Living with Rob and Shauna Part 2

And some more pictures.

With the dinosaur bones in the geology building at the University of Saskatchewan

"Roar!"

Look at that creeper with the stegosaurus...

The T-rex was dishing some juicy gossip to me about the triceratops.  

Watching a movie in a movie theater.

"Oh, No!"

In front of an outdoor fountain with some birds that had an unfortunate encounter with the evil White Witch from Narnia...

At the bank where Rob tried to steal my pin number.

In front of City Hall

With the giant light-up palm tree in front of Jax Nightclub

With the fabulous Sailor Dan and one of his lovely boat drawings.

Getting on the bus

With the runner statue by the bridge

Skateboarding

Checking my invisible watch while we wait for the bus

Playing in the park

Teaching an imaginary class at the University of Saskatchewan.  My friend and I had to sneak into an unoccupied classroom at night to take this picture.  We felt like ninja spies.

Drinking coffee at Tim Hortons

We had to get one of us feeding birds in the park which proved more difficult than you'd think.

I had to slowly lure them towards Rob and Shauna with chunks of 'crusty bun'

They got closer...

And closer...

And then they started getting a little too close and I got a little scared...

Living with Rob and Shauna Part 1

Here are a bunch of the ridiculous pictures that I've taken so far.  A HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped me with these so far!  Especially my photographers Paige and Charli!

By the double decker bus on 21st street

Walking my doggies

With a convenience store clerk

In the coop.  We found Miracle Whip!

With a moovelous cow.  I named it lady Moomalade.

With the Diefenbaker statue on 21st street

With the Ghandi statue on 21st street

Pumping some gas.  It looks like I was having the time of my life.

Grill and Chilling at work.

In front of the hamburger menu at Jerry's

Reading a Harry Potter book at the library.  I think that everyone had just died...

Shauna was enjoying some fries at McDonalds

With a group of 5 or more people at Dairy Queen

Dining at a restaurant.  Shauna was so hungry that she even ate the lemon!

With a Bellboy at the Bessborough.  My sister wanted to go back and take more pictures with him, hahaha.

On the University bridge.  

On the bridge again.  It was so windy up there...I though that Rob and Shauna were going to fly away into the river.

I found Rob a dazzling sweater at Old Navy.  It was sparkly.

I had to help Rob and Shauna jump on the trampoline because their legs would not bend...

I found the REAL Rob!  It took a couple of tries to get him actually in the picture though.  Also, I have super saiyan hair.

Tada!

What have I gotten myself into....

So I recently entered a contest with a local radio station (C95)  where you would have to go around and take pictures with a giant cardboard cut-out of the two morning show hosts at different places around Saskatoon and with local celebrities for 'paparazzi points'.  I never actually thought that I would be ever be selected as a contestant.  And then last Wednesday I received a call asking me to come down the the radio station for an interview.  There were two other girls in my group interview all pretty close to my age and we were asked questions about the radio station and what we would do with the prize money if we won (it's $2000.00 by the way!).  We all made it through to the 'finals' and so the next day at 5:00 we went back to the radio station to be briefed on the details of the contest and to receive our new cardboard friends.

We were given a list of locations and local celebrities to get pictures with with a corresponding point value for each one.  The person who gets the most points at the end of the contest wins the money.  There are 30 people in total (including me) participating in the contest, so I have some very stiff competition.  The rules state that both the cut-out and I have to be in every photo and that absolutely no photoshop or altering of the photos is allowed.  The list of locations/celebrities was a lot longer than I expected and the cardboard cut-out is VERY large.  I'm going to try and post the photos that I take for the contest as I go so that you all can see what kind of craziness I have gotten myself into.  I think that they are also going to post them on this website once they are approved.  They encouraged us to be 'creative' with the pictures so you can expect lots of ridiculous and staged photos.  This is going to be way more work than I thought it would be...

Sound Effects

In my graphic novel class we had to do a comic incorporating sound effects.  For mine I decided to poke fun at the sound effects and at shows like Batman (the 60's one) that made great use of 'sound effects' during fight scenes.  The Batman movie is where I got my inspiration for the shark punching panel.  I didn't add the Bat-shark repellent though...

Here's the inked version.  I added the dialog later in photoshop.

And the colored version with the dialog added.  I flipped a couple of the panels to help it read better.  Coloring this thing took forever...

Watercolors Are Hard.

I recently did a two weekend watercolor workshop through the USCAD program at the U of S and I thought that I would post some of what I did.  I discovered that watercolor painting is not an easy thing to master.  Mixing vibrant colors was especially difficult for me.  It was also difficult having two other classes and working part time while it was going on...I am very tired now.

For the first weekend we did a lot of color mixing exercises and learned to find the lightest lights and the darkest darks first when painting.

We did some drapery studies.

And a whole lot of still lives.

We also did a winter landscape from a photograph.

For the second week we were encouraged to take what we had learned from the first week and try out different styles of watercolor painting.    We worked from photographs again and did some portraiture.

I tried out pointillism.

We also did an exercise where we had to paint the picture upside down in splotches of color.

We did a timed still life.

On the last day we had a model.  We did some warm up gestures and some quick paintings with a limited color palette.

This warm up painting ended up looking like an amazon woman...

And this one ended up looking like a fancy cave woman...

My longer pose turned out a little better, but it could still use a lot of work.

Then I did a quick tree study.

And another still life.  My teacher told me to try a more vibrant color palette.  That didn't work out so well, hahaha.

We also got to do a non-winter landscape, and I chose to do one of Loch Shiel in Scotland.  I went on a Harry Potter fan trip a couple of years ago and this was one of the coolest places that we visited.  It is also where they filmed a bunch of parts of the Harry Potter movies!  If you look really closely you might even see Harry riding Buckbeak over the water in the distance... 

I also tried playing around with some watercolor pencils that I had bought.  It wasn't turning out so great until I added some ink for the outline and gave him some fruity friends.  None of them are happy to see that pear though...