paper world.

In my car I listen to an easy listening, oldies am station. My tape deck doesn't work anymore, my itrip broke and it's the only station that doesn't totally annoy me. They play the Carpenters often, whom I grew up with. Nostalgia set in and she became a "daily dOOdle"and then a 2 color screen print. What to do with the misprints? Cut them up for paper world!  It seemed fitting at the time because it's been raining for, like, a month.

Karen resting.

Cutting Karen.

Cutting Karen's hair.

Drawing raindrops for the background.

Behind the scenes with Karen next to my wall of band aid, which has nothing to do with anything.   She looks so alone.

Oh karen. You left us too soon.

daily dOOdle weekly round-up.

2/15/2012
Gooey, chocolate cake. Ryan bought some cake for his grandma's funeral gathering in Idaho. No one ate it, so we brought it back home and I had cake for breakfast.

2/16/2012
Multi pack of glue sticks. I thought it was a super deal, but these glue sticks totally suck.  All dried up and don't glue anything together.

2/17/2012
I'm a new contact wearer. Sort of. I think they are such a pain in the ass and I want to tear my eyeballs out. So, I don't wear them very much.

2/18/2012
Ryan's PBR hat.

2/19/2012
A gold goat. Someone corrected me once and told me this is not a goat but I can't recall the actual name.  Anyways, I found it at a thrift shop. It's gold, heavy and goat like.

2/20/2012
My brother, Steven, and I got belts together at this leather daddy shop in S.F. He used to live in the castro and it was so much fun going to visit him. I got the super punk rock belt and now it doesn't fit me anymore.

2/21/2012
Jewels for Mardi Gras. You can't go anywhere on our ski hill without someone trying to throw beads around your  neck. What the heck, I'll join the party. Fun and confusing to draw.

paper world.

Another edition of paper world. This time with an old PBR print. It seemed suiting for a mellow Sunday. It's my Friday, watch out b*tches!

Cutting out old PBR print.

Drawing background.

6 pack of beer ready to go.

Beer.

King of beers.

paper world.

This is my 3rd addition to paper world. I think I'm addicted. This project reminds me of the old stop motion holiday specials, especially the one with the Bumble and the Island of Misfit Toys. I loved, loved, loved them as a kid. I always wanted to crawl into those worlds. I felt like I could have fit into the space and hang out with all the characters. There was something intimate about it. Anyways, next project....stop motion?

Buddha hotei. Again, an old print laying around, just waiting to be placed in a paper world.

This time, I thought oragami flowers might be suiting for the background. I have never done oragami, so yay for online tutorials!

My first folds. Liking it already. The paper  is quite heavy, so I spent some time wrestling with it. I don't think  you are supposed to fight with your paper while practicing oragami. I also don't think Buddha would approve of me cursing through this ancient tradition.

So much fun! Really, it's quite enjoyable and in no time I made 3 little lotus blossoms.

Glory shot.

Behind the scenes.

I propped up the Buddha with a scrap of folded paper and fun tack.

Buddha standing.

I  propped up the flowers at different heights to give it a deeper, more varying 3d effect. Also, I stuck the "peace y'all" on the side of the largest blossom to appear as if the Buddha has a mystical thought bubble.

"Peace y'all."

paper world.

A Nikon D-80 DSLR camera just fell into my hands (thanks, Lisa) and I'm super excited! I've been wanting to graduate from my point and shoot to try more studio photography, mostly for product taking. So, I set up a little paper world. I own a lot of paper and thought this would be a fun, quick project to make and give me a chance to fool around with picture taking.

This is an image taken from my daily doodles. I have a small collection of wind up toys and the hopping lederhosen is one of my favorites. I  screen printed a small run of this image and had a few extra prints laying around, so it got cut up and placed in the paper world.

A piece of gray paper from a large roll of was taped to the wall, draped over a table. I propped up the lederhosen with a bent piece of paper and cut out the mountains with some grey scraps. The scraps were all curled up and making me crazy trying to flatten them. So, what the heck. I flip flopped the scraps and they actually stood up quite well as they supported each other. Also, it created varied and sweet looking shadows.

Oh meine lederhosen!

Another an image taken from my daily doodles. These figurines belong to my friend, Cassie. I stayed with her in her tiny apartment in Seattle and one morning I came across these sweet figurines. I hope she didn't mind me rifling through her belongings.

More cutting.

The forest was created from strips of paper and then stuck to the surface with fun tac (see below). I thought about cutting images of real trees but decided to keep it simple. I quite like they way the strips lean to and fro.

Oh Deer!

Fun tac. This stuff is the bomb. It's bright blue and is used to stick things together. It's like scotch tape, but it isn't tape and it's squishy and again, it's bright blue. My mother used this stuff like mad. She taught kindergarten and I think it acted as her little helper. She may have even tried to stick a student's mouth shut with this stuff.