I got a new scanner. So I figured it was high time to scan some of the little characters I make for use in collages. I've been making these for a few years now. Cutting pictures out of books, usually Golden Nature Guides, and combining them together. Typically they end up as elements in a larger collage/drawing, but sometimes I just can't bring myself to glue them down. I've had a few for over a year now, and I don't know when they'll find a home.
I decided that in the meantime I should scan them, and share them on flickr. I feel weird about scanning. It's very important to me that these are real paper, not Photoshop creations. Maybe that's part of why it's hard to glue them down, I like to hold them, to know that while they are images, they're also paper, which is a tactile object. Anyway, for better or worse, I scanned them. You can look at the flickr photo set here. I've also included a few below:
oh man! i really love that bat! it's the animal of my dreams!
wow! they look great
hey. these are nice. i like the size they are on screen. also, interesting how they seem to peel off the screen. and, i noted that your cutting skill.
on another note, have you seen the shaggy dog? another worst movie ever, but in that terrible movie there are some nice hybrids, all mixed with shaggy dog, but they remind me of this work or maybe it's the other way around.
I do some collage work too and run into the same problems with ceartain little creatures. I sort of do sculptural collage as well. It's hard not to anthropomorphise ceartian little cut outs that just twitter with personality. It's like I'd feel bad if they ended up pasted down in a home they wern't comfortable in...
those are great Kevin - do you have photos of your larger collage/drawing work posted anywhere?