Illustration Now

I have been reading the book, Illustration Now.  I am really impressed with the illustrators Jason Brooks, Simone Legno, Satoshi Matsuzawa and Karen Oxman.  It's too bad the library owns it.
Simone Legno is Italian.  His art has it's own style and easily recognized.

The days are passing by and I haven't picked up my brushes, taped down the watercolor paper and get cracking.  The Cupid's Daughter piece lays on my couch waiting for my attention.
Tonight I will take that step and get started.

I walked six miles around liberty park this morning at 9 A.M.
The pine trees are enormous and line up along the sidewalk.
My calloused feet have blisters now.  It's not as painful as it sounds.
My legs and feet are sore now.

Internship

A friend of mine suggested that I do an internship with a publishing company to get started towards my dream job as an illustrator for children's books.  It would be great to get some experience.

I had my drawing of a  girl with a bow and arrow enlarged at the local fedex office on 200 S downtown Salt Lake City.  I then put the enlargement in the window with some watercolor paper over it and traced my original drawing.  I have yet to decide what the background should be.  Do you have any suggestions?

I still have three paintings to complete by April 21 for the NAMI art show.  I am excited to enter.

First Friday of the month at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

Artist Elizabeth Tobias will showcase her art April 6 at 8 P. M. at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art  20. S. West Temple.
I will be volunteering that night.  I invite you to come join me.

I found out to get a word program on my ibook G4 laptop it would cost twenty dollars.  I just have to upgrade the operating system which would cost four hundred and ninety-nine dollars.  I am not going to do that.

I missed the deadline to submit a form for the Utah Arts Festival.  I guess I will try to enter my art next year.  This year I will be volunteering at the Utah Arts Festival on a Saturday.

I have to wait until April 2 to sign up for the oil painting class that I am very interested in learning.

This morning was sunny and beautiful while I walked down and up stairs at the Gateway Mall.  It's funny that since the new City Creek Center mall opened there has been less foot traffic at the Gateway Mall.

Tumble Weed Film Festival

I volunteered last Saturday at the Rose Wagner Theater for the Tumble Weed Film Festival for children through the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.  I was rewarded for my good deed-free t-shirt, free tickets to Sunday's Amazing Animation (short films), free pizza and free soda.

The Amazing Animations were really well done.  I liked the Android named Floyd.  He was trying to screw in a light bulb on the top of a sky scraper building, when he falls and gets a grip on a rubber chicken and falls nearly to the sidewalk when the chickens beak opens the air fills the chicken like a balloon.

Another short film was about a pigeon.  The pigeon sabotages the CIA because he wants the whole bagel an agent is eating was hilarious.  The agent had a briefcase that held controls to mass weapons of destruction.  The bird ends up in the case and starts wreaking havoc over the city.

I have been working on some art to enter the Nami show.  I scanned my art onto my computer and played with the use of color.  I printed out two pictures and they came out strange looking since the color ink was too low.  The blues came out looking pink and green came out looking brown.:(

I need to check the rules for the Nami art show to see if computer generated art is allowed.  I am also planning to do traditional artwork for the show.

I am debating to use oil or watercolor.  I may end up doing both.  I have more experience using watercolor.  I like the vibrant colors that oil paints provide.  After the Show I will upload some pictures of the artwork.

I really liked these roses a few weeks ago and had to capture their beauty before they died.
 I hadn't used my digital camera for a long time.  I have had the same camera since 2003 thanks to my brother Christian who bought the camera from HP, while he was an intern for HP several years ago.
Thanks Christian!!!

City Creek Center

 Downtown Salt Lake City's new mall City Creek Center

 These two are views of the Sky Bridge between the old malls ZCMI and Crossroads

On March 22, 2012 my uncle Steve joined me to the grand opening of the City Creek Center.

I found a cute dress at Macy's, but I didn't think the dress was worth sixty dollars.  I think I will be sewing more dresses.  I already have made three dresses and one skirt with a matching tank top.

I beat my artist's block (instead of writer's block) and pulled out my sketch pad and drew a girl dancing in a poofy dress.  I made up some shoes that look like Mary Jane shoes.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

My niece and nephew chose to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas over Mary Poppins and Mars needs moms.  My niece said she didn't like mary poppins.  I guess my mom singing the songs to me gave me an appreciation of the movie.  How the Grinch Stole Christmas was good and it was short.  I remember it being much longer when I was a kid.

So, my motivation to paint has been pretty low lately. 
There is a Nami Art show I want to participate in. The deadline for the art show is April 21 so I have a little less than a month to wake up and start to draw.  Maybe I will continue the banana kyak picture with a story board or something. It is fun making up stories.



 
 

Sunny weather

Today was at least 60 degrees.
I am excited to watch my nieces and nephew tonight.
We are going to jump on the trampoline, color some coloring books and watch a movie.

I just want to mention my brother Roger's birthday was really fun.  We went to Golden Corral.  I got to sit by both brothers.  I got him a huge box and filled it with crumpled newspaper, a photo of his first truck a blue toyota that had a baseball stick shift,  a photo of our mother after I had curled her hair, photos of our old parent's home and a book about not sweating the small stuff and how everything is small stuff.

The art I posted that is of a man smiling is a portrait of a real person with the last name williams.
I think that is the one that someone wanted me to explain.

I'll have to get out my brushes and do some more artwork.
Lately I have been drawing on my computer on the corel painter essentials program.  I like the way the water brush diffuses on the paper over washes.

Tuesdays

Tuesdays are not as bad as Monday but close enough.
I have been running around paying bills and going through paperwork five inches thick. 
Its hard catching up on mail when I haven't opened any mail for three weeks.

At least I did fit a workout in today.
I like working out at Murray Park Center at 5130 S. off of State Street.
They have a nice indoor track, swimming pool, basketball courts, weight room and lots of treadmills, etc.
I think I will try swimming next Thurs.

This Saturday I will be volunteering for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art @ the Rose Wagner Theater.  If you'd like to check out  U.M.O.C.A. their address is 20 S. West Temple.
The museum is free, though they do ask for donations.

www.utahmoca.org

 

 

Las Vegas, Nevada

Last Years Las Vegas Trip
My uncle steve and I drove to Vegas and stayed with his friend who has a house there.

Here's some of my artwork.

The last picture is of a man wearing a banana suit, kyaking down a river, unaware of the treacherous waterfall.  I call this piece, "All on a Dare".  I thought up this picture that a guy was doing something on a dare during my Illustration II class around 2010.  The assignment was left open to what we wanted to draw, but we had to experiment with watercolor.

March 18, 2012

It's Sunday afternoon and I am struggling to find out how to post some of my art and photographs.
At least I was able to reserve a computer here at the library.  It has been rather busy.

I have some photos from last year's Las Vegas trip I want to share. 
The palm trees were beautiful. 

I will be trying to find some videos to share with Ammon and Michaela this week.
I like to entertain my neices and nephew.
Monsters Inc was too scary. 

I bought Mary Poppins at Deseret Industries for one dollar.
I watched part of it and the picture runs in lines. I don't know why people donate things that cannot be fixed.

Looking forward to the weekend

   With 11 minutes left at the library I just want to say I am looking forward to this weekend.
I get to see my brother Roger on Saturday for his birthday dinner.  I can't give away what is inside the box I am giving as a present, but I will say it is a large box.

I get to see my brother Christian on Sunday afternoon. 
It is a half hour drive on the freeway to his house when traffic is going well.

Today I went for a walk to Harmons downtown and bought some chobani greek yogurt.
It's really good.