This was the last shot of a mostly failed photo shoot.  I had gone outside to get some good shots of the fountain’s face.  Gus, the puppy, was very jealous and had to be in every single shot I took.  Finally, I gave up on attempting to get a shot without having the dog want to play, and started to go inside.  I turned around to tell Gus to stay and this is what I saw.  This shot has been my doorway to doing animal photo shoots.

This dragon was created using Illustrator and Photoshop. All of the initial work was done in Illustrator. I used the gradient mesh tool for shading, and the pen tool for the actual drawing of the dragon. Once that was finished, I imported it into Photoshop to use filters on it to give it a more illustrated style and add the smoke. Then I imported it into Image Ready to create the actual animation.

This was done using a single leaf, a roller, and silver ink. I picked a nice large leaf, placed it on the roller, and rolled the roller through the ink. Then I rolled the ink onto a paper to get the leaf shown above.

This was done using tempura paints and a lot of patience. I painted each individual square with paint that I hand mixed myself. The goal was to get each color to have even shades and tins from white to black with the color in it’s proper value scale location. A few of us bought used hair dryers and shrink wrap to protect our projects.

This was done with tempura paints and individual squares. The point was to mix each color to it’s opposite on the color wheel. The secondary colors were mixed by hand as were all of the in between values.