College art......

Howdy! I know I haven't posted in a while, but I haven't really been drawing a ton. That is because of the following:

1) I've been back in school (although my doodle-rate has skyrocketed)

2) I've been applying to college

3) I've been focusing a bit more on photography

4) The yearbook has been a nightmare to get going

It's actually because of #2, though, that I did the following pen & Photoshop creations.

This one is my tribute to Alphonse Mucha, a Czech artist who moved to France and became one of the best graphic designers ever to live (in my opinion). Mostly he did advertisements, which is why I call him a graphic designer. Anyways, this self-portrait is my take on his style. I'm obviously not as incredibly amazing, but yeah. I actually drew this a year ago (which is why the hand holding the necklace kind of sucks), but never got around to finishing it. I wanted to learn watercolor first, so that I could really be like Mucha. But watercolor is something that you're either extremely good at and it looks fantastic, or you're just okay and it looks like a kindergarten kid painted it. So I finished it in Photoshop in the last couple of days.
Hahah, these two I did in the last couple of weeks I guess. The second one was the first version, but then I wanted to make an animation with it switching. I think I'll do that soon, but I ran out of time before college admissions. Yeah, so they're self-portraits (that actually look JUST like me) of me making a zombie face. I was sick of being serious... Anyways, pen and Photoshop.

Again, check out my Flickr page! www.flickr.com/kaitycurryphotography is the place to be.

flickr

Hey I've posted some semi-recent stuff on my flickr account. Also I got a URL for the account and started tagging photos. So yeah... hoping that'll start being a little better. Although the photos still aren't all that amazing. Hopefully I'll be able to do some actual projects soon. I have ideas!

To see wonders, click the eyes! NN

Old Schtuff

Second grade (I had help):

Age 5ish (I remember this being better):

Faces from my Journal

Stagnant!

This blog has been very stagnant lately...so I thought I'd try to explain why.

1) I've been lazy on the creativity front.

Yeah, but I also bought a Nikon D60 and have been working on music...a little...and also I went to a three-day folk festival (Pickathon!).

I have been drawing, actually, quite often. Especially in Old Navy's breakroom. But it's slow going with my 15 minute breaks. So not a lot has gotten done.

But what HAS gotten done is awesome! First of all I want to show you what awesome photos my Nikon can take INDOORS, WITH LOW LIGHT, something most cameras poop out on:

This is after several blurry photos, but still! If I held quite still (but still without a tripod), it managed to take a few clear shots. And the lighting is a quite nice, warm yellow. I haven't edited this photo at all! So anyways, here's me drawing in my new journal. I went out and bought a watercolor pad because the pages are very thick. They're also bumpy -- something that didn't bother me...at first. By now this page is complete, showing my house, our cars, my room, and a gig at Mundo Donald and I caught, with our band director John Bringetto on trumpet. I'm about halfway done on my second page and in the rough stages of my third.

Okay, I suppose that's all for now.... I'll post new pictures once I get a working memory card (mine died -- and in the middle of Pickathon!) for my camera.

Telephone

The most awesomest Photoshop job yet! Made this for my dad's music video, here's the full picture, I also did the reel to reel...

It's not cropped yet but yeah... Click=big.

Then my dad made an animation from it.... I'll post it when I figure out how to....

Father's Day/Girls State

This father's day I was sort of out of ideas for a card, so I flipped through an old Rolling Stone.

I came across that lovely picture, so I decided to draw it. Once the faces were set in pencil, I thought, "Hey. I could very easily make that into me and my brother kissing my dad's cheeks." Sure, it doesn't really look a ton like my dad, but it has the right eye color, the goatee, and the hair color. I'm surprised me and Jimmy came out looking like us, considering our faces were originally of men's.

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Okay, change of subject! This past week I went to Girls State. It's a camp sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, and it's supposed to teach you about the government, the flag, our country, respect for veterans, yada yada. So here's a scene from the Opening Ceremony, my first day there. Needless to say, I was a bit creeped out.

The camp actually turned out to be amazing, I met amazing people in my county (go Horne!!). But we were kept ridiculously busy, we hardly had time for bathroom breaks. In a day we usually had a flag raising and a flag lowering ceremony, three enormous meals, two sessions of legislature (I was in the House of Reps), two General Assemblies (with lots of guest speakers, along with singing practice, cheering, dancing, etc.), some sort of speech-watching thing for our campaign session (or many activities later on, like Whistle Stops), and Reflection Time. Thrown in there was a party and a bunch of miscellaneous activities for Party Delegates or for journalists, or for people running for something, etc. It was hectic!! Actually, 4 hours sleep felt like sleeping in. Usually I'd get from 2 to 3. So needless to say, I didn't get much a chance to draw. But here's one thing I half-finished during Legislature, when I let other people do the debating for me.

And here's something I doodled during a General Assembly, even though I was really into the speaker, Secretary of State.

And here are some "politcal commentaries." The first girl, Caitlin Patten, ran for Girls Nation. The doodles say it all, as does her autobiography The second girl rapped her speech, it was semi-cool.

AAHHHH BRENDA! Man was she crazy.

Girls State was amazing, I'm psyched for college now, where I expect I'll have similar experiences. People at GS (in our amazing county, anyways) are intelligent, involved, thoughtful, kind, down-to-earth, hard-working, loving, non-judgmental, and fun. It was such a breath of fresh air to be able to have a conversation with someone about current events, or about books, or about religion and philospohy. (Actually, we mostly talked about boys hahah.) People there don't believe in something without ever thinking about it; they believe in something because they've given it a great deal of thought. Sure, I might have stumbled across some dunces in the House of Reps, but the girls (including staff members!) in my county were wonderful. We stayed up ridiculously late each night getting to know each other. It was a no-judgment zone, mostly because of Reflection. In Reflection we would expose our most vulnerable parts to each other. I left one night's reflection completely understanding each girl's situation, and why they are how they are.

I'm sorry, I'm not being very articulate, but Girls State is so hard to explain.

Anyways, I'm officially 17! I got awesome birthday presents and yeah... I don't feel much older, but hey whatever. I got bangs! Yeah yesterday my mom cut my bangs, we went to have dinner with my grandparents, I got presents/cake, then I went to work. At least I was working with Thomas, and got to hear about Boys State -- a lot less liberal in the setup (the citizens were generally liberal, though), but tons of fun. Also not so touchy-feely as estrogen-run Girls State, hahah.

All for now! OH and I got a facebook!