Inspiration.

The movie Amelie has been a huge inspiration for me lately. But more importantly, Yann Tiersen's music. Here's an example.






I was in the lab alone yesterday and just played the whole album loudly and it was great to work with. Very relaxing, but I got everything done. He is a beautiful musician and his pieces are simple but elegant.


I will have a finished project to show tomorrow.


Cheers.

My day, not yours!

What better day to show my Color & Design self-portrait midterm other than my birthday?

There's a few things I would change but I got a good grade on it. 

Self portraits are weird though. Unless they are conceptual, I don't care much for them. But then again I love other artist's self portraits. I don't know, just not for me I guess.

Class was cancelled today, spent time with some great people, and going to do a little celebrating tonight! Then the weekend is full of surprises!

Cheers!

As promised.

So here is what I had to finish up at the lab on Saturday and just finished it today..

Obviously not a professional picture, but you get the idea. There's room for improvement and the colors are much more vivid in real life, but I'm pretty happy with it.

I've got a busy couple of days coming up including my birthday, which isn't going to be very eventful this year because of classes and such, but I have a very exciting weekend to look forward to.

And I have my Color & Design midterm to show you tomorrow so check back!

Cheers.

Preview for tomorrow..

Had to spend my Saturday in the Silkscreen lab working on a project.

This is just the test sheet for the colors I was using. For some reason I find test sheets beautiful. And I already now the colors are going to work together because they are what's being used on the final piece. But they are unplanned and sporadic. I'm going to start saving them, but I wish I had before.

I will have the actual piece tomorrow. It was still wet when I left after 5 hours at the lab yesterday and I still need to crop the paper. 

More tomorrow!

Cheers!

Work in Progress..

Hello there.

Just a couple of things to show today...



Here's a little preview of my Color & Design midterm.




Recognize?
It's one of two color studies for a self portrait done in gouache on cardstock.



And here is part of my Anatomy midterm.



Just graphite on cardstock. Not horrible for my first time drawing a skull, but could have used more work. But it's perfect for Halloween!



Finally put up the banner at the top and simplified the background. Thoughts?? Next I need to add tabs, but that can wait until after midterms.

Don't forget to leave a comment! And welcome to my new followers!


Cheers!

Paint, Peacocks, and PostSecret

It's midterm time (sigh) so I don't have anything finished to show you right now, but I will soon!

For now I will show you this..





It's a piece I did last semester for a hotel in Mexico. Acrylic on canvas.



I also went to SCRAP on Friday and picked up some wood and old maps so you'll have to wait and see what I come up with! Also my silkscreen project and Color & Design homework will be finished on Monday so I will show that soon too! Once midterms are over I am determined to crank out as many personal projects as I can before finals.


Tonight I went to a PostSecret event at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. It was amazing, everything I hoped it would be and very inspirational. If you don't know what PostSecret is, definitely check it out. It's worth your time.



I hope everyone is having a wonderful October. I know it's flying by for me! Oh where does the time go...


Cheers!

I'm Baaack!

So sorry it's been ages since I've updated! Things were absolute mayhem from leaving Scotland to visiting family in Arizona, to moving back to San Francisco, to starting school up again. I'm a Resident Assistant this year so I had training, Orientation week for first year students, and so many other things to organize and attend! But I'm finally in gear and flowing along.

I did manage to work on a commission piece while I was in Arizona. A last minute thing so I could have probably made it more to my liking but the costumer was thrilled and that's what is important in this case. So here's a picture of that..





I haven't had much time or energy to work on much of my own projects so I have a little bit of schoolwork to show for now.





 This piece is one I did for my Silkscreen class. Doesn't have a title but I printed an edition of six and I'm pretty happy with it.



In other news..


I came across a competition that One Condoms is doing where you submit a design for a condom wrapper and winning designs will be printed and sold, as well as cash prizes and condoms donated to the foundation of your choice. So of course I submitted some designs for this great idea! The concept is basically anything, any design, photograph, one liner, etc. as long as you have the rights to the image. So I used some of my own drawings and hopefully it works out.






I will keep you updated on how you can vote for my designs when I find out later!




That's all for now! I PROMISE to update much more often now. I have a lot of things I'm working on and I have some awesome ideas for upcoming projects that I can't wait to share! My next order of business is to get all of my work up on my website immediately. If you haven't visited it yet, check it out, send a message, or whatever! sophiaalmada.com


Don't forget to comment!


Cheers!