Life is Art and whatnot.

Thursday, 30 January 2014

My cardboard + duct tape sculpture

Bearbot the Robobear is finished. The bear of the future. And I finally have the photos to prove it.

He's very photogenic. Click this link for the slideshow:

lifeisart-bearbot

He's come a long way from being some cardboard boxes from Home Depot.
As you can see in the slideshow, he even has a "mystery compartment."
(As do all bears of the future, I'm sure.)
The only problem is, he needs a new home.
He is very light, but also very sturdy. Unlike most bears, he is great for just being there to throw your coat on, or a sandwich.
Let me know if you are interested, or have any suggestions as to where he should end up...

All images © 2014 James Alfred Friesen

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

get to work!!!

My head is too full of too many things. it is about to explode.
I started this blog as an outlet to get said things out of my head.

But at this point, I have half a hundred things, half-ready, to half-post.

So there's a bottle neck in this process somewhere...

When I figure it out, I'll let you know...

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Sometimes I doodle on styrofoam cups. And so should you.

Wherever there are styrofoam cups, there is boredom.

Saturday, 11 January 2014

From my last Art Show...

New Monsters. Future People. ..was the title of this series of illustrations, from the last art show I participated in.

The theme of the show was, "Drawing Tomorrow", so naturally I drew these...

And the inspiration for it all is this sketch I did which I hope to turn into a rather large painting someday soon. So presumably this answers the question, "How do I feel about the future?"

Friday, 3 January 2014

Photographic Magic

Digital arts. Here are SOME of the results of my recent explorations of what can happen when I use just light as my paintbrush. I had taken a bunch of photos of lights a few years back that I started messing with. Mostly Christmas tree lights. The original photos themselves were rather fun. But I started flipping, reversing, and combining them together, and I think I see a great deal of potential here...

I had some comments about what I see in some of these, but I'd rather hear your interpretation- leave me a comment!

Like a Rorschach test- what do you see?

For some reason the style of this one reminds me of Bjork's Vespertine album...

Why put a bird on it when you can add a tree?
(Also, I have bunch of photos of trees and branches I've been doing stuff with... to be posted later )

(And this is the one you may have seen in my blog's background.)

The bad news is that I was working from photos off an old camera with a pretty low file size, so I'm not sure how big of prints I could get from these without doing some pretty creative upscaling. But I'm excited to see what I can do with the equipment I have now.

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Thursday, 2 January 2014

And then there were these...

Although most of these are also from a while back, they are among my more recent work. Of the literally severals of dozens of ideas for works that I have conceived and even sketched out, these are the few that I managed to make time for over the last 5 years. But this is just the beginning. The arts pump has been primed. Arts time will be made. Art will march on. I shall call it Artsmarch.

Art Imitates Art and other surprises, 36x30, acyrlic

Hot Pink (the hazards of painting), 36x36, acrylic and graphite

Release, 36x24, acrylic

Blue Jesus Playing a Green Sitar, 18x24, acrylic

Tuesday, 31 December 2013

START WITH THE OLD...

NOBODY can say that I didn't post these old paintings. not anymore. Some of these go back about fifteen years, but I figured they should be archived somewhere...

Do this in Rememberance of me, 36x30 acrylic