pixels, light and hot wax

Maybe it’s just all the summer flowers in bloom, but I started making my floral space whimsy pieces again and I’m not inclined to stop. Here’s how the latest one evolved:
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I took the dandelion photos that are the core of this piece in 2006, with the intention to make pretty much exactly this piece (it was the height of the “Space Whimsy” period in my sketchbook). Why it has taken 3 years, I don’t know; it certainly isn’t the piece that I sat down to work on tonight in my chunk of free time.

There will probably be some tweaks in the printing stage, and I may still decide to swap out the digitally rendered grass for real grass, but for now, I will not touch it further, less it decides (like every other piece I’ve touched tonight) that it wants to be something hard and profound instead of sweetly silly and content:

(Okay, you probably can’t see the changes I made at web resolution, but at the full size print, you can. Or at least, I can.)

Atlantis VOGUE
2007 J. E. Patterson
Model: Anna
Clothing and Styling: Anna/Miss Velvet
Accessories: Seattle Aquarium
LE prints available

Elemental: City
2007 J. E. Patterson
Model: Jaime
LE prints available

If you are heading to Boskone 44, check out the Mike Ford Auction & Extravanganza. They picked “Throne of Fey” (which is one of my most popular pieces) as the piece of mine they’d like to have for the auction, and it’s the first time it’s been seen on that half of the continent in years (and probably won’t be again for quite some time, as I’ve pretty much stopped doing mail-in sf cons past the continental divide), so if you like it, buy it for a good cause.

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It’s matted to 8×10 in a complementary acid-free lilac mat for easy framing.

Not going to Boskone? Buy any one of my pieces OR commission a new one (via Jeliza.net, jeliza.etsy.com, e-mail, phone) through the end of March and tell me it’s for Dr. Mike, and I will donate 15% of the price to the John M. Ford Memorial Book Endowment.

Well, I’m not on the cover, Anna is. But I created it. This is an almost-done work-in-progress, done entirely in or as homework for the two weekend workshop on visual stories I just took with David Julian, which *rocked*.

Model: Anna.

Clothing: also by Anna.
Accessories provided by the Seattle Aquarium

More coming! I haven’t been this productive in a short period time since, oh, I had to put together my thesis show. Aren’t deadlines wonderful?

This piece has been stuck at work in progress for close to a year now; with the inspiration from the workshop I’m taking with David Julian at Luminous Works, I decided to bring it back out and whale on it a bit, adding a lot more color and complexity.

Model is Jaime.

There is still something I’m not happy with in the relationship of the figure to the rest of the piece, and I’ve lost all hope that my Elements series is going to be visually cohesive. Then again, if I only finish a new one every 18 months, does that really matter? (I have *sketches* for at least 5 more, but casting, scouting locations, and everything else in my very tight schedule means, well, prolific I am not.)

As promised, I have done an online version of the talk I gave on the history of Fantasy Photography at Orycon. Unfortunately, I’m still having a lot of technical difficulty, so instead of the full talk, you get the slides with the a slightly fleshed skeleton of the outline I talk from. It is in a quicktime movie format, and it can be downloaded from this link: fantasy photography historical slideshow. It’s 4 MB.

The handout (in PDF form) is also available.

Since both were obviously intended to presented in a larger context, I am happy to answer questions about the vaguer points in the material. Comment here, or e-mail to jane AT JEPphoto.com

The piece I donated (Floral System II, in a gorgeous metallic gold mat) to Jay Lake‘s charity auctionlet is now up for bids on eBay, and with a starting bid of $20, a total steal.

The deadline for Christmas orders is December 18th, and depending on your location, that may involve an extra charge for rush shipping.

I will be showing at the Artspawn Open Studio Party, in Woodinville, on the 9th and 10th, from 11 am – 5 pm along with artist-in-residence Lisa Sheets

(collage)

Joe Lee Davidson

(acrylic on canvas)

and Alma Chaney:

(acrylic on canvas)

And I’m really excited about it!

I will primarily be showing work from the Space Whimsy series, but possibly also some of the newer mixed-media body pieces.

Artspawn Studios
13931 Bear Creek Rd
Woodinville, WA 98077
425 881-2192
lisa@artspawn.org

Stop by to share in art, food and conversation. See Artspawn’s new facility!

Just in time for Orycon, Cosmic Cat comes out to play.