This was also from the assignment about character design. We had a list and had to pick words from it.

I watch a lot of horror movies and I was probably thinking of A Tale of Two Sisters and The Shining. But, these girls aren’t just sisters – their conjoined! They can kill but are a little slow due to the fact that they only have two arms for the both of them…

I had a really hard time with this, even though it looks simple enough – drew it on paper that wasn’t so smooth – learned my lesson!!!

This assignment was about character design. We were given a list of words having to do with feeling, occupation, creatures, etc – choose a word from each list and make a character. This is obviously a very sad, cycling panda bear who’s crushed his wheels from his tremendous weight. Panda’s shouldn’t be riding bikes anyway…

Kitchen Death.

Every monday in printmaking, we have a 30 minute drawing task.

This past week’s: Draw your last meal…

(I’ll try to keep posting these…)

Book for Jen

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I LOVE making books! – still learning, but enjoying the hell out of it. I’m still trying to get good at that damn coptic stitch!

Derriere La Lune, Yellow

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Using scratchboard is ok, but it takes forfrickinEVER! I may never use it again…

So, for this assignment, Ida dressed in in a cabaret costume and we had to make a 1930′s style 2-color poster for a made-up show or cafe or whatever. I made up the Burlesque type based on type that Lautrec used in his lithographs; used the word Rouge in reference to “red lights”; I knew there would have to be a moon in there after I finished scratching Ida out, and after I’d thrown around a few ideas for a title of an imaginary like Under the Moon, etc, I realized that Derriere La Lune was the best since I’d chosen a pic of Ida from behind…
I settled on the colors after looking at several real french posters.

Anytime I look at so many posters, I am in envie of what people have made. I’d definitely like to learn more about the history of poster art… if anyone wants to get rid of an old book about posters that they never look at, just let me know!

Just testing this flickr gadget out on da blahg…

Pica is a magpie.

Pie is a “printer’s” term for a jumbled up confusing mess of type.

pi also pie (pī) n. pl. pis also pies An amount of type that has been jumbled or thrown together at random. To jumble or mix up (type).v. To become jumbled.

Pie, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Pie Looking for a pie’s nest (French). Looking for something you are not likely to find. (See below.)
He is in the pie’s nest (French). In a fix, in great doubt, in a quandary. The pie places her nest out of reach, and fortifies it with thorny sticks, leaving only a small aperture just large enough to admit her body. She generally sits with her head towards the hole, watching against intruders. (From Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable).

“Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.” – Jonathan Swift.

Expressions using “pie”: Apple pie ♦ apple pie bed ♦ armed cap a pie ♦ as easy as pie ♦ as nice as pie ♦ blueberry pie ♦ Boston cream pie ♦ By cock and pie ♦ cheese pie ♦ cherry pie ♦ chicken pie ♦ cottage pie ♦ cow pie ♦ custard pie ♦ Dirt pie ♦ easy as pie ♦ eat humble pie ♦ exploded pie ♦ French pie ♦ have a finger in a pie ♦ have a finger in every pie ♦ have a finger in the pie ♦ it’s all pie in the sky ♦ it’s as easy as pie ♦ it’s pie ♦ jay pie ♦ kidney pie ♦ lemon meringue pie ♦ little wood pie ♦ macaroni pie ♦ make smb. eat humble pie ♦ meat pie ♦ melton pie ♦ milk pie ♦ mince pie ♦ minced pie ♦ mud pie ♦ pecan pie ♦ Perigord pie ♦ pie a la mode ♦ pie chart ♦ pie crust ♦ pie diagram ♦ pie dish ♦ pie in the sky ♦ pie plant ♦ pie shell ♦ Pie Town ♦ pizza pie ♦ pork pie ♦ pork pie hat ♦ pudding pie ♦ pumpkin pie ♦ rhubarb pie ♦ sand pie ♦ sea pie ♦ shepherds pie ♦ shepherd’s pie ♦ shoofly pie ♦ spinach pie ♦ spinage pie ♦ squab pie ♦ squash pie ♦ steak and kidney pie ♦ tamale pie ♦ To eat humble pie ♦ Tree pie ♦ Umble pie ♦ wall pie ♦ warden pie ♦ wood pie. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with “pie”: pie-bald, pie-based, pie-brained, pie-chart, pie-charts, pie-crust, pie-dish, pie-dog, pie-eating, pie-eyed, pie-faced, pie-filling, pie-frill, pie-in-the-sky, pie-in-the-sky-eyes-in-the-sky, pie-jarmers, pie-mash, pie-noir, pie-noire, pie-olympics, pie-pan, pie-plant, pie-powder, pie-rouge, pie-seller, pie-sellers, pie-shop, pie-warmer.

Creampie…

Observations on popular antiquities: Volume 3…
The chattering of a Magpie is ranked by Bourne, p. 71, among Omens. It is unlucky, says Grose, to see first one Magpie, and then more; but to see two, denotes marriage or merriment; three, a successful journey; four, an unexpected piece of good news; five, you will shortly be in a great company.
…when the Pye chatters we shall have strangers.
…One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; for for death. (Mr. Park?)

Shut your pie hole – comes from the word magpie.

Animated pies or pyes were the most popular banquet entertainment. The nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence . . . four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie,” refers to such a pie. According to the rhyme, “When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing. Wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the King.” In all likelihood, those birds not only sang, but flew briskly out at the assembled guests. Rabbits, frogs, turtles, other small animals, and even small people (dwarfs) were also set into pies, either alone or with birds, to be released when the crust was cut. The dwarf would emerge and walk down the length of the table, reciting poetry, sketching the guests, or doing tricks.