fifi’s graffiti

for IF theme “skinny”
Recycled oldie from an altered book experiment.

I’ve been suffering with a cold and a considerable case of the blahs. My head hurts. I’m coughing. I think a lot about how I’m not making any progress on my art projects.
There was some beautiful light coming through the front window, so I assembled a few of my odd pieces of junk and […]

I’ve been searching through a lot of old digitized newspaper articles, and along with the text are lot of great old ads. Most of the graphics are obscured but you get the gist of what they represent. I found this old ad for “snake oil” and played around with photoshop to get a pattern on […]

variation on a sketch by Harry Clarke, 1919.

First spread, wherein Kubla decrees his will…..
I did this spread with a completely different background and ended up ripping out both pages and starting over. I saved a few elements and re-used them and this was the result. I had been trying to duplicate a cool background I saw in one of my art books […]

Sometimes it pays to get lost. You think you’re somewhere and then you think you’re not. Then you know you’re not. It can make you nuts, you know? Or it can make you change the way you look at things. That’s what happened when I took a wrong turn yesterday.
I started work on my first […]

It’s got a stinky name, but this pretty little bug is a good guy to have in your garden….maybe almost as good as ladybugs. I saw a tiny spot of red (less than 1/8 inch) moving among decomposing leaves and clods of mud and was able to get a few shots before I lost it. […]