CraziCreek

So, I hadn't really been checking in on my Deviant Art page here for a while.  This was in part because I was in an art slump, and hadn't made any new collages in quite some time.  Leaving Japan and resettling in the US was a pretty big shock to the system, and I just now, after a full year, feel as though I'm getting my bearings back.

Just this past couple weeks, the paper bug had bitten me again, and I've started some collages.  Finally finishing the color series I started ages ago, and been making little things like postcards and presents for friends.  No huge projects, but in the year or so since I've been active, I feel like my eye has matured, and I'm liking the results so far.

So, I came and looked at my page here, and was happily shocked to find one of my old favorites, Science, had become a Daily Deviation.  Wow!  Thank you all so much for your comments and favorites!  I'm really flattered and amazed!

I'm so happy there are people out there who still like the stuff I've made, and I do hope that the new pieces I've been working on will be to some people's liking.

Again, thanks so much!!!!

I've been in my home in Japan about 1.5 years now, and I'm finally set up to be making art and transferring it to digital means.  Got a scanner and Wacom tablet for Christmas, and I'm enjoying working on some old things that haven't been digitized before as well as new work in progress.  Doing a lot of t-shirt designs for various competitions here in Japan.  I don't think I'm gonna make it to the next round of the Uni Qlo contest, but Graniph just started theirs, so I'm looking into that too.  Working on some writing too, so I guess production is up.  Enjoy anything that comes along this way in the near future.

Random attack of voting solicitation!  It is art related though!

I recently submitted a design for the Uni Qlo Grand Prix T-shirt contest here in Japan.  I am psyched to have made it into the top 1000 designs, but the next step is up to you folks out there in the rest of the interwebs.  Voting on designs is taking place now!  Go to the Uni Qlo Grand Prix site (ut.uniqlo.com/utgp/#lang=ja) and start voting for the designs.  Mine is a design called "End of Season", and you can see it first here:

ut.uniqlo.com/utgp/#lang=ja&co…

My profile on the site is here:

ut.uniqlo.com/user/profile?id=…

Please check it out, vote for some shirts (mine if you so please...pretty please!!!), and enjoy!

All the Best, and Thanks!!
Mellen

Finally found time to get inspired and back into working on stuff.  I've no scanner right now, but I'll try my best to find a way to put up some new work soon, because I'm tired of being dead.  

made it to japan. didn't get much stuff scanned before i left, sadly.  you'll all just have to wait for me to make new stuff here i guess.  sorry about the colors, i'll get to them one day.  hope we all enjoy whatever comes next.