Acrylic and paper collage mounted on cardboard - 8x8 inches
This is a draft illustration I made for the following caption: "Suddenly, the tiger roars as he pulls back its cheek and lips, showing its huge teeth." The children's book will be bilingual in English and Chinese and is about a tiger and a fox.
wow. this is really fabulous, blake - it's so different from everything i've seen you work on before, yet seamlessly executed. i'm really impressed! who's writing the kid's book? you make me want to write children's stories just so that they can be illustrated by you! -lissie
-- It is relationships between the visual and the personal. It is creating art that exists outside of this world and outside of my mind. I am not depicting real places or real beings, but instead am moving between control and loss of control of the medium, hoping to discover a new world somewhere in the middle. It exists as a reality, as a space, consummated through the viewer's connection to the piece. Certain areas of each piece are intended to attract attention, but this may not be obvious at first. After looking a little further, we discover these areas, however, humbly, but strongly, holding their own. Some call these "lima beans" --
3 comments:
i have an idea. let's write children's books together. you will illustrate them. roar.
wow. this is really fabulous, blake - it's so different from everything i've seen you work on before, yet seamlessly executed. i'm really impressed! who's writing the kid's book? you make me want to write children's stories just so that they can be illustrated by you!
-lissie
I love the collages. Now I have new wallpaper for my PC.
Dad
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