Post-Exhibition Projects

Duck Coaster

So I did have to end up making this on the fly, but I really do love the result. I made this little duck guy and transferred him to Adobe Illustrator in order to make it a black-and-white contrast. That way I could have an even-coloured duck so I would be able to use the laser to put his full form onto a piece of wood and call it a coaster. This was my first time working with a laser and it was honestly really fun.

The Great Quack-sby

For this piece, we took linoleum and a design we wanted to create and carved the design into the linoleum in reverse. This way, the design will be on the right side when flipped over in order to print. For my design, I had just finished the book The Great Gatsby and wanted to do a piece inspired by it. I also have a love for ducks and recently came up with a goofy design for a duck that I wanted to extend onto art pieces. This is just the black-and-white version and the ink would dry too fast for me to get the full image together, but overall I think it turned out great. The scene in question in the piece is from the ending when Gatsby (SPOILER ALERT) is found dead in the swimming pool after he was shot, it's kind of even more goofy with the duck being sprawled out and all that. In the end, I'm very proud of this piece and hope the colouring part won't make it too bad.

The Great Quack-sby (COLOR)

For this one, I wanted to add colour to it that would capture only some primary colours, except for Gatsby's suit which in the book is depicted as bright pink. I wanted the colouring to be simple, not too much as to be blinding and just enough black so it still gets the feeling of being old. With small details it was hard to add colour since the ink turns out, wasn't as fully dry as I thought and in some places would smudge unfortunately. With what it came out with in general I would say I'm very proud of it, but noticed when I was doing the printing that the "Y" is backwards and there's no way I can go back and change it, sad but true.

Bob Ross Painting #1

For this piece we were told to make two pieces of art following a Bob Ross painting tutorial out of the many he has, specifically, we were provided with a few to follow. Out of those I chose this one, I tried my best despite not being a fan of realism. I am a cartoonist at heart so working with paint was difficult especially when I was never good at it, but Ross was able to go slowly enough with the steps that I could follow even when mine turned out completely different to his. All of it is acrylic paint on canvas and it only took about 45 minutes to complete with allowing some of the paint to dry in between.

Bob Ross Painting #2

For this one, I had a little more difficulty with it. For one, the brushes he used were completely different from what I had and even scale-wise it was hard to follow along accurately. another thing was colour, when he presented one on his palette it looked the exact same as the one I had until it got on the canvas itself. In turn, my colours are darker than the ones he had which makes everything look more abandoned. Also, that man can do dark magic, as a person I would look away and look back and he's doing spins and flips with his brush I simply could not do. Overall, not proud of this but it was nice to experiment with mediums I am absolutely not comfortable with. It's made with acrylic paint on canvas.