Art and Halloween and Books!
This is what I did over the weekend:
Paper cutting! I've always wanted to try this. I think paper cutting art is gorgeous, and last week I even picked up a book featuring several different artists who work in paper(more on that later) but I've always felt a bit too impatient to try it. Cue a Friday filled with migraines and percocet and suddenly my brain can be dulled down to focusing on one tedious thing. Cut. Paper. (Mostly one thing...I was still checking Facebook periodically and listening to podcasts)
I had already been working on a fairly simple design with a moth and some succulents, and it translated well into a paper cutting. I used a 9x12" sheet of construction paper, and dulled two x-acto blades.
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Saturday I still felt crummy, so slept until almost 1pm, ditched all of my plans to be social and instead stayed home and marathoned Mythbusters on Netflix while knitting a deer hat. I finished everything but one antler by Saturday night.
This was pretty much my Halloween costume. I had a very low key Halloween. Spent the evening at a friends house, having snacks and handing out candy to trick-or-treaters and watching (Zack Snyder's) Dawn of the Dead.
New books to rave about! The aforementioned paper cutting book:
Paper Cutting Book: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft
Amazing array of paper artists in this collection. Covers a pretty broad range of paper illustration styles, some of them absolutely mind-blowing in the intricacy of their work. Really, some of these people can cut paper to a finer line than I can draw.
And I pre-ordered Tomer Hanuka's artbook from Amazon a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised when they suddenly changed the expected delivery date of early December to yesterday.
Overkill: Tomer Hanuka
Tomer Hanuka, an Isreali artist currently living in New York, is one of my favorite contemporary illustrators. He and his twin brother Asaf, also a brilliant illustrator! share a blog at Tropical Toxic.
Paper cutting! I've always wanted to try this. I think paper cutting art is gorgeous, and last week I even picked up a book featuring several different artists who work in paper(more on that later) but I've always felt a bit too impatient to try it. Cue a Friday filled with migraines and percocet and suddenly my brain can be dulled down to focusing on one tedious thing. Cut. Paper. (Mostly one thing...I was still checking Facebook periodically and listening to podcasts)
I had already been working on a fairly simple design with a moth and some succulents, and it translated well into a paper cutting. I used a 9x12" sheet of construction paper, and dulled two x-acto blades.
Click to embiggen
Saturday I still felt crummy, so slept until almost 1pm, ditched all of my plans to be social and instead stayed home and marathoned Mythbusters on Netflix while knitting a deer hat. I finished everything but one antler by Saturday night.
This was pretty much my Halloween costume. I had a very low key Halloween. Spent the evening at a friends house, having snacks and handing out candy to trick-or-treaters and watching (Zack Snyder's) Dawn of the Dead.
New books to rave about! The aforementioned paper cutting book:
Paper Cutting Book: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft
Amazing array of paper artists in this collection. Covers a pretty broad range of paper illustration styles, some of them absolutely mind-blowing in the intricacy of their work. Really, some of these people can cut paper to a finer line than I can draw.
And I pre-ordered Tomer Hanuka's artbook from Amazon a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised when they suddenly changed the expected delivery date of early December to yesterday.
Overkill: Tomer Hanuka
Tomer Hanuka, an Isreali artist currently living in New York, is one of my favorite contemporary illustrators. He and his twin brother Asaf, also a brilliant illustrator! share a blog at Tropical Toxic.