More Paintings from my class

Harvey

Morning Coffee

On the F Train

I'm also on Etsy now! I'll be putting all these paintings on my store for sale :-)

Summer Paintings

Over the summer I took an oil painting class at the local community college. Here are a few of the pieces I did.

In the Coffee Shop

Here's the latest video for Degs, starring Mike and Gabrielle (aka Nels and I).

I decided to go all La Jetee on it and use only still images. The challenge was to make it dynamic while only using the still pictures.

Programs used were Premier, Final Cut, and Illustrator. And Nels used Protools for the audio.

Freelancing with Vector Art

I've been super busy lately freelancing. Mostly playing around with Illustrator and After Effects, woo!

I'm working with Degs Beldham, who has this nifty website Call My Other Number dot com where you can buy alternative phone numbers for your phone. I made a video for him for the Take One Small Step competition.

Check it out here

I hired my brother Nels to do the audio. We had a lot of fun working on it. Unfortunately we didn't win the competition, but we got into the top ten, woo! It took a little less than two weeks to make this. It was hectic at first, trying to find a time when Degs, Nels, and I would all be free to do the recording (an added difficulty that he lives in London and we in Texas).

This was a rare animation where I didn't use a storyboard. I wrote a script for the interview and voice over, and I made notes for what visuals I wanted, but I didn't draw anything out on paper before I started. It's a different approach that what I normally take, and it was fun and (dare I say) freeing to make it up as I went along.

Programs used were Illustrator, After Effects, and Protools (for Nels' audio work). Lots of help from the Video Copilot people. I always watch at leased 2 or 3 of their videos for any project I do. I'm pretty sure they know everything.

Right now, I'm working on my second animation for Degs. Meet Gabrielle:

More logo design

This one is for the website Reviews of Things and Stuff
reviewsofthingsandstuff.wordpress.com

It was the negative space that excited me in this one. I like the partially visible reflection. I'll have to play with that more in future projects.

My friend Yankee emailed me today. He's starting his own business and wants to hire me as the in-house graphic designer. I don't know any details yet (the company is still in the paperwork stage), but I'm very excited.

Playing with photography

There's this technique in photography called tilt-shift photography. It allows the photographer to have very precise control over depth of field, which basically means there's one small area on the picture that's in focus, while everything else moves quickly out of focus.

You see it a lot in pictures of food or very small things. See my favorite examples here.

You can also use this technique to make photos of life-size scenes look tiny. I love the effect. You can make people and cars look mini, which is always exciting.

Well, I don't own a fancy camera, but I own Photoshop. I've been playing photos that my friends and I have taken and made some neat images.(Cat photo taken by Lisa Lin)

the MADRE show

My troupe, Bastet, had a Belly Dance for Change event for MADRE. I designed the flyer and post card above. This was a fun project. I used bright, bold colors like the MADRE website.
It was a great show. Scott Wilson performed, and Kelly Ann danced to him. Bobby played his bazzouki, Ray Ray recited some poetry, and Pacita danced.