"A Meal For One"

Progress.

"Taste this, it's terrible"

I am making progress on my poetry book. Here is what I've got in terms of the illustrations so far:

(cover)

("Brushing my teeth")

("December 3, 2010)"

("A haiku")

(All images copyright Amanda Russel, 2011)

Progress, Frida, and Some More Sketchbook Stuff

Currently working on this for a composition class; it's slow and frustrating, but it's headed in the right direction. Gouache on canvas.

I am continuing to draw inspiration from Frida Kahlo, which led me to do these colored pencil and gouache portraits:

And, here are a few recent samples from my neverending sketchbook. Someday I plan to compile all the artwork I've done based on screenshots from Vera Chytilová's 1966 film Daisies. 

(all images copyright Amanda Russel,  2011)

"Wake Up"

I finally finished it!

"Wake Up," ink, gouache and newspaper on canvas.

(copyright 2011 Amanda Russel)

On the bright side,

(watercolor, ink, microns) copyright 2010 Amanda Russel

PREVIEW.

Progress shot of what I'm working on:

Home.

I am no longer in the hospital, as of two weeks ago!
Aside from some portraits, I have still been busy filling my sketchbook.

("Spinal," graphite and ink on paper, copyright 2011 Amanda Russel)

(copyright 2011 Amanda Russel)

(copyright 2011 Amanda Russel)

I've been writing poems, for my Narrative Image class- I was able to get an incomplete and turn in my final project late, due to my illness. My proposed final project was a book of poems, written and illustrated by me.

 I've been through a lot in the past month and I've been attempting to work through some of it via poetry, but it's a slow and sometimes overwhelming process. The first image in this post- "spinal"- is something I think I'm going to use for my book. It needs more work, but I think it might make a good cover. 

I've also got to re-learn how to bookbind. I would like to handmake this poetry book.