Paper Passion

A Few Drawings

Here are a few more drawings that I have done for my Graphics course for a poster (yet to be completed)! Another 3 weeks in New Zealand has put me way behind on my studies and I am going to have a difficult time catching up (made worse by the fact that Steve has taken the laptop offshore with him and that has my design programs on as I can't get them to run on my desktop which has Vista!). Hopefully Adobe can sort this out for me in the very near future!

So those took me ages to complete! Hope I can get the poster done really quick so that I can get some sort of mark for it.

Its been a while...

... been a bit of a mad month (well April was!!). Had a very impromptu trip to New Zealand to see a sick friend who had been told she had only weeks to live (she is okay for the moment though) and also the night before I left found out my FIL was not going too well with his fight against melanoma. :-(  Took a trip down to Nelson with the kids while I was in NZ to catch up with him and his family too which was nice. Really enjoyed the few days with them. I also got to catch up with my gorgeous sisters and their children and some of our friends. After two weeks of being away I came home to a huge backlog of Graphics homework which I am only just starting to get under control!

Here is some of what I have been doing in the drawing side of things for my course...

This is a poster we had to do starting with a collage, then converting it to grey scale and sketching it. Then we had to use it in a poster for a play.

 
My design projects are mostly in Illustrator or InDesign so I haven't organised them to be small enough or in the right format to display here (which may or may not relieve you!)

And these are some photos I took in NZ....

Belle with Katrina (her half aunt who is 9 days younger than her!). Get on really well together which is nice for them.

Jack thought it was a great idea to take the Guinea Pigs out of their cage and get into it himself!

Jack with his Poppy and Svete who he has wrapped around his little finger. Nice that they adore him so.

Poppy giving the girls cuddles before bed.

Jack riding Sugar at Hamiltons Gap on the Awhitu Peninsula with the help of Meagan.

Belle learning to ride a little motorbike.

Anyway thats all for now. Have a Happy Mothers Day!

This Weekends Homework

Two more assignments handed in over the last couple of days. Today I did a drawing of a "Smoking Man"  which I really enjoyed. We had to use three different shading methods - Continuous, Stippling, Hatching/Cross Hatching.

The next few images were for a assignment to create rendered drawings for a watch advertisement. These took ages and I thought they were due this Friday and it turns out they are only due at the end of April! Aaargh!!! Oh well I suppose that means that they are done - unless I have to redo them for some reason!

So much more homework to do this week as the watch renderings put me behind. Should get it all done though - hopefully!! Just got a scrapping project I have to squeeze in too.

Graphics Stuff

We are rapidly approaching the end of the first term and I have so much to do before then! Aaaaargh! Have no time for anything else really beyond the basic household stuff. Scrapping has definately gone by the wayside. Even blogging is something I really should not be doing at the moment but it is a coffee break. I just think that my fellow students at Grenadi must be absolutely amazing time managers as most of them seem to work! Legends! Take my hat off to them that is for sure! Thought I would share a few of the projects and the cover page that I did for my Visual Diary (which is generally a TV time project - can't give up "Lost" or "Greys Anatomy" at this stage.

Visual Diary


This is a quick continuous line drawing from week 2.

Upside down drawing which I really enjoyed doing!

Hand Drawings with objects x3


Rendered hand drawing.

Well I better carry on and get stuff done otherwise I am going to get bad marks and I wont have that - well not through my lack of effort anyway! LOL! Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Kim :0))

Visual Diary

For my Graphics and Design Course we have to have a Visual Diary - actually we have to have two one for Drawing and one for Design. Used to have a Visual Diary at school when I did G&D and I absolutely loved it so I have another great excuse to get stuck into one. I found this site of a Illustrator called Nirmal Dhiman Nirmal Dhiman which has a heap of his images from his Visual Diaries of the years. It inspired to getmine going properly and so this evening I did a cover page for it which I thought I would share...

After doing a collage I went to town with ink, paint, moon glow spray. It was good to do something a bit different. I got a few assignments finished and handed in today so that was good. I think we get our first lot of grades of Friday for an assignment from last week- yikes!!! I am loving it regardless.

Scrapbook Creations Publication

Got an email from Kim at Scrapbook Creations last week to say that they wanted to publish another layout - YAY!!! This one is going to be in Issue 70 in the Weddings Gallery. This month issue 64 is out so I don't expect it to be around until August. It is really the little things that make my life exciting! LOL.

Pencil Lines Sketch 124

This is my layout for Pencil Lines Sketch 124 from March 01. Had to re-do part of it as my lovely son decided to take to it with ink and cover the whole photo and a bit more! (has left his mark with a smudge of blue on the left hand side!!!) At least he didn't cut it like the last one!!!

Have a great week  if I don't get a chance to squeeze any other posts in :o))

Keeping busy!

Haven't been doing much scrapping of late unfortunately as I have been trying to get organised with my Graphic Design Course. I am really enjoying it so far even though we are only really just getting into week 3. I have been keeping my local news agencies running by buying loads of mags and scouring them for adverts that I like or dislike for visual diary. Good excuse to sit down with a cup of coffee!

yeah right...

who has been the over enthusiastic bunny that has taken on the services of a personal trainer! yep I must be going insane! Today was my second day but first day boxing and I can without hesitation that I love it! But I hurt so mad tonight and I can imagine that I will be rolling around the house tomorrow not walking - I reckon I will need to invest in one of these devices as it hurts to sit and stand! My lovely friend has decided to embark on this fitness journey too so it will be interesting to see how she is faring in the morning - she may not be talking to me for getting her involved! Let you know how it goes!

I might go tidy up my scrapping space at attempt to get something done this weekend!

Scrap The Girls March Layout

We are already into March - Wowsers!! This is my layout for the Scrap The Girls March Challenge.  I will post the challenge details later.

Hope you give it a go. Liz Webber has provided a fantastic sketch to work from. TFL Kim

Two Peas Photo Course

Just posting this link here to a 12 week photography course that is at Two Peas in a Bucket. First 6 Weeks. This is the thread it came off: Thread. Not sure how much further they have gone with it but anyway this is as much of a reminder to myself to do some reading as to inform anyone else who my be interested. :0))