Archive for the 'navels' Category

Another navel painting in oil pastel

Craig Houghton September 9th, 2007

Here’s my latest belly button. I did this a few months back, but I never photographed the piece. I know, it’s an odd subject, but the body is a curious thing.

navel in oil pastel 4×4
newest_button_ch.JPG

four more navels

Craig Houghton July 2nd, 2007

there’s a lot of belly-button posts here already, but how could I let a theme like that fade away.

4 simple bellybuttons. 2 in watercolor (upper left, lower-right) and 2 in oil pastel (upper-right,lower-left). these are all art trading card size w/ an attempt to make the navels appear actual size in rl. one got a bit away from me though.

http://leversandpulleys.com/artblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/newbb_batch.jpg

I’ll be doing a bunch more in a variety of mediums and then dumping them on ebay as aceo’s

A Very Navel Orange

Craig Houghton March 27th, 2007

ok. here’s something very, very different. I made an incredibly low-tech super-messy animation just to give it a try. It’s done in the animators medium of choice, vine charcoal! And, I rerendered each frame to make it extra-jumpy!

it sucks, but it was just a proof-of-concept

Button Row

Craig Houghton February 17th, 2007

Here’s a row of navel studies carved-out in Painter IX.

button row

in charcoal

more belly buttons

pencil and water-soluble marker

even more belly-buttons

I know, exciting stuff.

-Craig

Belly Button on a Box

Craig Houghton February 17th, 2007

I spent a bit trying to decide what to do with a small box frame that’s been in my way lately. I contemplated a navel and went with it.

Belly Button Box, a 5×7 acrylic navel
belly button large

It’s really meant to be viewed from across a room, where it’ll look more like this:

belly button small

And, here you can see the box frame.
belly button box

-Craig