Assignments

Some of the things I've been working on these past few weeks:


Ink sketch of a taxidermy bird in the "classroom" (The point of it was just to try out the different techniques we'd been going through, like with brush, with nib, wet on dry, dry on wet, using a candle to block out the white, using washes, etc.)

Acrylic week-assignment, to illustrate "The Owl and The Pussycat", I made them out to be two men who wanted to elope in the 19th century(waiscoats!):

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea     In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money,     Wrapped up in a five pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above,     And sang to a small guitar, 'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,       What a beautiful Pussy you are,           You are,           You are! What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

II

Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!     How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried:     But what shall we do for a ring?' They sailed away, for a year and a day,     To the land where the Bong-tree grows And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood     With a ring at the end of his nose,           His nose,           His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose.

III

'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling     Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.' So they took it away, and were married next day     By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince,     Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,     They danced by the light of the moon,           The moon,           The moon, They danced by the light of the moon. (source)

Now this was a week-assignment for inks, we had to do a graphic novel including two of shakespeares characters in any setting. I put The Duke and Viola from Twelfth night together in a 50s/60s setting, inspired by Mad Men. I thought the sexism of the era suited the "quote" nicely. In quote I mean a modernization of the actual words, and shortened quite a bit.