and so it is

view

third

first

not much of an entertainer

looks like watercolor

erica and I

+

polaroids

learn-me-some-photoshop

final poster

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+

quality chair

(chair above: two summers ago: photo by nate)

(chair: this fall)

final wallpaper

After much deliberation, I decided to add some font. 

I also thought about combining something that was hand-drawn with something a bit modern. I've had a recent (recent= the past year) obsession with squares for stretched canvas, in addition to holga (medium format) photography and polaroids. 

I'd take a square over a rectangle anyday.

I remember an instructor telling me something years ago about combining mediums...and i think this thought can be applied to attempting to mix different styles as well. Something organic or figurative combined with something pattern-esque can be difficult sometimes...yet it is like Fred and Ginger. In those old films you'd see a marriage of dance between the two, the feminine with the masculine, her moves not overshadowing his, and vice versa. When combining mediums/styles it's like that. 

hopefully.

 There has to be somewhat of a "fred&ginger" marriage...where one doesn't dominate or undermind the other.

I'm hoping to find this process while I combine hand drawn images with geometric + text...

(On a more personal note, the hand drawing of the hangers comes from a photo I took while in Czech. It was in this small church where the old-people-population outweighed the young-people-population, and where CZ = czech republic.)

first one!

wallpaper practice while watching The Office

Here's a practice wallpaper I did once I got home Thurs night after class. Luckily I didn't have work the next day, and considering I can be quite subborn at times...I found that I needed to practice a bit more. 

Discipline, lets be friends.

During this class I have been overjoyed + frustrated. Not really frustrated with the program, but frustrated with my lack of experience, because I seem to be quite good at clicking all the wrong buttons at the wrong time. Not being able to work (directly) with my hands drives me crazy...yet every time I learn something new, I get really excited.

and click goes the option key.

Something I was thinking of this morning is this:

Where does confidence play a role in making art? Does someone really need confidence to make good art...or is it the authentic-pushing-forward-not-give-up-in-your-efforts-while-feeling-inadequate that matters more?

is that of more value? 

color is complicated

what the option key does

small idea...

golden?

(watercolor, micron ink, moleskine watercolor paper)

wallpaper(s)!

Wallpaper? yes.

Graphic Design? yes.

Don't know what the heck I'm doing? yes.

enjoying every minute of it? triple yes.