Working...Working...Working

I haven't blogged all week. Any post that has gone up was scheduled. 
 
What have I been doing?

I've been working on a poster for work. I didn't draw the characters. I'm taking watercolor and salt textures, and adding them, color, shading, highlights, and details in the computer.

It was fun the first 2 days. In fact I worked at home, while we watched a movie. Then my boss handed me all the body drawings for all the characters. Now I have to figure out how to do that to. I'll be coloring in the computer for awhile I'm afraid.

Never mind the guide lines on the sides. They are not part of the poster. It's just where the poster is being cropped. I have so many layers that it wouldn't save. I had to merge some layers together. The background will be dark, like a galaxy.

Some of the characters I like, while others I just don't care for. The frog wizard looks nothing like a frog to me. I had to do a lot of work on those eyes! The bird is fun. You can't see it here, but each salt circle has a green stroke around it. It took an insane amount of time.

I still have the girl, the horse, and the background to finish up. Then it's moving on to saving them all separate, and adding their bodies. Oh that would have been easier to have their bodies when I started this project. 

If I seem absent this, along with working on my stairwell is more than likely what I'm doing. 

What have you been up to?

Emerging Artists

Tonight we went to an art opening. We went early because I made chocolate and lemon cakesters and chocolate cake balls.

The boy's were so good! Isaak looked snazzy with his tie on and Mica had on his cool black hat. They both got many compliments. Mica assisted one of the gallery members with getting the food, napkins and cups out. I kept asking if he was in her way? She kept saying that he was in fact helping. I was smart this time and brought a portable DVD player for when they got sick of walking around. They just sat there all nice, ate and watched The Little Engine That Could. It wasn't until the very end that they were ready to leave.

Daddy's the one with dark brown hair.

Daddy constructed the show. There were many artists that submitted work to a program called Emerging Artists. Six were picked. The six artists get a chance to show their work. The audience gets to vote on which one is their favorite. The winner gets to show in their gallery for free, for a duration of time - not sure how long. Daddy helped get the word out with fliers and such, went through their artwork, picked the 6 winners with a small panel of gallery members and helped set their work up. A lot of work was put into this! I'm proud of him for all the time and energy he put into this with successful results. It was really hard to vote! I liked a lot of the artist's work! I made the poster below in one night for him. It was to hang over the ballet box.