POP tART

It's weird seeing old idea turned into other people's projects. Whenever I see one of those Dragonology-esque "fact" books about mythical creatures, I want to throw a tantrum right there in the book store, screaming, "I was going to DO this!" (Yes, my childhood plans involved writing and illustrating field books on mythical creatures. You have no idea how peeved I am that so many have been published now. But, this is an extremely rare (and extremely violent) case.)

Anyway, I felt that way a bit (much less so) when I saw this. At some point in high school, I had to do a research project on Andy Warhol, and a pop(t)art screenprint thing was one of the ideas I took to and jotted down. I didn't have the means to screenprint at the time, though (it was a painting class, and in retrospect Andy Warhol was not the best artist to choose), and aside from a few frustrated sketches, the idea was put on the back burner. And here it is!

Not that it was a particularly groundbreaking idea, or course. And I never did anything with it (although I'll confess I'm inspired to, now), so one might argue that I ought to have given up my attachment to the idea, anyway. And I have, but it's something for me to post about, heh.

Just an odd sense of deja vu.