Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 9:43PM I recently purchased the book Design School Confidential. Now that I am taking a semester off, I don't want to let myself forget about design. The book contains class projects from a ton of art schools, so I want to work my way through the book and, eventually, complete all of them.
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 12:26AM I'll be taking an alternative process photography class in about a week and a half. If I understand correctly, the majority of the focus is on cyanotypes and utilizing liquidlight on hand coated papers. Then, we are to build a body of work using one of the processes we have learned about.
I am hoping to be able to use wet plate in the class to make glass negatives in order to print large format rather than forking out the money for 11x14 film, as that just isn't a possibility, monetarily. I am hoping to focus on whole-plate size prints, since it would be cheaper to get the 6.5"x8.5" glass cut instead of getting 11x14 glass.
I have only been practicing with tintypes so far, not ambrotypes/glass negatives, so I want to get some practice in before the class starts.
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 12:19AM Here's a work in progress of the digital painting I started last year. I worked on it last February but haven't touched it since last March. I sketched out the hair tonight.
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Here is another update to the portrait. Click to enlarge.
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WIP in Digital, Illustration Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 8:25PM Well, I have been focusing so much on photography lately that I have been craving typography and design in my life.
To quench my thirst for design, I am going to be taking public domain novels with an underlying theme of romance and I will be republishing them with a slick typographic treatment. The series of books will be titled Public Displays of Affection.
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The first book I am working on is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:44PM I finally created the second edition of the trilogy. It adds some clarification to several parts as well as completely changing the layout of the book. Below, you can read the first chapter of book one as a preview of the book.
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