its been a while since I have let you in!

I am in my senior year at NCA now!! How exciting right? Its a ton of work but I feel like this is so worth it! here are a few things from last semester that I am proud of. Some from this semester is coming soon! The classes I am taking currently are Senior thesis, portfolio, art studio, ethics, semiotics, and design production. I will be posting some of my writing this semester as well as fine art and design pieces.

Latest in Photography

This is the dog next door. This is one of the best prints from the series. I think one of my best! I used a #3 filter for like 8 sec and it came out beautifully, dodging parts of his face to make them lighter.

To the bottom left is a dodge and burn of steps. it's not quite there yet.

The right is my best print of the stairs, and its still a little foggy on the bottom.

Cory and the dog, My best print is the bottom one and I did several and wanted to do a high contrast so that is the one on top.

The last picture is the stairs from before but from the top angle instead of the bottom looking up. Its a but dark in places and could use some dodging and burning.

Hair pulling..... having a good old time

This is the hardest semester I have gone through so far attending NCA. With no books and a head wanting to learn, borrowing and shuffling books has been difficult and thankfully this semester is almost at its end! I've been so stressed managing School and all my crazy tasks of homework and also trying to fit a part time job and handle a relationship has been really challenging. I still have not gotten an internship which I should be almost done with but I just honestly haven't had the time. Some of my fellow classmates seem to be handling their work load just fine but I just can't handle all of the stress of all of this plus worrying about money, I make minimum wage and my parents don't really help me out. Holding everything together and getting school done, keeping my job and my sanity and paying bills on time is a true test of what you are made of. I have a book report that I need to bust out and also share my book. Break is after next week and it has taken its sweet time getting here! I need to relax and let the stress roll off, what better place than SF.

Photography

These are the prints I have made.
The 2 contact sheets I developed the film!





The first of the dog is a test strip and then a good print and a high contrast print.

Salsa updates

promotional web banner before, i've updated it
My web pages for the salsa without the pics of my jars with their labels and actual labels will be uploaded soon :)




Thumbnails for the layout of my salsa web site
my first labels
This is my rough comp of my salsa logo. Bringing the river and a cedar tree into play with some peppers.
This is my rough thumbnails for my salsa labels for the jars, I want to use the veggies as pics and have a clean and festive label.
This was my logo I presented at peer review and since then I have taken the river off and made it redder.
these were my thumbnail ideas for my Cedar River Salsa logo

Typography coffee

This is what I came up with for my final logo for Joe 2 Go coffee on some to go cups. My next step is to add more value and contrast to the hand to give it some pop.

Business Planning

What have I been up to recently you ask? Well plenty! here are some links to some things I have been doing in my Business Planning class
Artist Bio
Artist Statement
Cover Letter to Matt Rilley
Archival Resume
Targeted Resume
My old resume
Outside of class I am looking for an internship.