Mary Beth Cryan

vc

I just happened to come across these whilst looking for ways for simple bookbinding. this lady does art and illustration and recently took a bookbinding class, and has created her own sketch/note books using scrap paper and odd bits and bobs that she has found.

oliver jeffers

From figurative painting and installation to illustration and picture-book making, his work has been exhibited in New York, Dublin, London, Sydney, Washington DC, Belfast and elsewhere.

There has always been a strong undercurrent of narrative behind Jeffers's work, but his current interest in making art lies in the anomaly between logical and emotional thinking.

stickerssss and zinessss

i've done some more stickers. these are relevant to my multiples project as they are just that. multiples. and they go with my dinosaur theme nicely too. they will be small and cute. nicely contradictive to the big wall mounted dinosaurs.

here is an examples of a sticker...

i liked these random designs so much that i decided they would look in a crappy zine. as they are just black and white and simple, it would be easy and cheap to reproduce too. i only have 4 similar designs to these at the minute so i need to make more. i also popped off to the art shop to get some nice paper and bits to make some little zines. : ) i need to research some zines too to look at the different ones and different ways they can be made.

its zine making time.

development

both of my projects seem to have taken a different turn and are different to the ideas i had originally in my project proposals. it seems that with every idea i have, different ideas sprout from them creating new ideas and themes that are better and bolder than the old ones.

multiples books and editions

this one started off being mainly a box based project, using memories in boxes and keeping it quite small. now it is going to be big and bold and jam packed with dinosaurs with a similar theme to a museum, but with a lei twist.

image text narrative

for this project it started off as being installations based around words and text to create an image, then it went to working with installations with paper and origami, but now, although still working with installations and still working with a paper-based material (cardboard) and with a theme of dinosaurs (obviously) taking it into the world which will have a sort of grungy, urban feel. now to catch a day where its not windy or raining, that would be great.

haha love this picture

These are just doodles i did whilst waiting for something else. sharpies are ace for little illustrations

more dinos

rexy and diplo.

dino

i really like this cardboard dinosaur. it'll be ace to put into mini installations. i'm going to make more and bigger ones. i might even make a life-size one if i can find the cardboard.

it was just something different that derived from my other ideas for installations. in a way its just similar to what other things i have done like with the cranes hanging in my room and my little origami dinosaurs out and about. i need to put this guy out and about and take pictures of him. i could do different variations of it like with wood, textiles, perspex, and i could put it into layered scenes

stickersss

made some stickers! they're on the way! pictures to come. i could use these to give out at the book fair.

my obsession with dinosaurs grow

i had an idea of leaving my drawings in different places, big, small, any size. it was a little dinosaur i had drawn to go with the ever growing dinosaur theme of my project. the end product was going to be the photographs i had taken of the places i drew him. the first place my dinosaur will be, is on my ankle. permanently : )

i tried to do an indoor installation which was influenced by one of the artists i researched. the theme was animals with a kind of african theme. i used various things that looked related, some of my teddies, pictures and origami. cranes where attached to my ceiling and left to hang down. pictures of animals were upon my wall and various other origami were thrown, as well as my teddies overtaking my bed and covers with leopard print and the right coloured covers help set the theme. im finding it hard to find a place to do some installations with my origami. im getting told off at places for using my camera, so im loosing confidence to do it in places like shops, libraries, and other similar places, and to do outside installations it means depending on the weather which is just typically poop.

before and...

after...

i expected it to be different than it turned out. it looked better in person than it does documented in pictures. the cranes hanging down from the ceiling look ace. a whole room filled with these would look amazing. somewhere where people could walk through and look and not just look at a photograph. but where could i find a room to do it in? uni ceilings are too high to do it in...

cranes

high flyer

upon my ceiling

preparing for flight

these are by the same guy as the octopus installations.

these are ace installations i have found done by 'filthylucker'. they look great, if i walked down the street and saw this coming out of a building window i would definitely stop and stare.

scooootland

shadows

dinosaur shadowssssss! the candle gives a softer shadow than the torch. but the torch has cool light marks too...over all i quite like it : )

christian boltanski

i would like to do something like this with my dinosaur skulls. i could make the shadow the actual size of what the skull would be. i think that would be quite cool.

im not sure i like these designs he has used though they are a bit eerie and haunting

tessa farmer

these are very amazing intricate things. using real (dead) insects like bees and dragonflies and then creates little skeletons that sit on them and make a scene. i remember seeing these in a vogue magazine a while ago too. they are a bit eerie and sinister, but can still be related to my work, mine is just a bit cuter