Wrapping it up with a Postcard- farewell

This here is a picture of the mug I took called " For The Troopers" he created. He is selling this mug for 18 bucks and he is also selling glass mugs with his engravings. I am not quite sure how much those are going for but they all turned out pretty neat. I should have grabbed a picture of them while i was there.






        This last project i created a post card. The post card can be for sale or just to give away for keeps sake. This one is by far the better project i created in Photoshop. Through all the searching online of how post cards can be created i think i figured out what i wanted to do. Everything pretty much just came to me. I got in the zone and started coming up with ideas left and right. I decided to enlarge one of his paintings and use them as a large portion of the post card. I think the image on the left brings the whole thing together.

         When i thought i was finished with it, it all looked to plain. I could not figure out what needed to be added. So i thought what if i showed off more of his paintings. That is what the final version consist of. With this project everything looks like it balances out, the spacing is perfect. I did not post the back to the post card because there is not much to it. the front has everything and the back has a place to sign and write notes. I enjoyed doing this project. This one is by far one of my favorites. I just might have to keep one for myself :) Sad that this journey is over but i am glad that it began.

The Final Piece :)

Farewell!

Blog 3 Art Gallery Flyer/Poster

This week i created a flyer for Jim to get the word out about his art gallery. It was a fun and interesting project to do. I added a little information about his art gallery and a few of his best pieces to the flyer. Overall this piece took me over a couple weeks to do considering it is not a paying internship. I have never created a flyer before so it took me a little while to figure out what exactly he wanted on it or what would look good. 

Photoshop is my go to program. I have sort of learned the ins and outs of Photoshop. The photos below are my beginnings to my final piece. Although it took a while for me to get the layout correct i think it turned out pretty good. The next image is an image of the artist himself.

Next, is my final image to the flyer. i created a trace image of the photo above of the artist himself and placed him in the middle of the image. Then I placed his painting long the left side of the image. I am pretty proud of the work i have done. Sad to say this is coming to an end. One thing i think i will change for the next project is adding a little more color or adding a little bit more to make it pop. 

Blog 2- Crossed Brushes

Next i was asked to create a business card. This is the one i started out with in the beginning. It was hard at first because i had no idea where to start. The font used is one actually he uses called bleeding cowboy font. I recreated the logo while he gave me the font to use. I was pretty much free to do whatever i wanted just as long as it is related to his work. As you can see from the first blog post the business card is a lot different from the one i show below.

This here is the second card i created. I only created 2 just so i could have more to choose from when I pitched the idea to him. The second by far is my favorite one with the picture of him in his zone working hard on a project. I took out a bit of his information on this one just to make it look better. Otherwise with so much information it would look cluttered. Learning how to do a trace image was difficult but it came out pretty decent. 

Overall this week was fun and entertaining. I definitely procrastinated this week but i got the project done and i think it turned out pretty good. Hopefully these cards will do him some good in the long run. 

Blog 1- Crossed Brushes

The first week of this internship as i was finally able to register i was asked to come in and take pictures of all of his work. The artist is Jim Myers a local biker artist who specializes in biker paintings. The first week was interesting as he had shown me all of his work in progress. He was actually in the middle of engraving glasses with his logo on them. Below he shows me how he engraves all of his mugs and glasses. It was quite interesting to watch.

He is in progress of trying to get his work out there for the world to see. its kind of amazing what you can do with a brush and some paint on a canvas. His paintings were so detailed that they did not look like paintings they looked more realistic then anything. The brushes below actually resemble his logo of course, which i will show you later in the next blog. After i was asked to take pictures of his entire gallery I was asked to create a business card for him.

The business card he is currently using below with his logo. I tried to switch it up a little bit and do something a little different with card. I actually created a couple of business cards for him to choose from. they are different but simple at the same time. The first week or so was great but i am on to the next one. 

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