Fellow Travelers

here is my collage final.














It was assembled from these images;

my photoshop skills are still pretty lacking, but overall, it turned out much better than I'd expected!

Poster Final

My new boyfriend is SO dreamy!

This is Mordy. I met him on lynda.com, and we've been, like, totally inseparable the last few days. He's a lefty, and yellow is his favorite color, because it's like the sun.

Mordy and I have been having so much fun hanging out, yesterday I couldn't even tear myself away from him long enough to go to work, or school, or anything!

The super -bestest thing about my new friend Mordy is that he's teaching me Illustrator.

Put it this way; Mordy is the Bob Ross of Software Tutorials, and thanks to him, and chapters 1-6, plus ch. 23, I'm actually starting to understand how this darn program thinks. And once you understand how something thinks, you can manipulate it to your will.

Mmmm.... manipulation.

So.. yeah... sorry I didn't make it to lab, everyone, but Mordy and I had to make up for lost time. Mordy, baby, where have you been all this term?

Moving on...

What have you learned from Mordy? Well, lemmee tell ya'!

This is a pumpkin I found on the interweb. When I put the pumpkin on top of a background, it has a big white box around it. Not very pretty. Mordy taught me how to turn my pumpkin into this:
A Pile of Pumpkins!! Wowza! Live Trace, anchor points, arrange objects, play play play!



I also picked up a nice list of keyboard shortcuts (keyboard shortcuts make me feel like a super-user... like my keyboard is a baby grand piano, and I'm casually typing out a beautiful sonata)

There's a buncha other stuff in the videos that are really wonderful to know. He's starting with the foundations, and building a real understanding of the software application that will carry through the rest of the Adobe Suite, because it's teaching the architecture itself. This is how intuition is built.

The poster for the furniture show is shaping up. I have an idea, I have sketches, and I've started to use Illustrator to flush things out and create an image that I want to make, rather than just clicking around like a big bitchy bull in a china shop with the 'let's see what happens when I do this" method.


Mordy beckons:
Ch.15 "Working with Masks" awaits!

Wallpaper Design - process

Here are 2 variations of the wallpaper for Assignment #1.

"quirks of thought are not poetry"

Ferlingehtti said that, in his tight little volume "Poetry as Insurgent Art".
On Monday last, Fosque, in Art 120, said; "Doodles are not Art," ... which is essentially the same sentiment.

That being said, here are a few doodles I have accomplished over the last few days, as I muddle with Illustrator.
Eventually, I'll have enough acumen with the tool to be able to manifest my intention; the lovely images that come to me in dreams, or collage themselves together in my imagination from bits of observation, flashes of recollection, or layers of things I half saw, and wished to hold tighter, but for today, here is as close to happy accidents as my fate, and my patience, have seen fit to allow.