I’ve always wanted to learn to work in the darkroom, and not just be limited by digital photography or how the photoshop decides my photos should look. And I have to say I’m happy that I now know how. 
I don’t know that I care to learn about developing and printing in color, as it’s not something I’m terribly interested in, considering.
So my sister wanted a daffodil painting. I knocked out a little 3×5 with a bit of charm.
3×5 acrylic on canvas board
I never got around to mentioning it at the time, but in April we had Bryant Holsenbeck working on an installation piece of bottle caps and jar lids (and the like) at Wake Tech. It took a couple days and a few classes helped work on it, including ours. Here’s some pictures of the project. Installation pics
One of the art teachers (that I’ve not had) is doing an installation piece at NC State’s Gallery of Art and Design that will exhibit this weekend (or next weekend, I can’t remember, actually). She’s got a flickr set showing her progress as she installs and I just thought it was cool enough to share.
I’m beginning a new design project, this one in THREE DEEE! HA!
beginning pics
I’ll get more up in a bit
As a gift to my stylist, I’m working on a portrait of her and her son on his wedding day. I’ve been taking pics of the progress, and putting them up in gallery. You’re welcome to come along and see.
Take a look.
I seem to have lost the first few pictures I thought I took (so maybe I didn’t, and just remember vaguely doing so). It started with a drawing projected from the photo to get a basic outline of the figures. Then a nice wash to ensure there were no white areas of the canvas to potentially show through or make colors laid lighter than I wanted (better increase coverage). The little designs in the background are a bit of an experiment for me, to see if it can help add a bit of texture and interest to the background in a subtle way, but it might just be covered up so thoroughly that it won’t matter either way.
This weekend I took a couple workshops to learn how to airbrush.
The results are not earth-shattering, but they are pretty good for a first attempt.
My latest project has been a new product design. Package design and instructions. To illustrate the colour wheel in a non-traditional (read: “wheel-like”) way. It and my previous work are not handy at the moment, but I’ll get them up shortly. I think they’re both pretty schnazzy. 
My latest piece is finished (I think), and is just waiting to be framed properly and hung. If you’re interested, take a look.
phoenix
4′x3′ acrylic on linen
I’ve toyed with what to call it, and I’m not sure this is the name I was originally going for, but it is on the descriptive side, so it’s not all bad.
It’s reflecting the light interestingly, but overall I’m fairly happy with it. We’ll see when it’s finally mounted, if I need some kind of touch up. I’ll also then have a less distorted (angle/view-wise) picture as well.
Really cool new site. amateurillustrator.com (via Techcrunch)
I’ve only started to look around, but it is now bookmarked for future looking at. Pretty nice site, and I actually mean pretty. Many sites aren’t. It reminds me that I need to get working on my homepage again (because this kind of thing would be on a links page) and so I’ll prolly get back to doing that…
Just thought I’d share, for anyone interested who hadn’t noticed this site yet.
