I can hear the whispering from here. Partly because Tom's whisper voice is, well, unsubtle. "Now that she has a beautiful studio, what's she doing down there all day?"
OK. Well, I plan to post my work about once a week just to show that I'm not just lolligagging around, playing games or web surfing on that powerful PC with Vista (jury's still out, but very aesthetic) and big, beautiful monitor and watching the deer walk by through the lovely French doors. No, indeed! Well. Maybe now and then.
Already, a few small projects have wafted through. There was some calligraphy for a neighbor, a charcoal piece for someone at CCC, Dad's logo/stationery, among other things. Right now, I'm working with The Pittsburgh Project (a ministry to the inner city guess where) to design their summer project t-shirts (I'll post that when we settle on a design) and I'm just finishing up a set of illustrations to a story written by my friend, Ruth.
I've never cultivated an "illustration" style. Or a cartooning style. So, this illustration project has taken some time. It's been like going to Illustration School. I made 23 drawings overlaid with watercolors. Each is on 5"x7" paper. Here they are laid out on the floor. I scanned them into Photoshop and cleaned them up. You can see couple of the resulting illustrations. I'll leave you to make up your own story to go with these.
I've placed them into the text of the story with Microsoft Word (that's it on the computer screen), but Tom installed Publisher for me last night, so I'm going to play with that a little today to see if it's better. Ruth hasn't seen them, yet. She gave me only the sketchiest of information (plus the story), so we'll see if it's at all what she had in mind.Meanwhile, I'm trying to get my calligraphy chops back by practicing nearly every day, so that I can push ahead and find out how I can best use it.
So, I'll try to make this a bit like you can be watching over my shoulder, week to week. I hope it will be at least as interesting as Blotter Bits or my outings to the Certified Growers' Market. And I hope Tom reads it.
