Coffee?

Needed to draw a bit. So I did.






I can't figure out if I like it better with the color or not though...
I think it looks a bit like a coffee label.

Cuff Bracelet

My first project for my Jewelry class: a bronze cuff bracelet.
We were to make a piece by piercing and sawing, with one side brought to a high polish, and one with an intentional scratch surface.

Snow in Baltimore

It snowed here in Baltimore this weekend, not a whole lot, but enough for it to look quite pretty.
This photo was taken at 1:30 am, in what is usually a pretty dark part of the night, but some combination of light reflecting off snow and clouds made it light as day.

These were taken the following morning.

On the Web

Now I'm all super professional and have and actual website and stuff. Yay!
Any comments or criticism would be appreciated, please check it out!

http://www.oliviaady.com

Links are also to the left under the "About Me"

Procrastination

So yes, I still exist.
And, imagine that, I still draw.



This is a little something I did when I should have been doing something else. And in case I'm NOT the last person on the internet to know about this....Keep Reading. It Gets Better.

Under the Camera

The other class I'm taking this semester is intro to stop motion.
So far we've been exploring under the camera techniques using this nifty program called dragon stop-motion (although they've just released a new version called dragonframe).

The first individual project we did was to animate cut paper puppets.

I tried out green screening, but I was using construction paper for the green and having some problems maintaining the image quality in final cut, so the editing is a bit lackluster at parts.

The next was a short based on some old Sesame Street animations. We were to choose one of a variety of methods and do a 15 second short that ended up as an animal

I used black sand, and pulled armadillo out of the hat, so. It's an Armadillo!

The most recent one we did was a collage animation. I found it to be very similar to the paper animation, and really they are sort of interchangeable.

People seems to like the sounds on this one.

In which I share some fun things I find on the internet

So basically, the internet if full of awesome and occasionally, you can find some of it. Here's a few things I found recently while 'researching'....most of them are unrelated.

MAD architects are a group of imaginative people bringing the fantastic into reality. I don't actually know how many projects they've completed, but I want to go to them. All of them.

And then there are fun science-y nature things...like these clouds. So pretty!

For people more interested in things of a smaller scale, this book looks frigg'n awesome.
It's basically a bunch of people passing around a journal to friends and friends of friends and collecting entries. Only it's a sketchbook as opposed to a journal, and the friends are illustrators living and working all around the world.

And then, because I like birds, have some pretty pictures.