Stained Glass Class

Today is the final for my Stained Glass Class! I've really enjoyed it and I want to be able to keep on making stained glass things. Except, glass is expensive. Hmm.

We started the class working with tissuepaper and posterboard instead of glass. Familiar territory.

Then we learned to cut class into little pieces, to make mosaics! We glued them onto glass containers and filled in the gaps with grout. Ta-da! Fancy candle holder.

Next project... fancier candle holder! I had fun being creative with my shapes. It reminds me of a flower, especially with the colors I used.

Final project--a leaded window! This one actually didn't turn out as nice as it could have because there were some little holes where my pieces didn't fit together quite as well as they should have. But next time, I'll do better.

This Week--swing club fliers!

So, as an untitled officer of swing club my assignment was to design fliers to advertise the club!

These are what I came up with. 
Because two-tone dancing shoes are awesome.

Speaking of, Swing Club is tomorrow night! I'm so excited! This every-other-week thing isn't working so well for me :-}.

This week--Season Series done, ambigrams to come

So last time I posted my raccoons picture I said that I wasn't entirely satisfied with it and would return to it later. So, for this week I finished the raccoon piece and then combined all four seasons designs.

 

And I found my sketchbooks from just before, during, and just after the mission. I went through them and marked all of the ambigrams or little comics I drew that I want to fix and share, so those will probably be my piece for next week, or maybe the next couple weeks. 

Can you tell what the ambigram on the top says both rightside-up and upside-down? 

Two more banners

...making a total of three.

New splash--British Literary History

I put this together to try and nail down the style I want to use for my next splash package. This is essentially the same process I used for the Latin 43 splash, but I'm using dark outlines instead of white and I created brushstrokes that will give the lines a slightly more flow-y feel, I hope.

This is an illustration for James Joyce's "The Dead"

This week--stained glass candle holder!

So this week, I'm posting an art piece I did for class. Which I'm allowed to do according to the goal I set :-)

Brought to you by my camera phone :-). And look, there is Annilynski working in the background!

This week--paisleys!

I decided to try something really different this week. The Illustrator CS6 pattern tool is apparently really cool, so I decided to try it out (not that I really know what it was in the previous versions, so I can't really compare... so.) I decided to try making a paisley pattern, because I really like paisleys. Turns out to be harder than it looks... unsurprisingly, haha. What do you think?

Edit:

This is the first one I made.

This week--red rocks!

This week I combined two things I'm not very good at--landscape/environments, and photoshop. So its no wonder that I'm not yet satisfied with it. It still looks really... photoshoppy. Ugh.

The reason I'm stopping know is that my hand hurts, and I really need to give it a break. So. I think maybe my art for next week will be edits on pieces I've done in the past few weeks (including this one) rather than an entirely new piece... but we'll see.

This is based on a photo from a trip my family took to Southern Utah. I didn't go on the trip, but I still liked the picture.

Mucha Attolia

This week, I got a cold. Meh. The only good part of this is that I had more time to work on my piece this week.

This was an experiment in trying to emulate the style of the amazing Alphonse Mucha. It turned out OKish, I think. Its also a fanart piece--I thought Attolia would work really well in a Mucha poster.

This is how she turned out.

ELANG322 Spalsh

We're doing silhouettes with a sort of retro-ish color scheme. Forward Momentum! :D

Summer Goal--Summer Raccoons

This is my illustration for the week. Except... it doesn't feel quite done. Meh. I need to experiment with leaves in the background.

Greek Sphinx

My favorite of all the things I drew today.