Author: kirsti
outside the studio/inside the studio
Young buck outside the studio yesterday.
An old tube of acrylic from my grandma’s stash. Note the warning on the label.
WIP – Night
Night [detail] | charcoal on canvas
Announcing – Seymour Art Festival exhibition
I don’t usually show my work, but I’ll have a few pieces of art in a group show at the Seymour Art Gallery, during the Seymour Art Festival.
I’ll be exhibiting work with a few friends of mine (Rachael Ashe, Cynthia Nugent and Robi Smith) and our show slot is from June 7-12th. Short!
More details in the Seymour Art Festival brochure: (download the pdf).
WIP – gold, silver and copper forest
My grandma worked a lot on metal leaf (oil on gold and silver leaf)- often large scale screens, like this crane screen which is 6′ tall by 12′ long. I’ve always wanted to try it. Of course the stuff I’m using is the inexpensive composite metal – which is a good thing because it took me a long time and many ruined sheets before I got it to work they way I wanted it to. My squares are still really wonky – after working with this stuff I can appreciate how much work my grandma put into the preparation for the background of her screens. And my piece is only 11″ x 16″.
Sketchbook – medium test
More medium and materials tests:
acrylic (kroma), watercolour, metal leaf, ink, kroma crackle, acrylic fluid medium (also kroma) on panel.
Sketchbook – The Garden medium test
A medium and technique test using an old illustration.
mixed media on wood panel (metal leaf, acrylic, matte medium, laser prints)
WIP – The Frog Prince
The Frog Prince [details] | Charcoal, gold leaf on canvas.
Today’s the day…
…to vote. Canada is 100% worth it.
New inactive hidden stranger
I’m designing a new exhibition with Resolve Design, for the Museum of Vancouver. Here’s a hint (more details to follow):
Every word has a rhythm
The process of type design, the need for better client culture and for better design on government forms (yes!), how typography is like music, creative collaboration and more, all beautifully said:
Erik Spiekermann – Putting Back the Face into Typography from Gestalten on Vimeo.
I know this film has been blogged in lots of other places, but there are so many great things said in such a wonderful way that I couldn’t help but post it too.
(via www.swiss-miss.com)
WIP – design detail
.pencil on vellum
I’m working on a fun little design project right now – this is a detail of an early sketch.
Kirsti Wakelin 