Record Packaging

1' x 1'

For about the past week we've been working on making record packages for our Form/Comm class. Before we knew the final direction of the project, we were just illustrating how we thought the song "sounded". I wasn't too thrilled with it at that point, but as soon as the project had a solid concept and form, I thought it was really cool.  

I chose the song Röyksopp Forever by Röyksopp.  We had to then create a 7" single and a 12" album. (The album was the album the song came from, but the imagery was to be inspired by the specific song still)  Ashley guided us to make the album and then make the single be a "teaser", a simplified version containg just one or two elements of the entire album artwork.  

1' x 1'

7" x 7"

By the way, we were responsible for everything, from the outer cover, to the inside sleeve and the paper circles on the center of the vinyl. The only thing we didn't handcraft was the vinyl itself, but we did have to buy that from a local record store.

UPDATE:

This piece was featured in the 2010 Not Yet Famous Artists Revealed UD Undergrad juried Art Show, and won the Illustration Award.

Photo Transfer Fun!

8" x 5.5"

I'm working on my third project in Book Arts/Letter press.  I'm not going to reveal just yet what the theme of the book is, but the project is to create a book from found objects.  I'm using photos from magazines.  This is the back cover of the book.  I created it by xeroxing a photo from a magazine, then I coated water color paper with soft gel gloss, and then rubbed the photocopy onto the water color paper to transfer the black ink.  Then I painted the entire thing with water colors just to give it some color.  I really like how it turned out and now I think I'm going to have to create a new front cover so it will match.

This is a technique that I'm glad I tried out because I'd love to use it in the future again sometime, and I have plenty of gloss medium left.

My first A from Robyn!

Each Frame 3" x 5"

Ink and Watercolor

This was the sequence project.  Our goal was to tell a unique story in 5-10 frames using a sequence of either magnification, position change, direction change, metamorphosis, distortion/destruction, or additive/subtractive.  I did magnification by zooming in.

UPDATE:
This piece was featured in the 2010 Not Yet Famous Artists Revealed UD Undergrad juried Art Show