Friday, November 1, 2013

class act



When I signed up to take Lila Roger's Make Art That Sells class I was still working from home every day and wanted a little something to challenge myself. I'd seen a lot of amazing work practically pouring out of my peers taking the class and thought to myself "heck, sounds like it's time I took a crack at it".

And then I started that contract job in downtown Minneapolis that sees me leaving the apartment at 7:30 AM and not coming home till about 6:45 PM... the very same week that Lilla's class started. I'm not going to lie guys, a lot of my assignments (and by a lot I mean all of them) have been completed the day before they were due. I really really want to take all that I can from the class but unfortunately I also have a few small freelance gigs that also require my attention.

But I'm still mostly happy with what I've been creating, so I thought I'd give my blog a little looksee. Above is the very first assignment, bolt fabric with a vintage kitchenware and berry theme! It was so much fun, I'm thinking about making prints or cards of it!



The second assignment was to make art for fancy plates using bromeliads as our inspiration. I wound up liking my sketches a LOT better for this one - part of the problem being that I hardly ever like plates with actual art on them... but it was a learning experience nonetheless!



Last week's assignment, a spread for a children's book based on a Russian fairytale. I tried keeping some of my sketch in the final piece at Bryan's suggestion and was really surprised with the outcome. Guess I'll have to play around with that technique some more!

As per usual I'm running VERY behind on this week's assignment... guess I should spend less time blogging and more time working on that, huh? WHOOOOOPSSSS.


6 comments:

  1. Emma this class looks great and so does your work from it! Is it an online course or something you attended in person? Really fun

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    1. Thankssss!!! It's an online class! They have it worked out really nicely with a facebook group, flickr submission page and video assignment reviews! Highly recommended.

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    2. Wowow I just realized I never replied to this so sorry! i wish it would let you know when someone replies to your comment! But that sounds really useful! I've got a zillion portrait commissions right now but after that dies down I need some guidance as to where I want to take things and this sounds like it!

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  2. I love this! I'm totally going to attempt these projects. I want to see more.

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  3. I should totally take this class! IM GONNA TOTALLY THAT THAT CLASS! I really like the pieces you created, as artists its hard sometimes to make things to sell sometimes I just want to make things for me, but then I also like to eat so..

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    1. YOU SHOULD TOTALLY TAKE THIS CLASS. Lilla is an encouraging and super thoughtful teacher - and the range of experience levels in the class was awesome! It was really cool to see my fellow classmates grow.

      Also I feel you majorly on the whole make art for myself/like to eat food thing.

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