joanna matuck

the weight on your shoulders

2011-09-07T12:22:00.000-07:00

dont shoot the messenger

2011-09-05T17:22:00.000-07:00

small sketch for a big painting

2011-08-16T11:57:00.001-07:00

sketches for a new project

2011-08-08T09:31:00.000-07:00

Eurydice's Heartstrings

2011-07-31T19:39:00.000-07:00

14inchesX 22inches. ball-point and digital color

earworms and sorrow

2011-07-31T10:13:00.000-07:00

new sketch figuring out things before going to finish.

how it aches as you rattle within my heart cavity

2011-07-18T18:40:00.001-07:00

Vasilissa the beautiful

2011-07-17T19:53:00.000-07:00

2011-07-10T18:27:00.001-07:00

Philadelphia Art

2011-07-10T18:24:00.000-07:00

the unconventional year of 1949

2011-07-04T11:57:00.001-07:00

2011-06-22T15:37:00.000-07:00

a colored pencil sketch

gutterfly

2011-06-19T09:55:00.001-07:00

this isnt digital?! gasp!

starting sketches

2011-06-07T20:43:00.000-07:00

I am still alive!!

2011-06-05T16:51:00.001-07:00

i ran away and joined the circus

2010-11-29T19:42:00.000-08:00

sketching..always sketching!

the start of thousandfurs

2010-11-19T06:12:00.001-08:00

a Brothers Grimm tale of course of course.

2010-11-09T19:53:00.000-08:00

film noir style

2010-11-09T16:52:00.000-08:00

ive been bad....

2010-11-09T16:44:00.000-08:00

its been months since i posted!! shame on me! but i have been busy! here are some new projects.

its been awhile..revisiting old pieces and giving them new life

2010-07-13T16:55:00.001-07:00

gallery shows!

2010-06-29T16:09:00.000-07:00

i sold both pieces opening night at silver circle studio in putnam CT.! its a great show and will be up till august 1st! so go and see awesome midnight vices!

sketches for the next skateboard!!!

2010-06-25T19:50:00.000-07:00

its that special time in august for "skate of the art"!!!!

can the adobe illustrator ever be like photoshop?

2010-06-24T06:00:00.001-07:00

well....it still looks like it was done by me, but i need more time alone with illustrator! hahaha

2010-06-10T17:10:00.001-07:00

more cards...

2010-06-04T07:37:00.000-07:00

will i ever stop? or at least finish a deck of them?

its not a retro portrait..its vintage!

2010-05-06T16:23:00.001-07:00

when we first met

2010-05-04T14:45:00.000-07:00

I have butterflies in my stomach...because you make my heart sing.

2010-04-23T19:06:00.000-07:00

2010-04-20T14:15:00.001-07:00

another in progress

2010-04-19T15:19:00.000-07:00

And I have known the eyes already,
known them all-
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall
Then how should i begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?
T.S. Eliot

wade davis made me do it...

2010-04-13T21:15:00.000-07:00

im currently reading wade davis's "the wayfinders" and it made me think about my own cultural background. there not another nesting doll underneath this one..just a melting pot of something new. is it good or bad? i have no idea, im just here to make illustrations. hahaha

2010-04-12T11:33:00.000-07:00

Sketches from the Central Mass Roller Derby game.(They won too!) More refined sketches to come soon!

a new series illustrating one of my favorite poems

2010-04-06T19:27:00.000-07:00

myself, my ego

2010-03-22T14:14:00.001-07:00

i like dancing with the devil

2010-03-18T19:11:00.001-07:00

something wicked this way comes....

2010-03-13T12:47:00.000-08:00

this is still not quite finished, but i thought id share it anyway...

poster design time

2010-03-05T07:58:00.000-08:00

here is my poster design for the Worcester State Theatre's play "Tartuffe."

the hunter and the hunted, composition in blue and brown

2010-03-04T17:00:00.000-08:00

the point of this piece was that each 11x11 square could work on its own..but when pieced together could great a bigger piece still composed in a pleasant form of pheasants! and then later rearranged to slightly alter the composition again. there are many more ways of arranging it, here are five.

zombi

2010-02-05T22:18:00.000-08:00

for the montserrat illustration theme show. this years theme is "zombie." so i decided to hint at its origins...voodoo.

bur"less"que

2010-02-04T11:57:00.000-08:00

i miss summer in so many ways

2010-02-02T14:11:00.001-08:00

central mass roller derby benefit poster

2010-02-01T07:58:00.000-08:00

you broke my heart....

2010-01-29T16:19:00.001-08:00

and made a mess of my dress besides.

nap kin art

2010-01-29T12:59:00.000-08:00

more creepy crawlers

2010-01-28T07:41:00.000-08:00

this time, "leaf-footed bugs"

"ocho chaffer"

2010-01-26T19:18:00.000-08:00

here is a portrait of one of my pet beetles

a bath can soothe the soul

2010-01-19T16:09:00.000-08:00

long time coming

2010-01-06T15:32:00.000-08:00

its been a little while since i posted. being fully immersed in the christmas spirit means painting pictures for my friends, here are some of them...

Menage et Trois

2009-12-11T11:53:00.000-08:00

the start of a new project

2009-12-10T12:24:00.001-08:00

"le menage et trois" the morning after.

marie "too cool queenie"

2009-12-06T12:11:00.000-08:00

i know she wasnt a queen, but i love that song title and had to use it. i cleaned up one of my sketches from sketch night and well, here it is. line and color finish

sketch night...mais oui!!

2009-12-04T12:56:00.001-08:00

how can any warm-blooded artists turn down a sketch night with burlesque models?...with marie antoinette inspired theme?

a page turner

2009-11-25T18:05:00.001-08:00

fustrated.

2009-11-24T18:15:00.000-08:00

its been a horror of a week, and a struggle to produce anything i like. so here is the begining of what i hope will be satisfying to myself and viewers. monotype, ball-point, digital

good print and misprint.

2009-11-16T21:00:00.001-08:00

printmaking is all about lining up the registers, and so is being a female. i laughed at combining the two, i dont mean to be vulgar, its just funny to me at this point.

business cards!!!!

2009-11-13T21:34:00.000-08:00

i crack myself up everytime i look at this...if you know peacocks, you will know they are the tone-deaf bird of music

king of pentacles

2009-11-10T18:24:00.000-08:00

what a vain man, i actually cried making this, visually adding the moose's last breath didnt make me feel any better...but it was necessary for this particular card.

The sky is falling!!....

2009-11-03T17:17:00.000-08:00

we are all a little melodramatic sometimes. then again, maybe the sky will fall in 2012. haha, more monotype with ball-point

birds of a feather?....never

2009-10-26T23:05:00.000-07:00

monotype printmaking with a twist. scanned it in and trying some things out with the help of my computer. the digital foolaround, and the original print.

secret blue thread

2009-10-25T21:40:00.000-07:00

I really liked this song by the Winterpills, so....hahaha, what can i say? im just too narrative.

still in process

2009-10-18T11:48:00.001-07:00

appologies

2009-10-17T13:20:00.000-07:00

now i know this is Logan's thing, im sorry Logan-i had to try my hand at it, i wont steal your thunder... but it seems everyone is doing pin-ups lately, and the artists are all men. now its time for a woman to do a pin-up. So here is my new project in the works. sketch to ball-point to color and hopefully to a finish at some point.

COME TO MY SHOW!

2009-10-13T19:19:00.000-07:00

hahaha. I have been working on a flyer to leave in the random pockets and folds of worcester.

Thank you!

2009-10-11T08:12:00.000-07:00

A HUGE thank you to Eamon from out of the dark world who gave me these wonderful mexican playing cards. Thank you, Thank you again.

i cant decide,

2009-10-09T19:15:00.001-07:00

dark background...or one on the lighter side?
Oh, this is queen of pentacles. i thought a flapper suited this card, haha

testing out a color palette for

2009-10-07T15:08:00.000-07:00

the litho print.....why do i always do red and blue? i need a new color scheme.

Well Shangri-La-Di-DA

2009-10-07T12:12:00.000-07:00

much better.....

slow goings...the fool card,

2009-10-06T17:05:00.000-07:00

how fitting that its the fool card when i cant quite seem to figure it out. But i like the subject matter. what drove a person to climb a mountain?

the newest edition from printmaking!

2009-10-05T19:43:00.000-07:00

this is non-toxic litho, or polyester paper litho print. i drew this in sharpie and ball-point on polyester paper. i wet the paper using a sponge, ink it with normal litho/etching ink, and run it through the press....voila!

the fisherman's daughter is self destructive,

2009-10-03T12:21:00.000-07:00

and toxic to you. im not sure what this piece needs....but its missing something...

some progress of printmaking proofs

2009-09-28T19:29:00.000-07:00

this is Mars

"the painted veil"

2009-09-25T16:57:00.000-07:00

ahhh...what a wonderful book. Just what I needed right now. The painted veil is written by the talented W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1925, part of the lost generation's need to find the meaning of life and escaping their ego from the western perspective. I love each of his characters, I had to bring them to life in my vision. So from my sketchbook to you, here they are.

cutting board blues, I am just another surface to be used

2009-09-21T14:19:00.000-07:00

This project I started while I was still in school, and two cutting boards seemed lonely, so I created one more for the series.

2009-09-21T10:41:00.000-07:00

printmaking class starts tonight! yes. yes. yes.

this one is for my mother

2009-09-14T20:10:00.000-07:00

...optician business...
circa 1936

the Clinton "olde home day" juried art show

2009-09-13T17:13:00.000-07:00

While I didnt walk away with a prize or title from this juried show, I was still so happy to have my art in one of my favorite museums, the Museum of Russian Icons. It has always been a vital source of inspiration, I can already feel the surge of creativity. (the picture with the woman falling to hell isnt mine, I just really liked this icon, fyi)

still a work in progress

2009-09-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

Im scratching the bottom of the barrel in terms of ideas...I basically pick two random words and make it into an illustration. haha. This one still needs work, "the butterfly and the beekeeper", but I'd figure I'd post it anyway

a digital ritual

2009-08-31T11:30:00.000-07:00

Just got back from my monthly routine of Kinko printing. I always have the same man who helps me, and I love it. My KinkoMan is a sweetheart! Thanks Mr. KinkoMan, see ya next month!

enough with the fairy tales already!

2009-08-30T20:54:00.000-07:00

I tend to read and illustrate many western fables, such as the Grimm Brothers tales. So I decided it was time for ethnic stories from different parts of the world. Starting with an Inuit fable. So to fully understand the cutlure I read an awesome book by Peter Freuchen, a westerner who went and lived with the eskimo peoples and wrote about it. I loved every page of it! So here is the first illustration from a seperate, inuit story.

queen of swords

2009-08-26T20:24:00.000-07:00

waterfalls stream from your eyes when you realize you are a widow and alone

my summer reading list continues....

2009-08-25T14:11:00.000-07:00

My list of books 'to read' continues to grow in number, while I try to finish the ones I've already started. So like any illustrator who judges a book by its cover, I thought this one needed a make-over. So here is my version of the book "After the Ecstacy, the Laundry" by Jack Kornfield.

the knight of swords

2009-08-17T23:05:00.001-07:00

my knight is a pilot...

the Fisherman's daughter transformed into a mermaid and swam away

2009-08-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

i have no explanation for this...haha

the lovers

2009-08-10T21:13:00.001-07:00

2009-08-10T13:10:00.000-07:00

I think we are all instinctually drawn to symmetry, but we find comfort in things asymmetrical...

its out of my hands now

2009-08-10T13:02:00.000-07:00

here is my creation, free as a bird, displayed among the many other skate decks created for the august show.

the devil

2009-07-28T22:05:00.000-07:00

im wondering if this is too subtle for the devil...does everyone know this story?

my submission for a gallery show!!..."easy as magpie"

2009-07-19T16:03:00.000-07:00

here is a painting i did on a skateboard deck: any piece sold at the show will profit a local charity in worcester...so i did the rhyme we all subconsciously remember about the pie that blackbirds burst out of.

a king to go along with the queen

2009-07-08T17:00:00.000-07:00

mastery/ chariot

2009-07-01T18:32:00.000-07:00

this is a weird cross between a model-t and a roadster... with a sphinx as a hood ornament.

2009-06-29T20:17:00.000-07:00

queen of cups...

more redesign....

2009-06-27T18:38:00.000-07:00

ok ok, one more.

2009-06-27T11:17:00.001-07:00

what inspired it all...my actual reading. maybe if i feel daring i will redesign all the cards i got. hahahaha...maybe.

redesign

2009-06-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

and another redesign of strength...

2009-06-26T21:19:00.000-07:00

i know i did the most overdone tarot card...but having just done a tarot reading and getting the actual card, i decided to give it a shot.

temporary tattoos of the weekend

2009-06-20T18:27:00.000-07:00

haha! here's a laugh, i know everyone has a list like this.

and now for territory unfamilar to me

2009-06-18T19:52:00.001-07:00

thought i'd try something i've never done before....im sure i've spelled something wrong too. ha!

here is the rough start to a new project

2009-06-17T19:51:00.001-07:00

on the road. . . again

2009-06-11T17:07:00.000-07:00