Fun in Class with John Francis

So last week, Francesca and I had a drawing contest during our class critique that consisted of us drawing our professor....well this is the outcome of my drawing which we decided to print on T-shirts. We then wore our T-shirts to his class today...he was a really good sport! All in the fun of design eh?

This is an assignment from a couple years ago- we were supposed to record something we do regularly for a couple of weeks and then present it in a vehicle that takes a stand on the habit. My habit was lipgloss application and I presented it in pop-up book form.

Happy Valentine's Day

Pointless "Super" Heroes

I got an assignment in my photo class to: take a phrase from an email or text message and make a 4-photo series about it. I took the phrase "yes I do have wild hair, it is my super hero power" said by my sister. So I got the idea to make a series of pointless super heroes that really have more of "traits" rather than "powers":

Captain Iron Lung

Trendy Hippie Guy

Granny Pantie Gal

Mustache Man Incognito

Designing T-Shirts

The obsession continues....

For those of you who actually follow my blog, I uploaded a little tidbit of the shoot I did last weekend. As most of you know, I have been obsessing over Alice in Wonderland for quite some time--so I had a vision of what I wanted this shoot to look like and I feel like it came out just how I wanted it to. I am happy.

Fun with the Lens Baby

So today I checked out a little lens for my Canon digital SLR called a "lens baby." It is really my first time ever playing with the lense so i did some experimental stuff to see what it could do. I had a lot of fun playing with it---it has a small focal point and then blurs everything around that point. The apertures are all manually attached by a magnet- what a hoot. I will probably do quite a bit more shooting with it since I have it til next week. Fun Fun!!

3D projects

These are way back from last year-- I just barely got some pictures of them, so here they are!

Sex Pistols collectible discography
This boxed set includes 4 Sex Pistols albums featuring the faces of the band members on a fold out, hand stitched, disc case. Includes collectors cards with Pistols snapshots and a limited edition "Sex Pistol Condom Box"----get it? "SEX" "PISTOL"!! I am so clever.




Propaganda: Magnetic Feelings
For this assignment I was asked to design something that falls along the line of propaganda. I went with the idea of categorizing feelings. Each feeling goes into a box with a representative corresponding face icon. At the time I was going through some tough stuff in my life and honestly felt....nothing. At which time it seemed that I was pressured to identify my feelings by others and at the same time, wondering what I was feeling myself. This opened up a door to the idea superficial-izing "feelings" and the mixed messages associated.

Precious

This was my second to last design project for last semester. I posted some of the progress as I got it done. The assignment was to find a body of text that was precious to us in some way. I chose excerpts from my journal and ended up with a piece that deals with my relationships with the men in my life. I love love love the way it turned out---I painted the portrait in the background with acrylic, the heart is made out the clay, I used a real zipper, needles, razor blades etc. The text is screen printed on sheets of liquid latex. It is in a glass case and the tool is a pair of medical skin pickups.

It is an interactive piece in which the viewer has to use the tool in order to work around the skin-like latex.