JFlah's Blunders

Proofs with the two I liked most at the top... This is the one she chose - definitely my favorite - although she chose the one with the sewing machine for a larger sign she was going to do cut vinyl for. I'm looking forward to seeing these in action. A talented friend asked me to help her with some designs for craft bag tags. If you're interested in seeing some of her side-hustle goods, check out her facebook page .

Ok - so there are several stellar creatives out there in the world of motion graphics so it's hard to pick just one to say that he/she is my favorite, but I have to say that Dan Stevers is certainly in the top three. Not only does he make beautiful videos for worship services, he has several really helpful tutorials that I've enjoyed using when I've needed to brush up on my use of Adobe AfterEffects and Premier Pro. Here's a small taste of his aesthetic... Merry Christmas!

Paint and Pj's painting for this year. Haven't decided if I'm going to add text or not. Here's a close up of the cutie snowman. Saw this great article on Muddy Colors . I've come across this trouble so often that I wonder why even I have started to devalue my own work. Now I know that part of the reason that it happens to me with the regularity that it does is because I'm in a "cul-de-sac" design career - and to exasperate the problem, I work full time at a non-profit where the norm is that people volunteer their time/talents. "Photo by JS Choi of he-who-will-not-be-named doing his brilliant thing at Illuxcon. So perfect and hilarious." Picture and quote from Muddy Colors Blog This video perfectly illustrates what it would be like for someone to try to treat other businesses and professionals like many clients try to treat artists and designers. And I highly recommend that you read the whole article at Muddy Co...

Artists and Creatives of all types will be affected by what Congress votes on this Thursday, July 23: Copyright Law revisions recommended by the Copyright Office. Those revisions will affect the future of artwork and creative ownership and ultimately will devalue what we do to earn our living and strip us of the rights to our own work. Currently, when you create something - from the moment of creation, what you've created is protected as yours under current copyright law. If these recommended changes pass on Thursday, you will be stripped of your intellectual rights to what you create (past work too) and ownership rights to your artwork will be un-defendable in court. Another part of this bill is that you'll have to register every bit of artwork you create with a "corporate" entity if you want to have any remotely-defensible rights to your own work - if you want to sell your work at all - but it still won't be yours even though you've created it. ...

Here is the frog part of the Bayou Buddies Logo. Finally made time to paint one part of the logo for their worship area. I hope to have the other one done before the end of May and so the next time you guys see this it'll be with a picture of it all installed in the worship area. So much fun. Wish I could do this kind of thing all day long every day. Finished Frog Almost finished... Eyes are done... sort of anyway. Wanted to get those done before starting on the green. Here's the logo I created and what I'm working from for the cutout... now I've got to do the alligator.

Jake Parker's idea of the world art drop day sounds like something I'm definitely interested in. I did the crochet heart drop thing and that was fun, but this sounds like even more fun - a scavenger hunt kind of thing. I'm putting it on my calendar  and will be dropping a piece or two of art for this first annual World Art Drop Day on Tue, Sep 2. Keep an eye out...