Portfolio finished; Promotional packages for guests finished; Future goals and dreams

Well, I'm done with Portfolio and will be graduating in a few weeks (although not walking in Commencement). I have 16 images total, 11 of which I created especially for the Portfolio class. They have all been scanned, printed on nice-quality matte inkjet paper, trimmed to size, and put in a portfolio case. My teacher, Scott, seems happy with everything I've done - which makes me very happy!

Today I spent a long time printing labels and resumés to finish my promotional packages for next week's class's guests. 28 or so art directors and other artbusiness related people will be at our school for our Senior Illustration Reviews... instead of hanging up our work early in the morning and then going away for a few hours, then coming back to take everything down and read 3 written reviews by illustration faculty, we will be showing our portfolios to these people. Very exciting and scary! I am not sure what to think. Anyway, I had a tough time with the Avery clear printing labels (wasted 4 out of 10 sheets, used 3 more which printed fine, but some on the ruined sheets are salvageable) but they truly were worth it. Very professional-looking. The resumé paper is really nice and also worth the money/look professional. I had a fun time putting everything together in 6"x9" catalog envelopes - very repetitive and soothing. I wouldn't mind being paid to put stuff into envelopes and slapping labels on them! I'm weird. :)

So what's next? A list of my goals, hopes and dreams for the rest of the year, in no particular order or importance:

-Get 11"x17" flatbed scanner (for artwork)
-Send promo pieces to art directors/apply for art-related jobs, somehow
-Go job hunting in Wilmington, Winchester, Acton, Concord, Maynard... maybe find a nice part-time job that won't make me hate people all over again ;)
-Move away somewhere with Alex - and take my cats with me!
-Visit a Scandinavian country
-Dimsum or Korean BBQ, or some other really cool and unusual food experience
-Visit Winchester Center via commrail as much as possible because it's pretty there, and easy to get to
-Paint portraits of my friends with their cats (we are all cat people)
-On-site, outdoor painting
-Human figure practicing, maybe on friends or at least with friends
-Continue learning Svenska on RosettaStone
-Make business cards for Vicki's and my possible indoor mural career, to give to my dad's customers at his work
-Clean out closet, donate unwanted clothes, go shopping and replace with interesting yet useful clothes (I seem to suffer from the problem of having so many clothes and nothing to wear)
-Study outer space and mythological creatures for art inspiration
-Yoga and pilates and kettlebell - get back into shape!

New Arts

The last 3 Portfolio illustrations - all images © Jessica Silva (that's me!)

 

"Baby" 12"x16" Acrylic

 "Migraines" 11"x14" Acrylic

 

"The Teapot Lady in a Field of Poppies" 12"x16" Acrylic

These can all be viewed at http://www.coroflot.com/jessicasilva and http://jessicasilva.carbonmade.com/

Please visit!

Fixed Sketches of next 2 projects.

 

Redraw of "Migraines". Color scheme will be all sorts of cools (blues and violets) with one bright hot (red/orange) area, much like "Heartbreak Eye".

 

Cleaned up version of "Teapot Lady". Color scheme will be red-orange/yellow-green/blue-violet.

Any suggestions before I start painting?

Heartbreak Eye + "Concept 1" Work In Progress

 

Heartbreak Eye; 11"x14" Acrylic © 2011 Jessica Silva

Don't forget that you can see all of my illustrations on http://jessicasilva.carbonmade.com/ and http://www.coroflot.com/jessicasilva !

Work In Progress on previously-posted sketch of "Concept 1" (still don't have a real title for it) :

 

 What do you think? About 85% finished...

Next Sketches

Sketch for "Migraines" - another lady I saw while commuting, I think this one is from last summer when I started commuting to Acton. I have some fixing-up to do to this sketch in terms of getting the point across, but this is the general idea. I'm going to do something with her arms/hands interacting with her head.

 

"Teapot Lady" was a robust woman who was very bravely wearing bright red high heels with her black tights and a black skirt with a poppy pattern. She reminded me of a teapot. 

 

 "Concept 1" ... any suggestions for names? I guess it could be about fertility problems, or the biological clock tick-tick-ticking away... or about how some women get super hormonal near "that time of the month" and say silly things that they do NOT mean, like "I want a baby!", to their bewildered boyfriends...

New Stuff

Some new stuff is here to be uploaded!

 

"Finding the Light"

This one is about a lady I once saw at North Station (in Boston). She was honestly a walking gradient. She had light grey hair with black ends, and was wearing a sweater that was grey that faded into black. Her shirt was grey, her skirt was dark grey, and she had black tights and boots. I thought she was really cool, like maybe the kind of middle-aged/older lady I hope to become someday... at least fashion-wise!

 

"Best Friends"

Another lady I saw while commuting on the train. (this may become a recurring theme!) When I saw this lady, all I could think of was champagne and chocolate. Her hair was kind of a champagne blonde, she was wearing a tan/champagne winter coat that was almost the same color as her hair, with brown trim... a brown scarf and champagne/tan gloves - though in this painting, for composition/interest reasons I left her hands bare with nailpolish - khaki pants, tan boots, and I think she was wearing champagne-colored eyeshadow too. She also kind of reminded me of a big Persian kitty. So here she is with that kitty and they're uh... having a fun day at the museum. :)

My next two paintings are also going to be about women I've seen while travelling via commuter rail. Really.