tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2338855877633574365.post-40987079545125752322009-01-30T12:40:00.001-08:002009-01-30T13:07:47.682-08:002009-01-30T13:07:47.682-08:00Thursday night I packed up my big olive messenger bag with pens, colored pencils, and paper and hung out at Books-A-Million for a couple of hours. I bought a Juxtapoz and read an interview with Herakut, who are pretty awesome. Their aesthetic is a little bit too pop/anime something for my taste, but the work is really great, and the approach really made me want to do some collaborative work. Happily, my cousin and I are nurturing a microscopic seedling of a project. Here's a Herakut piece, <i>Mother Was Blind</i>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.campbarbossa.com/index.php?cPath=68_67" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://www.campbarbossa.com/images/Herakut_Mother_was_blind.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="200" /></a></div><br />Their work in Juxtapoz had some deer in it, and it put me in mind of <a href="http://www.davkadeergirl.com/">Davka Deer Girl.</a> My first ACEO was a deer drawing for her but it's really quite awful so I'll rework it before posting or mailing. (The way I abstracted and en-swirly-fied* the deer made them look like twee little unicorns and if I showed you that much precious, I'd have to kill myself.)<br /><br />Then I did one I like:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V9-dPXZKECA/SYNmHGN2-XI/AAAAAAAAAVY/Now3o_hIyJc/s1600-h/aceo-web-025-other.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V9-dPXZKECA/SYNmHGN2-XI/AAAAAAAAAVY/Now3o_hIyJc/s320/aceo-web-025-other.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then I doodled a face, and at first I thought it was Tim Curry but quickly realized it was Shiva:<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V9-dPXZKECA/SYNmItpewbI/AAAAAAAAAVg/lpA4v9mr4A8/s1600-h/aceo-web-026-shiva.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V9-dPXZKECA/SYNmItpewbI/AAAAAAAAAVg/lpA4v9mr4A8/s320/aceo-web-026-shiva.jpg" border="0" /></a></div>After that, I began to miss the baby, so I drew this,<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V9-dPXZKECA/SYNmK-331FI/AAAAAAAAAVo/18nNQ5GsSn4/s1600-h/aceo-web-027-gravitylevity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V9-dPXZKECA/SYNmK-331FI/AAAAAAAAAVo/18nNQ5GsSn4/s320/aceo-web-027-gravitylevity.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div>and decided that Sharpie under Prismacolor pencil on cold-press watercolor paper is the second best texture on Planet Earth. The first best is snow that half-melted then froze over and goes crisp-crunch beneath my feet. You'd know that already, if I'd remembered to link to the BRAND NEW, WICKED AWESOME and <i>very shiny</i> <a href="http://graceinsmallthings.ning.com/">Grace in Small Things Social Network</a> and <a href="http://graceinsmallthings.ning.com/profile/HeidiRichardsonEvans">my wee, random posts. </a>Please join and feel the love.<br /><br />*Take note. The art movement of <i>cute!no,sad...but-cute</i> that my ACEOs are starting will soon be known as Enswirlification. I'll have a Wikipedia page maybe. I'm about flipping sick of cute ones and may have to make about thirteen black &amp;/or red ones with Anger About the Patriarchy this weekend.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2338855877633574365-4098707954512575232?l=www.twoserpents.com'/></div>heidi daisybonesheidirevans@gmail.com3