Jules Verne: Atlantis Revisited (again)

One of my illustrators (Guy Horton aka Moskon of the not so famous Moskon Review) who illustrated this toy theatre (paid him $1,500) also does comics, and this is an example of his work below which I have also used to incorporate into the sunken city of Atlantis.

Here is his comic which he did while doing my Jules Verne 20K Leagues Under the Sea drawings.

What I have done is used some of his work (I did get his permission) like the Mermaid, the fish and the divers to add into my latest Atlantis scene (again artistic licence).

Atlantis Scene: Jule Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Gradually getting the last of my toy theatres scenes finally finished. It takes me awhile as I need to have the inspiration and get up and go to start the altering of these scenes.

In the meantime enjoy what I've done (I'll have some other photos soon to put up) but these will do for now.

I'm not sure about the acetate background to the first panel, it kind of almost looks like the diver has a halo. I may yet re-alter that.

These images  below were before shots with the acetate not cut into.

Revisited Nautilus

I know I can't put these toy theatres down. So here I am again, at it, festooning the 'Inside the Nautilus' scene, yet once again. Here you may see that I've added a little lamp (and yes it will go on once I get the electrics sorted). Plus a top with another gramophone on top of it (he did like music right?).

So enjoy.

Skins made from gels for digital prints

Yesterday was a day of retail therapy, spent way too much money on books and art supplies at my regular art store here in Auckland (Gordon Harris).

So after $$$$ later I looked over my purchases where I had acquired a number of shellac inks - yes folks I'm going to give comicing a try in my own sort of art journalled way (so stay tuned for that).

Anyway this post I have labelled under visual diary as it gives you an idea how you can use your visual diary (being different from an art journal, as people often ask me what is the difference). For me the art journal is for your works of art in your journal, whereas the visual diary is for documenting any ideas, sampling colours, textures, techniques etc which then can be transferred later into your art journal. So that is my take on it.

So here we go a page out of my latest visual diary where I have made skins for digital prints. These were made using Golden gels.

So what I have done is used glass bead gel for a non-porous surface, acrylic ground for pastels (digital ground clear gloss), fibre paste (digital ground white - matte), fluid interference (digital ground for non porous surfaces), gel topcoat with UVLS (semi gloss) (that is using Digital Ground clear gloss), and finally made tar gel with mica (using Digital Ground for Non Porous Surfaces).

So now it's a matter of using images via the computer and then printing them on to these skins I have made. They are quite thin.