capturing images

I love taking photos. I've had my camera for a little over a year now, and am still figuring out all of its quirks... My Image Capture class has been helpful in that regard. 

Feel free to see more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/37080493@N08/

Artwork From Last Quarter

Last quarter I took a 3D Design course and a Concept & Composition Drawing course. For the final project in 3D I had to create an enlarged replica of any object... I chose a concertina accordion...
In Concept & Composition, we would work on a lot of basic drawing exercises (practicing contour line drawings, shading, etc.) and I ended up with a few decent drawings just from the exercises...

We also had to do a 3'x5' piece... the assignment started off as a self-portrait inspired by a playing face card (meaning the piece could be read upside-down or right-side-up). The whole "self-portrait" concept didn't really hold true throughout the project... but have fun with interpretation! 

For our final project we were to make a tryptic piece (so made up of 3 parts) that represented metamorphosis or change...

Hey There!

I figured after a few months of living up in Seattle and not being all that great at emailing all of you back in California... it might be potentially easier for me to blog it up. (so to speak). 

SO... what's been going on in Seattle you ask? Well... this week has treated us with extraordinary weather. Baseball season has begun... Franklin Gutierrez's first home run as a Mariner was the first home run I watched as a Mariner fan. 

School is going well. I'm in the second week of Spring Quarter and will be applying for the Illustration major in the fall. Right now I'm taking four classes:

• Astronomy - I've always been interested in this subject, so it's nice to finally take a class on it!
  
• 2D Design - A requirement for my major, basically working with shapes and how they can be manipulated into other shapes.
• Design Studio Color Theory - My favorite class so far... learning about color and the various color systems used in art, as well as how to use Gouache. 
• Image Capture - Basically a class on photography/photoshop. 

I'll continue to keep all y'all updated... let me know if you want to hear about anything in particular!