Product Placement

This week in class we had a special seminar on lettering and sign making. Yesterday we all chose different signs and recreated them using special sign-making paints. This is Jackie's project. She found hers in an old magazine clipping. I suppose now is a good time to mention that my new MacBook Pro is working very well for me.

Street Scene

Today we finished two drops in the studio for an upcoming high school production of Guys n Dolls. We made a sewer scene, and this one. This drop is 48 feet wide and 21 feet tall. In order to capture the entire drop in the picture I put the lens of my camera up to a diminishing glass. Kind of like a reverse magnifying glass. In the lower left corner you can see Brian holding up the diminishing glass for me.

Locally grown

I discovered this the other day in Livingston Manor, but I already know what it is. When I traveled to Cobalt Studios for the first time for my interview, Rachel Keebler, the founder and head teacher at Cobalt took me here to help her paint this on the side of a building. At that stage, This picture was nothing more than a blank wall of bricks. I helped Rachel transfer the image from a perforated sheet of paper onto the wall using charcoal (a technique called "pouncing.") This was my first view of the finished product.

Foliage week

This is a section of a painting I did today. I learned a new technique to help create a texture on the trunk of a tree using a cloth rag. This is the result.

What do you see

What do you see in this picture. This is my view (again from my house due to sickness) of Tony's art he made this past year at BCT. The paint was all from BCT's show Pinocchio and its was a process piece. I got it last time I was really sick so I think its an appropriate post now.