Evolution of the piece after it hit photoshop.
I was kind of bugged by the order of the pieces, since we read from left to right and I’d drawn the sequence from, well, center to right to far left. I also ended up wanting a much bigger pause in the ‘floating’ space.
It should read better now. I’m just not sure about the addition of the photonegative panel/photoshop gradient. nrrrr.
Edit: Okay nope, I AM totally sure about them. They don’t look right! Begone! But I’ll keep the revised order and spacing, yes.
Immersion and Emersion
I’ve had these diving images in my head for a while, and done various sketches in attempts to figure out how they wanted to come out. They always wanted to play with sharp contrast, lost edges, and the interface between positive and negative space, and so did I. In the end, it wasn’t about the figure at all, except for the middle one. The first and last just wanted to be Sploosh pictures.
I’ve been absent from the internet for a full week. Thesis is over, and I’m evaluating my project’s effectiveness and potential for the future. It’s got some problems.
I’ve also been spending a most glorious week simply drawing and painting whatever I feel like. It’s like I’ve exploded with all the things I was afraid to paint because I didn’t think I had the skill, or it wasn’t ‘useful,’ wasn’t part of a project or assignment. I’ve been collaborating with my favorite person in the whole world, and it’s been GOOD. I handed this to him as a scrappy watercolor sketch, just smears of color, and told him ‘I meant this to be stairs within a glacier. Fix it?’ He did, and I went back in with watercolor and deepened some of the shadows he indicated. That wasn’t the biggest collaboration we worked on, but I love being able to do that kind of low-stakes collab as well. I want MORE. With other people, too. Hit me, folks! Send me sketches you want redlined, things you want colored or want to color, dimensions of tiny books that need quick covers! I can’t guarantee results, but I’ll do what I’m inspired to!
stfuhypocrisy:
Undecided Women, Don’t be Fooled: Your Control of Birth IS ABOUT Jobs
Women, especially young childless undecided women voters, are talking about jobs, not abortion rights, right? What women really care about is not contraception, not access to family planning resources,…
My mom spent about 15 years out of the workforce, raising four kids. When the youngest was in elementary, she got a job as a laborer at a specialty plant nursery, a job she enjoyed very much. She also started taking classes at the local community college, and after some looking around, got a second bachelor’s, in computer science this time instead of botany and english literature. She quickly got a solid job programming for the state treasury, because she was one of the brightest and most competent students and would actually talk to her teachers and fellow students - the first time through college taught her how to make the most of an education.
So this isn’t the experience of my family - maybe - but it is still HIGHLY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS. As a woman, with two sisters, as a human being who cares about other human beings.
Life is unfair. I would like to vote for government that tries to make it LESS unfair. The more I learn about poverty traps, subconscious discrimination, erasure, and the power of microloans and practical education, the more I believe that we really need to work on bringing money, education, and poor people together if we want our societies to succeed. When the base crumbles, the top goes, too.
bootstraphomes:
I also went back to Sunnyside Environmental School to see the model Boots they’d made.
THOSE KIDS. ARE AWESOME. My mind is blown by the variety and skill displayed! Do you see that water catchment system? All the little beds, and the screen door, and the movie posters? And everything from hippie-punk shag-carpeted tigerstriped models to drag queen bows and flowers, mean green flying machines and girls romping with dinosaurs.
We’re making the elephant and one as-yet-to-be-decided model.
I’m going to the school as soon as I finish typing this, to set up for the big build days today and tomorrow. In the afternoon, the kids will be back from their field trip, and start screwing things together! I hope we can get the bases and frames put together today. I need to get more foil tape before we can do much with the insulation, but that’d be nice, too.
