Finished!

FINALLY FINISHED THE MAGAZINE!!! This has been the hardest part of the class for me, but I feel like I've really learned a lot, and I could use these computer programs again if I wanted to. I'm really pleased with the way my magazine turned out, and now it is all finished and printed!

I also printed my poster of the cover today. 

Tonight I finished of my older paintings my painting in the woman on the camouflage painting. 

Almost done...

Worked on the magazine all day again today. I'm still not completely done, but I've made a lot of progress! I'm learning a lot about the different Adobe computer programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Here is my finished cover: 

Magazine work

We worked on the magazine all day today, and I now have the basic layout done! I feel like I'm getting the hang of it, even though technology can sometimes be frustrating for me. I've learned how to retouch photos, which is coming in very handy to make our dress look as good as possible. I don't have pictures of my magazine, but here is the (unedited version of) the photo I chose for my cover. 

Starting the magazine!

This morning we started work on the magazine! The computer stuff is kind of tricky, but I'm sure it will turn out well in the end. Here are some pictures from the photo shoot: 

And here's a shot with my group mates Regina and Alex in front of our fire station! 

This afternoon was our last painting/drawing class with Paul. We had a nude model and we worked with colors that were of similar value. 

And here is my finished axonometric painting! 

Painting

Today, since my group had already done our photo shoot, we spent the whole day with Paul painting pictures of our dresses. It was difficult to portray the transparency of our dress in gouache, but I tried to do it by using white and gray paint along with the colors that show through the tracing paper. We also had to paint other people's dresses in the background. 

Last night, I did a fashion illustration of our dress with Prismacolor markers! 

Photo Shoot!

We had our photo shoot this morning! I think it went really well. We took a lot of pictures in the lobby of the building, and then we went out to our fire station to take some pictures there. I was the model for our group, and my makeup was heavy black eyeliner and red lipstick. I also wore there earrings made out of matches. 

 It was cool to take pictures at the fire station, even though it was really hot today. After taking some pictures, we knocked on the door until someone answered and asked to take some pictures inside the station. There wasn't a fire truck in, but there was a smaller fire car, and we also took some pictures in front of a wall that had pictures of all the firemen on it; they even let me wear a fireman helmet for a few pictures! 

In the afternoon, we worked on our axonometric drawings. We transferred them to Bristol paper and started painting them. 

Guggenheim and Met

This morning we went to the Guggenheim museum! There were some interesting exhibits involving light, including this one that projected color onto screens that reached the ceiling and changed colors. 

The Guggenheim has such incredible architecture! I love the way it is set up like a corkscrew spiraling to the sky. 

After lunch we went to the Met and looked at some paintings, since we didn't see any paintings last time we were there. My favorite artists that we saw were Van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, and Monet.