I see a red door and I want to…

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

…paint it black!

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Playing in the rain

Monday, July 10, 2006

All kids love puddles, right? Nefarious hates raindrops hitting her, but if she's got her umbrella and rubber boots she sure likes stomping around in the water.

Anyway… Updates later today, and right now I'm going to see if I can find myself a good high-res laser scanning (as in 3d mesh) company that can handle something both the size of a car for one project (nothing to do with the entry below), and something the size of a bowling ball for another project.

(If anyone has any advice/experience on companies in the Toronto and Ottawa area, let me know).

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I wonder if I should…

Monday, July 10, 2006

So I keep thinking about all the different nutty things I could do to the Porsche this upcoming winter… The picture below (which should flip every two seconds) is some minor bodywork, and then a nine degree rake on the front windshield (so basically the roof gets sectioned, the pillars are cut, it's tilted back nine degrees, the side windows are replaced with lexan, and the lines of the car are filled back in). I don't know yet whether it would ruin the look of the car or not. It's pretty hard to tell from this side-view mockup, but I have the feeling it would make the car look freakishly exotic…

I've seen this done before to Fieros but never on a Porsche.

I have to admit that I really want to go to a toy store right now and buy myself a plastic 996 model that I can cut apart and see how this looks from all angles. I don't know if there's a certain Porsche “essence” that might be lost by changing the lines so much?

Oh yeah, and Jon and I are doing a little rewiring of the house today to fix one of the many shortcomings this mass-produced townhouse has. I hope my landlord doesn't read this blog (just kidding, I'm not doing any real damage, honest — just want to do a little re-wiring so as to make this temporarily stalled radio re-launch easier). Other than that, picking up some new computers tomorrow…

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That can't be healthy.

Sunday, July 9, 2006

The one on the right. Four layers of beef. Four layers of cheese. A thick layer of bacon. And I thought the world was headed toward health consciousness… Well, I suppose at least this is going to make Supersize Me II a whole lot funnier. Heh. Crazy.

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Painting

Sunday, July 9, 2006

Monster party in a cave. Drawn at full size by Nefarious (just about three when she drew this) and filled in (no real editing) by me in acrylics with textured and gloss mediums. This isn't my favorite of the series because the characters sort of “float” in front of the background rather than interacting with it but I think it's turned out nicely. I might fine tune it a little still.

Other recent paintings done with Nefarious: Thieving Spiders, Scary Squirrel
Recent paintings done for Nefarious: Reptiles, Penguins

I have a few other paintings I've done recently, but those are my favorites. I have a couple of white whales on the go, but I think next I'm going to work on a big portrait piece in a different style, I feel like I'm getting a little burned out on this style and want to build some better tools for applying the paint gels (I'm thinking of using modded syringes probably, and then doing post-application manipulation) to make the process work better.

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