I was looking around Etsy last night and felt that I had to share some finds from Bugs and Monsters. This seller makes all kinds of things, but I like the mugs the most. The seller hand paints mugs from thrift stores with original designs. What a cool way to recycle and make art!
It has been a busy two weeks! Here are some photos of my adventures.
Maker Faire was awesome! so many things to see, almost needed two days to see it all. You can see all of the Maker Faire photos on Flicker, just follow this LINK. And yes, we saw Adam Savage!
Then I graduated. All of my family and some friends came up to see the ceremony. The ceremony its self was a bit long, but the key note speaker was pretty good. Even though it was on the morning the weather felt really hot! See more photos HERE!
Last but not least is Fanime. I didn’t take as many photos as I normally do, probably because I just wanted to enjoy the con. There were plenty of really good cosplayers. Tim got his wall scroll and I got m BAAU Down book making us quite happy! Check out just a tad more photos HERE.
Tonight I was messing around with photoshop and illustrator and I thought I’d share what I was up to. Above is the final result of tonight and I’m quite pleased with it. I’ve never done any illustrations like this, I always try to make the images look too realistic when working from a photo. Maybe this was easier because I was working with a photo of my self. The closest I got to the flat illustration look it this.
Here’s the progression of experiments that I worked on tonight:
Original photo: heavily rotated and a bit cropped (mostly on the sides)
Version 1: messing around with cropping and filters in photoshop. The main things I wanted for this image was to get the color in the scarf to come out, get the green in my eyes to pop and the color of my glasses to be more prominent.
Version 2: About the same as above but in black with a background color, still experimenting. Tim called this on a Andy Warhol Megan. It’s interesting, but I wasn’t content with it.
New cropped photo: it’s still from the original photo, but it has been edited a bit more. I like the highly saturated and contrasting look to this photo. I changed to crop because I felt like the scarf was working in the illustrations and I liked emphasizing the curls on the left.
Version 3: The more I look at this version, the more I like it. Out of all the photoshop experiments I like this on the best. I made the previous photo black and white; messed with the dodging and burning to get the hair the way I want it; and messed with filters.
Now you know what I do with my “college Friday night” a but dorky, I know. But once I get a streak of inspiration to do something I need to use it as much as I can, you never know when another will come your way. I love the result I got tonight (first image)! I find it interesting that I worked with photos of myself and not someone else. I’m such a narcissist!
I hope you enjoyed the blog post, sorry its a bit long at least there are pretty pictures.
I’ve been working on the first project of the semester for my graphic design class. There are 3 parts to it 1 a) hand sketching of the object, b) rendering of the same object c) taking the object a step farther exploring the possibilities with the object. This couldn’t just any ol’ object we could choose from a tomatillo, yo-yo, clothes pin (wooden) or an adjustable wrench. I did the tomatillo- upside down.
I’m not going to show my drawing because it looks like crap next to the vectorized images, even though the teacher likes it. First image is part of b (actually made this morning!) and the other 2 are for part b, I need to decide which one I want to develop a little more. Which one do you like better?
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I love Gustav Klimt’s works and see it be other artist’s inspiration is amazing. That how you know you are a great artist, if people start to copy your work. This photomilipuation is quite amazing and pulls emotion out of you.
I just watched Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus the lady we know her photos but not her story. I enjoyed this film because it is was not an exact biography about the woman but an imaginary recreation of what she might have felt during her life. I highly recommend this film, its very much an artistic film like The Fall (also very good). I applaude Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr for their wonderful performance in this film.
Synesthesia from Terri Timely on Vimeo.
“syn·es·the·sia syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn’ĭs-thē’zhə)
n.
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.”
Herb & Dorthy is the the cutest documentary about a couple who collected art over the years. Their house is filled with all kinda of art, they don’t care what style it is just as long as they like it. What I liked about this cute old couple is that they got to know the artist, called them every week just to seek whats new and what they are up to. Here’s the trailer, unfortunately its only playing in in select theaters but I’ll be looking for it on dvd.
HERB & DOROTHY Trailer from Herb & Dorothy on Vimeo.
La Chanze by Amy Arbus in her actors collection
Puddle by Amy Arbus in her rites and rituals b/w collection
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