Here are some more shots of my set up for assessment. The set of four photographs seen in the above and below images were taken on my kitchen floor after…
Here are some shots of the installation for my final assessment. I decided to install the five small pinatas as if they had been busted open already and cut trapdoors…
After many setbacks, including getting sick with different ailments twice in two weeks, I was finally able to book a lighting kit and video camera to make a video of…
If you’ll forgive my gratuitous use of Instagram filters, here are some photos from today. The first image shows the offcuts of hole-punched woodgrain-printed and gouache-painted Hosho paper, the second…
Here are the piñatas installed for the artist talk I gave in class. I cut open the belly of the Tasmanian devil piñata and attached some guts emerging from the…
A couple of images of the possum piñata.
Some images of guts-making. I printed some guts-colours onto Hosho paper and cut the coloured woodgrain into guts-shapes to go inside the piñatas.
When I had the idea to make these piñatas, the logical conclusion of the project seemed to be to smash them, as is the intended fate of any piñata made,…
From the top: The beginnings of a platypus, a possum, and a spotted quoll. Below, painting the possum and quoll, a new way of attaching the nylon line (threading it…
Before I had painted the piñatas black, I had cut small holes in their backs and threaded nylon line through for hanging purposes (I later realised that this step should…
To take a break from piñata making, I experimented with some electric engraving onto copper. I roughly drew some spider shapes onto the copper, using some photographs of tarantula exoskeletons…
After the papier-mâché had dried and the limbs, tails and ears had been made and stuck on, the next step in the making process was to paint the piñatas black.…
To make the bodies of the piñatas, I applied strips of newspaper soaked in a mixture of PVA glue and water over a form made of balloons taped together. Approximately…
I visited the Melbourne Museum for some three-dimensional reference material and inspiration. The room full of taxidermied animals there is amazing and pretty creepy at the same time. Here are…
This semester, as part of my proposed project, I will be making some piñatas based on Australian native animals. The piñata bodies will be made of papier maché, and instead…
Print Process: An Online Printmaking Process Log 