Illustration Friday: Wild

Go Wild!!!

This is a sketch from the book I have been busy illustrating. Hope to get to show you the finals soon.

Into the Woods: backdrop painted

My brilliant friend Carole Kim and I tackled painting the backdrops yesterday.  She rocked the foreground foliage canopy and I painted the 10x20 forest backdrop.  I haven't painted on this scale in a while, and to do it all within a few hours was so fun. 

looking forward to seeing them hanging in the theater!

Into the woods: Woods progress

Three of the flat panels for the set and the three trees on white will stand alone on the stage in the foreground. 

Illustration Friday:Urban

I pulled this one from the Autohomography archives.  Autohomography is a series that looks at my life story through houses I have lived in.  This was my most urban home, and I thought fit the topic for the week. This was my warehouse in dowtown Los Angeles in the late nineties until spring 2000. It housed myself a few artist friends, our dog, a gallery, live music, indie film premiers, a rubber fashion company.

Such a short life this space had, but so very many wonderful things happened here.

more set progress: Into the woods

left cinderella's, center Jacks, right the Bakers house. Set Flats.

And the woods. in progress.

Progress: Baker's house and Cinderella's houserProgress on Set Designs

Baker's house 4.5 x 7 ft flats for "Into the Woods"

Cinderella's house 4.5 x 7 ft flats for "Into the Woods"

Illustration Friday: Egg

This Egg cottage is an idea for a theater set panel I am currently working on, the eggs will not remain in the final, but for now they were fun to include as I test out compositions.


This drawing is typical of my current working format, I draw traditionally, ink and colored pencil, then scan and manipulate.  I will include another version of the drawing that was a straight scan before I changed the composition.

Thank you for stopping by to see what I am up to!

Illustration Friday: Swim

You may have seen an earlier version of this.  This is still not quite final but it is from the book I have been working on for a while now as a side project. The book follows a dad who loves being a dad, morphing into various things for the sake of his kids (and his own fun).  We are in the final pre-flight stages and I am excited to get to share this with you.

Illustration Friday: Eye Glasses

Beware the Wolf in Disguise.  IF:Eyeglasses

My friend recently took a picture of my son wearing his self created wolf hat.  I just got to see the picture today and was reminded of the theme for the week, not that my son was wearing or does wear glasses, but the idea of a sort of clark kent disguise for a wolf man popped into mind and here we are.

I have been very busy finishing final illustrations for a book, prepping for the most recent artnight here in Pasadena (if you want to see what I did please check my other blog http://aliciago.blogspot.com/ the first two posts have pics and info) and caring for my little guy who has been at home sick for more than two weeks now. He is finally feeling better and I am so happy.

To my IF friends, although I haven't had time to post or comment I have been trying to keep up with what your doing.  I have seen some great work and look forward to checking in again!

You are invited! Artnight @ the Armory

 

 

 

 

ArtNight @ The Armory Art Center - Connections 

6-10pm Friday March 8th, 2013

145 N Raymond Ave.

Pasadena, California

You are invited to enter a multidisciplinary collaboration exploring connections through
live music, 30 ft of projections, photography, and drawings featuring the work of

Buddy Zapata’s Junkshop Republic (music)
Kat Roberts (photography)
and myself
Alicia Gorecki (drawings, large scale prints, and video animation)
The work focuses in on local architectural bridges and support structures through the eye of each local artist.

Bridge: a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or phase between two adjacent elements, activities, conditions, or the like.
For those of you unfamiliar with ArtNight in Pasadena, it is an amazing night out.

Local museums, galleries, performing arts venues and other locations have work on view from fine art to performing arts and music, the variety of work and performers is incredibly diverse and suitable for audiences of all ages depending on the site.
It is all free and shuttles are available to take you from location to location, just make sure you stop by and connect with us at the Armory! (Did I mention there is also FREE BEER?)
Related websites

Buddy Zapata's Junkshop Republic
 www.facebook.com/BuddyZapatasJunkshopRepublic

Mine
www.aliciagorecki.com

Kat Roberts
www.flickr.com/helenahandbasket

and
A BIG thank you to my brother Aaron Gorecki www.mosquitocurtains.com for fabricating the Projection screens

Event Facebook page (public you don't need an account)
https://www.facebook.com/events/394807600614775/

and the general artnight page
http://www.artnightpasadena.org/