Israel Darling

Is a new slightly "Arcade Fire"-ish indie band from Greensboro NC and the band of a friend of a friend of my sister...


Israel Darling

Please go support them and give them a listen!!!

In other news, I cannot upload anything interesting because I don't have a scanner in my access... YET. But I have designed several more tattoo ideas for myself. I might be having this tattoo before the end of the summer ::fingers crossed:. But it's basically a Phoenix curled around itself in a swirl and will be approx. 1'' X 1 1/2'' big.


I've re-downloaded Sketchup. I had deleted it with the idea that it was a "lesser" tool to have in my repertoire. I think that is, in fact, a silly notion to begin with. Even the "silliest" tools will at some point prove valuable. The last time I used it, I hadn't even learned to be moderately proficient at Photoshop or Vectorworks yet. Trying it out now, it's like riding a bike.

I think it's a good tool to have for getting the idea of a space and creating the basis for a rendering. I have an idea that I would like to use it to get perspective right as a shortcut through drop-point perspective. You could use the Sketchup drawing (printed out in scale) as a skeleton for a rendering, transfer the lines onto your watercolor paper and paint on top of it.

I know there is a lot of value in knowing how to do drop-point perspective. But in the interest of time, sometimes these shortcuts are valuable.

Anyway, I promise many more things when I'm actually back in Winston!!! For now, I leave you with good music. <3 <3 <3

-moretti

yeay for columns!

I really enjoy the line of columns and the field behind where we live... especially at night when they get lit up! But I think every other UVA student is sick of them from what I've heard...

So!

I have to apologize for not being a very good blogger this week. The fact is, there hasn't been any work I've wanted to post. We haven't done anything really "pretty" or super artistic... or at least nothing that I've been head on. Mostly a lot of fast stuff. So I will wait until we have some awesome Little Shop drops done. Next week is going to be killer- I will be doing some overnights (possibly 2pm to 2am if we need it) and otherwise rocking face ;).


But yes I will get on this.. I have some photos and many obsessions to post.... but g2g to work for the meantime.

ciao ciao ciao!

Overview of projects at Heritage

The following photos take you from my most recent projects to the oldest ones. Lately I've been doing a TON of woodgraining for Moonlight and Magnolias and On Golden Pond.



Here is the transluscency again- after we've added some more leaves. Now it looks a little less graphic and a tad more true to the actual screen still.
Here is the OLIVER! set as complete. I painted on various aspects of the set...
My first project being the columns. As you can see, the designer was taking the set in a very painterly/ collage sort of direction. The columns are actually 3 D but not round. Funny enough, they now look almost completely 2 dimensional! It's kind of weird but cool.
Here is the SR Apron wall that I basically charged... (Virginia is doing some touch-ups on the windows :) ).
Here it is in process... This was one of the fastest things I've ever done. As you can see, I am still working on the fence in this picture which is just supposed to be this simple raught iron thing. Well... I didn't cartoon it at all because we had no time. So I just lined it by eying where it was supposed to go.... It only had one little wave in the middle where it got about a half inch too tall but it stayed pretty vertical and was therefore good enough.
That's it for paint stuff for a little while I think! Back to working on the website...

A link and such

Here is the other link I met to include before: Beautiful Decay


I have a ton of Oliver! photos to post as well as a more finished drop photo on the way.

I've been working on revamping my regular design website but it's going to be slow - don't think it will get done until I'm back in Winston where I have regular access to my scanner. But so far I've had fun making exciting roll-over images...



They are pretty random but I'm doing some designs for each page that they lead to that incorporate these themes... I hope I can figure out how to make them functional! I think I have a lot of reading to do about how to take a background image and make aspects of the image become links. I have an idea but I can see that getting complicated...

Anywho that's a lot of tech talk. If I have more pretties, I will show...

<3 Jess

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