Author: KC

  • First day of Production Design. Among other things, team assignment, expectation layout, role types, we discussed box design. Dielines are very important to design with accuracy and consistency, though the vendor will give you a design layout that is more structurally sound than the one that you will come up with in the designing process.…

  • The first day of photoshop with Mr. Hoppe was very interesting to say the least. It reminded me of the scene from Full Metal Jacket where a few select people acquire new nicknames and are drilled with questions to the point where the only acceptable answer is “I don’t know. Sir!” Mr. Hoppe knows his…

  • I felt like an empty shore when I started this painting. I felt comforted painting the cloudy day that matched my mood. I was looking through a classmates work and saw a painting entitled Embarcadeer-o. It looked nothing like Embarcadero. I should know. It was the first San Francisco neighborhood I wandered through. I think…

  • View outside the classroom today. I am very lucky.

  • I painted this from a photograph in a book called France: Land of Many Dreams.

  • Tom had everyone take this color test. We have an assignment to make a color wheel, bonus points for creativity. Here’s mine. (I might decide to redo it.)

  • When thinking about inspiration for this afternoon’s painting session with Mike O., I was leafing through a recently acquired Japanese Woodcut calendar and thought this waterfall was particularly lovely. I added a peony from May’s picture.

  • First day of New Media for the quarter. We go through past work of previous groups that have done the modules we’re about to do. There’s a one minute video entitled Deja Vu that resonates. I still think it was very witty. And the long awaited Spice Demon video. Due to technical difficulties, this first…