Save Our Gulf Banner

A good friend of mine works for the Water Keeper Alliance.  She needed a banner created for Save Our Gulf events...so she asked me to help.  This is what I created for them:

It's nice to be able to help out not-for-profit companies.  They do such important work, yet have to struggle to get things done...money isn't something that non-profits have a lot of!  And this is a cause I believe in, so I definitely wanted to help :)

Learning is fun...

So far, I'm really enjoying this class I'm taking.  I knew a good amount of html before...but I'd never actually been taught it, I learned it on my own as I needed it.  I feel like I'm filling in all of the holes.  Our professor goes into a lot of history, the reasons we use certain codes, etc.  He does a really good job teaching to all of our levels.  I'm anxious to learn CSS...there is a class that starts in May.  I have no experience with that, so it should be a lot of fun.

Back to school...

Monday, I signed up for an online course in web design.  I'm very excited...I think it's so important never to stop learning.  I also think it's great for my kids to see my husband and I continuing to learn new things and working on bettering ourselves at the things we already know.  Plus it'll make me more marketable as an artist....that's never a bad thing.  My first lesson was today...I learned all about the origins of the internet and world wide web.  I always though they were the same thing....nope.  The world wide web is a way to navigate the internet, interesting :)

Mountain Sports Festival

This is my submission for Creative Allies Mountain Sports Festival Poster contest.  I am really happy with how it turned out.  I've been working on finding my "style" and I think this is a great example of what I want to be creating more of.  Color, layers and pattern.

Camp Bisco: Creative Allies poster design contest

This piece was done in Photoshop with a little help from Illustrator.  It was done for a design contest posted on www.creativeallies.com.  Camp Bisco is a music festival featuring electronic and live music as well as art.   My concept was based on what I feel electronic music would look like...clean, colorful, edgy.  The client asked that we use the existing logo and design our poster around the elements of the logo.  I feel this piece is very clean, cohesive and pretty cool!  The space in the center of the piece is where the artists who will be playing at this years festival will be placed.

Sketching....

I've been doing a lot of sketching lately....something I hadn't been doing enough of.  Sometimes it helps to get back to the basics and just draw.  This is a sketch I did in Photoshop of a Gorilla at Animal Kingdom.