Circle Based Shapes

Took a few minutes today to play around with some shapes. I have an idea of what I want these shapes to become, but I'm not quite ready to share what that is yet. But just you wait!

Vases or Lamp Bases?

Some ideas that came to me, conveniently at lunchtime, for some desktop containing devices, vases, lamps, or larger planters. It's less about a specific purpose and more about the shape, texture and color.

Sketch for Layered Painting?

Another sketched out idea for a painting... or perhaps a collage...

Sketched Screen Idea

Quick sketch done to develop an idea for an architectural screen or surface. Made of wood slats and cable.

Recent Ideas, Doodles, Scribbles and Gestures

A few collage ideas, idea for extruded collage, some scribbles and general doodles from the last couple days.

Shankill Sketches

I've been on another Decemberists kick lately and whenever I listen to their music the artistic wheels get a spinnin'. So I am starting to make good on my longtime desire to do some artwork based on their songs. [sidebar: if you haven't heard any of their music or have no idea who I am talking about, you should check out their site via the link above. Great stuff that's part folk, part sea shanty, and part rock opera. Their songs and albums are all very story driven with rich lyrics and visuals]

I started out a few days ago doing some panels for a larger "Hazards of Love" spread (I'll get to posting those when they are more complete), and this week started working on content and composition of older songs. Today I was particularly fixated on the song "Shankill Butchers", which is all about a father telling his young daughter to be good and treat her mother well or the titular butchers would come to take her away and chop her up with cleavers and knives. Rather chilling song, actually. Tried a couple different depictions of that scene from a couple different perspectives. Leaning towards the first one if I were to choose one to develop further.

Suds

Got some inspiration while I was washing my hands....

Stair:Book Case

This here sketch is the first inkling of an idea for a staircase that also doubles as a bookcase. Stair becomes bookcase becomes wall. Time to start playing with it a little more....

Dual Pattern

Just a quick sketch of an idea I had today, based on some paneling that we have in our project at work. Looks nothing like this in my project, but isn't that what ideas are? Manipulations and developments of existing notions and patterns.

Window Box

Had this idea today for a sculptural window box, made up of slats inset at various depths. Haven't exactly figured out what I can make out of it yet, but its just the early stages of the idea of a technique possibly worth exploring.

Room With A View

Had this quick idea for a room the other day that I needed to hash out a little more. The room would be made entirely of planks that would curve up in a floor becomes wall becomes ceiling fashion. The frame and structure around the room would be functional and aesthetic. The perspective view shown suggests connectivity to adjacent rooms, but even drawing textures and (ugh) cabinets beyond, was a pale suggestion to the potential that the penetrations in the plank surface could be.

While the intended pattern of the striations on the walls was parallel, seeing the minor offsets and irregularities in the sketch unleashed a new idea for alternate patterns, including but not limited to forced false perspectives, disorienting crookedness or visual tom-trickery!

Climbing, Preliminary

Working idea for Illustration Friday "Climbing". Rough. Really rough.

Spare Parts

A quick sketch for tonight. An idea salvaged from an old memory of how I used to make puzzles for myself, of scribbles and colors and squares. Only now, in this iteration: create, divide, reassemble and disseminate.

Failed Sketches

I sketched these on the plane today, exploring an idea that i had jotted down a while ago. The idea was that i would take two individual gestures and graphically "loft" them to make an image a sort-of swirling knot. The idea was to take the gesture to the next level... the next dimension. Unfortunately, trying to render a knotted ribbon out of two haphazard lines doesn't quite work so well on paper. In fact, they are downright awful. In the shapes' two-dimensionality, the intended knot was not the actual result, but a muddled mash that merely suggests knottiness emerged! I determined that this is definitely something that can only be explored three dimensionally, at least for now.

They aren't particularly worthy, but sometimes even failures are worth noting.