Welder-The Medium of Using Steel to Create Works of Art

Photography is exciting especially trying to get action shots like these. To catch the sparks and using black and white film added to the drama of the welder. This welder was creating the beautiful iron tables with copper tops and I caught him in the process. I highly recommend the use of any Adobe products for designers or photography. The creative possibilities are limitless with computer tools.
Adobe Photoshop CS5

Adobe Illustrator CS5

Hand Embossed Calender

Assignment: To make a unique calender using any method you desire.
Brainstorming: Wrote down many different ideas, doodled and then felt that this was the strongest of idea. Now to decide on what mediums to do.
Conception of design: I liked using water color paper and embossing designs. My idea was to show the phases of birds and the tree throughout the different months. February; the mother making the nest, March; the eggs and flowers blooming, April the birds hatching, May was the baby birds feeding and growing and so on to the empty nest in December.
Design Phase: First I did all the embossing using watercolor paper and different objects to get the desired shapes letting each one dry before applying the next layer. After creating all the separate months I photographed them, scanned into PhotoShop, manipulated photos and added day and year. Using natural twine I attached them together. Most of all I had a lot of fun just being creative. Embossing is expensive on a large scale but can sell an idea.
*Saving your old designs could be beneficial to utilize these techniques for new jobs for future designs. I call this my "Inspiration Box and it contains old drawings, layouts and ideas that did not work at the time.