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- Dec 22, 12Here he is. Doin his thing. I played around with building my own frame this time, and by "played around" I mean wept and cussed over. But I did it, it's done, and it's winging its way, very creatively packaged, to the lucky recipient. 30% of the people at FedEx took pity on me and helped me out, the other 70% arrived during and resented me. Merry Christmas. My client wanted the piece titled "Regal Puggle" and I immediately got that. I initially thought I would paint the title in a kind of pompous type at the bottom center of the frame, like an old portrait, but in a feverish moment of hyper-lucidity I thought of getting an engraved dog ID tag to attach to the frame. It's like a little period at the end of the sentence/run-on paragraph. More photos, unedited...
I've done this wood+white contrast look before... aforementioned dog tag, the inner border of the white outer strip is gold.
And now I'm just like.............. - Dec 19, 12
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- Dec 15, 12I made several changes to my official website today. It might not look like it, because that website is like a bottomless pit of room for improvement. Blagh...Go see more of me at www.hannahmccormick.com
- Oct 09, 12My photographer friend Mike Stanton took this a while ago, and I just became aware that I should probably post this. Along with everything ever that needs to go on my website as well. But fiddle-de-dee.She hangs with many others in Honeybee right now. The walls are that yellow, so I'm convinced she's a little yellower for it.Hey, speaking of yellow...who's heard of this noise "Yellowism"?? I can't. Just go here.
- Oct 09, 12This art crush continues. There's this state of mind where all I'm doing is making and working every day, and I'm mellowed out, and I'm clear. That's the only time I feel like that, but it's like the eye of the storm, and whenever I'm right outside of it I'm in absolute chaos and upheaval, even though I'm near. So today I'm leaving the war zone. See you later, world. I'm burrowing in. Nat gets it.taken from his blog, www.crookedarm.blogspot.com :" i am trying to get a bunch of drawings done for an art show. it never gets easier and it doesn't seem like it ever will. making things is hard, man. it's hard to do it and not feel like an egomaniac or a dipshit. it's hard to do it and have it feel right. but it happens if you are good to yourself and try not to try too hard or think that you know so much . making things has rules and those rules are you can't be bad to yourself and expect to have it together to make things that are true. i am trying some new things in my brain and it seems to be working out if i don't push too hard. i am glad i have this sort of thing to occupy me for a long time. it is a cliche, but it is possible to understand yourself through this process of making things and trying to get better at it and get down to the root of it. even if nobody else cares, it is still important to do things and offer that to the universe or whoever happens to look at it or hear it or feel it. can you tell i am tripping out? artwork for president! "
Rainbow Cave Current - Sep 09, 12My friend Jenny Barnes is doing good things with quilting here in Oxford. I vaguely commissioned a portrait for myself earlier this summer and today I picked it up! I fucking love it. There I said it. That's just me and my noble hound, Detonator Love Crusader, my Deputy Dog. Jenny told me she always sees me in a red bathing suit in her mind. I'll take it. AMERICA!Oxonians, please go by the The Ole Miss Motel in October to see Jenny featured in the Motel Art Show Series. Buy her work! I got a sneak peek today and it's rockafire.
Americana Super Girl - Jun 21, 12
- Jun 21, 12If this isn't fancy I don't know what is. That's my portrait of Kim Kardashian (I did in lieu of a research paper for my 20th c. art history class at scad) that I gave to my friend Graham Ford a while ago. He's at the Big House at Camp Brattom-Green for the summer, serving on Permanent Staff. Kim went with. An honor.
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- Jun 21, 12Local part planner and all-around cool lady Karen Neal-Smith asked me to do silhouettes at her daughter Ashley Grace's 10th birthday last Saturday. There were 16 total. In other news, still working on getting the feeling back in my right thumb, but the gig justified buying an x-acto kit akin to amateur surgery.
- Jun 17, 12It's summer, so that means puppy portraits and surfing movies. I need to look at Kate Bosworth in Blue Crush as much as it is necessary to either become her magically or feel motivated enough to work out. Don't watch the terrible CGI face job at the end. Plus, Frankie Avalon and Anette Funicello have been the model relationship for me since I was 6.Shred on.
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- Jun 14, 12Are our new best friend at art lessons. I've been making all my students use them. Today, Harper suggested a less literal approach. A lot of the lil' art I'll post from this week was made with slick stix. I'll be buying *a lot* more. Today was clearly about beauty, we also trimmed Harper's hair.
two different takes on showing off lipstick. fave. look at that mug. every time we took a pic I was under the impression that "this time we would smile." no dice. - Jun 13, 12I just got around to watching the 5th season premier of True Blood, one of my ultimate faves. I started the books last year--total guilty pleasure, because they're nothing like the HBO series, I listen to books while I paint and Johanna Parker's voice is perf so sue me--enough self defense. Anyway, I know it's about 5 years late, but I've always admired the custom type they use in the title sequence. I've written before about my love for "hand-built" (I like that better than hand-written) type.Mimicking is one of the primary ways of learning, and I always obsessed about copying things when I was young: first the Looney Tunes cartoons (don't worry I submitted a tall stack to my 1st grade art teacher before the school year began so she knew I wasn't there to dick around), then the Archie Comics, then Spider-Man, then holy shit Space Jam, illustrations in magazines (does anyone remember GIRL magazine?), then onto fine art and carrying around Drawing the Head & Figure by Jack Hamm and his naked wife and drawing naked women constantly (one of the many reasons I've given my parents to question my heterosexuality), and also trying to replicate common typefaces. See, I'm not a doodler, I never have been able to understand how people "doodle" casually. Maybe I'm not creative or free enough? It's very likely. So when I see an unfamiliar typeface I automatically try to dissect and replicate it. I like type so much because it has a method, but that method is unique to each set of type. There are literally rules upon rules within type sets, and the challenge of recognizing, interpreting, and adhering to those on my own is fun for me. If people enjoy Sudoku I can enjoy this. But I'll never perfectly emulate most of it, because I'll never be a press or a computer no matter how much I empathize with robots.Camm Rowland is the hirsute stud behind the True Blade and True Gothic typefaces that come together for the title graphics. I mean, you can google this guy and find stuff other people have said, or you can go to his site which is literally just this? Draw your own conclusions. I interpreted the style as something derived from the kind of hand-made signage you see in rural spots that is usually found outside tiny businesses and I always think of the owner's brother or someone painstakingly drawing out their sign. It's so unique because it seems to me like it takes a drawing from an adult that doesn't draw, or at least not professionally, and makes it necessary, important, public, and permanent. Doing my homework I read that Rowland did base True Blade/Gothic off of amateur roadside signage.In addition to the text, the imagery in the opening sequence is magical, creepy, gross, cozy, familiar, ordinary, sexy, dark, earnest, spiritual, cynical etc. All adjectives that fall under the Southern Gothic genre. It's so nuanced, for example: aren't the glow sticks brilliant? I don't know how much of this was deliberate and how much was just observed and documented because this is a pretty stone-cold pack of genius Yankee nerds that made it. And I appreciate it that they never leaned on New Orleans-y "things" to explain the cultural identity of northern Louisiana, because they don't transfer. The piece is filmed in a zillion different formats, and until I watched the making-of clip I presumed they used archival footage in the mix. Also the choice to resist using high-falootin' techno wizardry is timeless. The team behind it, Rama Allen, Matt Mulder, Shawn Fedorchuk, and Camm Rowland, also did the opening sequences for Six Feet Under and Dexter, which are also wonderful. Total duh.
Sometimes when I'm waitressing I pretend I'm Sookie Stackhouse. Don't judge. It helps me get by. - Jun 13, 12
Ron English, McSupersized Devil Toy, 2011, vinyl figure I've been eating too much McDonald's lately. Like...often. Very often. Anytime I'm working in the studio and then I realize I'm hungry I put forth zero effort and just get McDonald's. No bueno.Ron English, Cowgirl McDonald's, 2005, oil on canvas - Jun 10, 12
Andreas N. Fischer's "generative prints"
Schwarm (blau) 90 x 60 cm Schwarm (violett), 90 x 60 cm Schwarm (rot), 90 x 60 cm These are all "lambda prints," which I had never heard of, so I looked it up and now I understand even less.Then I just said to my laptop "what does this all mean???" and it sent me to a quote from Fischer."The software uses a swarm of particles to gradually create an abstract composition based on a series of photographs," writes the artist. "The drawing agents behave according to a set of rules, but have a degree of autonomy. Each time the software is being run it produces an infinite sequence of unique images over time."This is from a brief write up Neil Simonton did for SHFT and while he helps me out, he too seems a little mystified as to what exactly happens. Fischer basically created his own software that manipulates particles and photographs them. The manipulation is tracked? And creates a drawing/line? Each sequence is unique but autonomous...either way, it's gorgeous.
And now we're all slouches for not creating our own custom software to make our art of the future.
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