This my initial design for Lisa's bachelorette party invitation. It's going to go through more changes as I get some details about the actual night worked out. It was kind of a one day design task, because I had to have something to show yesterday. It was fun making the vegas sign graphic, and I was amazed that I couldn't find out what the actual typefaces used on the sign were, because they're these really cool 1950's 'modern' letters and you'd think you could just pick a similar sans serif typeface and be ok, but the strokes of the letters on the actual sign are different widths. The fonts I ended up using to make the lettering on my sign were Futura, Century Gothic, and Brush Script. I think it gets the idea across. When I finally print these out I think i'm going to switch back to a white background to minimize printing costs.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
website news
My website, www.lizkerner.com is now officially finished and live. There are no more "under construction" pages and I feel a great sense of accomplishment. Hooray for me.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Painting update 2
This is another painting that I started at the same time as the painting with the dog, and has kind of taken a backseat compared to the other piece, but It's also going to be rendered in a different style. What excites me about this painting so far is the color, and the way that the red pops off the blue sky and orange wall.
painting update 1
This is one of the large paintings I've been working on when I have spare time for quite a while now, and it is becoming quite a learning process. But I've learned a lot from this painting about detail, color and paint application (and the need to just push paint around sometimes) and I'm really excited to finish it. I think I mentioned it in a previous post, but it's one of the most complicated figurative paintings I've worked on to date, and I'm really excited about the way it's turning out, especially with the rendering on the hands and dog.
website launch
My website, www.lizkerner.com, is finally up and running! It took a little while, but now that it's up, it's really exciting for me to have a professional way to showcase my work. Finishing everything up in Dreamweaver was great and Joel and Jake really helped me with the last couple questions I had about making everything work. I really appreciated their help.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
here's what's new
For the whole two of you out there on the internets that may read this, my apologies for not posting recently. With the upcoming holiday season I've been taking a break from painting to focus on knitting and other forms of gift-making. Handmade gifts have the potential to be hokey, but can also be wonderfully thoughtful and sweet, and they are always some of my favorite gifts to receive. This year, I'm going to focus my efforts on bookbinding, as I have found some great instructions on how to hand-sew and bind books. I just need to go thrift shopping to find some neato book covers to make the covers of the books with. Hopefully I'll spend black Friday sleeping in and then leisurely secondhand shopping instead of waking up with the hordes of retail-swarming crazies.
Here's my holiday shopping list so far:
*acid free paper (white and black)
*book covers (larger the better)
*waxed linen thread (or thick thread + beeswax)
*photo corners (if I can't find my old stash)
I'm also making other handicrafts, and have thought of doing a family portrait to give to my parents for Christmas, but we'll see how that goes, if it even goes.
Another thing I've been busy with is being the maid of honor in a girlfriend's wedding. So some of my recent weekends (aka-painting times) have been devoted to dress shopping. I'll also be making her wedding invitations, and I've been scouring the internets for cool ideas and inspiration.
On the more serious side of things, I've picked up a little freelance design work. I'm currently working on a project for Utica Community Schools, creating a cover design for their Continuing Education catalog. The deadline is very short, and it will be made digitally, and hopefully I'll post it up here late next week.
That's it for now.
Here's my holiday shopping list so far:
*acid free paper (white and black)
*book covers (larger the better)
*waxed linen thread (or thick thread + beeswax)
*photo corners (if I can't find my old stash)
I'm also making other handicrafts, and have thought of doing a family portrait to give to my parents for Christmas, but we'll see how that goes, if it even goes.
Another thing I've been busy with is being the maid of honor in a girlfriend's wedding. So some of my recent weekends (aka-painting times) have been devoted to dress shopping. I'll also be making her wedding invitations, and I've been scouring the internets for cool ideas and inspiration.
On the more serious side of things, I've picked up a little freelance design work. I'm currently working on a project for Utica Community Schools, creating a cover design for their Continuing Education catalog. The deadline is very short, and it will be made digitally, and hopefully I'll post it up here late next week.
That's it for now.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
new painting
My next painting is a portrait of my friend Mimi and her dog Fuji. This piece is the first in a series I am planning about identity and appearances. I am working on making images with multiple figures, and would like to include a painting of a large crowd in the series, so I can study hands and work on my ability to create likenesses.
Which come to think of it, might be a challenge because the photo reference I have gathered is all from MySpace. But I like using MySpace photos as painting references because of what a person's MySpace says about their identity--it's one of the few places a person can control perception by including and excluding details.
I'm also infatuated with red under-painting and sketching right now, and hope to let some of the bright cadmium red show through the colors I add on top. There's some compositional problems with this picture (like what to do with the had at the right, and who exactly belongs to it), but hopefully I'll work those out tonight.
Check back soon for more progress and maybe some digital color comps.
Which come to think of it, might be a challenge because the photo reference I have gathered is all from MySpace. But I like using MySpace photos as painting references because of what a person's MySpace says about their identity--it's one of the few places a person can control perception by including and excluding details.
I'm also infatuated with red under-painting and sketching right now, and hope to let some of the bright cadmium red show through the colors I add on top. There's some compositional problems with this picture (like what to do with the had at the right, and who exactly belongs to it), but hopefully I'll work those out tonight.
Check back soon for more progress and maybe some digital color comps.
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