#206 More Lithography Stuff

Sorry again for a long absence!

I never ended up posting my final prints from the Lithography class, 

the culmination of the Seven Wonders project. 

Here they are; not the best photographs. I had hoped to take better ones 

but never got the chance, so this is what you get:

Pretty happy with these.  Background is a little bland on both, and in retrospect 

I should have taken the time to add some clouds or something. Alas...

I definitely feel like this is the stronger of the two. Again, background would

be improved with some addition of clouds, or maybe a sun or moon.

I am very happy, though, with the tiny dolphin at the center of the print! Adorbs!

And another picture of the Vegetable Flight into Egypt Landscape.

#205 Lithography Stuff

Sorry to have been absent as of late.

I have not been idle, though.

I have been posting to a Tumblr for a stone lithography class,

in which I am currently enrolled.

The class is coming to an end, but I have been doing prints

related to the Seven Wonders project, finally being realized.

See progress on that here:

JUNLITHOBLAWG

Here is a taste of what I've been doing over there, a Flight 

into Egypt after Schongauer/Durer/Rembrant a la Veggie-tales:

More on the influences for this print HERE.

CLICK ME for Tumblr posts related to the Flight into Egypt.

CLICK ME for Tumblr posts related to the Seven Wonders.

#199 Seven Wonders Sketches Part Two

No Animalia Post today. Sorreeee. But here's this instead.

For the Seven Wonders Series:

A sketch of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in large

part inspired by what I remember of Nick's early sketches,

one of which can be seen in my last Seven Wonders post.

I'm very happy with this one, and for the battle, it'll be drawn

very large, with smaller Zeus and Artemis monsters fighting it.

#182 Seven Wonders Sketches Part One

Back around 2009, Nick Francel and I conceived of a series

of prints - probably silk screened, though we considered etchings -

of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World coming to life and

duking it out in a giant monster battle of ancient and epic proportions.

Back then, we did some sketches and divided up the wonders,

but we never got to the actual making stuff together part.

When we met up again in 2011 in Boston, we did a few more 

sketches, and tweaked the ideas a little, but again, no further.

Unfortunately, the original sketches for most of the wonders were 

lost to time and - most likely - the back of a flat-file in St. Louis.

However, I do have one of Nick's sketches from our time in Boston:

(Here we were toying with the idea of making them worm's-eye-views.

But I am bad at foreshortening so we abandoned that.)

We divided up responsibilities, each doing one Wonder per battle:

Nick:                           Jun:

- Hanging Gardens   VS.   Pyramids -

- Temple of Artemis   VS.   Statue of Zeus -

- Colossus of Rhodes   VS.   Lighthouse of Alexandria -

- Collaborative Mausoleum of Halicarnassus Zombie Apocalypse -

In any case, I loved this idea, and think about it often.

With that in mind, I started working on all of them again last month.

And now I have sketches done for everything except for Zeus and Artemis.

I have also rearranged the battles, so that it is as follows: 

Mausoleum VS. Pyramids

Colossus VS. Lighthouse

Zeus + Artemis VS. Gardens

I am posting some of the sketches now here, but I plan on making them 

into etchings eventually. Unfortunately the Cité does not have etching 

facilities, otherwise I would be making the prints as we speak.

Here are some mock ups made with sketches:

This will also have both sides producing giant waves and boats.

The Colossus's boats will have Greek Fire and he might also be blowing fire 

from his torch. The Lighthouse will also have some arrows stuck in him.

I forgot that in my sketches back in 2009, I also had the Sphinx

helping the Pyramids. I will probably add that for the etching.

The Mausoleum was drawn on a much smaller scale, so in the final

there would be a lot more details of statues and such, and many 

more lions and zombie skeletons.