Monthly Archives: September 2007

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By Michael James Armstrong | Published: September 27, 2007
so, MY DAME is gonna have some of her designs in a FASHION SHOW at the museum of contemporary art on oct. 4th. the theme is music and technology. her 3 designs are based on 3 eras of vinyl records – 40’s/78rpm, 50’s/33 1/3rpm, 60’s/45rpm. here’s the 40’s design to represent the 78rpm record. [...]
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new from my sketchbook

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: September 12, 2007
these sketches were all drawn at art night*. first lets meet my sketchbook: it says hello. the most recent one (from this past sunday) i usually draw in non-photo blue pencil but i didn’t bring any instrumentation this art night. so joeygold let me borrow a ticonderoga hb #2 (which i only had to sharpen once, and it [...]
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a guide to my painting process in 10 steps (kind of)

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: September 6, 2007
so, i thought i’d share a bit of my painting process, step by step (well, as many steps as i remembered to photograph). now, this will be a sort of stripped down version because the piece i’m chronicling here is only 3 colors, as opposed to the full color pieces i usually do. [...]
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