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Microsoft Innovations: Empowering the Mobile Experience
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Microsoft is a global technology leader, constantly driving innovation and transforming the digital landscape. With cutting-edge mobile applications and cloud solutions, the company enables users to work, learn, and enjoy entertainment wherever they are. Innovative Solutions for Business and Personal Use Products such as Office 365 and the Azure platform have revolutionized the way both…
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Patreon!
If you’re on my mailing list, you already got this news, but…. I’m starting a Patreon for my art! For those unfamiliar, Patreon is a site artists and creators of every variety use to fund their work. In my case, this means helping me switch to part time work at my day job, so I can spend an extra day a week on art. My Patreon page will be a place to get all sorts of art sneak peeks of larger…
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Hello folks,
Fall is… falling. The dark weather has me in a big of a funk, and the recent rainy, cloudy days on top of already short ones has me missing summer mightily. But c’est la vie.
I’ve spent September and October working on a series of illustrations for an upcoming poetry collection by Dover Publications, and despite the oncoming winter blues, I’m stoked about it. You should be, too, as it’s a collection of classic women poets and some of their best work to boot.
It’ll be coming out in February and will contain 25 black and white illustrations for select poems done by yours truly. I’ll make sure to post and let you know the details when it’s out!
Here’s a sneak preview of a few of the illustrations, just for you. 🙂
Dover Publications Poetry Illustrations… Sneak Peak! Hello folks, Fall is... falling. The dark weather has me in a big of a funk, and the recent rainy, cloudy days on top of already short ones has me missing summer mightily.
The Quiet Delight in Having Fun
The Quiet Delight in Having Fun
I’ve been a little quiet these last few weeks. Part of the reason is that my delightful, endlessly rewarding and challenging project, “CC:Otherworlds” ended. And I took a little bit of time to recover from it– for all that I loved the snot out of it, it was a year long project with very little room for error, and we shipped every single fortnight without delay or issue, a thing I’m exceptionally…
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Project "CC:Otherworlds" is Almost Over!
Project “CC:Otherworlds” is Almost Over!
My lovely friend Cislyn and I embarked on our year-long project… nearly a year ago. CC:Otherworlds has been an amazing, fufilling, challenging, and rewarding project. No, seriously. I know those are silly buzz words, but they’re also all super true. We drew a prompt out of a hat every 2 weeks for an entire year. For an entire year, we each took that prompt and went off (sometimes collaborating,…
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Now that I’ve gotten the taste for plein air painting, I’m starting to refine my technique for going on the adventures themselves. The first time I went out, two weekends ago, I had to stuff my entire pochade box into my backpack– it worked, but it wasn’t elegant, and it made biking a bit uncomfortable as the whole thing was knobby.
This past weekend I went out on Saturday, and I got a little smarter about it. I borrowed my roommate’s fancier bike side-bag– one of those lovely clip-on types. The entire pochade box fits in, which means I don’t have to bring a backpack at all– much more pleasant biking!
This was in Tenny Park in Madison. I hunkered down in the dwindling shade to paint a neat stone bridge. The painting itself wasn’t a particularly amazing result, but every time I go out, I feel like I learn something. And if that’s not fantastic, I don’t know what is.
Do I plan on going back out next weekend? Why yes, yes I do. 🙂
Mobile Art Rig Now that I've gotten the taste for plein air painting, I'm starting to refine my technique for going on the adventures themselves.
Art in the (not so very) wild!
Art in the (not so very) wild!
Do you know what’s great? The outside. Know what’s even better? Doing art in it. Plein air painting is new to me, but I’m just behind the curve ball by several hundred (thousand??) years– it’s a well honed and time honored tradition among artists. Take your fancy art box, take your paints, and go sit somewhere for a while. Preferably while putting the paints onto a surface of some sort and…
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Since coming back from vacation in Germany, it’s become clear to me that my life needs to include a lot more art. And, most importantly, I have a loooooot more to learn. Making art is amazing, and the fact that I’m only scratching the surface of what there is to know about it is mindbogglingly exciting! How sad would it be if I were already bored…
So I’ve decided to get serious about making sure I keep learning about art in my day-to-day life. For me, that means homework. 😉 But homework that’s fun! Homework that I’m doing voluntarily, and that I’m designing for myself.
The lesson plan is very much a work in progress, but this week I’ve been focusing on value studies– something I often struggle with as my drawings or paintings become more complex. But solid values, planned out in advance, make a piece that much stronger. (And values that are weak, suck the life right out of it). So I’m practicing!
Here’s a glimpse of what I’ve been up to:
Random kitchen finds make great still lifes!
This onion has been drawn a lot now
Potential plan for a future painting
Learning (and re-learning, and keeping ideas and concepts and techniques I already know fresh) takes time. And energy. And it doesn’t always look very pretty.
But boy, is it refreshing to be back in the saddle. 🙂
Homework? For Fun!? Since coming back from vacation in Germany, it's become clear to me that my life needs to include a lot more art.
I just (as in, two days ago) got back from an amazing trip to Germany with a friend of mine. It was filled with shockingly good food (Persian walnut and pomegranate stew anyone?), fun adventures, and… also art!
We didn’t travel to Germany looking for art, and in fact only went to one art-specific museum, but something I learned from Berlin in particular, is that art doesn’t need to be put in a concrete box to exist in a city. The street art in Berlin is astounding! There were several instances of entire buildings whose sides were done up in murals.
Here is just a tiny sampling of what we (literally) stumbled across:
(Note, some of these are from the East Side Gallery, which is the remaining Berlin Wall… transformed by art. Others are from Berlin’s streets, and a couple are from Bonn.)
There was something wholly liberating about seeing such vast quantities of street art. It hadn’t been painted over, or scrubbed out. The city embraced it, and that was so freeing to see.
Traveling always leaves me in a different place, mentally, when I come back. It reminds me that the world is very, very big. And (most importantly) that there are more ways to walk upon it than I can even begin to imagine. It’s exhilarating, in a way, to look at your life and realize it could be so, so much bigger.
(And filled with so, so much more art!)
Street Art in Berlin & Bonn I just (as in, two days ago) got back from an amazing trip to Germany with a friend of mine.
The Balancing Act
It’s true for me, and I think it’s likely true for the entirety of humanity, that the hardest part of life is achieving balance between who we want to be, and who we are being. I struggled with writing this blog post for awhile. I was afraid that if it wasn’t “puppies and kittens and magical art excitement” it wouldn’t have value. This is my art blog, after all. I should blog about art. But art…
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I Moved! + Reveal of the Wacom Cintiq
I Moved! + Reveal of the Wacom Cintiq
Did you miss me? Over the last month I moved out of an apartment, and into a house. It’s been a phenomenal move, but it meant that for a few weeks my art setup was chaotic while I packed everything up… and then for a few weeks it was chaotic while I got everything unpacked. BUT the hard work is complete, and I’m more than ready to be back in the saddle. Want to hear about the Most Exciting Thing…
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And From the Motherboard Ashes... (An Art Computer is Born!)
And From the Motherboard Ashes… (An Art Computer is Born!)
You may recall in my last post that my computer decided to give up the ghost. It is still dead, and did not magically return from beyond the grave. Remember, too, that pile of boxes containing computer parts…? (Pictured: a cute case, the motherboard, the CUP, the power supply, a 120 SSD hard drive, 16 gigs of RAM, a box of speakers, and a keyboard and mouse.) That turned into this: (Pictured: a…
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Bad Luck Comes in Threes (Or, the Saga of the Fried Computer)
Bad Luck Comes in Threes (Or, the Saga of the Fried Computer)
Know that saying, that bad luck comes in threes? I’ve decided it’s true. I had two car-related instances of bad luck (a tire needed replacing, and then while waiting to get that fixed, my car was broken into and a window smashed!) and then the real kicker– my trusty iMac of nearly 6 years went to sleep and didn’t wake up. (If you are on my monthly newsletter, you already got that piece of…
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Or maybe not 20. But some questions, nonetheless!
While I was talking about my most recent CC:Otherworlds illustration, and mentioning that I go about things a bit backwards from a lot of artists, starting in Photoshop and ending in traditional media, a friend recently asked me for an explanation of my typical art process. I thought I’d share some of the answers. :)
These examples are from my most recent CC:Otherworlds illustration. The prompt for that fortnight (#13) was “Unravel.”
I typically start out with a really rough thumbnail sketch done in pencil or ink. And by rough, I mean *rough.* Things things ain’t pretty. Example:
This little sketchy stage doesn’t last too long, though. Next, I bring the entire thing into Photoshop. I don’t usually even bother to scan my doodle– a cell phone pic works just fine, since I’m not interested in preserving any of its ~beauty~ just its rough content.
Once in Photoshop, I rough-out a layout and composition. This doesn’t need to be perfect, but the ‘big ideas’ need to be hashed out. Where will the figures be? What is at the center? What aspects of “flow” are in place to make sure the viewer sees what I want them to see when they look at it? Also in this phase I do some color studies, and get a general feel for what direction I’ll take the painting once I do it for real. A thing that is sometimes confusing is that all of this? Just prep work. None of this will be in the final painting.
But now I have to get this entirely digital image… and make it into a traditional media painting! That means transferring it onto paper… It’s not as complicated as it seems. :) I just print off the line drawing at the correct scale, and tape it to the back of my watercolor paper of choice (in this case, a hotpress 140lb paper that’s lovely and smooth) and trace over my computer sketch with pencil.
After that, it’s just a matter of painting. For this piece I used watercolors and colored pencils.
And here’s the final painting!
Do you have any questions about my general process, or how I do things? Let me know! I LOVE answering questions and talking about art. :)
Thanks for reading!
A Game of 20 Questions… Or maybe not 20. But some questions, nonetheless! While I was talking about my most recent…