Gunner's Going To Be A Daddy

Dee Dee is expecting her pups on Dec 29th. Here is a picture of Gunner and his Girlfriend :) I can hardly wait to see their cute little faces :)

Friday Full of Ice

Last night brought about some freezing rain. We were prepared for anything, so we thought. We survived the night without losing power only to lose it at 1:30 today. The kerosene heater ended up needing a new wick and I was refusing to go out in the weather to find one for it. We did have the stovetop and a small camp heater going and it managed to stay about 65 in here with that. At about 5 I decided it would only get colder in here as the night came so I ventured out into this icy world cautiously. Once I retrieved everything I felt we needed to make it through the night my husband phones me (at 5:30) to tell me they got the power back on. Looks like we will be ready if it goes out again though as we are expecting some snow to fall on top of the ice.

It just amazes me how beautiful and how deadly the ice can be. Today, I took the beauty and captured it. Here are a couple of shots I thought I would share. Have a wonderful and safe holiday season everyone.

Coat of Arms

I finally finished this project. I stayed up until 2 am last night working on it. I managed to make my computer groan a bit with the sheer size of the file though. I am fairly happy with the final result though. Tomorrow is the last day of the term and then 2 weeks off for the holidays. I checked and noticed, to my delight, that I was on the deans list and hopefully will be so again this term. I checked with all of my teachers and so far I believe it will be 4 A's :)

We had a bit of snow last night along with some wind. I think we ended up with around 5 inches on the ground. We are again under a winter weather advisory until Friday night. They are calling for freezing rain and snow. Personally I would prefer that it all be snow, keep the rain away as it makes for terrible driving conditions. This morning the drive to work wasn't all to bad as 2 of the 3 counties I drive through actually plowed the roads. I did, however manage to find some black ice across a bridge and found myself sideways in the middle of US 30. Two slides, once left then once right and I was back on track again. Others weren't so lucky to have come out of that without wrecking though. On my way home I noticed several cars had indeed landed in the median or off into the ditch. Some were unfortunate enough to nail the guardrail too. I am just so glad I was being watched over today.

We will be going to Kentucky for Christmas and from there to my Mother's. I am ready for a break from the normal routine around here. I have the laptop ready for the trip and will be emptying the camera cards as well. We will be leaving Monday morning and returning home the following or Monday. Now on to posting my latest, the Coat of Arms created for Typography II and for my dear husband.

Ending The Second Term This Week

WOW ! Where has the time gone? It seems like it wasn't long ago I began this adventure. I am still uncertain as to where it will take me but I am wandering my way through it all just the same. After christmas brings 4 new classes: Comprehensive Illustration, Electronic Drawing, Web Development with HTML, and Human Relations in the Workplace.

I am a bit behind in posting a few assignments I know. I just finished my final assignment for Design & Color tonight. I am still working on my Coat of Arms project though. Hoping to get most of it finished tonight though.

This first set of images are from Typography II. We were to create Salsa labels. This is where the pepper from my earlier post emerged from actually. The desire to create more realistic vegetables than what is in these labels.

The next set of images are from Design & Color. The first three are: Simple Figure Ground, Figure Ground Reversal, and Ambiguous Figure Ground.

This next set of three images are: Closure, Contrast, and Anomaly.

Thought I would share a little

I did this tonight in Illustrator. I was amazed at how real the final product looks. I have to admit, this program is amazing. It took a while but wow was it ever worth the effort.  Layers Magazine is where I got the tutorial used for this project: Beginner’s Guide to the Mesh Tool. If you have Illustrator I suggest you give this tutorial a try.

Recent Class Projects

I know it's been a while since I posted. I have been having some computer issues to say the least. My desktop crashed and I am just now getting it back up and feeling comfortable again. The laptop also had a fit and I thought it crashed as well. After walking away from it for a couple days, I went back to try and repair it only to find a little laptop fairy had already completed this task for me while I slept. It's working fine and I have no idea what it's problem was but as long as it's working I won't complain.

I do have a few projects to post and I will try to remember all of them if I can. I will also explain for what class above each image. Tonight I came across a great link I think I should share. We were to make ornaments for the tree at school for the tree for tomorrow. You can find the link here:  3D Color Burst Holiday Ornaments From HP . I made the teardrop ornament to take to class tomorrow (Design & Color).

This image is from last week's abstract creation assignment in Design & Color. We were to use a found object and use it to create a theme. Well I had planned all the elements out in my head, took all of the photos for this and then the color printer at schoool quit working and the same day so did both of my computers. This resulted in rethinking my project and a little searching for other printed materials to use that fit the theme. The first image is my original image, used for inspiration. The next is the Abstract image I created. I used as my found objects: crushed horse treats, grass hay, sugar, and bailing twine. I flipped the transparent sketch I had created and made a mirror image behind the word Equine. I also added depth with sticky foam to bring the elements, of the left media horse and the horse in the lower right corner, up off the page for depth. I also used marker for the mirror image of the horse drawn on tracing paper which is actually a pretty fun media when working with markers as it almost seems like a watercolor effect when you are finished. (*Actually, the abstract with the mixed media would really be the mirror image and not the other way around). I had planned to use other items related to the horse for this project but because of printer and computer issues this is what I ended up with and turned it in on time.

This next image is the other resteraunt mini menu we had to create in Typography II.

The next image is 5 Logo Remakes we had to do for Typography II.

This next image is the second image I did for the 3 color compostition for Design & Color.