I've started making zines again. My series of "Quip" is up and rolling again at issues 5-7 which are available if you contact me for them. In issue 7, I wrote about my current favorite artist, Rama Hughes. I'll attach a link to his portfolio a little later.
Zine printing has saved me from Pre-Calculus. I rarely pay attention anymore and I get by using wit. Last quiz I drew a comic strip called "Everardo and the Jumping Bean". I can't wait to see what Mr. Sanders writes. After all, he told us never to leave our paper blank.
I have been out of school for 3 days because of my diagnosis of influenza (<-- FANCY). I thought that it would be an ideal time to catch up on drawing but I ended up sleeping for hours at a time. The flu is no fun.
I felt like I should catch up on blogging. Hopefully the weather will improve so we can hit up the Castro. Wizard of Oz is playing. Sing-along version. WORD.
http://ramahughes.com/portfolio.html
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Paper Birds
A couple of weeks ago, I sat down (while watching Titanic for the first time. So good) and worked on this drawing. The background is a splotch wash with watercolors and white tempera paint on the non-glossy side of photo paper. Yeah... I was out of thick paper. I use watercolors with my little bottle of watered-down white tempera for a lot of my projects. The envelope I modeled mine after is really cool! I found in my stationary box. It's from Egypt -note the hieroglyphics- from when my mom was a kid. I'm assuming she got it when she lived in Africa, but I could be wrong. We have a bunch of random foreign stuff like that on our house. Also an important fact: I ruined one of my Prismacolor markers on this thing. I will miss my 10% Warm Grey for a long time to come:(
This picture is kind of an ode to Erin's letter-writing. I miss California like crazy and I'm dying to go back. Being able to write to Erin has actually made me feel much better, like people haven't quite forgotten me yet. In the least cheesy way possible, it kind of feels like part of me gets to be in the Bay Area too. Like little paper-bird-me's. So thanks, Erin.
~Hali
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Evolution of the Hipster
Dyana: 2007
Halisia: 2005 + 2007
Aiyana: 2001 + 2005
Erin: 2004
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Satorialist Post
This reminds me of Destinee Law. Oh, and super snazzy! Loving the shoes. Halisia, there's an Oxfords sale at Urban Outfitters. I'll try and find the link later.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Starting MoleSkins
My brother got me three MoleSkin Notebooks for Christmas. They intimidate me so much, but I found a Tumblr that is inspiring and comforting.
Where's everyone's posts? I miss you guys.
Here's a link as well. Excuse the vulgarity. http://fuckyeahmoleskines.tumblr.com/
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Pixar Visit.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'ALL.
Okay so here's a little coverage of my visit to the Oakland Museum of Cali. We finally got tickets online. And it closes tomorrow I believe. Fantastic timing mom. We could barely find parking, but we found this Chinese parking lot that was available. The supervisor was knitting in front. She didn't even acknowledge us.
Okay so anyway. Here we were! Front door. We weren't allowed to take pictures.
The exhibit was separated in three parts.
-Character
-Story
-World
The character section had tons of sketches in a bunch of different styles. There were also resin sculptures, collages, and huge paintings. It was interesting to see all the artists' perspective on each character.
The story section was pretty cool too. Connor and I were taking notes the whole time, and people were looking at us funnily. There were a lot of story boards and color boards (expresses all the moods in the whole movie in chronological order using color and shading).
Then there was the world section. This requires a whole lot of research. I am planning on doing a lot more research in my drawings this year. All the worlds in Pixar are imaginary and built entirely from scratch. AMAZING.
Going to this exhibit pushed me in the direction of going to art school. Dyana and I were discussing this on BART. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do in college. What's better, pursuing a childhood dream or having stability for the rest of your life? I crave my dream, but I want to be stable too. Why close all my options to what I can do?
I love art and Pixar.
But I am still lost.
WOO OKAY. Long post. I'm done now.
Okay so here's a little coverage of my visit to the Oakland Museum of Cali. We finally got tickets online. And it closes tomorrow I believe. Fantastic timing mom. We could barely find parking, but we found this Chinese parking lot that was available. The supervisor was knitting in front. She didn't even acknowledge us.
Okay so anyway. Here we were! Front door. We weren't allowed to take pictures.
The exhibit was separated in three parts.
-Character
-Story
-World
The character section had tons of sketches in a bunch of different styles. There were also resin sculptures, collages, and huge paintings. It was interesting to see all the artists' perspective on each character.
The story section was pretty cool too. Connor and I were taking notes the whole time, and people were looking at us funnily. There were a lot of story boards and color boards (expresses all the moods in the whole movie in chronological order using color and shading).
Then there was the world section. This requires a whole lot of research. I am planning on doing a lot more research in my drawings this year. All the worlds in Pixar are imaginary and built entirely from scratch. AMAZING.
Going to this exhibit pushed me in the direction of going to art school. Dyana and I were discussing this on BART. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do in college. What's better, pursuing a childhood dream or having stability for the rest of your life? I crave my dream, but I want to be stable too. Why close all my options to what I can do?
I love art and Pixar.
But I am still lost.
WOO OKAY. Long post. I'm done now.
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