For the IMC (Illustration Master Class), there are always cool choices for the assignment. This year there was the High Fantasy: "Tristan and Isolde", the SF: "Old Man's War by Scalzi, movie tie-ins: "Tarzan" and "The Hunger Games", and a YA short story about a boy and a ghost ( Read more... )

Saturday was our last painting day, but it was also full of lectures. Argh!

One of Rebecca Guay's originals sitting around in Studio A--

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Sorry for the being slow with posting on this (Dad went into hospital briefly for an angioplasty--all is well, no worries). Anyway... back to the IMC! On Thurday, I'd finally got my image on board (Clayboard 18x24), so I tore through the underpainting... I had to pretty much be careful to keep the image since the non-pigment ink had floated off ( Read more... )

During the class, I hadn't managed to get to sleep before 2 or 3am, so I started to skip breakfasts in order to sleep in to at least 8:30. I ran into town (well, across the street and down a block or two) to hit Starbuck's and the drug store to pick up some paper toweling since the studio had run out the day before, so I didn't want to count on it ( Read more... )

[Been listening to Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett tributes all day and all night... I grew up with MJ... loved him in the Jackson Five and lived through the craziness of the brilliant Thriller album. Definitely the end of an era ( Read more... )

I'm back, but still exhausted, so this will be a brief post ( Read more... )

OMG... it's over! I'm sorry for lack of updates, but the wireless connection in the Amherst College dorms is slower than dial-up AND we've been running about non-stop every day from 7:30am for breakfast until the wee hours of the morning. I only got one or two hours of sleep last night. I'll post on my time more thoroughly once I return to ( Read more... )