Screen Printing

This is the screen printing project we did.  For this one I took an image of my cat Nala sleeping curled up and then created shapes that show that in illustrator with the pen tool.  Then we went to the print studios and learned about how to make the screens and how to print and ultimately how to also wash the equipment.  The colour I picked was mostly yellow with a little red and a lot of transparency so it would come out pretty light.  It came out how I wanted which is a combination between my cat's tan fur and her yellow eyes, leaning more towards the yellow eyes because tan is harder to make in colour and I made three different prints from it.  The whole process was really fun and interesting and I hope I can do more printing in the future. 

Photoshop Enviornment

For this project we had to create an enviornment in photoshop using images and textures that we had gathered.  We had to use the skills we learned in class about the different tools of photoshop.  It was actually kind of a fun project because you got to use a lot of different and interesting things to create one picture.  I chose to use a photograph i took of a castle in germany and a picture I took at my Grandparen'ts at the beach there in NC.  I thought how they ended up going together looked cool because it looked like a sand castle and was kind of a play on that.  I used feathers for the trees and fabric in the sky lightly.  I also used a wood texture over the castle itself. 

Lecture 3/22

The lecture today was about where to find the courses and the requirements for all the majors online.  Gerard showed everyone how to get to the information and find it all, you know what i mean.  It was very informative and good because I had been recently giving it much thought about what to do next year and then on.  I'm pretty much certain I'll go into Fibers so I know I need to take those classes but I really want to get some General Education courses done this summer at BCCC.  Apparently you have to be 50 miles away or something and talk to the gen ed advisors and things like that which all sounds rather complex but I guess I will eventually figure that all out.  I just don't want to be over stressed out from Gen Ed courses while I'm trying to focus on my art projects. 

photoshop painting

For this project we had to take a drawing or collage or something like that and scan it into the computer.  Then we had to draw on top of it and stuff with the brushes on photoshop.  It was basically an introduction to photoshop learning how to use the brush and some of the other tools that are on it.  I did a drawing of my cat and then edited it and made it different and look a little better on photoshop than my marker drawing. 

Illustrator face project

Here is my scanner face illustrator project.  We had to scan our face and then use the pen tool and stuff on illustrator to make it with shapes.  I thought the process was very long and tedious.  I really like illustrator just not working with my face.  I don't like to stare at my face for that many hours on end.  It was awful.  But it was good to learn how to use the tools and maybe one day if I get rich I can buy Illustrator and use it for more fun projects. 

Lecture 3/1

The lecture today was about glass and fibers and both had pretty interesting presentations.  It was a lot of information to take in for such a short amount of time.  Glass seems really complex to do with all those different tools and such but the things people were making were pretty cool.  I'm really interested in fibers more though because it's kind of what I've wanted to major in.  I wish the lecture didn't have to run so long but there was a lot of information about classes in the fibers department.  There seems to be a lot of different classes you can take and they all were cool in their own ways, especially nice to see the student work in the presentation.  So much information that my mind blanked for a bit.  I'm really excited for next semester and year now though.

Floor Plan

This project we had to make a floor plan of our room or a dream room in adobe illustrator.  We used the tool that makes shapes mostly and whatever else we incorporated into the room.   For my room I did a dream room and made a wood floor with a carpet.  Then a desk and a dresser and a book shelf.  I also put a chair and a trash can and a computer, printer, tv, and lamps on some of the furniture.  I also included the star pillow that I have on the bed.  It was the first time I did anything like this and it was pretty weird working with the new tools but eventually it started to make sense and that's how it turned out like this.