Some Fun with Words

I've been playing around with text and calligraphy in my (small amount of) free time lately. It mostly stemmed from doodles on the side of my notes but I thought they were interesting enough to post here.

These first two deal with Sütterlin script. Sütterlin was the cursive script in Germany for some time and was taught in schools around the 1920-1940s. It's sort of crazy to look at since the letters, compared to the cursive taught in American schools, are sometimes illegible to me. I spent one page just writing in Sütterlin and then spent the other page trying to merge the two styles.

In terms of completed pieces I came up with these little fun things...

Scroll - Progress Images

My progress on the scroll is going much slower than I would like and I'm starting to worry about the time limitations. I'm going to work on it today for as long as I can and hopefully at least get some line work all the way through to the end. Until then, here are quick pictures of my progress!

Working - Print Exchange and Portfolios

Everything is in progress at the moment.

Well...almost everything....


I am participating in an undergraduate print exchange with the theme of 'Coming Home'.
I've been in studio for the past couple of weeks working on it and I finally sent all the prints off this past Thursday. They might be done but for the sake of surprise I'll wait until everyone gets their portfolios before I post some images of the final print.

So since I can't post any finished images I'll just put up some process photos for the fun of it.

I went all out on this exchange and even made ink tests before printing so here's how that turned out...

I'll have more in-progress photos of the actual prints and the final images up in a month of so (whenever I get my portfolio) and then I should be able to share how the completed exchange turn out!

Right now I'm sitting at my kitchen table coming up with a portfolio of work for a internship I'm applying to. I'll share some of the completed pieces next week so you'll see how that goes! Wish me luck!

A-Line Magazine Illustrations

       A-Line Magazine is a Syracuse University publication that caters to Asian and Asian-America culture and news interests. Their most resent publication should be distributed throughout campus in the next week or so. I happen to be friends with their art director so he gave me a small illustration job to do for an article on food, particularly dumplings and rice cakes! I was only supposed to make two illustrations for them but I might have gotten a little edit-happy and ended up sending my friend about 15 variations. Anyways, since they were fun to do and only two of them will be shown I figured I'd post some of them here for funsies. 

  

...the octopus one was a joke to my friend...mainly I just did it since I was told to turn it in very last minute and I wanted to troll him...possibly one of my favorites just because of the silliness :3

Scroll Sketches: Peview

A preview of what I am currently working on and what I'll be spending the next semester working on: a several foot long lithographic scroll print. All about the vastness of the universe we live in and how there's more to the world than what we can see or comprehend. :3
These are only from the beginning of the scroll since that's where I've gotten most of my line work filled in.

Starting to Weave

Yep, I'm taking Intro to Weaving :]

It's actually a lot of fun and I quite like it...however, I quickly discovered that I have a tendency to like a lot of the hand manipulated designs and that I'm rather slow at it...so it takes me a bit of time to complete my pieces....

This is often what my station/loom looks like while I'm working...

Here is the first weaving we did which was really just to get us used to using a loom...

This pattern with these colors remind me of watermelons...

This is our newest project that we've been working on...

First our sample/experimental section (1 yard long):

And the actual piece (28 inches long):

yes, I stitched in two doe...

buttons! hand stitching! :D

The stitching still needs to be done on the other end of the piece so expect some -complete- photos of this project to appear soon...

Publicity and Goodbye to NYC Dirndl Ambassadors

My hat got featured on the Austria Travel Info website!! :D

Check out the article here!

I'm so glad that everyone liked it and that I had the opportunity to make it this summer!

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The Dirdle Ambassador group for NYC has now come to an end. Since the sweepstakes has ended and summer is over there are no more events for us to participate in so we held a last get together the other week to celebrate a successful run. I made a lot of great friends with my fellow Ambassadors this summer and had a lot of wonderful experiences. I only wish the best for everyone at the Austria Travel office and to the other Ambassadors! I'm sure we'll run into each other again!