not sure if I should be sharing process snap shots or just present the finished piece when it's done. beside that... I'm considering adding a series of deviantART submission featuring some of my favorite pieces at that site, credit and link including each post of course. any thoughts on this?

picture taken by Elin and texture is done by KillxThexScenexStock over at deviantart.

obviously I wasn't quite done

there. these are the last you'll see of this stencil in a long, long while. will complete the last one with a halftone pattern covering the okapi and using the same halftone pattern making a shadow on the ground that fades out to the left.

image quality isn't the best today but well... was one too many to clean to be really worth it. colours took a hit and some detail loss but you get the idea?

I want to take the opportunity to thank the guys over at stencilrevolution for their well grounded criticism regarding this piece. the two red pieces and the black & white have in their on ways taken in consideration what was said over at stencilrevolution. wildly appreciated.

don't be afraid to click on the images for full view. thanks.

okapi: status done

well I feel like I've reached the end of the road with this piece for the moment. time to start something new.

next up will be my shoe racket, I think.

papier maché

papier maché balloon, ink stencil and... oh yes, background texture by insrt over at deviantart.

is it a bird, a plane, no it's...

the piece has been laying around for so long that I have little else to add about it. acrylic, ink, paper, stencil and whatnot.

two layer stencil

did a two layer stencil of an okapi to get the feeling of it, if I now do decide to go for a eight layer one. I was quite rough to this one, tried to push it hard knowing it's more details per level then in the other piece. just to see the result. quite happy with it to be frank. chat bubble is hanging out from the frame yes, a piece of plastic that makes it hop & bob happily. fire away

eight layer stencil

not at all sure if I should be sharing this piece just yet. anyhow, this is what I've been starting to cut at. the background isn't the one I plan to use in the finished piece either. just some neat stuff laying around on my hdd. actual background will be yet another stencil, two layer though. thank god for that(!).

I've been discussing whether or not I'll get bleeds on this piece. I'm quite positive I wont since these will be made indoors with plenty of time on my hands. for safe sake I'll be using spray adhesive and if required seal each stencil with previous color. looking forward.

anyhow, layers is as said all done -ready to be cut. I lack cans though. Oh, and on a sidenote, yes that's an Okapi. Closest relative is the giraffe, believe it or not.

texture taken from deviantart, created by css0101.

clown

made a paperstencil, played a tad with acrylic and rounded of with micron pen and Sepia ink. done an installation with the same theme where the clown in his empty fist holds a papier-mâché balloon in a thread. might get round to adding that piece later this week.