Monday, February 26, 2007

Life Sketches: Traced Image






I was inspired recently to start sketching more in day to day life, especially subject matter which moves quickly and is hard to capture. I'll post more here as I do more.

This is from Saturday night when I went to hear a band called Traced Image.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Communication


©2002 Bethany Vanderputten
Medium: Acrylic + FW Ink on Gessoed Denim

I created this illustration for TEC Calgary in 2002 as part of a series of 10 banners which convey the topics of talks like "Who am I?", "Friendship", "Communication", etc. They were all sewn into banners with various colors of matting and these were hung on wooden dowling with a thick cord attached. (See example to the left). This banner was created for the talk entitled 'Communication'.

The following is an example of a preliminary sketch for this piece: