Art Post: Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird (Gavia immer)

[radiantfracture]

Because when I make fan art, I like it to be as obscure as possible

Sure, it looks like a linocut of a loon but really it's a symbol of queer hockey transcendence



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[ETA: I want to use some of the shimmering ink* to create the iridescent effect of the black feathers and to do the red eye -- painting ink on overtop of the print didn't do what I wanted, so maybe painting it right onto the printing block somehow?]

* specifically, Octopus Fluids' Witch, pine green with purple sheen

Comments

[radiantfracture]

have I ranted at you about David Blackwood

No! Please do so immediately. I love your art rants. And I think the strategies would be similar, right? Layering, etc.? Tell me more.

[sabotabby]

Just look at it! The website doesn't do it justice—the prints are very shimmery.

From what I can tell, it's just 10 or so layers of different colours. There's a documentary, though I haven't seen it.

[radiantfracture]

I have some sparkly gouache my mother gave me for Christmas one year that I have never found a use for because I'm too Serious to make sparkly art. But if that dude can do it, maybe I've been missing out all this time.

[sabotabby]

There is nothing unserious about Sparkly.

[radiantfracture]

Thank god I learned in time

[radiantfracture]

Well, I now have a bunch of green-gold loons drying around my house waiting for the second layer to be put on top, and it is your fault.

[sabotabby]

Sorry/not sorry.