done

it doesn't look like i'll be using this blog anymore. but i'll still be posting, of a sort, on my new website, www.mattcrotts.com. i'll still keep this site up for links (i'll run through them periodically to make sure they're still working), but you'll have to go to the above site if you'd like to see what i'm working on personally from here on out.

(i know this is cheesy, but) thanks blogger, for 4 great years!

new website ... and some pixelish trees

i'm moving away from my old website, and also from this blog. instead, i'll be updating everything within a newly-formattted www.mattcrotts.com.

until that's up (it's just down to techincal difficulties now), here's a bit of work i've been doing for a pixel-ish map of miami, to be interacted with in a new hospital down there.

another collage: frontier

exploring the concept of 'frontier' for a woven image forum assignment.

for me, 'frontier' is just another term for the state of my life post graduation, and this piece is my exploration of that.

kawaii new york!

working on a public school in new york with predominantly hispanic students. it's the most relaxing art i've worked on in a while, notably because it's all vector and very, very cute.

someone made a joke at work that the style looked like the cheap packaging that you might find on virtually anything in japan, from caution signs to freeze-dried squid packaging. this was the result of that joke.

comic project (?)

sketched this thing out as the preliminary thought process for a comic i'd like to get started on, if i can find the time. things are going to close up real fast in the next few days so i'm trying to keep up a momentum with this project so that i can justify not completely forgetting about it when things get hectic. hopefully then, once work calms down a bit, i can get to work on this.

who knows when that will be, but if i can get enough together to make a story worth posting, i'll definitely do that!

dystopic / euphoric

the first two collages i think i've ever made. i found it enormously interesting to pick up other people's disposable collateral and make new (redeemed?) interest from them. i also enjoyed taping / pasting refuse from the collage process onto the composition. collages are fantastic opportunities for exploring texture.

these two collages are companion pieces, the first addressing profit-motivated industrial modernity (a little expected, i know). but the second is a conceptual alternative to that complicated issue.

approx. 5" x 8" each, tape, adhesive, string, paper, vellum and bark on board (hard-covers from one book)

octopus coloring book (last octopost, i promise)

couldn't find another way to post this, so here goes. what a long-term project this was! hopefully another bread-and-butter project like this will come down the pipeline soon ...