Sewing day

Well since my first class back from spring break got canceled, I had all day to work on unfinished projects.  Mostly I cleaned and organized.  Right now these fabrics that were given to me are at the top of my pile for what's next.  Aren't they adorable?  I am thinking a quilt is probably in order...

Close-up of my favorite two:

When I figure out what the heck I'm doing with these you'll definitely see a post about it.

A couple other edits

A couple of my other photos I took somewhat recently in my local travels...


A day at the beach...

A day at the farm?

Homework is fun!

Couldn't wait to get back from being out of town to work on my homework!  Yes I've turned into a big nerd who enjoys doing my homework... but who wouldn't in my classes??  Here's the latest due when we get back from spring break.  It's a "corpse" collage... the assignment is to put together a crazy mix of body parts and go wild with the hue/saturation.

Another class's homework due soon is to put a mural on a building.  You take some photo and make it look like it's painted on the building...  I had a bit too much fun and included Master Chief hiding out in the shadows...Halo anyone? : )

Side photography projects

A quick snap turned into a beautiful old-car photo.  Was hoping the owner wasn't nearby as I was getting this picture by an apartment car-port.

Did some fun photoshop work playing with black and white settings and masking off the color portion.  I couldn't decide whether I liked the full tinted black and white, or the one where I leave in the red portions of the car.

What do you think?

chicken fever...

Well, I had Chicken Warhol already... in Painting class today we had an assignment I decided it would be fun to use my chicken photo for again.

The assignment was to choose a warm background canvas then paint with cool colored oils.  Then do the same painting with a cool canvas and warm colored oils.  Here were my results from playing around:

I think it's funny how the first one came out almost realistic, while the second is just ... not!  But I like the purple green and blue chicken :)

Flower

Painting done today in class with Corel Painter 11 and a Wacom tablet.

Used mostly chalk and grainy blenders.

Chasing Bugs

I braved the outside world again today for the sake of photography.  After 20 minutes of getting chased around by bees... let me tell you, these types are supposedly "friendly" but after this I beg to differ... anywho check it out.

This guy was busy "nom-nom"ing his way by sticking his head completely inside every flower he hit...

I thought this was a dead spider since it is white... until it moved... eek.

And it's basically a miracle I caught this cute little bumble at all because he was bumbling waaaay too fast for my little camera's shutter speed.

 

New header, yay!

Like my new header?  Been playing around with Illustrator... I wish I could take a more advanced class... looks like its not going to fit into my schedule with all the 3d classes next year...

This week's "Winners"

Ok so these are this week's photography class winners (meaning the top 3 the teacher chose out of my 10 submitted homework photos).  The theme was still life... enjoy:

 

 

Non-Photoshopped photos?

Found this article on some amazing photos that look photoshopped but actually aren't! Check it out!