To Whom Ever May Actually Be Reading This Blog:
Bat-a-Day is dead.
Well, that's not entirely true, but it's true enough. As I'm sure you've noticed, I've been having a hell of a time keeping up with making a bat a day.
Bat-a-day is mutating into Bat-a-Week, and will be located at the regular Strange Fiction blog for the rest of October.
Call it overambitious. Call it a failed experiment. Call it a good idea at the time.
Thanks for coming with me this far.
~ Lady A
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Blind as a Bat Contour Drawing
Pigma Graphic Marker, cool-gray Prismicolor markers in 20 & 30%
The second blind contour drawing didn't look too much like a bat, but it made for a cool monster:
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Squishface Bat
non-drying modeling clay
I'm honestly sad that I'm going to have to squish this little guy. Yes, I got the name from the SeaLab episode. d-:
Monday, October 6, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Guerrilla Gorilla Bat
Brown craft paper staple gunned to a fence & acrylic paint (and bad spelling d-: )
Friday, October 3, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
A Bat-a-Day from Lady A
What's a Bat-a-Day?
The short answer is "a public art project."
Here's the long answer:
Inspired by Noah Scalin's far more creative and far more interesting Skull-a-Day project, starting October 1st, I'm going to create a bat every day for a month in celebration of my favoritest of all holidays: Halloween. I have no motivations other than wanting to do something creative every day, and wanting to bring a little something unexpected into my urban and increasingly critter-free environment.
Why a bat?
Easy. I like bats. They are unique in the animal kingdom, and despite being helpful, fascinating little creatures, here in the States, they are regarded as creepy, nasty, rabies carrying beasts that drink blood* and get caught in people's hair. They are associated with vampires, ghosts, death and disease. Although their highly social behavior can make them good carriers of pathogens, only .05% of all bats actually carry rabies. Bats are far more beneficial to the environment than harmful to those who dwell within it.
Fruit bats are vital to the pollination of flowers and disperse seeds in many tropical regions, and the American Big brown bat ranks among America’s most beneficial animals due to its bug-eating prowess.
To create a bat every day is to meditate on the maligned, misunderstood and misrepresented. Besides, with potential disaster looming on the horizon for America's bats, the little guys need all the good press they can get.
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* Some of them do, in fact, drink blood. I speak of the infamous vampire bats, of course. To me, this is a big part of their cool factor.
The short answer is "a public art project."
Here's the long answer:
Inspired by Noah Scalin's far more creative and far more interesting Skull-a-Day project, starting October 1st, I'm going to create a bat every day for a month in celebration of my favoritest of all holidays: Halloween. I have no motivations other than wanting to do something creative every day, and wanting to bring a little something unexpected into my urban and increasingly critter-free environment.
Why a bat?
Easy. I like bats. They are unique in the animal kingdom, and despite being helpful, fascinating little creatures, here in the States, they are regarded as creepy, nasty, rabies carrying beasts that drink blood* and get caught in people's hair. They are associated with vampires, ghosts, death and disease. Although their highly social behavior can make them good carriers of pathogens, only .05% of all bats actually carry rabies. Bats are far more beneficial to the environment than harmful to those who dwell within it.
Fruit bats are vital to the pollination of flowers and disperse seeds in many tropical regions, and the American Big brown bat ranks among America’s most beneficial animals due to its bug-eating prowess.
To create a bat every day is to meditate on the maligned, misunderstood and misrepresented. Besides, with potential disaster looming on the horizon for America's bats, the little guys need all the good press they can get.
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* Some of them do, in fact, drink blood. I speak of the infamous vampire bats, of course. To me, this is a big part of their cool factor.
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