a holey umbrella

Would you believe that I saw someone using an umbrella with holes in it....while it was raining!?

I hope they didn't get too wet.

new friend, new media

The other night, I went to see my new friend perform her music at Tate Street Coffee (she was great) and I decided that it was the perfect time and place to pull out my sketchbook! I rendered this drawing with something I have never done before...photoshop! My marker rendering skills really helped me out with this drawing...and I am pretty proud of how it turned out. I guess you could say that I've been trying new things...meeting new people and using new media!

practice makes perfect

I haven't worked with watercolor in a while. I think I need some more practice with it! The top image is a page from my sketchbook and was drawn while in my materials class. Apparently, I like to draw drink bottles..

The bottom one was drawn at the arboretum. You can really tell that Spring is arriving soon..all of the trees are starting to get buds. Some have already bloomed!

snow day

Greensboro finally got a pretty good amount of snow Monday [up to 5-8 inches], which made me feel like a kid again since I was so excited! This snow day provided extra time for me to work on a place to bathe. It also allowed for me and my roomates to wander off to campus and the Greensboro Arboretum to snap a bundle of photos.

while in class + on my break

Monday and Wednesday we had our critiques for the dining rooms we designed. I caught myself drawing a thing or two during my other classmate's critiques. I drew the bottom one during my two hour break between classes...

urban pathway

photo from here

In my visual communication class, we have been learning how to use Adobe Illustrator. For our first assignment we were to find an image of an urban pathway and use illustrator to revise the photo. We were striving to make our image more of a piece of art rather than look like a photograph. I chose a pathway that used bold colors and different variations of greys. My version of the photo uses more orange tones rather than blue.

Knitting Flowers

Knitting is very relaxing and can really "free your mind". I recently learned how to knit these cute little flowers from my aunt. I haven't knitted in quite a while--since all I would knit was scarfs--and believe me, that could get old once I had knitted 15+ scarfs! I am hoping to learn new and more challenging patterns so that I can create pieces that aren't only scarfs...