Quantity over Quality 5: Mixed Results

Once a year, on the anniversary of her cancer remission, my mom hikes around some alpine meadows on Mt. Rainier and looks at the wildflowers. I made a papercut of one of the rocks and wildflowers as a gift for her.

I was inspired by Lynd Ward woodcuts, like this one:


 
where the image is formed more by texture than by shape. There's the cross-hatched sail, the squiggly wave, the solid boat, the heavy striped sky, the jittery person, etc.

I thought I could do something similar, with three textures from the mountain:

1. lacey leaves and flowers,
2. big blocky chunks of rock, and
3. spiny trees.

But... uh ... I'm definitely not Lynd Ward yet. :) I would call this mixed results: I think there's promise in the texture-based approach, but I wouldn't quite call this go at it a success.

 

And the photo I was working from:

I changed the asters to lupines, because lupines rule and asters drool, clearly.

Quantity over Quality 6: one thousand words about pokemon biology

The problem with deciding to write one post a day is that you get behind, and then you are obnoxious and spammy. This is a repost of something I wrote on the question and answer site Quora, where I enjoy posting serious answers to silly questions. Any rumors that I am reposting this just to annoy juli cannot be proven.

Question: How would the Bulbasaur Pokemon work?

Answer: ( video game biology )