#mixedmediaartwork

Sketches using traditional paintings as a base. I did about 50 small watercolors and 75+ Gelli prints this year so far. I finally scanned in those textures and paintings for other uses So I'm playing around with using the backgrounds to make combined work that feels more tangible to me. I'm working on some other ones but these ones feel like their going on the right direction.

Story in caption. Week 9 - Lost Balance 

I am delighted to affirm that last week I met researchers from the brilliant gnomish design and engineering company ‘Tinker Toll’. Being a gnome myself, how could I resist an invitation to their main research and development facility? And I feel like I am in tinkering heaven! Their current R&D focus is the creation of dragons that are animated by an intricate union of biologics, mechanics and magic. Semi sentient and way meeker than their mighty paragons, Tinker Toll predicts for them to bring our lives and economy to a whole new level. Yet, as always, working at the ultimate frontier of science and magic, things are bound to go wrong at the first attempts. But because of the gnomes’ deep love for their creations and their firm belief that everything has a function - even as a lesson on how not to do something - they keep and treasure every prototype from their projects. I especially liked one called Drang. This prototype burned alcohol to power the mechanical parts of the construction. Yet, the engineers never managed to seal the fuel lines tightly. So thanks to the constant internal leakage of alcohol, it was drunk permanently, and it lost its balance completely. After several failed attempts to seal the lines, they retired the prototype to a cushioned compound erected to keep it safe.

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