MONTHLY HEADER #72: ZENSEAVA

This Japanese artist has a fantastic blog that is very English friendly. Unbelievable amounts of clean YAMATO ship art with many variations on shapes there. The designs are also very well thought out. Nice.



































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3D mech walk cycle animation by Michael Herm

I know it's a bot but I'd like to post this work by Michael Herm of Talking Animals here as he was very cool to render this amazing walk cycle animation specifically for the blogs. Check his amazing video and more images as well as a turntable animation on conceptrobots.



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Harry Potter Papercraft: Death Eater Mask #9

With the release next month of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, the Harry Potter movie series will be at an end. To celebrate that bittersweet event, I am adding one final paper model to my Death Eater mask series. As usual, the download includes both full size and half size templates for the mask. Links to the previous eight Death Eater mask are located in the column at the left of the page. Thanks to everyone who has supported the mask series since I began in 2009.

Concept ships from BLAST by Scott Robertson

Our friend Scott Robertson is starting to release a few “work in progress” pages from his next book with Annis and Danny, titled BLAST. More to be posted on his blog over coming months. Yay!





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Antique Sports Car Papercraft Models

I am so impressed by the paper modeling work of Fabrizio Prudenziati that I decided to do a second post about his work! My first post featured his paper models of historic soldiers. For this post I want to highlight his automobile papercraft. Each of the highly detailed models above are at 1:24 scale. From the upper left going clockwise, pictured above are an Alpha Romeo, two American hot rod roadsters, and an Aston Martin. Each of these paper models is available here (a minimal donation is suggested for each download). Be sure sure to check out the papercraft ships, trains and WW2 airplanes while you are at Prudenziati's site!

Paper Models of Historic Soldiers

It is tough to find a quality paper model creator with the shear number of designs as Italian designer Fabrizio Prudenziati. Pictured above is a sampling of his eighty different paper models of historic soldiers available for download. Prudenziati's collection includes models of Medieval, Napoleonic, and Ancient soldiers, each at 90mm scale. And if that was not impressive enough, Prudenziati also offers downloads of excellent quality papercraft models of airplanes, architecture, ships, trains, cars, buses, and military vehicles. [via Papermau]

Mosaic Monday / UFO 's

At our last mosaic ATC card swap in May I was asking one of the artists what she was working on and she replied that she has a few Mosaic UfO's sitting around. I was very intrigued and immediately thought of the work of Eve Lynch.  When I pressed her for more details she informed me that UFO's are Un-Finished Objects.  I laughed out loud and was happy to discover this important new mosaic term ( thanks Theresa).

Above is a shot of a few of my current " UFO's". When I first started mosaics in 2007 I started on a really large crow mosaic, got half way through it  and then left it alone for over a year. I have since finished that project and now I have a few other unfinished works that are tugging at me. When I was new to mosaics I felt terrible when I would abandon one project to start another. As I have met more mosaic artists and seen how they work I have learned that this is a common pattern and not a character flaw. It has something to do with the time intensive nature of the medium.  Sometimes you get stuck and do not know what direction to go with a project and other times you just get bored and need to start on something new. At any rate I no longer beat myself up about unfinished objects.

Focus on what you "are" doing, not what is undone:
My goal for the year is to finish 14 new mosaics for an upcoming art show in September, take a mosaic class in Italy in the fall and then after a crazy busy holiday season here at Art Paw creating pet portraits I will tackle all of my unfinished fine art mosaic projects next January.


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Mosaics Around the Web.....

Check out Katrina Doran's blog on the 2nd Tuesday of each month for a step by step tutorial on creating large flower sculptures: http://katrinadoran.wordpress.com

Christine Brallier shares a post on making progress on her book! Follow along at : http://cbmosaics.blogspot.com
Keep up the good work Christine and hang in there! It is going to be great.

Eve Lynch has a call to artists for anyone wanting to donate a butterfly mosaic to a community project she is organizing.

Kim Grant's Blog: Kim did a recent post about Howard Grange.  I love Kim's blog because she writes from the heart and will even go off on an occasional rant. She very much has a journal style approach in her blogging.

Margo Antone has a blog where she posts tiny mosaics she creates in a Mosaic-a-day approach, much like the popular painting a day blogs.

Space Battleship Yamato concept art by Kazutaka Miyatake

Interesting article about Kazutaka Miyatake. Line work master!




















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Grand Theft Auto Papercraft

Igrandtheftauto.com has the self-confessed goal of becoming the ultimate resource for all things to do with the Grand Theft Auto series of video games. They just might be the ultimate resource for GTA papercraft as well! Pictured above are four of eighteen different paper models based on the Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars video game. Clockwise from the upper left corner are models of the Infernus, the Sabre GT, the Stallion, and my personal favorite, the Sum Yung Gai Noodle Van. The selection of GTA papercraft available includes not only cars but display stands for the cars, a dragon costume, character models, and weapon models. Check them all out here.

Pencil TV Paper Toy

In years past, I saw a toy television that made use of a scrolling screen to tell a story. Now, thanks to Stanislov Stankovic, you can watch movies on your own DIY paper toy TV. Inside the TV is a long strip of paper coiled around two pencils. As the pencils are rotated, movie scenes on the strip of paper parade by in chronological order on the "screen" of the TV. Currently, three different movies/TVs are available for download: Dirty Harry, Kill Bill (vol. 1), and Dr. Stranglelove. Stankoic also offers a blank template so you can create your own movies. All the TV paper toy fun can be downloaded here.

Nikolay Yeliseyev concept ship designs

nikyeliseyev.blogspot.com Check out Nikolay's robots and vehicles.









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Tate & Bijou

"Tate" ( see all proofs)
© rebecca collins / artpaw.com

"Bijou" ( see all proofs)
© rebecca collins / artpaw.com

This week I proofed Bijou & Tate. The summer heat is starting to zap my energy just a bit. Being inside working on pet portraits is about all that I want to do and yet I am also getting cabin fever. This weekend I am going to work on my mosaics and that should energize me.

What are you guys doing to beat the summer heat? I have a great video I will post soon of our dog Whitman playing in the water. He loves the water hose. When he was just a puppy I allowed him to get in the shower with me once and since then he has been totally fascinated with water. I like having a water dog. Big Tommy loved the water too.

Hover Car Racer Papercraft

Hover Car Racer is a free online novel that follows the exploits of a talented young racer named Jason Chaser who owns a hover car called Argonaut. This papercraft model of the Argonaut is based on a plastic model built by the writer of the novel, Matthew Reilly. Reilly created his original model by combining model kits of a Formula 1 race car and a fighter jet. The template for the hover car paper model may be downloaded here.

Concept spaceship illustrations by David Demaret

moonxels.blogspot.com





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Concept ships by Donald Yatomi

Donald's image portfolio on CGHub. Concept vehicle.





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Concept spaceship art by Pavel Mikhailenko

Pavel's CGSociety portfolio.





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Mosaic Monday / Scale baby Scale

Scale is such an impressive thing in art. This weekend we organized and cleaned out the garage. Dan spent a good amount of time un-stretching and rolling up some really huge paintings he did in college. I fell in love with several of them and wanted to hang a few however most are just way too large for any wall in our little bungalow. Yea, I am married to a tall painter that likes to paint really big.  I am drawn to larger works but have not had the courage to really tackle a huge mosaic yet.   

When I see large scale mosaics I am just blown away.

I have been meaning to share a cool site with you and a post I saw today fits right in with the subject of scale.  Check out Midcentura.com.  The mosaic below is by Spanish artist Josep Renau and it is made up of square tiles. I am usually not a fan of mosaics with perfectly shaped tiles all in the same size, but this work is just amazing.

If that piece does not impress maybe you will like the image below of a 10 story tall mosaic.

Read more at Midcentura.com

Ok so if you are a mosaic artist viewing this and thinking like I am well, "yea scale is cool but this is way out of my world of possibility" then please check out the work below by Barbara Keith. It is also very much out of my league but at 5 feet by 13 feet it is the sort of large scale mosaic that I can almost get my tiny brain around. She worked it in panels and that makes a lot of sense to me.

©2011  Barbara Benson Keith

You can read more, see wips and close ups of this outstanding large scale mosaic mural on Barbara's blog.  Way to go Barb! This piece is a real masterpiece and a work that will raise the bar for all mosaic artists.  I really love the way the panels vary in size, the subtle colors, the great use of contrast ... I just love everything about this work.

KH2 Papercraft: Disney Castle Treasure Chest

This papercraft treasure chest is based on a 3D model of a chest located in the Disney Castle area of the Kingdom Hearts 2 video game. My KH2 treasure chest offering for the month of June, this chest is the fifth to be released in my ongoing series. Unlike most of the other treasure chests, this chest has decorations on the inside. A download of the template for the chest is available here.