Anubis traveling – on paper

Again, my hero Anubis. This time painted on paper (my fav, canvas texture). This painting is a kind of an hommage to “Spirited Away”, one of my favorites anime by great Hayao Miyazaki.

This artwork is a part of a series of illustrations on paper with Anubis – leitmotive: travel.

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Joanna Karpowicz / “Anubis in Hakone I”, 25 x 35 cm, acrylic on paper, 2015

Joanna Karpowicz, “Maddux Air Lines”, 25 x 35 cm, acrylic on paper, 2015

Maddux Air Lines, established in the late 1920 operated in California, Arizona and Mexico. Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart were among the famous aviators who were involved with Maddux.
And here is Anubis with a Lady, who plans to spend her winter holidays at Agua Caliente Casino, sipping coctails in the sun.

Joanna Karpowicz / “Parkersburg X-Mass”, 25 x 35 cm, acrylic on paper, 2015

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“Anubis in Cancun”, 25 x 35 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2014

About love – for Wysokie Obcasy

On spring, 2015 “Wysokie Obcasy’, women’s extra with Gazeta Wyborcza (every Saturday) had launched a new short stories series, called “About Love”. For a few months I was illustrating those life-style stories gathered and written by Magdalena Lankosz, Magdalena Kicińska and Jerzy Ziemacki.

Here is a few examples of my work.

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Paleolitic 3D – a clay concepts for “Grain of truth” – the movie

It has begun! My work as a storyboardist for “Grain of truth” (movie directed by Borys Lankosz, based on the bestselling novel “Ziarno prawdy”, by Zygmunt Miłoszewski) had started unexpectedly from an improvised construction of the dungeons. This underground location plays a significant role in the movie. Models, made out of 30 kg of clay, cardboard, tons of duct tape, empty plastic bottle and a lot of weird little objects, were created after the sketches prepared at the scenography department – lead by a superb Polish scenographer, Magdalena Dipont. We made a lots and lots of photos, trying to get the best frames, using candles as a source of light.

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A model of chamber made by me (with Borys help), based on the sketch (early stage).

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Clay “actors”, standing arround “the hang man” – made out of piece of cardboard

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Precious experience, interesting conclusions. Somebody might ask: why not use 3D renderings? Well, I’ll tell you, this paleolitic method worked very well for us. It moved imagination, brought some cool ideas. I’m proud to work as a part of the team.

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Building the large scale undergroud for the movie. fot. Edwin Wolski

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Player

Freshly painted portrait of a “Duck playing skat”, 33 x 27 cm, acrylic on canvas. I painted it as a gift to my Step Father, famous duck collector and skat player.
What animal would you choose to be painted as?

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Joanna Karpowicz / “Player”, 33 x 27 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2014

I also painted a “lucky duck” on my Step Father’s skiing helmet.
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Anubis in the grass – vinyl toy

“I am the grass; I cover all”
I always wanted to paint figurines, but I didn’t until Marek Kasperski, a collector of comic original artworks and owner of ArtKomiks.pl – first professional on-line comic artwork gallery in PL, send me two little Munnies. Oh it was fun. This is the first one, inspired by my Anubis painting series you can see in this post.
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Betonowy Pałac – book cover

Gaja Grzegorzewska, Polish novelist, the author of crime novels about a female private detective, Julia Dobrowolska: Żniwiarz, Noc z czwartku na niedzielę, Topielica (awarded with Great Caliber in 2011) and Grób (2012). Her newest book, “Betonowy Pałac” is going to be released on 28th of August, 2014. It’s published by Wydawnictwo Literackie from Cracow. I’m happy to announce that my illustration is going to be on the cover of this, so anticipated by the fans of Gaja’s writing, book.

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Photo: Wydawnictwo Literackie


Cover design: Marek Pawłowski / Wydawnictwo Literackie

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From a long time Jubilat had been an inspiration to me. Here – in the second plan.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock – the box

“What we see
and what we seem
are but a dream…
a dream within a dream”.

14th of February, Valentine’s Day. Year 1900. Girls from Appleyard College go for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Peter Weir put a celluloid spell on those oneiric young ladies and locked them forever in a rocky labyrinth. They take of their black stockings and climb barefoot, free in white dresses. Time stops. Rock hypnotizes. Some time ago I made this box, a tribute for “Picnic at Hanging Rock”. Acrylic, cardboard, canvas. And mystery inside.
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Dracula Hardcover

To design and create a hardcover book – a classic task at the faculty of book design and typography. I’ve chosen Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, because…what will make a better hardcover than a wooden coffin? Abraham “Bram” Stoker wrote his gothic novel, “Dracula” in 1987. When I read the book for the first time I was in fear of the blood sucking monster. Today I pity Dracula and even sympathize with him sometimes (we tend to have common problem of insomnia). “Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” Poor Dracula.
The book, presented on the photos is fully handmade. Typography (not my forte) is simplified. “Scratched” logo-like title appears both on the cover and in the book, on the title page. Illustrations (originally there is about 15 of them) were made with ink on pressed paper. I decided to not to bind them, just left them separated (so they rest in peace). Coffin is made out of plywood, inside I glued it with a silver satin. Dracula Hardcover is pretty old, it was made in 2000.

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