This is a still life I did in my studio at home and added the same texture layer as the photo below of the landscape. As you can see here the layer in Photoshop has been tweaked differently to go with the color scheme. In both Digital class and Darkroom we will do still lifes soon. We will use studio lights and photograph found objects. I would like everyone to create your own textures to scan in soon in digital class. As Amy T. said you can photograph the "texture" also, but it would be great to scan some in created by your own hand with painting, drawing, and silkscreening....FUN! I want to make ART all day!

ps- How do I post my photos real big like cool Mr. Reeder? anyone know? Mr. R - r u out there?

I posted this pic here before. This is it with a texture layer that is my own silkscreen/painting - a part of it scanned, croppped, tweeked in Photoshop... the text is a quote about my dad who died two years ago....can you see his face in the pathway between the 2 benches?

The next assignment in digital class will be to "Illustrate a Poem" - your images will have TEXT in them - all or part of the poem. Let's try to use your own poems. You can write the poem 1st or have the photo inspire the poem.

Darkroom students - we may have time to do this too...if not you can try it with x-tra time you have if you finish other assignments - talk to me about your idea and I can give you some techniques to do this in the darkroom. This image is a "montage". We will be doing an assignment called "Double Exposure", where we play with montaging different photos together as one...

A thanks to Grayson for helping me come up with this good idea for a class project!

ok...so it took me a week to get posting again + to add all of you as blogs to follow! Please post your unique assignment idea...work due Feb 5th -oops did I say 6th last week? you know I mean tomorrow...

my thoughts from last week in class - every time I so this it is different...

GOOD - white snow covering everything clean, play time, breathing

ART - my babies expressing themselves in their unique ways. bursting at the seams energy that cannot be contained.

PHOTO - light made permanent catching specs of eternity

ME + LAST SEMESTER - family, Sasha becoming human, more time with Isobel, still-lifes, cleaning my house + messing it up again + you can't tell I cleaned, dealing with the concept of being mother, teacher, artist, wife, artist-photographer, + trying to be a good person for the lucky and blessed 100 or so years I get on planet earth