Sandy Community Action Center Brochure

Trifold brochure for our wonderful center, serving families in the Sandy area. The notebook was one I had hanging around here, scanned in and then worked over in photoshop. I took out a busy background on the santa photo and enjoyed seeing it become a central happy item for this inside page.

clear thinking

Is there a better place in life to be? 

where have all the mousies gone?

Did you know that the way to identify a Douglas Fir cone was to identify the little mousies that are running to hide and disappearing under the layers of the cone? ( see their tails and hind legs?) Now you do.

lost in the woods

Did you ever play "lost in the woods" when you were little. I did and it's amazing how different your own backyard or the familiar park would actually look when pretending it was the deep and dark unknown.  Of course it was no fun to play unless you had a good friend to cower, hide, bravely fight and eventually triumph with. My friend was Annette.

the survivor cat

Years ago the newspaper ran a story about a cat that had been thrown off a bridge in Portland and had survived. This was the cat. The photo stuck with me. Scornful, but needing a home, needing someone to trust again. I originally painted her in water color and now here she is color enhanced with Photoshop, but still just as accusing as ever. I like to think of her finally in a home that brought out the purr in her.

Carpe diem

Seize the moment, idea, inspiration, head picture, dream,
fleeting thought. . .
and to be prepared to do this, carry a notebook, put it by your bedside, in your bag, and keep it with you. There are times in life when ideas are bursting all around, keeping you up at night and it's exhausting, BUT, there are dry times too. So my notebooks and little scraps of paper are my pantry of tomorrow.

disappearing act

I'm working on a brochure for the Sandy Action Center and was given information that included some photos. Busy busy busy! I took out a bunch of details with the clone tool and then lightly brushed over those areas with a blending color. Next I made a copy and selected the ladies keeping them sharply in focus, and then applied a slight lens blur to the surrounding areas. I'll only use a small part of the photo in the publication, but it still makes a subtle yet important difference.

flapping in for a repeat performance

a raven detail I did last year at this time. I used a mixture of illustrator, photoshop, back to illustrator for the letters and the background. So Many Options! But this is where I stopped for tonight.

a good morning

What could be better than time. Time to have a cup of tea and sketch before really getting serious about tackling what will end up being "my day's accomplishments". I've always been partial to yellow cats, Coriander is not. Today he becomes a cat of a different color, via Photoshop.

On second thought, how would it look live traced and colored in illustrator? Oh, okay!

Ahh, maybe these colors . . .

Queen Jenn!

Jenn, a shift at my Starbucks got transferred to another store and last night was her LAST NIGHT - sad. Anyhow, I made her a crown which she wore throughout the evening as she waited on customers, and pins for us to wear declaring our intention to thoroughly miss her!
So, yes I'll miss Jenn and that's just a fact!
(The terrible picture I took of her wearing it would be terms for the end of our friendship if posted, so I took the Illustrator file I made it in, made it a symbol, made a circle and did a revolve and extrude applying the crown symbol to it with Map Art, then turned on the Invisible Geometry so it could show through from front to back. )

notebooks!

I used the artwork from the entries in my blog to make blank notebooks, how fun! I printed out 2 per 8.5" X 11" coated one side heavy stock paper, filled them with unlined blank paper and gave them a sturdy board back cover, trimmed down, coil bound and they are ready and waiting for inspirations to be recorded.

stroking the cat

Another pencil drawing from breaktime at work, scanned and live traced into illustrator then pasted into Photoshop. Multiple layers of brushstrokes building up to a soft fur. Using a brush with many points, low opacity and stroking it as I build the cat colors presented endless possibilites, but you have to stop somewhere, right?