Saturday, December 16, 2023

Spirit animal updates

 








It is possible that everyone was a bit overwhelmed yesterday by my 600 page, wild ride of a review of the movie Wonka, which is a movie I haven't actually seen yet.

So today we'll keep it a little calmer and catch you up on my library workers' spirit animal portraits progress.

Today I worked through some bread and butter pictures for this project. There were no experiments in new techniques, no challenging animals, just a straightforward run of work through three people I work with, more or less. These are two volunteers and a person who does custodial work. They chose the animals of "Big Cats", "Panda", and "Fox". 

As I have developed some systems for this project I am, at this point, usually aiming to have at least one picture that's a bit more naturalistic and takes place strictly in our library, and one picture that is a bit more fantastical. Though having one successful picture is also enough it that's how it works out. Usually, as you will see, I have three or four or five! 

Ultimately, with only a vague sense of what the end presentation of this project is, I think each person would come down to being represented by just one picture.




Natalie's Fox:




















































































































































































Bella's Big Cat:




































































































































































Bernida's Panda Bear:






















































































































































2 comments:

  1. I like this series of pictures a LOT Have you thought of making a calendar? It would be a great fundraiser for the Friends. Though I guess that there might be issues of permissions and how you could be paid for your time. But if you did, I'd be first on the list to buy one.

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    1. I'm so glad you like them,

      I think the hardest part will be what to do with them. Maybe that problem will just go away if I can put it off by simply keep finding more people to do spirit animal portraits of forever.

      I will put you down for a calendar speculatively. I need not be paid for my time, though, as I now consider a gift to the Universe.


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