Make your own art shirts

1. Draw something.

2. Get a sewing embroidery hoop ($7) and cut some curtain fabric ($6 per yard) to fit.

3. Trace the drawing onto the fabric.

4. Get some Mod Podge ($5 at craft stores).

5. Turn the hoop around and use a small brush to trace the negative areas of the drawing.

6. Use a big brush to fill the larger negative spaces. Let it dry for a day or use a blow dryer to set the Mod Podge.

7. Get a 24x18 board, a brush and some fabric paint.

8. Stretch a shirt over the board, place the design where you want it, and apply fabric paint with large brush.

9. Scrape it with a spatula. Then lift off the hoop...

10. And there you have it. Home-made art shirt.

Story of the Fish

This picture details the process used in making the fish, sans gesture.  I'll detail the process below.

1.)  The hideous sketch.  Enough to know where I want my shadows and lights to go. 

2.)  The fleshing out.  Notice that the mouth has changed.  The truth is that it really shouldn't be smiling like that.  I tried to make those angler type fish.  That's what happens when you don't use a reference image.  I do like the smile though

3.)  Basically the final of the image in monochrome.

4.)  Colors and textures are brought together here, though I left the textures out to show how it looks without them.

5.)  The final result.  All the remaining details are here.  Particles, lights, glows and textures.

My 5 Rules for Writing

Writing is magical. For me it's a portal going wherever my mind or heart wants. I love it so much that I majored in it. However the most useful tips I found for writing stemmed from taking art classes, not my writing classes. Maybe this is the reason for my less than acceptable grammar.  But I digress.

Penning to find chaotic flow

For some reason, if I try to sketch something with the un-permanence of a pencil, the image lacks a certain randomness of flow that it would have were it directly done with pen. I would always be erasing pencil sketch marks to gather the effect I had in my head, not thinking that I was erasing all the erratic un-planned things that actually made it more beautiful. So this is me experimenting on that concept of penning to find flow.

If you were wondering about the pencil marks, they were added for accentuating depth after drawing the image in pen.

Fish wallpaper

Here's some wallpaper.  The size is 1600x1000.  Click through for the full image.

Stress/Unhealthy Relief

This painting is entitled Stress/Unhealthy Relief.  For some reason Stress makes me feel this way sometimes.  You ever feel the same?