July 30th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Bubbles
July 19th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Ed Emberley
My dad read in the LA Weekly that there was going to be an Ed Emberley exhibit opening on Sunday, so I pushed my parents to go with me since the artist was actually making an appearance! If you’re not familiar with Ed Emberley, he authored a series of children’s books about drawing technique that emphasizes starting with simple shapes and squiggles. (Here is his official website.) My dad let me borrow a few when I was little and we still have some hanging around our house. Needless to say, it was really exciting seeing the original drawings for his books, and I had the opportunity to speak with him while I got my pamphlet signed. Mr. Emberley was incredibly friendly and even looked at my dad’s sketches! His wife, Barbara, eventually had to tell him to speed things up since there was a line of people waiting to get things signed behind us, haha. My mom also bought a piece of his original artwork as well as two prints–one of which is being given to me! Anyway, here are some pictures I took from her camera.
Ed Emberley is the man on the far right. The other people standing with him are artists who did their own interpretations of his drawings.
:D
The exhibit is running at Scion Space in Culver City until August 7th if you’d like to check it out. It’s free, so I suggest you go!
July 15th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Oh and here’s a thing I drew yesterday.
May 29th, 2010 at 10:51 am
The Future
May 11th, 2010 at 12:46 am
My favorite cat is the ocelot
I saw a wooly bear caterpillar tonight! I passed it before I realized what it was (it was dark), so I took a few steps backwards to kneel down and pet it. My fuzzy friend halted and I [somewhat embarrassingly] stood back up quickly as a car drove by. (In retrospect, I probably should have moved the caterpillar onto the grass, but I suppose I needn’t worry too much since the sidewalk was deserted. I just have a fairly nightmarish memory of stepping on one accidentally when I was about five or six and seeing its blood squirt across the pavement.) It was nice to see some other indication of my being outside, to share a footpath with an relatively humble organism, since I was walking back from the press center where I spent a few hours staring at a computer screen. (Nevermind that I’ve returned to this computer screen to write about how much I love the outdoors…)
Other things I did today:
- Not burn my hand! That was yesterday, and it was a steam burn :(
- Reactivate my Facebook account. I went 48 hours without it. I could have gone longer, but waiting for people to show up at the press center left me with hardly anything else to do. (Opening Tumblr can be intimidating in public spaces–I follow a lot of people who like to post gross [fascinating] shit.)
- Make this animation:
I found out that Photoshop CS4 has a handy “timeline” feature in their animation palette that saves a lot of time in regards to creating frames if you’re just moving an object. But uh, yeah, I should probably stop messing with Mini Mike and scan more of my drawings. - Talk a lot in my History of Television discussion section. My TA seemed impressed and said, “Kelsey you will get an A” in his pretty Lebanese accent. Unfortunately, I got an 89% on the midterm he handed back later.
- Stay up too late if I’m serious about going to class at 8AM tomorrow morning.
Goooodnight.
May 4th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Meow
My art history class totally sucks.
April 25th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
The ego and the id
Uh, I didn’t mean to make her look like Kate Gosselin. Oh well.
April 14th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
All you know about me is what I’ve sold you
Lynn let me borrow her Wacom tablet today! :) I haven’t drawn on the computer in forever so I was surprised to find that I could get back into it pretty easily.
April 7th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Responsibility to the responsible
April 7th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
My brain tricked my hands to believe they were strong
