Weekly WRMHL 5/11

Phew - it's been almost a month since I last posted. This past month (and no doubt all of May) have been swamped. Been busy with finishing up a class for school, finishing personal artwork, and setting up a show with my wife at the gallery we are a part of - on top of just a handful of small projects that have added up.

Most of those things are behind me at long last, and I'm ready for another wave of to-do. Not sure why I do this to myself but I suppose it's better than just waitin' around to die.

Been working on making models towards my new Inq28 yarn that I've been spinning. Here is a Rogue Trader named Isadore Tilcott, captain of the "Starkloss" who procures rare books and objects for Inquisitor Selene as she hides away on Hasaresh 741. 

Here's one of his crew:

Here's a build shot of Isadore, the body is a bootleg delaque, arms are Wargames Atlantic pirates with some greenstuff work, and the head is a high elf head.

I've been working at a body of photography based on a local semi-abandoned factory:

And here's a few shots from the gallery, the space isn't huge but I fit what I could in there:

That's it for now, hope to be back next week with some more updates!

Love ya!

Weekly WRMHL 4/10

Just a little dump of things I've been working on to round out the week:

I've bashed up what will be a heavily moderated psyker for my (yet named) inquisitor's retinue:

Feels good to be at the work bench again building stuff after being singularly focused on BroPro. I've started painting him too, but that'll wait til later.

I'm hoping to have a post out documenting my board and build, but likely that will be a (free?) post on the patreon, so we'll get there when I can put it back together.

I've also been working on some xerox collages, trying some new things:

This last one will be displayed at my show at the end of this month. I am working with a local photography studio to enlarge it, and I'm excited to see what scale does to transform it.

I am sure I already have enough work for the show, but I'm trying to eek out one more artwork which will be similar to the upper lit corner in my Godling work - just larger.

We'll see!

Pce for now

Terry

Weekly WRMHL 3/20 and Daido Moriyama

This week's been a big work week for me, lots of projects at school that took most of my bandwidth. On top of that I've been working on my board and BBEG for the Brothers of Promethium 2 Event at Adepticon, but likely I will post all my process shots over on the HS patreon when that secret project is all wrapped up.

So since it's a short week, I figured I'd highlight anther longtime influence of mine, Daido Moriyama, a Japanese Street photographer I remember learning about on tumblr (ah those were the days.)

He's got a raw, quick, black and white high contrast thing that GRIPPED ME

It's hard to even start putting images in here because he has thousands to choose from, but I've got some highlights. He's a street photography god in my mind, and his working process is beautiful. The work itself is layered, textural and the iso (either film or digital) is CRANKED up.

I think what gets me the most is his work is very intuitive, he works with his gut first - and responds instinctively. With creative pursuits we sometimes think that toiling and focusing and struggling will make our work great, I think that working quickly captures ENERGY and excitement that overworking washes out.

Here's a great quote:

Think about what that means, not just for photography but for all artforms - our end goal isn't to make artwork that people say "oh look how good you are" it's about conjuring up something that you can't explain with words.

Here's a cool video of him working/talking about his stuff (if it autodubs, use the video settings to turn back to Japanese, this AI dub aint it):

As far as what I can share, I completed a small zine that I'll handout for free at adepticon if anyone is interested. It's mostly a collection of thoughts made form - but hopefully it gives some people ideas.

Anyway PCE!

xoxo

Terry

Weekly WRMHL 3/14 and Dave McKean

This last week creatively has mostly been spent buttoning up photos, which I'll put down below, but I wanted to highlight one of the artists who has inspired me for the last year or so, Dave McKean.

He's probably most well known for his Sandman covers, but he's a mixed media icon of mine

He's an illustrator not afraid of any media. Collage, photography, drawing, painting and - my favorite, using found objects, flattening them down into their final 2d cover presentation. Here's a little snapshot of the working process:

Here are some works of his, to give you a better idea:

And another little video worth checking out on his working process:

So yea, don't be afraid to make a mess haha

Here's a few of my works from this week, did some portraits of some locals to use:

And one xerox manipulated collage:

Happy Friday!

xoxo 

Terry

Weekly WRMHL 3/6

Been a busy week! Aren't they all though - Adepticon prep, gallery prep, photography work for my class and a smattering of home and car projects happening. Chipping through them all though one chunk at a time!

This week I've started wrapping up some work for the show in April, which my wife and I decided to title: Still Points in a Turning World.

I've finished glazing two ceramic tile pieces, but they won't be done completely til they get mounted in some boxes:

I'm pretty happy with them, it's tougher to get a lot of variation using low fire glazes, but I had all this cone 06 stuff at my school so I figured I would try some wet blending and layering with different colors.

I also finished one collage, probably 10" x 12" or so, which does look nice in its final frame, but I only have a photo of the work itself:

w0rmh0l3 EX is finished, I printed and assembled 50 copies to bring with me to adepticon. I was planning to finish this next week but I had some time during lunch yesterday:

The cover's green, it just looks washed out in the image haha

Lastly on Saturday a bunch of us got together and had a noise jam. It was fun and I recorded around 2 hours of weird experimental goodness. It'll be tough to wade through that and pull out tracks, but expect an announcement in the next month or so about a little project demo:

That's that, a fun week as always - plenty to keep me going. I'll leave you with a final image sent to my by @bitsbiborks Brad, which I really love:

Anyway! Til next time

xoxo

Terry

Weekly WRMHL 2/27

The last three weeks have been... a bit of a blur. I've had a lot of projects in the works, and a lot of goals I wanted to accomplish by the end of the month. On top of that this month has been filled with snow days and sick days, and since I do a majority of my creative work at school during my prep and lunch, the time I have been at work has been even more pressurized. 

ANYWAY there has been no minis painted since way back in the beginning of the month. I have been DEEP in my build for the second Brothers of Promethium scenario. One goal for February was finish the build part of it, and I'm happy to say tonight will be mostly making the piece more structurally sound, and putting a few more rivets on before painting begins. I can't share much about what I'm working on, I've been sworn to secrecy, but since this blog does not get the traffic that a IG post would get here is a little teaser (don't tell gage):

Obviously it's just one small part of a greater whole, but it's been a lot of that at night before bed.

I also created some collages for the event, which I also can't share but here is one:

Aside from that I have made some more xerox manipulated photographs focusing on a semi-abandoned factory near my house:

And I finished the rough copy of w0rmh0l3.EX my zine which will be out for Adepticon, here's the cover:

And I've also been slowly plugging along with track for a new album, I thought I'd keep the stoke up by creating a mock cover, which may or may not be the final:

I made the original collage alongside my daughter (who's getting better at this stuff every day!)

Well, feels good to have gotten all this done. February was fast and furious, and I'm slightly more ambitious still for March. Trying to move these projects ahead when I can!

Love y'all

Terry

Weekly WRMHL 2/6

Back again for another studio update!

Last weekend was the Godling show, which not only meant I was running around last week to get ready for the weekend, but it also meant I didn't post anything.

Here's some models for the Nurgle project I've finished up in the last couple weeks:

I'm still working on how exactly I'll make a youtube video that is somewhat coherent. I'm guessing it'll be a video that will show how I bash, how I've been painting, and a highlight on the army - but that might be three separate ones. I've gotta figure out a easy DIY rig that's not in my way though!!

I've done a handful of collages as well:

And finally, I've officially started my Spring semester for school. I'm doing an independent study with photography, specifically looking at deindustrialization of central Connecticut.

Here's my favorite photo I took this week:

It's not really anything to write home about, as I'm knocking the rust loose and haven't taken it into lightroom or anything.

However my main goal is to experiment more with the Xerox machine (my true love) and make more things like this:

I'm pretty happy with this piece, even though it's just an experiment to show my mentor to see what she thinks. It'll be on display this month at a local gallery space for their "Order and Chaos" show. 

The work is based around Anselm Kiefer's photography, but done through my voice... Here's one of his photos:

I wasn't a big fan of his work until recently - but I had a book kicking around my house that's been diggin' a hole in my head lately.

Anyway! Much Love!

Terry