Owl box

Repost 30 april 2010

While I'm quite busy with several assignments I manage to make some time for special projects for myself too! In this case it's making a tiny painting on a small box. For my birthday I got a gift voucher from dear friends, it was for a tiny shop with all kinds of craft supplies. There I found wonderful boxes made of some kind of dark paper and bought one. I had it standing on my desk for quite some time because I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with it. But then I had it! I decided to paint an owl on it. I made an illustration of a cool one some time ago (even if I say so myself) and decided to try to get it on. The drawing was quite big (A4 size) and the box was only 10x10cm. So I downsized the whole thing and got it on the box. I still have this old fashioned way of doing so; I have the drawing I want on a piece of paper, then I make the back of the paper grey with soft pencil. I put it on the box and then I retrace the lines with a fineline hard pencil so that the pencil from the back will be pushed onto the box!

Maquette no. 3, still Audrey though..

Repost from 25 feb 2010

For my graduation in 2008 I made an exposition about Audrey Hepburn. I love her.

I had the great luck that at the same time I started working on the assignment, Jan van Toorn and Els Kuijpers gave guestlessons on how to make a good exhibition. It wasn't my year, but I could join in. It made a huge difference. Somehow I was tempted to make some kind of time line thing out of it, it does sound logical at first doesn't it. You would be walking around in Audrey's life as if you were living it. It can be nice, if its a reasoned choice. I learned to look at what is the essence of the subject. The subject and goal of the exhibition became to show her as a woman and as an icon.

Eventually my scheme looked like this:

The most important aspect of the exhibition is A, the ones after that are B, you can also have C's, but I didn't. In this case the A was about the passions that Audrey Hepburn had. (Note: all of these things are as I interpreted them after reading about her, unfortunately (and of course) I never met her). Those passions were her family, children, friends, husband(s) and pets. I felt like they were closest to her, the most important thing in her life and it should have the most prominent spot in the exhibition.