Damn I'm not dead and I'm still stuck in a factory.... just in case anyone ever reads this 

Next week is Thanksgiving 2022 

Try not to get too fat my friends!!

The desire to hand paint

In the 70's and 80's my Dad was what you'd call a bad ass. Not as far as a tough guy no, I'm talking about as a custom painter of cars and signs and anything in general you could slap some 1 shot on. However my dad got in some trouble and time passed and he didn't paint anymore. Well I have always had the desire to learn how to hand paint/letter but never got the chance.

So about a year ago I decided to jump start my Dad back into the whole painting mode. I bought him some brushes including some squirrel haired Mack daggers, a few liners etc. and some paint which turned out to be a redic price. But I was determined to get him going so he could show me. However like most things in my life nothing can go the way I planned and my Dad although he has created a few things has yet to come over and show me anything. I guess I need to bug him more.
 A few years have passed since I was writing the 1st 2 paragraphs with little change bought a few more brushes and paint but my Dad still has not started to paint again. I did discover a few up and coming brands in the custom paint industry. The first being Alpha 6, they have lots of enamel colors and even started doing acrylic. They also have made some other supplies. The other company is Flying Squirrel brush co. Makers of well you guessed it brushes they too make a few other supplies.
My desire hasn't changed so I'm still trying to paint/stripe however I have chose to go back to school once again and although it's not the degree I wanted it could help me in the future. On top of that if the company i work for now wants to pay for my education to leave them well go ahead I'll take it.
NEVER STOP CREATING 

It's been a while again

The understatement of the year or maybe years, I'm not even sure how long it's been. Well I've switched things up years since getting a job in a factory my original plan was to have them pay for my bachelor's degree only to find out that they wouldn't pat for Graphic Design. What the will pay for is business so at the moment I'm going  to school for business marketing I figured I could help myself at the same time if I ever get my own business up and running. I'm in Brazil at the moment for Christmas and New Year's classes start on the 8th. Cheers

Maybe I'll start this new tradition at the end of my post I'll put a link to an article I like or think is useful today's will be about UX design.... I guess I need to read up on this stuff!😎

http://designrfix.com/web-design/ux-design-improve-sites-conversion-rate

Recent works (traditional art) from school

Hello just as a short post I'd like to share some of the artwork I did this past semester. I haven't had a lot of time to jeep up with this blog or my graphic design work, because I have started working a full time job. So I will try to keep up as much as I can. Today I will share with you my self portrait that I painted using black and white acrylic paint on a piece of cardboard.

Progression Drawing

I had to do a progression drawing for my fine arts class. I chose to do an apple, although this class is driving me crazy since it's taking away from my digital class work I must say it is allowing me to knock the rust off my old skills. Below are picture of the apple and then of my drawing, not too shabby at least I got an A on it.

Flower Screen Printing

Flower Screen Printing

So a few weeks ago I mentioned I was enrolled in a plant science class, and that I would have a chance to do a screen print of a flower. At first I thought I would not be able to do it because I was originally suppose to work on Fridays, but they started me out for the first few weeks working on Tue and Thursday. The screen printing is going on this Friday, I hope to post the end result on here. This will be the first time I will do a screen print of any kind, so I hope it turns out good. I have a friend who runs a screen printing company who has offered to teach me, if I come up with a design, problem is I haven't had time to make one since he offered. Maybe this will give me more confidence and motivation, to get on it.

And here it is!

Its been 2 months and I have neglected this blog. At least I have a legitimate reason I have started the fall semester at school taking 4 classes and working 2 days a week at a hotel. So you see I really haven't had the time.

Anyways this is the end result of my screen print I called it " The Coral Queen " since the color is coral and the flower I used was Queen Anne's Lace. I haven't got around to the T-shirt thing with my friend either, but I still hope to one day.

Summer Time Flowering Plants

Summer Time Flowering Plants

Well this may seem like a kind of funny title, however it is the name of the class I started taking today. Even though this class is about plants, it also involves photography and the drawing of flowers I observe in the wild. the professor also told us that we will have a chance to screen print one of our flowers, which I plan to take full advantage of, since I've wanted to learn more about screen printing for a while now. So I do not have any pictures or drawings yet but I plan to post them as I go along. This could be fun or it could be a painI guess I'll just have to wait and see.