Here's a little Festive Frankie I knocked up with pen and watercolours this afternoon to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thanks a million to everybody who has contributed or visited this year and made this a very enjoyable project.
My daughter Jamie, who's 12, has also entered into the Christmas monster spirit, here's her Chrimbo Creature.
Thanks to friend of Patchwork, wiec? for this fantastic Christmas present. It's a miniature Frank portrait painted with acrylics on canvas. A very merry Christmas to you wiec? and all the regular visitors here.
My neighbour and fellow blogger Mondo does a regular podcast with his mucker Piley called Podrophenia. For their Xmas broadcast they asked me to join in, choose a couple of festive nuggets and blather on about Christmas related nonsense. If you fancy checking it out for a few Christmas tunes you aren't likely to hear anywhere else this Chrimbo, go here.
Big thanks to Susie Garner for setting this as a project to her illustration students, the results have been superb. So here are the final two submissions from Mesa State College.
"Attempting Normalcy While Maintaining Some Monstrosity" by Lance Williams Mesa State Colllege, Grand Junction, USA Josh Graham, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, USA
Wow, after a wait of almost a month, I've received a package of monsters in the mail. They come from Suzie Garner who is an art teacher at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA.
Suzie writes, "I gave this as an assignment to my sketchbook students. I gave them the cards and I told my students that I would pay the postage on their submissions if they wanted to participate. They have the option of keeping them too. Most of my students are typical college age around 21 to 23 I think. They tend to be at least 21 in that class since there are some prerequisites to get into the course. So they are juniors and seniors typically. The class itself is called "ARTS 360 Sketchbook"
The first submission is Suzie's own, followed by a selection of works that she sent me as email attachments. These are the cards that her students decided to keep I think, as they were not in the envelope I received today. I will scan the cards that arrived in the post and upload them over the course of the week.
Susie Garner "Homage to Karloff's Monster" Molly McGrath
Thanks to Chocolategirl64 who tagged me ~ I have to pass this tag to fellow bloggers who love the same music I do.
Rules are:
1. You have to post a song that makes you happy. 2. You can tag as many people as you want, there is no limit. 3. Say at least one thing about each blog you tag, that will make them smile, something nice about their blog that makes you smile when you read it!
I saw The Death Set at The Railway earlier this year, it was one of the smallest turn-outs I've ever seen at a gig but the band gave it absolutely everything and it was a brilliant night. I defy you not to be singing this for days after you've listened to it a couple of times. Great vid too.
The blogs I'm gonna tag are: Iron Leg - good tunes guaranteed, especially if you dig a bit of 60s garage/ psyche.
David Lee Ingersoll has been posting a step by step guide to how he created the eight part card set submitted here. For those of you who haven't seen it, you really should, here is the link. David actually carried on working on the piece in Photoshop after he had it sent it in so I have asked him if I can share the finished piece with you.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed, left comments or just visited "A Patchwork Of Flesh" since I started it in April. Today we have passed the 10,000 unique visitors which is fantastic.
Here are a couple of prints that I have done with the lino cut I previously used for rubbings in gallery 96. I printed them with acrylic paints and tidied them up with a Sharpie, the paint gave some interesting textures but overall I think I prefer the effect I got using the lino cuts for rubbings. Hope you all have an enjoyable Halloween.
David Lee Ingersoll, Seattle,USA (Marker and coloured pencil) skook.blogspot.com The postman has just been and I've got the last piece, so here it is: ......and here is the grand unveiling of the complete piece. A huge thanks to David for a beautiful piece of work, I'm sure you'll all agree. Please visit Gallery 57 to check out David's other wonderful submissions.
David Lee Ingersoll, Seattle,USA (Marker and coloured pencil) skook.blogspot.com The penultimate piece, are we looking at a two-headed monster? Time will tell, not too long hopefully, it all depends on the UK post strike we are suffering at the moment.
David Lee Ingersoll, Seattle,USA (Marker and coloured pencil) skook.blogspot.com Part six today, part seven has arrived too and will be up tomorrow so we are just waiting on the final piece of the jigsaw.
Laurie Ljubojevic, Tokyo, Japan (Acrylic paint dots on found card) ...la dotiste
Laurie is a visual artist who dots paper (both found and handmade) by placing tiny dots of acrylic paint on the surface and by puncturing through the paper with pins & needles.
It's the hundredth gallery today and while the amount of submissions has definitely declined, the quality remains very high. We are seeing artists sending in second and third cards as they think of new ways of illustrating the monster.
Part 4 of David Lee Ingersoll's eight-part thriller, Seattle,USA (Marker and coloured pencil) skook.blogspot.com
David Lee Ingersoll, Seattle,USA (Marker and coloured pencil) skook.blogspot.com
The second piece of the puzzle has arrived. Actually, the number on the back is #1, so the first piece of the puzzle has arrived second. Work that one out! I've got a feeling my initial guess about the card in gallery 97 being a leg was spot on because this sure looks like it's partner. Once the whole collection has made it's appearance, I will photograph the lot together and post them to a gallery of their own.
David Lee Ingersoll, Seattle,USA (Marker and coloured pencil) skook.blogspot.com
David, this one intrigues me because I'm not sure what I'm looking at. It looks like flames at the bottom and them almost looks like a green knee hanging out of a torn black drainpipe jeans leg. Forgive my ignorance but the more I look at it, the more it sucks me in. Leave a comment and let me know how far out I am with my interpretation, and even if I have published your card the correct way up as I have just turned it over and it looks like flaming buildings now. Anybody else care to leave their opinions please do, it may be that I am missing the blindingly obvious!
Frankenstein Monster Jack-o-lantern by Mr Cavin, Washington DC, USA (carved from three bell peppers) Mr Cavin emailed me this photo which I thought I'd share with you all, genius!
Check out my new blog Sleevie Wonders for a new art project that I hope you will take to your collective bosoms as enthusiastically as "A Patchwork Of Flesh". Come and visit and let me know your thoughts.
"Frankie-stein" by Jason Garrattley, Birmingham, UK (Coloured pencil) Kirby-Vision Between Clark and Hilldale "Spongebob Frankenpants" by Eden Garrattley, age 7 (Pencil and felt tip pen)
I am attempting to amass a large collection of portraits of Frankenstein's Monster in as many different styles and in as many different media as possible as an ongoing art project. The only stipulation is that the size is 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches (standard artist trading card size) and that each card has name, date, title and anything else you care to add on the back.
I welcome cards from both amateur and professional artists.
I will be leaving blank cards with instructions and mailing address in galleries, colleges, art shops, on buses, handing them out in the street and wherever else I can think of.
If you are reading this and would like to get involved, please send a portrait to:
A Patchwork Of Flesh 45 Silversea Drive Westcliff on Sea Essex SS0 9XD United Kingdom
Each card I receive will be uploaded here to produce an on-line gallery, I then hope to put on an exhibition of these cards in a gallery.
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