Yesterday I found a giant sheet of raw canvas left over from the painting class I took a few years ago in college, and have since brainstormed a new project, kind of based on a few little personal projects I've taken under my wing...and still have yet to photograph to show you. Sorry about that...
I like to doodle bizarre little creatures in my sketchbook. Every once in a while I get bored with sketches based in reality, so I'll touch pen or ink brush to paper and just sort of have at it. Some of the illustrations are kind of cute, others are honestly mildly repulsive. Many possess each of these characteristics. I think I enjoy those characters the most.
As a kind of extension of the sewing projects I've conjured up lately, I'm going to take my sketches a step further by recreating some of them in the 3rd dimension. Now, thus far, I've stained a few 8x8 inch squares of the canvas I found with washes of acrylic paint (I tried food coloring first. That was a riot). Next I think I need to create more sketches to figure out how I want these little guys to appear in 3D. Then I can start figuring out patterns and all that jazz.
In the meantime, I'm pretty excited.
