More progress this on my new 3d sculpture project I started in this post. It’s for an upcoming exhibit via Caplan Art Designs. This week I’ve worked to make my wooden cube look even more like an empty cardboard box especially around the flaps and edges. Now I’m blocking in some colors within the commercial-box style lettering on the outside of my sculpture. Did you do that when you were a kid – fill in the spaces of printed lettering? Anyhoo, I’m also making progress on my elephant character.
My sketchbook page today… and the notion of “un-sanity” which I take to mean being willing to think outside conventional habitual boxes.
This week my wife and I varied our morning routine and we went to the Portland Japanese Garden. I did my morning sketchbook drawings there. You can see all of the sketchbook pages I did, as well as videos that my wife took of me in the process of drawing, on my Substack newsletter. This was my favorite drawing from that day…
Speaking of thinking outside boxes and variations of habits: I read this zany mad-cap hilarious collaboration between Douglas Adams and Terry Jones this week.
I hope your week contains some pleasant variations of your routines.
See you next Monday
The elephant’s scaffolding on the box looks so real! Is Starship Titanic a steampunk kind of thing?
Lol!! Thank you!! I’ve been trying to make the elephants scaffolding as dimensional as I can!!
Starship Titanic isn’t steampunk – it’s a humorous fantasy of what happens when hubris is revealed via reality. Basically it’s a love letter to real-world practicality via outer space adventures. It was a fun read and I laughed out loud several times. I was impressed by the ability of the authors to talk about reality while using absurdity.
Wow, I love the way that elephant really seems to be hanging on the outside of the box, painting!
Thank you!! I’ve been working on the shading and so forth to hopefully achieve just that effect !!
To my eyes, it looks excellent!
Thank you!!
You’re so welcome:)