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Sketches and Studies by Craig Houghton » 2007 » July

Archive for July, 2007

New Wes Anderson movie, The Darjeeling Limited - trailer, poster, and photos

Craig Houghton July 27th, 2007

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I keep returning to the trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie, The Darjeeling Limited. I’m not sure if it’s the sunny smooth palette, the music, or the memory of the Life Aquatic that keeps drawing me to the 2 minute 20 second clip — it’s certainly not Owen Wilson’s bandaged face. I’ve never really pinned-down why, but I have a lot of love for Wes Anderson movies (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore).

Click Here for the Trailer

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Images from the trailer for The Djareeling Limited:

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and, a film poster

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A Political Cartoon

Craig Houghton July 25th, 2007

I don’t think I’ve ever done a political cartoon before, but I’ve drawn (with varying success) just about everything else. This is regarding a local town issue where our town government bent over and changed the laws to allow some big developers to pave-over (along with some token shrubbery) 400 acres. We even just found out that there’s a 65′ tall hotel in there as well. To my dismay and surprise, it’s the dems that sold us out here. The cartoon makes a lot more sense when you know the details, but nonetheless, here it is:

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Some Photos from Riverbound Farm

Craig Houghton July 22nd, 2007

Over at the Cheshire Town Post I uploaded some photos of flowers and bees and such from the Riverbound Farm bird sanctuary in Cheshire.

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Here’s one from home that didn’t fit in that post.

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Photos by Craig Houghton.

Drawings and Paintings of Women by Craig Houghton - New Video

Craig Houghton July 5th, 2007

Women of all ages across mediums and styles.

New Video - Birds by Craig Houghton

Craig Houghton July 5th, 2007

2 minutes of birds

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.

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

portrait in colored pencil and alcohol

Craig Houghton July 1st, 2007

the rendered version doesn’t have the same likeness as the sketch, but I wasn’t particular about what direction this was heading

this is done with a black colored pencil, a cotton pad dipped in rubbing alcohol, and some touch-ups on the pc

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