Catching Up

I know--I haven't posted art for two weeks. SORRY. Actually, as far as anything anyone has said to me I'm the only one who has noticed I'm behind on my goal. BUT. I still feel bad for falling behind.

I actually tried to post something the other day, but for some reason blogger didn't like the image. It showed up fine on my computer, but when it was uploaded to blogger it only showed up as a black rectangle--I have no ide why. Lets see if blogger will cooperate today. I'll post two things, one for each week that I didn't post something.

This is my design for an ambigram stained glass window. Its a reflective ambigram, which means that it reads differently when you flip it--so, as a stained glass window, you read a different word when you're inside than you do when you're outside. Cool, no? Combining the design limitations of an ambigram with those of a window is no walk in the park, though. Despite that, I think I've got a readable design. Right? Please comment and let me know whether you can read it. :-)

These are a few banners from the course I recently finished a splash for, British Literary History. I actually edited a couple of these banners since saving this image (namely, the ones for Great Expectations and Heart of Darkness) but I'm too lazy now to put in the new versions. Also I don't have access to the files on this computer. 

  

In case your screen is small or whatever, these illustrations are for:

Northanger Abbey, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Ode on a Grecian Urn, the Lady of Shalott, Great Expectations

Heart of Darkness, The Dead, the Journey of the Magi

Now, I'm caught up! I have a few more pictures I've been working on I plan on posting soon.

This week--ambigrams!

So I totally forgot to post a piece of art last week--sorry! I know, I'm probably the only one who noticed. Ah, well.

These last couple weeks I've been working on digitizing my ambigrams! I'll be printing and selling them at the Provo Farmers Market and on etsy. Here is one as a teaser... ok, two, because I missed last week. Come to the market to see more! When I get them listed on etsy I'll let everyone know :-)

This week--Season Series done, ambigrams to come

So last time I posted my raccoons picture I said that I wasn't entirely satisfied with it and would return to it later. So, for this week I finished the raccoon piece and then combined all four seasons designs.

 

And I found my sketchbooks from just before, during, and just after the mission. I went through them and marked all of the ambigrams or little comics I drew that I want to fix and share, so those will probably be my piece for next week, or maybe the next couple weeks. 

Can you tell what the ambigram on the top says both rightside-up and upside-down? 

another experiment...

In the past, I've drawn my ambigrams freehand and then traced them freehand on the computer (on those rare occasions when I have computerized my ambigrams). This time, I decided to use a different approach--while I designed my ambigram freehand as usual (during Church on Sunday, also as usual) after scanning it into the computer I used pieces of a "real" font--Lucida Gothic--to piece together this ambigram. I think in some ways it is more successful--more consistent and recognizable style--and in other ways less so--readability in particular. But I think it was a good experiment to do in any case.

Justice/Mercy ambigram

Well, I'm home. Did you all miss me?

To celebrate my return, an ambigram! Ambigrams are a hobby of mine which I haven't really brought online much. But I tried computerizing this one.... still in progress. Most of my ambigrams are rotational, this is the first time I tried my hand at a perceptual-shift ambigram. I'm feeling pretty meh about it, I'll still fiddle with it to see if I can make it more readable. If you see it as having the first letter as "M" and the last is "y", what do you read? What if "J" is the first letter and "e" the last?