Visit to Santa Cruz

I found a wonderful one bedroom apartment in Santa Cruz! Some of the many wonderful things about it: its about two blocks to downtown, in a wonderful Victorian neighborhood, huge back porch up in the trees, about a 15 minute walk to the beach, a farmers market right down the street, a wine store and Urban Outfitters right around the corner, etc. etc. I couldn’t think of a more perfect place. It is exactly what I dreamed for. See the buildings up in the trees?:
Thats where I’ll be. Some more photos from my trip:

The California coast.

Me atop Mt. Diablo.

Sea gulls in a Monterey park.

I will be leaving in just 3 short weeks!!!

Upcoming Show!

I will be in a self portrait show at the Visual Art Exchange Gallery (downtown Raleigh in City Market) called “People you Know.” I submitted my giant collaged self portrait thats never been exhibited before:
It is the image featured on the homepage of my website and my business cards. Its one of my favorite pieces, and where I first began to really manipulate old books into images. This one is made of a physics book from the 1950’s, and my dress and scarf are made from old maps of Europe. It is entitled “Theory.”

Blog Design

Tim & I recently finished a blog-website for “Wampus Cat Outdoors”.

More Flash

This doesn’t look like much: Moth Flash but I dissected one of my illustrations and made it come alive in Flash. I think it has potential if I can make it look cleaner. I painted in acrylic this my last semester at State. I made it fly today at cup a joe.

Flash master

I learned a little flash today

Very exciting. Thanks Tim!

New Camera

I recently learned that I was accepted into the Science Illustration Program at UC Santa Cruz. ScienceIllustration.org. Woo Hoo! After 3 long months of waiting, and a full year of preparation I feel like I can finally breathe again. Not only is this program going to put me on the path to do exactly what I want with my life, but it is also located in one of the most awesome cities I have ever been. My family plans on driving me across the country at the end of August, and I feel like my life will start anew. I’m going to take full advantage of this wonderful opportunity.

I got a Rebel xsi for my graduation present. I have been playing around with the macro lens in hopes that I can get some super detailed shots for references for illustrations.  Its fun to just play around with too. Before I leave in 1.5 months I plan on gathering as many references and begin training my mind to get back into the super-realistic drawing mode, which is easy to fall out of.