Kraken
The Montana Museum is not the only thing I have going these days. This one just got shipped off the other day. It’s a kitchen backsplash, on 3x6 subway tile. The bar laying on it is a yardstick, so you get an idea of the size.
Coloring in
I decided to color in the drawings of all 6 of the tool designs before I started painting them on tile. I’m envisioning them a little more subtle colors than these even, and they will be on a grey background.
Tracing onto Acetate
Here’s the next step. Tracing the outlines onto acetate. This is so I can transfer them to the screens and print the outlines. I could maybe have done this by having it printed at a copy place but for two problems.
Scaling Up
Time to scale up the 8” drawings of the Tool Belt to the full 12” to put on the tiles. Here’s how it goes. Redraw the images at 12”, making any changes I decided to make from the 8” sketch, for one half of the image.
All 6 Tool Drawings
Here’s how the 6 drawings of different kinds of tools will be arranged for the MT Museum of Art & Culture mural. They’ll be on 12” tiles, two rows high, so this will repeat every 3 feet. Next step is to scale them up to 12” from this 8” version, then make silk screens of the outlines to print onto the tiles.
Fiber Tools Drawing
This is the sixth and final drawing of artist’s tools for the Montana Museum of Art & Culture mural. This one was hard because so many of the tools are just sticks, or at least they’re long and skinny.
Blades Drawing
Here’s the next in the series of artist’s hand tools for the new Montana Museum of aArt & Culture. This one is the Blades, like palette knives, X-acto knife, matt knife, adzes, chisels and so on. One more to go.
Brushes Drawing
Moving along with the MT Museum project. Here is the fourth of the 6 images, the brushes. It includes everything from a Tlingit brush to the digital commands in Photoshop and Corel Draw.
Clippers Drawing
Here’s the third of the 6 designs for my MT Museum of Art & Culture mural, “The Artist’s Tool Belt”. These are the Clippers & Grippers. I already know that on the final design, one of these will be replaced.
Clay Tools Drawing
This is the next design for the new Montana Museum of Art & Culture, the second of 6. This is the Clay Tools one. I had great fun getting out my clay tools and drawing them.