Sarah Berger & Garret Deiter Collaboration

http://www.garrettdeiter.com/reality/
http://www.garrettdeiter.com/progress/
http://www.garrettdeiter.com/impact/

Tools of the trade Cat Lady Obituary in progress... 1st time collaging since glue, feathers, and sparkles in kindergarten. Fun stuff!

Jean Zapata

I stumbled upon these on Design You Trust, a daily design blog and creative little community. http://designyoutrust.com/2009/11/24/illustrations-by-jean-zapata/

Ron Mueck, Hyper realist sculptor

I can't stop looking at these! If you can't either check this out- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYX_jV-lAfk

Circus wallpaper in progress

Intro to Illustration assignment. This drawing is about the governments surveillance on American Citizens. The nipples were going to be security cameras, but it didn't work out. Sad story.

CMYK printing gone wrong

This Illustrated portrait

Spy House Coffee

This is the Illustration that I talked about in the above post. Yes, the one that I had a conniption fit and 3 small heart attacks over. Fortunately, I'll have more time to work on it now that my teacher backed up the date. James O'brien has set up a little showing for my class at Spy House Coffee this Sunday. I am very excited (even though it is not a big deal) it will be the first time my artwork is being displayed somewhere other than my Mother's walls: )

Children's book Illustration

Children's book Illustration

"My Grandmas"
"Noodle Lovers!" Red pen drawing + real eyeballs photographed + digital color ='s Katelyn has lost her mind. This is for digital illustration and I love this class because anything goes. James O'brien is a great teacher and lets us explore whatever routs we have the urge to take. Digital illustration is also great because there is no mess to clean up afterwards. Well, except with the eraser tool ; )

"The Blues"

Charcoal, Intro to Illustration

"South Turtle Lake"

Mixed media, plus my shitzu Cammie. My brother Bud's title for this is... "Cammie Kills another" (From her breath) This is for my intro to Illustration Class. We had to do a piece on what we think of when we think of Minnesota. I love Minnesota for the beautiful summers it bares and holidays up to my cabin.

Chloe

Unsettling but beautiful

I came across a PostSecret book filled with all sorts of these from people all over the world a year or two ago in an Urban Outfitters. I just recently bumped into the PostSecret blog on accident and completely forgot how shocking the things people send in are. It definitely reminds you that people are strange creatures. Even the friendly lunch ladies or your local news caster have creepy secrets and quirks. Check it out: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Toad on the road

CEO burrito

For digital illustration we had to create a portrait of someone we love/hate. I chose Steve Ells the man that runs the Chipotle empire. Why? For creating a huge addiction in my life. I need it at least once a month. I tracked down Ell's e-mail and sent this to him. I haven't heard back yet. Hopefully he isn't offended! His whole motto is, "you are what you eat" so here is a literal interpretation for him ; 0 After watching HBO's Death on a Factory Farm I came across this video of how Ell's handles his cash cows and pigs... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAAFI9WH_Mk&feature=PlayList&p=65BBDFA7FE5DA7A8&index=0&playnext=1 Seeing this video made me sleep a little easier after watching hours of animal cruelty.

April 20 Mid Week Post

Hello.
The art show planning is coming along swimmingly. I have asked an artist friend who does beautiful collage to do a joint showing with me. This will take off a little pressure to make tons of work in a short period of time. We don't want stuff getting sloppy now do we?
I had a Dick Blick gift card lying around from Christmas so this weekend I went out and bought a bunch of little canvases to get the artwork rolling! I have started 4 paintings...
Here are a couple links that have helped me with the basic planning:
http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Up-an-Art-Exhibition

http://www.rexx.com/~jaguar/artshow.html

http://www.art-boards.com/Archival%20mounting%20panel%206.htm

"#3"

"Keep me warm"
(I was chilly when I painted this, but not nude)