I’m back in the U.S. and have been busy applying what I learned in France into making some super sexy comic pages. My travels may be done here, but if you would like to follow the ongoing development of my comic work, and life as a sequential artist, then please visit my art blog at:
Process it up
So here’s how I made my watercolors. Unlike my comics, there isn’t really a set process for this, so I often fail spectacularly and have to restart several times before I’m finished.
You will need:
Sepia Ink (I used Sennelier)
Watercolor set (I used Van Gogh)
Water color paper
A pencil (preferably anything HB and harder)
But really, you could use ANYTHING. Especially when trapped on a medieval mountaintop village like Lacoste.
STEP 1
Get a piece of water color paper and try to make squares the same size as the pieces you made before. Notice after drawing squares that they are crooked.
STEP 2
Draw a rough pencil sketch of the composition. Love it. Begin inking over pencil in sepia, Hate it.
STEP 3
Become frustrated with life. Create entirely new composition. Ink over it in sepia ink. Love it.
STEP 4
Begin putting basic washes and colors over ink drawing. Realize colors don’t make sense together. Scrap it.
STEP 5
Make entirely new composition again. Finally create a logical color combination.
STEP 6
Add layers of color until background is complete. Make little women on another sheet of paper and attach to backgrounds with a glue stick. Repeatedly ask friends for reassurance that your work isn’t total shit.
THEN YOU DONE. LOOK AT DEM WATERCOLORS.
This is why I stick to comics.
This show was such a success! Everyone’s art looked great, and I even sold three pieces!Exposition Des Etudiants de SCAD Lacoste
Friday at 3:00 PM-7:00 PM
Saturday at 3:00 PM-7:00 PM
SCAD-Lacoste, Rue Saint-TrophimeSCAD Lacoste présente son Exposition d’hiver 2012. L’exposition trimestrielle rassemble les œuvres de 56 étudiants en Bande-Dessinée, Graphic Design, Illustration et histoire de l’art créées sur le campus pendant la session d’hiver. L’exposition aura lieu le vendredi 9 et le samedi 10 mars 2012, de 15 h à 19 h et une réception de vernissage aura lieu le samedi de 17 h à 19 h.
SCAD Lacoste is pleased to present its Winter 2012 Vernissage. The quarterly exhibition features works created by 56 students in sequential art, graphic design, illustration, and art history during the Winter program sheld on campus. The exhibition will run Friday and Saturday, March 9th and 10th, 2012, from 3:00 to 7:00 pm, with an opening reception on Saturday from 5:00 to 7:00. pm
Les visiteurs auront la possibilité de rencontrer les étudiants et leurs
professeurs au cours de la manifestation et les œuvres exposées seront en vente.
L’exposition et la réception de vernissage sont gratuites et en entrée libre.
Visitors will have the opportunity to speak with the student artists and their
professors throughout the exhibition, and the work will be offered for sale.
The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
A l’occasion de cette exposition, venez vous prononcer sur les différents projets de Prêt-à-Poster réalisés par nos élèves pour le village de Lacoste en partenariat avec la Poste de Vaucluse et la Mairie de Lacoste.**Poster design by Matt Stucky
People in place project for travel portfolio. The space is technically composed of three different cities (Rousillon, Avignon and Gould) But I really wanted to focus on Rousillon, and alter the other environments so that they could appear to be all from the same city.
At the same time as I was working on these, I was working on my Franco-Belgian comics final, where we have to pick any European style and make a page using it. I’m doing very cartoon-y Marcinelle, so I thought it might be fun to transplant the idea over to travel portfolio and try my hand at imitating Moebius (Arzach) because like, EVERYONE does it at one point or another in their comics career. So there.
I’m thinking of making a small art book from these (I plan to do more for my final), so I’m showing them laid out in two ways: Panel to panel, as one would see if I laid the book out sequentially and then each individual painting if I laid it out with an image per page. Still haven’t made up my mind yet.
The girls in Rousillon. OOOOO HOW PRETTY <3 <3 <3
Blue shutters in Rousillon. Just another example of how clever the French are when it comes to the aesthetics of urban planning. The whole town is painted in ochre tones, to match the mine which it’s famous for, and everywhere the shutters are painted radiant shades of complementary blue. We were especially lucky to go on a clear day when the sky was blue to add to the complementary color scheme.
Roussillon: “I’ve Always Wanted to go Soul Searching in the Desert.”
Like any good woman of class, I sometimes feign mental instability so that I can be whisked off into the desert like Marlene Dietrich to go and “find myself.” And by “find myself” I mean with Ralph Fiennes.
So when we went to Roussillon, I saw my chance to have a “soul-searching in the desert” moment. So what if it’s an ochre mine instead of the Sahara, and Ralph Fiennes is nowhere to be seen, and I was really cold? It’s all about THE INTERNAL EXPERIENCE.
And yes, it really was this beautiful.
Avignon: So Boring, You Could Actually Live There.
Avignon is tremendously boring, like to the point where it would be a good idea to live there. Unlike Paris, with all its cool museums, high-end shops and busy nightlife, Avignion has only a tastefully stocked H&M and a crumbly old castle that a pope once lived in. It’s so boring in fact, that locals spend most of the day drinking coffee in little cafes, playing with their children in the local square, and basking in the spring weather listening to good street musicians. If after all of these limited amusements, the locals are still bored, they sometimes like to shop for reasonable, well made clothes at one of the many local boutiques (sometimes H&M) and offer polite suggestions to tourists. There is even a McDonald’s.
When I went, I wandered aimlessly around the city, moving from sunspot to sunspot sketching what I saw. The weather was nice, it was easy to get around in heels, and the locals were friendly. But I was so bored the whole time that I was all like ” I could just get a town house and LIVE here. GAWD.”
Although I did see some junkies in the street which was verging on to the point of being TOO exciting for Avignon. But fortunately they kept to themselves and were clean so they were just boring enough to blend in with the rest of the city.
Here’s some pictures I took of the Palace of the Popes. Isn’t it so boring that you wish you could fill it with Restoration Hardware furniture and live there?
Gould: Lots of Tiny Places to Hide Your Leprechaun Gold.
Gould has all the charm of Greenwich, CT with its fancy pools, Aston Martins, and sweater loving villagers. If that wasn’t enough to make you absolutely adore the place, Gould ALSO has some of the best junk. And by junk, I mean bizzare narrow spaces that are perfect for hiding your family’s ancestral treasure:
For example, this vault (cleverly disguised as a garden) has a tiny chink in the wall large enough to protect your Hermès Birkin.
This large safe (at right) could easily hold a Bentley, and is charmingly decorated to look like a scary back alley way to discourage wandering tourists from picking up a “souvenir”.
This quaint little church is an excellent place to store your family’s extensive gold brick collection, and has the added security of imposing crippling Roman-Catholic guilt upon those who would even think of stealing from you.
If you should still feel uncertain about leaving your treasures alone in the village, you can always rent a place to stay nearby (But just until your blood diamonds get comfortable in their new surroundings.) This charming penthouse comes with decorative finial, barred windows and security cameras so you can be amused by the charming villagers as they mingle with the filth in the street.
Like I said, just like Greenwich.
