Wednesday, November 24, 2010
The Bone Tree Project
A made a tree of bones for a school project. Years ago he broke his arm - the inspiration for this project. It was more work than expected but turned out well. Here's the final result (click for a big picture):
There were many steps. First step, find butchers that actually have large bones that haven't been cut up. A was lucky to have a few generous butchers supply bones from veal, beef, pork, lamb and venison. Plus A had some chicken bones:
Step 2: Remove all meat, fat, tendons, etc from bones. About 4 hours of boiling in pots with borax and lots of scraping (Mom and dad helped with the scraping):
Then on to assembly. Some problems here: glue didn't hold the bones together, and couldn't figure out a to create a wire structure. But some experiments with wood screws seemed to work OK on the big bones. Then reverse for the small bones - screws split the small bones but glue seemed to work for them.
There were many steps. First step, find butchers that actually have large bones that haven't been cut up. A was lucky to have a few generous butchers supply bones from veal, beef, pork, lamb and venison. Plus A had some chicken bones:
Step 2: Remove all meat, fat, tendons, etc from bones. About 4 hours of boiling in pots with borax and lots of scraping (Mom and dad helped with the scraping):
Then on to assembly. Some problems here: glue didn't hold the bones together, and couldn't figure out a to create a wire structure. But some experiments with wood screws seemed to work OK on the big bones. Then reverse for the small bones - screws split the small bones but glue seemed to work for them.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Un Jour Dans la Vie de Petit Nicolas
Hi, this is a new comic A. did for a school book report. The book is called "le Petit Nicolas a des ennuis" and is about a young french school boy who is always getting in trouble (the book is in french due to the fact H. and A. are in french imersion). This comic has no french writing (excluding the title page) so you can understand. Enjoy!!!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Disney characters all grown up
H. has started a series of drawings using Disney characters as a starting point, but imaging what they might look like as adults. Can you guess which characters these are?
Friday, December 5, 2008
Dogness
We have a dog. A. did a whole bunch of caricatures of the dog while posing for treats, a few of which are below (click image for larger version). H. drew a dog in what must be every dog's ultimate temptation...
Loosy pen sketches
We've been watching video clips of Joann Sfar sketching in ink. A. has decided to give this a try with some pretty good results - tentative pencil lines are now committed ink lines. Here's a fictional sketch of a girl and a life drawing of a gumball machine:
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