Iris It Were Spring…

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The irises are finished..and signed! :-D

So now I have three works to potentially submit to New American Paintings this month. I’m still debating on the next one…if I make the huge water lilies I’ll more than likely be out of pastel before it’s half finished…but if I go with making the smaller hibiscus I’ll be left with 30 different shades of black in my set and I’ll have to come up with some groovy way to use nothing but darks lol. Either way, I’m starting the next piece today so I’ll have time for little disasters and such before the 27th ;-) Here are the finished irises which if you haven’t guessed, I’ve titled “Iris it Were Spring”

That’s all for now, stay tuned folks! :-)

Re-touched by an angel

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Don’t hold that joke against me, I’ve been watching too much wheel of fortune and I’m a bit obsessed with the before and after puzzles ;-) So Howdy folks! While I’ve been beefing up the car portion of my portfolio I’ve been making ads for the salon and I got to do some beauty retouching which is always fun.

This photo was taken by Cheryl Willard, one of the other multi-talented receptionists at Beauty (SALON) by J. Lyle ltd.  I always love working with her photos because they’re always so clean and easy to work with :-) This photo was used for a full page ad in Downtown Publications’ paper which is just called Downtown. You can check out the full ad here. That’s all for now, stay tuned folks!

“Space: the final frontier.”

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“These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”…..Ok this post isn’t about space (as evidenced by the glamor shots lol),  but the June ad for Beauty (SALON) did make me think of Star Trek momentarily.  I was thinking of how you always know who the captain’s love interest is because they’re always in soft focus and this image is a subliminal nod to that.

This is another stock photo from 123rf. The general consensus was that the rings needed to go. I was also not a fan of the overly saturated irises or the crackling lipstick. (Then again I’m a makeup snob).  My goal was to soften everything just enough and I did some selective focusing and painted the face a bit to add a hint of color. The hardest part was the hands which I’m still not happy with but for the purposes of the ad it wasn’t necessary to go into much detail as they’re in shadow. You can check out the full ad here. (I’d suggest downloading the original as Google docs makes images look really odd.)

The Mustang project will continue next week after I catch up on some over due wedding details  (like designing the invites I was supposed to mail last week lol) In the mean-time, check out my fine art (and commentary) in this article in the  West Bloomfield Patch  about The Janice Charach Gallery’s 20th Anniversary Retrospective show this weekend.

That’s all for now, stay tuned folks!

Black and White and Read All Over

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Long story short the salon’s 20% off cards were in need of a re-design. Here’s the new and improved  result :-)

Making this card was great fun. I broke away from the salon ad template and got to do some meticulous, nit picky sort of graphic designer-y things (like manually kerning almost everything). I also got to modify a few characters; bonus points if you can guess which one(s) ;-) . That’s all for now, (shortest post ever, I know) Stay tuned for the continuation of my adventures in the world of 3D :-D

There’s a 1st time for everything (and a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th…..)

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But if you’re rendering using OpenGL you might be dead before the 5th  render finishes. ;-)

So Howdy folks!

This is my second iteration of the island scene. I decided against the rocks and light blue sky…it was looking a bit like a video game scene. I also made some adjustments to the island…I think the scale is better now. I’m still not quite happy with the shape of the island but the colors and feel are starting to look nice…I’m sure I’ll change them in Photoshop :-) I’m still not on speaking terms with Maya but I might have to learn V-ray for the sake of my sanity because the render times in Vue are outrageous. Other than that it’s a pretty sweet program and fun to use once you figure out what not to do lol. That’s all for now, my computer might explode if I don’t turn it off for a while, otherwise I’d still be fiddling with this scene ;-)