Thursday, September 1, 2022

Problem Solved! With Illustrator

Some of my watercolors are painted to 8" x 20", a format I admire on my husband's photography. But this dimension doesn't translate well on a standard notecard. 

My solution was to embellish the cards with motifs from the painting I created in illustrator. 


I lost the original digital files of these in a hard drive crash a few years ago. But I ran across my last pack of actual cards while reorganizing my workspace. 

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Newborn Screening Poster

This is one of many large laminated poster made over the years for residency requirements. 

Learning a little motion graphics with After Effects - Part 2

 Calligraphy in Motion 




FLUID



A Cat Walk

Please don't laugh at the cat. I think the gait looks pretty good. 
I didn't want to steal the dog in the great tutorial I used and made a quick kitty. 



Lower Thirds


Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Three Self Promoting Slide Presentations

I've done a gazillion presentations in PowerPoint, none which are mine to share. Most of which are didactic in nature. At this point I only have one thing to sell and that is myself. Here I have recreated my resume as a Canva Presentation. Canva doesn't export with fonts or animations. To retain that I must embed the link here. You can export PNGs of the Canva pages and import them to PP or Keynote but that means the elements cannot be animated. I'll do a few more of these just for practice and to demonstrate my aesthetic. This started out as a template in Canva but I altered it significantly to suit myself.

Two Short Google Slides Presentations



 



 
You'll see it links to my old blog at blogspot. I made it before I migrated myself to WordPress.

Monday, August 1, 2022

Before and After Ad Designs

Before:

   




After with Canva as an FB Ad:






Before:

 



After with Illustrator as an FB Event Cover:

 



Before :

 



After with Illustrator as an FB Event Cover:

 



Before:

 



After with Illustrator, still hard to get past the logo. And even this logo version is a redo that an artist on Fivrr did. Still an awful logo. Just like the actual theme park and the original ad, there is just too much going on in there.:

 




I want to credit the UnSplash.com photographers I used for the Arbunkle Ad. 

Goh Rhy Yan  - GoCart


Derek Thomson - child


Kathy I - Rhino


Jeff Griffith - Zebra


Charl Durand - Giraffe


Mike Marrah - Tiger


Friday, July 29, 2022

Fun with Masking




Shakespeare is a commissioned T-shirt and poster.

The liondog was for fun.

Montana was a commissioned poster.






 

Friday, July 8, 2022

Reluctant Web Link

I link to this reluctantly. Yes, I built it using DreamWeaver and cascading style sheets, but I did not have much creative control and I cannot account for what has been done with it since I was laid off. It works. 

fammed.usouthal.edu