Last week I was invited to go with my cousin Dafna to a roof apartment in Tel-Aviv for an afternoon of quiet nude model sketching (no, I wasn’t drawing in the nude, only the model was naked, but thank you for asking).
The model was very good. I was especially fascinated by her long fingers and toes, and at the same time tried not to waste all of my time on them, as I don’t need a naked model for fingers and toes…
Hello again!
This last weekend was the annual “Fresh Paint” contemporary art fair, and unfortunately I couldn’t make it, even though I really wanted to come (on the other hand – yay! weekend with friends up north!).
Among many art exhibitions , there were two projects for the community: the winners of this year’s “Get Out of the Box” competition were revealed there, and also another one in which I did participate, The Secret Postcard project, to which I donated two original postcard-sized pieces of my own.
I wanted the two postcard to “talk” with each other, so I decided on a common theme: “Fox desires Ice-cream”. both are hand drawn with black permanent marker on paper, and glued to fabric, glued on the postcards. So here are my postcards, this time credited…
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Tagged Exhibition, Ice-cream, material, my creations, Painting, paper, Postcards
I really have no excuse for this week’s purified kitsch that I‘ve created for the Illustration Friday topic – duet.
Pen, markers and color pencils on paper, with some background modifications in Photoshop.
A bunch of my friends are really into playing the board game “Cosmic Encounter “. One of those friends, a guy named Bosco, celebrated his birthday recently, and as in most cases, I was in charge of the greeting card.
One of the cards in the game is named “Card Zap”, and basically if you put it on someone else’s card during the game, it cancels that card’s affect and that player has to discard it.
So, instead of a “proper” greeting card, I decided to create a new card for the game, based on the “Card Zap” format, only better:
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Tagged Birthday, Cosmic Encounter, Greeting Card, my creations, paper, Party
It has been over a month since I last participated in Illustration Friday, even though I checked in each Friday to see what was the topic. This week there was finally a topic I found inspiring and had lots of ideas to choose from . As expected, I finally went with the cat…
My husband writes to me the most beautiful, hilarious, touching greeting cards, but as far as presentation goes, he is satisfied with printing the text directly from “Word” to a blank A4 paper.
But for me, especially when given sufficient time, Greeting cards are a fun and casual way to let the artsy juices shake, under the excuse of showing your friends how much you care.
Last Thursday, my Simpsons-fan friend Barak had celebrated his birthday. In honor of the occasion we got him an Homer T-shirt and a Duff beer coozy from 80’s tees, and I also wanted to make him an appropriate greeting card.
I’ve decided to go with the classic Simpsons clouds motif, in order for the card to communicate with the present (the card says “to Barak” in Hebrew):
Here is a card I made for Ofra and Dor’s house warming, and the text expresses (among other things) my desire for their new home to accommodate more ice-cream than the previous one…
mmm… ice-cream…
The last example for today is a fold-up card I made for my brother-in-law’s wedding. This, I think, is self-explanatory:
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Tagged Birthday, Greeting Card, House, Ice-cream, my creations, Painting, paper, Party, T-shirt, The Simpsons, Wedding, Zoo
It seems lately like the only posts I have time for are the ones about contests! I promise it will change soon, but for now, one more little contest:
I’ve been following the charming “My milk toof” comics since May 2009. Though the storylines are very children-oriented, I think Inhae Lee’s photographs themselves are lovely, and keep following her posts because of them.
The Adventures of ickle and Lardee are about to come out in a book on march 9th, and for that occasion she is having a fun contest, in which her readers are welcome to send in photographs of their own milk toof designs, and maybe win a signed copy of the book.
I’ve decided to enter the competition, as it gives me an excuse to finally try and create a cute milk toof of my own.
So meet Cavitoof, my Cavitated entry, and you can view the other contestants here.
Yesterday I received news that my design for the OutBox competition was not chosen, so I might as well show it to you here – there will not be another chance for that…
The competition, in which designers are challenged to create a design for a tin box, is being held for the third time. The 10 chosen designs are indeed manufactured and sold in limited editions, and all revenues are donated to at risk youth.
This year’s topic was simply “color”, and at first I didn’t expect to win at all, but as I started working on it I really fell in love with my own creation, and thought it might get far.
The topic “Color” is almost impossibly wide, so I’ve decided to take one step back and view the actual tools that allow me to insert colors into my world: the paint tubes and brushes. I wanted to show the textures and the richness that is created by one of the most beautiful and exciting creations that we tend to throw away, our color palette. All this, while keeping in mind that this is a box, and suggesting what would be stored in it.
This is my design, this time for your judgment.
Unlike last week’s post, this time I stand completely behind my weekly application for Illustration Friday, even though it was created under the sever influence of pneumonia (I COMMAND YOUR PITY!).
You know my phone-book dress? So, a few months after I made it, and gained some paper dresses “manufacturing” experience, I read about this toilet-paper dresses contest online, and thought that hey, this looks like a fun project to sign up for – and there is a nice prize for the winner! I should try this out.
I’ve used 6 rolls of toilet paper for this project, and loads of white glue, which I have used both for gluing the pieces together, as well as for hardening the toilet paper and creating papier-mâché for the corset part.
I worked separately on the top and bottom parts, and after almost everything was done, I’ve connected the corset to the skirt by sewing it carefully together.
The part I liked the least was figuring out how to zip/button/close the damn thing, when all I could use was TP… Finally I settled for creating a TP lace and threading it through holes in the back, quite like a classic corset.
I like my dress, and it was fun to make (especially the part where I sculpted the little birds), but I really do look at it as a craft project and not a design project, since the most innovative thing about it was the exclusive use of toilet paper, and it was a given. I was mainly trying to appeal to what I thought was an all-American taste, with the corset and lots of cleavage and a flowery pattern. The choice of the length of the skirt was a combination of two reasons: firstly I love short skirts and legs in general, and basically don’t tend to design dresses below the knee. The second reason is that from viewing previous years’ contestants I notices their designs were purely on the conservative long gowns basis, and thought my design would really stick out among them if it was really short and fun.
Well, anyway it worked. At some point I was told that the judges like my photos and I have made it to the top twenty finalists, so I needed to somehow box up the dress and ship it to Florida for final judging. A while later I received an email congratulating me for being the Grand Prize Winner of the 2010 Cheap Chic Weddings Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest, and I won my (hopefully not last) fifteen minutes of internet fame…
Win!
