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Music Waste 2010 – The Flyers

Justin — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:15:45 +0000

The boys in 1998creative have been working on a few things for this year’s Music Waste. You already saw the animation, now check out these flyers that they whipped up. They modeled the 2 designs after their favorite thing in the world: cheap beer (Pilsner and Pabst Blue Ribbon cans to be exact). The festival runs from June 2nd-5th of this year and happens at venues all over the city. Check the Music Waste website for more info.

Vive La Rose Paintings: Continuing Further Still

Justin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:35:15 +0000

It looks like Bruce is close to finishing some of these paintings. He’s switching it up as he goes, adding cold wax medium to a few of the paintings of the woman (steam moving over the extreme close-up of her eyes and nose bridge, for her whole body to differentiate it from the other figures in the piano scene and in her hair for the face close-up). He then dragged water-diluted india ink over the wax for a nice resist look. It appears as though the fish are getting fishier now, with indigo oil-bar line work watered with turpentine, plus a little ochre. You can see in the photos that the Vancouver Spring is shining through the windows giving the studio area around Bruce’s painting project a comfortable glow.

The finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound Symposium.

SKETCHES PART:009

Justin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:00:33 +0000

More sketches coming your way from Nathaniel Akin, Bruce Alcock, Michael Mann and Justin Longoz. It’s a veritable grab-bag of stylistic fun-a-ma-jigs! Take a look see:

Vive La Rose Paintings: Second Layers

Justin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:47:53 +0000

The Vive la Rose paintings are now starting to take shape. Bruce is working with his drybush, oil bars (also called oil sticks), and lots of turpentine. If only he’d remembered to open a window, he wouldn’t have gotten so lightheaded (and that goes for the rest of us who walked through the room. The dizziness was thick like a fog). Bruce says he’s trying to take it easy and go at a medium pace and that he’s loving the large scale of these canvases. More of the painting process will come as he finishes these beauties.

Again, when the paintings are finished, they will be showing (along with Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound Symposium.

SKETCHES PART:008

Justin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:45:30 +0000

Today we have new drawings from Bruce Alcock, Nathaniel Akin, Michael Mann and Justin Longoz.

Vive La Rose Paintings: Tests, Roughs, First Layers

Justin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:43:28 +0000

Bruce’s film is going to be in a gallery show! The Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound Symposium, will be showing selected artwork, props and set elements from Vive la Rose along with fifteen new 24×36 paintings of defining moments from the film.

This is the first in a series of work-in-progress postings bringing us from the beginning of Bruce’s painting process, to the finished product. We will be posting more photos as Bruce completes more of this project.

SKETCHES PART:007

Justin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:52:45 +0000

Welcome to the 7th sketches entry. Today we have sketches from Bruce Alcock, Nathaniel Akin, Michael Mann and Justin Longoz. Enjoy them because it’s one of the few things in life that’s that simple:

PAINT IT GRASS

Justin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:27:03 +0000

Recently, Chris Mckinlay (the other half of 1998) moved into a soon-to-be-destroyed house on Knight Street. He and his roommate James have fixed the place up quite nicely since they moved in, but you should have seen the place when they first got it. This should give you some perspective: I believe the only rule that his landlord gave them was, “No growing or selling drugs. Other than that, I don’t care what you do”. So Chris took that very seriously and we went to town thinking of some fun things we could do in his house. The first idea we had was to paint all over the walls. We thought it’d be fun to do a big mural in his kitchen. So I designed a mural idea (giant blades of grass and their root systems) and Chris and I just kind of went for it. I drew on the wall in pencil and then we painted it. We also thought it’d be fun if we did a time-lapse of us making the mural. Over the course of 4 days we planned and executed the project for your viewing pleasure:

and once the mural was finished, we had a party:

Stick around to see what else we do to Chris’ house in the near future.

-Justin

SKETCHES PART:006

Justin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:11:05 +0000

Hey again,

Welcome to the 6th SKETCHES installment. It’s been a while since our last illustration posting. We’ve been busy making short films and updating the global mechanic website. In any case, we’re back with more drawings from Bruce Alcock, Michael Mann, Nathaniel Akin and Justin Longoz. Please, I beg you, enjoy these:

Brent Bouchard Takes Us to the Doctor’s Office

Justin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:35:40 +0000

Global Mechanic’s own Brent Bouchard brings us a series of really really short films that take place in a doctor’s office. The timing on these is really great. I’m fond of the horse one myself. Take a look at the first 3 shorts in the series:

EPISODE 01

EPISODE 02

EPISODE 03

To see more of these shorts and some of Brent’s other work, visit his youtube page here or visit his vimeo page here (whichever you prefer). Be sure to check out his blog too.

-Justin