Kat Powell Artist

Bringing home a baby Bumble Bee.... Concept idea for skeletons in balloons and an airhead. Done on a large piece of paper and then on a large transparency.  On the paper I drew up a couple of bodies that are partially fleshed out so that way their limbs are faded.  On the transparency I etched in the skeletal anatomy of the couple along with several cross-hatched lines and boxes. This was a difficult image to capture with a camera and there is still a lot of detail that was lost. Also the transparency adds some really neat shadows on the paper underneath. Playing around with 3-d and 2-d mix-matching. As you can tell the paper has been cut and bent to create a shallow dip. And onto of the paper there is dried glue that is forming a web. Like a tunnel spider.  Again the camera could not pick up the subtle details of the glue's transparency. :(  Foamboard again with ink and marker drawing.  The image above and below are the same. I found this little cardb...

Yes. There are times when i get tired of working on 2-D works, paintings, drawings, etc...  So i work with 3-D projects.  Some are just oddly shaped canvases and others are actual objects.  And i've noticed that working this way helps me in the 2-D realm. The moment that you try to sculpt a 3-D form you begin to understand more of the shadows and curves that make up the shape. To wrap your mind around a painted object, it seems like, you need to physically make it first.