Art I fell off the every-single-day part of the 365 project. Will probably return to it in winter. Until then here are some of the random bits…
Words Restriction: Work with words. Make an image with just words and letters.
Working on some flyer tests for a local show:
And M has been busy as well:
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Eraser moon Restriction: Create something from erasers.
Turns out you can make neat striations in a kneaded eraser by erasing wet ink and stretching/squishing it.
Dying Restriction: Try dyeing. Use fabric or food dye.
GMF Restriction: Be bold. Go to a store that you frequently shop at or a restaurant where you frequently eat and ask what they’ll let you make there. and Restriction: Get...
Snowflex Restriction: Work with the gravel, sand, or rocks available near your home.
It was really muddy, so I worked with the next best thing to sand: tiny metallic beads.
Odd Restriction: Work only with numbers. 1. Postcard Inspired by a song from Shining - Blackjazz. 2. Bonus poem one rotting heart two blistered feet in three blinks of an eye,...
Heart Restriction: Create something with papier-mache. This took several days of drying because I’m no paper expert. It also may have been a mistake to use the yellow pages. I was...
Almonds Restriction: Go grocery shopping and pick up something specifically to work with. Extra credit for making it in the store? Yeah, not going to do that. Decided to do some...
Tangrams Restriction: Use only the classic tangram shapes. Well, there they are. Fast forward I don’t remember what this was supposed to be, just getting familiar with the shapes I guess...
The Mountains of Fire Restriction: Incorporate yourself into whatever you make. Little odd that this one came right after mask. I was, uhh… inspired (?) by these: (Thanks Jenifer, hah!) Insta-Muppet. So then there...
Knight Restriction: Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom. Time to whittle soap - pretty old school. I used a...
Shade the Embodied Angles Restriction: Make something that casts a shadow and document only the shadow.
Mixed media Restriction: Mix and match. Work with two materials that generally don’t go together.
I picked:
Light switches and screws
Paper and crayons
Obvious but fun.
BING.
Kite Restriction: Use a disposable bag to create something new.
In between battles with electricity, I made a phone book bag kite:
Mass Restriction: Make something heavy seem light.
Was going to add watercolor clouds and colors, but I got lazy.
Dots and cells Restriction: Connect the dots. Make something using only dots.
3x5 card and red ink.
Another piece done huddling in bad light between bands at the Project Lodge.
The Way Restriction: Be a minimalist. Work only in white materials today. Try working on white for a real challenge. The finished piece, almost unseeable. The way is often hard to spot....
QED Restriction: Quantity over quality. Work with a lot of something. Rearranging kosher salt crystals in the shape of a diagram from Quantum Electrodynamics, which I just finished reading. Good nerdy...
Anger Flower Restriction: Work with flowers; artificial or real, live or dried, picked or bought. Sorry Mr. Book, I’m not going to buy flowers in the dead of winter for an art...
Tape stink flower Restriction: Create an image with tape. Well, I’d already made an image with tape recently (gear on my bass drum head!) so I decided to try to sort of sculpt...
Purple-o-scope Restriction: Make something that lights up.
More of the unending supply of purple construction paper must be sacrificed to the elder gods!
YFAGHNETHYN CHTHON’YRIK!
…yeah.
The End This is a piece Joel gave me for my birthday, the companion to “Everything” on the left here.
The End
THANKS JOEL!! I love it.
Photon Restriction: Make something huge that is normally tiny. Macro photography is not enough, so I made a huge photon. This is a dumb physics joke &em; I’m reading Jeff’s copy...
Loop driven Restriction: Work underwater. I was excited to find a MINT IN PACKAGE stack of construction paper on moving day this summer, but I had no idea what I was going...
101 Restriction: Use pens as your material or inspiration.
I drew a giant 20x scale crow quill point.
You can barely spot the reference point in this workspace shot:
Temporary Hourglass Restriction: Make something ephemeral. I tried to work with fire but it was too hard to get it to work right; I wanted to briefly set a specific portion of...
Forge a path Restriction: Make a path for people, and invite them to try it out. Camera failure on this one (some days the CCD is cranky, especially so outdoors in the cold.)...
Light Lander Restriction: Make a disguise for a person, pet, or object. combined with the next day Restriction: Work with toys. I made a lunar lander disguise. For a lightbulb. Apparently. I...
School of Dendrites Restriction: Back to school; use traditional school materials like number 2 penciles or lined paper notebooks to make something nontraditional. I took a pencil and used its point and eraser...
Melt Restriction: Go to your yard or a nearby park to find materials to work with. Well, all I could find out there was a whole bunch of snow, so it...
Waste not Restriction: Dig in a recycling bin for today’s materials.
Engage the PBR-powered inverted Lake Louie launch platform. Or something.
Bridge Restriction: Create a bridge between two things.
(starring Jason)
Sink Restriction: Make something that floats.
Well, you can hardly see from the terrible photos, but I failed at this one.
Baker's Clay Restriction: Buy or make some clay and use it like you never have before.
I made baker’s clay and some bizarre things.
Camera problems:
Post baking colorization:
In a car Restriction: Make something with the items in your car.
Since I don’t have no car, I worked on this site template. Oh so exciting… hooray for Jekyll!
Thread or Die Restriction: Make something inspired by an eye.
Made a pendulum out of a leather repair needle and spattered ink by swinging it around a piece of paper.
Print Restriction: Make a print out of a potato or a sponge and use it to stamp something.
Death Spiral Restriction: Use a dollar bill as inspiration today.
Of course I wouldn’t deface actual money, this is a simulacrum!
OH NO Restriction: Make something microscopic.
Unfortunately from these photos it’s hard to make out just how tiny these are.
(thanks to Jeff for the base idea from long ago)
Tongues Cannot Reveal Restriction: Camouflage. Hide something in the background. Not sure how obvious this one is… I was standing around by myself looking dopey at a random jazz show in the Project...
Sinistral (Left Hand Horse) Restriction: Work with your non-dominant hand in a medium you are familiar with. Well, I know how to use a pencil, right? How hard could it be to draw left-handed...
Only water Restriction: You can only use water as your medium today. It turns out that working with water’s surface tension is extremely interesting. I think this was my favorite so far...
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Restriction: Work with an old book. I took a yellowed old book of Bach orchestral scores and did a multi-media experiment with india ink and collage on two canvases, intended...
Get well soon, Steve Restriction: Work with a stencil. My mailman is down for the count with some pretty nasty cancer for a young guy. The neighborhood folks put together a card and a...
Fruit Restriction: Walk into the kitchen and work with the first fruit or vegetable you see.
Collection Restriction: What do you collect? Work with a collection.
Building or arranging with music, either vinyl or CDs, was too odd. So I stacked some jewel cases together.
Walk Restriction: Take a five minute walk, and make something when you get there. Unfortunately, my camera decided to barf, so unless you saw the temporary sculpture, you’ll never know what...
Frank Lloyd Wrong Restriction: Make something out of paper, but don’t use scissors or glue or draw on it. I took a card sent to me and wove it into a new shape....
Moonlight Banjo Pteradactyl Restriction: Make something from your immediate environment that fits in the palm of your hand. Well, I sort of broke the palm-size constraint, but: a sculpture from banjo string packets...