Kamela's Artistic Scraps

Inspiration Screen Shot!

2011-12-28T11:45:00.002-05:00

Currently a painting is approximately 35% birthed. These 5 photos are it's DNA.

First Snow

2011-12-28T11:43:00.000-05:00

All I want for this winter, is for it to be beautiful.

photo from ffffound.com

ROUGH IDEAS from a few months ago!

2011-12-21T08:40:00.000-05:00

illuminate

2011-12-14T15:30:00.001-05:00

Today's Finds

2011-12-14T15:17:00.002-05:00

Two exciting patterns. Or. Too exciting patterns. Either way.

The last one is my mind. Translate that however you will. :)

all you need :)

2011-12-14T15:05:00.000-05:00

Grassy Wheaty

2011-12-14T14:55:00.002-05:00

I painted a grassy wheaty painting. The only colours I used were white, aqua, turquoise and ochre yellow. Sometimes artwork takes forever, and other times it's like everything inside of you has been waiting for this moment to unleash all your creativity and BOOM you paint something cool in fifteen minutes. This was most similar to the second scenario. I definitely tend to love the pieces from the first scenario MORE, because of all the extra care and thought required.

Staircase!

2011-12-14T14:50:00.003-05:00

Yellow is maybe the most disturbing colour to use primarily for interior decor. The effect of being in a room that is yellow for too long is feeling anxious. My school painted their staircase bright yellow so that kids wouldn't hang out in it.

Jigsawing for a school project

2011-12-14T14:44:00.001-05:00

Making apple sauce. DID NOT mean to make it the same day we heard Steve jobs passes away. :(

2011-12-14T13:09:00.004-05:00

A Looong Critique

2011-12-14T13:04:00.002-05:00

I thought maybe after I graduate I will have wanted to remember a critique at OCAD. They're all boring. But here's one from my Editorial and Publication Design 2 class.

Orson Welles

2011-12-14T13:03:00.000-05:00

2011-12-14T13:01:00.000-05:00

brandbook photos

2011-04-14T01:17:00.004-04:00

Soooo I just finished a brandbook for my branding development class, aaand totally used my own photography for almost all of it. It worked out so well. Now go imagine all these photos printed on brown parchment paper then made into a book. AWESOME, right?

secret

2011-04-14T01:11:00.003-04:00

The typeface I just created for a final project in my tpyeface design class at ocad. It's called "secret" because it is an intimate, personal, handwritten, cute kinda typeface. I used the words "delicate" and "vibrant" to describe the different widths instead of saying regular and bold. This is to stay consistent with the intimate feel. First photo is a pattern I made with it. defs more of a decorative font, not so much a font to write paragraphs or pages with.

type/photo

2011-04-14T01:00:00.003-04:00

BrandbookLayouts

2011-04-07T20:35:00.000-04:00

Image Library

2011-04-01T21:28:00.004-04:00

These are photos for a brand I am developing. They are meant to target my audience.

Filters

2011-04-01T21:23:00.002-04:00

Just playing around with a few photoshop filters...Third from the left is normal. This is my own photo from a friend's condo.

Not my own. But she's a beaut!

2011-03-29T22:28:00.000-04:00

Powder Blue Room

2011-03-29T21:16:00.000-04:00

Who Cares?

2011-03-25T22:44:00.002-04:00

I think today's Daily Dose of Imagery photo captures PERFECTLY of what I think about 85% of the nonsense that happens in the city. So much extra and uneccessary noise and clutter.

Pretty Advice

2011-03-10T21:47:00.001-05:00

Thanks graphic design, for being beautiful and wise.

2011-03-01T10:56:00.001-05:00

sigh.

The different places where I've lived my life in the past year.

2011-02-12T22:14:00.008-05:00

It started out in Brampton, with the room I made more than my own. Painting parties, late night spray paint graffiti, stencil art practice, scribbles, masterpieces, and SO ON! I had this room for around 3 or 4 years, and I think I can say that the paintings on the walls grew with me and felt like a part of me. The following two pictures are a reflection of laziness, and do not do the room justice. But you can use your imagination. It was crazy. I started getting sick of all the business on the walls in perfect timing to move into...

The family room in the spring of 2010! My room went under renovations, hence why I was even allowed to 'destroy' the walls like that in the first place. This was my not so private room for a few months, definitely setting a limit on how much tv my family was aloud to watch. A girl needs her alone time, early bed times, and sleep ins!

Thank GOD, I left for a few months, starting in June, to work at a summer camp. The following picture depicts generally where I stayed for the summer. I stayed in this specific place for more than half of the time, but moved around a lot too.

Camp ended and I came home to this! My new room. It was great to have privacy, except when the little girls from across the street wanted to come over and play with my ipod. But I like them, and our doors are almost always open to them anyways. I stayed in this room for a whole entire month! Thanks for finally renovating my room, Mom and Dad, I'm now taking off.

Then I moved into the dining room of a semi detached house near High Park, in Toronto. I dumped my stuff and enjoyed my own, new (for me) place. You would think it would stop now, right?

Two months, and a roommate moved out, and I moved up a few floors to my new pad. Slanted walls, pale dusty blue, unique shape, and AMAZING CLOSET.

Perfection. I'll enjoy it as much as I can while it lasts!

Colour scheme, simplicity, typography.

2011-02-01T02:06:00.002-05:00

Annie's Song - John Denver

2011-02-01T01:15:00.002-05:00

D   |Dsus4    |G  |A  |Bm      |G         |D      |   |
You fill up my senses    like a night in a forest
      |            |G     |F#m |Em      |G          |A7    |   |
Like the mountains in springtime    like a walk in the rain
    |            |G  |A  |Bm     |G          |D      |   |
Like a storm in the desert   like a sleepy blue ocean
  |         |G  |F#m |Em    |A7      |D     |Dsus4  |
You fill up my senses    come fill me again




D |Dsus4    |G   |A  |Bm        |G          |D      |   |
Come let me love you,    let me give my life to you
     |            |G   |F#m |Em      |G          |A7    |   |
Let me drown in your laughter,   let me die in your arms
    |          |G   |A  |Bm       |G        |D        |    |    |
Let me lay down beside you,   let me always be with you
         |G   |F#m |Em      |A7      |D    |Dsus4 
Come let me love you,    come love me again

More Painting!!!

2011-01-15T17:43:00.003-05:00

Reverse order.

Still not done, I don't feel the finished feel yet. Lots of layers. Probs way more to come.

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

2010-11-14T00:38:00.001-05:00

Listen, Smile and Appreciate. Their Music.

ffffffffffffound!

2010-11-07T21:58:00.002-05:00

Some info I found on one of my fav books: A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

2010-11-02T15:22:00.000-04:00

A historical narrative starts the book outlining four major 'ages':

Agricultural Age (farmers)
Industrial Age (factory workers)
Information Age (knowledge workers)
Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)

The fourth stage is where Pink focuses on how businesses can be successful.

Pink references three prevailing trends pointing towards the future of business and the economy: Abundance (consumers have too many choices, nothing is scarce), Asia (everything that can be outsourced, is) and Automation (computerization, robots, technology, processes). This brings up three crucial questions for the success of any business:

Can a computer do it faster?
Is what I'm offering in demand in an age of abundance?
Can someone overseas do it cheaper?

When these questions are present, creativity becomes the competitive difference that can differentiate commodities. Pink outlines six essential senses:

Design - Moving beyond function to engage the sense.
Story - Narrative added to products and services - not just argument. Best of the six senses.
Symphony - Adding invention and big picture thinking (not just detail focus).
Empathy - Going beyond logic and engaging emotion and intuition.
Play - Bringing humor and light-heartedness to business and products.
Meaning - the purpose is the journey, give meaning to life from inside yourself.

My little family

2010-10-31T18:02:00.008-04:00

Night

2010-10-26T02:03:00.004-04:00

It's past my bed time, I am looking ahead at a project and a deadline in the time frame of the next 15 hours.

Stress, yes, work, yes, little time, yes.

The best thing to do is to. ROCK. IT. Enjoy that project. Groove to some music. Experience that energy drink. Turn the lights low. Set a wicked mood. Party as much as you can while doing what you need to do. Make a celebration out of it.

If you're stuck doing homework in a shitty situation, you GO GIRL and make that the most awesome shitty situation ever!!! Don't agree to live a downer life.

Fall

2010-10-14T22:36:00.001-04:00

The Future

2010-10-12T09:11:00.001-04:00

I didn't make this, just to clarify. My teacher showed us this in class.

2010-10-11T23:39:00.001-04:00

Rightnow

2010-10-09T23:46:00.003-04:00

1

2

3

There is much to be learned from the canine.

2010-10-07T12:06:00.001-04:00

Such as happiness.

How To Be Happy

2010-10-04T23:40:00.000-04:00

My own.

2010-09-28T11:56:00.000-04:00

Summer, in essence.

2010-09-12T23:05:00.002-04:00

I live on an Island...

2010-08-10T22:07:00.007-04:00

So this is random parts of my life at camp, when i have my camera with me...

251

2010-06-08T01:54:00.005-04:00

1 - painting in process
2 - concert tickies
3 - bedroom renos
4 - painting in process/not sure if its done yet... i've been listening a lot to the stars lately, maybe this is why this was the word that came to my mind???

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

i need to be messier!

From 1000awesomethings.com

2010-05-14T15:02:00.001-04:00

My daughter and I experienced something ridiculously awesome this past week: chasing down the neighbourhood ice cream truck on our bikes, and then sitting curb-side to eat our spoils.

Did we care that the neighbour’s dog was barking at us out the window the whole time? No.

Did we care that our handlebars got sticky on the way home? No again.

Did we even care that the ice cream truck’s annoying song was stuck in our heads the rest of the day? Definitely not, because it only reminded us of the awesome thing we’d just experienced.

I love other peoples art:

2010-05-08T18:57:00.002-04:00

Calm Down

2010-05-04T23:35:00.001-04:00

found on DeviantArt

Negative/Positive

2010-04-15T21:13:00.003-04:00

Oh man! I've been posting so much work on here! But thats only bc the last few weeks at school have been pure projects due. soooo now I'm done!

I've been sick the last couple of days, and last night I slaved over this project... sooo much cutting and pasting, and even when my sister helped me I finished at 1:30AM!!! It is a visual dichotomy, so two opposite words made to look like each other.

But my teacher loved me for it, so it's worth it after all...

Road to Hell

2010-04-12T00:19:00.002-04:00

Graphic Design final project... I know. It's not graphic design... it's burning things. But whatever... it's a movie clip based on the quote, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." sooo i did some firey and hell-like stuff! These are photos from the process.

Donna

2010-04-10T13:56:00.003-04:00

Negative/Postive Space

2010-04-09T11:16:00.001-04:00

AM

2010-04-07T13:09:00.003-04:00

The challenge I see in art is to say as much as possible with out saying much at all.

(On a Mac, Control+Option+Command+8 will return you to the original version)

Meet the Pastors

2010-04-07T13:00:00.005-04:00

Another flyer I did for the church. I have a book of cmyk colour codes, and not only does it tell you how to get perfect colours, but the book also gives you colour schemes to use! So I used these four. I've wanted to do a design in this style and it's been in my head for a long time.

Operation Makeover

2010-04-07T12:56:00.005-04:00

wooohooo!! This is a sweet flyer I made for a fundraising thing at the church. This is the first thing I've ever had mass produced and spread all over the place. It's cool.

Do you see it?! Is it obvious?!!

2010-04-07T12:46:00.002-04:00

Stills from an animation I'm working on. The first animation I've ever done!

Came into this strange world...

2010-03-22T22:29:00.008-04:00

MUSE TORONTO 2010

2010-03-09T00:05:00.004-05:00

just like tonight...

funny question

2010-03-07T21:09:00.001-05:00

I want to play don't wait forms in the hideaway.

2010-03-07T20:36:00.004-05:00

I want to get on with getting on with things.
I want to run in the fields, paint the kitchen and love someone,
But I can't do any of that here can I?

First Train Home

I GET TO GO HERE TODAY.

2010-02-28T12:51:00.002-05:00

man, that cement dog gets me every time!!!

Seven

2010-02-22T18:40:00.005-05:00

Time off. Driving. Olympics. Being at home. Listening to so much Feist. Value. Strength. Thinking about the summer. Work vs Rest. Sleep whenever I want. Enjoy myself. Bold movements. Simplicity standing out.

Cupcakes for Paul

2010-02-07T14:13:00.002-05:00

...a step up from the last time i made cupcakes

lake-girl-tea-me

2010-02-02T23:30:00.002-05:00

ME BRAIN.

2010-02-01T00:27:00.001-05:00

Brain Lateralization Test Results

Right Brain (62%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain.
Left Brain (38%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain

Are You Right or Left Brained?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Six

2010-01-30T20:53:00.004-05:00

Orange pekoe. Callused fingers. Inventing new things. Hymns. Discussing family dynamics. Extra money. Surprise visits. Yelling a lot. Alanis Morisette. Ane Brun. Planning parties. Inspiration. Texture. Image making.

Textures

2010-01-30T17:45:00.002-05:00

Doing lots of textures these days... I love the layering process.

First Train Home - Imogen Heap

2010-01-21T18:56:00.002-05:00

In & Out the Window

2010-01-21T18:53:00.002-05:00

CRATE SHELF

2010-01-19T22:20:00.006-05:00

Ok, so a while back I blogged about how I have a goal of picking up old milk crates I find in random places, and build a bookcase out of them... WELL we did some spring cleaning at work and there were all these left over ones!! they are mine! Oh man, it's definitely the simple things that make me happy. Soooo I'm currently at 11 crates, and lookin good!

I NEED MORE.

Her Morning Elegance

2010-01-19T20:52:00.000-05:00

I have loved this song for a while, but finally seeing the music video just now makes it so much better!!!

One Day at Art School.

2010-01-18T21:35:00.013-05:00

Type Stuff

2010-01-14T23:09:00.007-05:00

FIRST PIC, I painted the alphabet with water, having letters not appear right away, but then appear once they soaked in the paper, but disappear once they dried.. an interesting process. It depended on how full my brush was, how quick my strokes were, etc, which all varied, leaving it to be unknown how long letters would stay visible for.

2ND PIC, letter stickers peeled off the wall, and the chipped paint that went along with it, or stayed behind.

A Quote About Wikipedia by Michael Scott

2010-01-08T14:00:00.005-05:00

"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information."

Michael Scott

Rhythm in Texture.

2010-01-08T13:56:00.003-05:00

Happy Two Thousand and Ten!

2010-01-02T03:28:00.010-05:00

I brought in the new year with friends, playing the famous Balderdash, and making home made music/dance videos. Boys don't like making dance vids... But us girls eat it up!

I found a December bus pass on the ground with three or four days left to put it to use. I never got a chance to use it!

Also, I did not make any new years resolutions. It doesn't take so much as a changing number for me to set a goal. I think it's a nice thing to be able to make a resolution/decision to start or stop doing something.

This is what we did tonight.

2009-12-21T03:29:00.006-05:00

I painted. Donna made some molded thing. I love having Donna back where she belongs. Home for the holidays.

Everything feels so warm.

Iris

2009-12-14T00:28:00.004-05:00

Miles: "I also wrote one for you.

Iris, if you were a melody, I would use only the good notes.

[plays melody]

[Sings] Iris lives next door, to Arthur, he's a scroodle dee doo,
doodle
doodle dee doo..."

New Gloves, Burnt Gloves.

2009-12-13T21:44:00.007-05:00

THANKS FOR A SUPER SHITTY CHRISTMAS PRESENT SECRET SANTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cafe Winter Wonderland

2009-12-10T17:56:00.005-05:00

This is what I did almost all afternoon at work today!

Why Mom?

2009-12-10T02:38:00.002-05:00

Florence

2009-12-10T02:31:00.001-05:00

I made a book!

2009-12-08T01:34:00.005-05:00

About Paul Rand, American graphic designer from the 1950's. He designed the logo for IBM, ABC, UPS, to name a FEW.

Clever, clever man.

Front, Back, Intro, Pages and more Pages:

Now I am done school until January 11, 2010!!!

That means 34 days of CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

Other than my beautiful face, what else is consistent in these photos?! It's something I loooooveee....

2009-12-07T01:54:00.002-05:00

My Tea Collection:

2009-11-22T21:46:00.004-05:00

Hellooooo Poster Roughs!!

2009-11-01T00:19:00.005-04:00

Baby will be done soon!

I am having so much fun with school these days. It's really weird and a new experience to actually be on top of my school work, and since I have switched over to being a part time student I think this will be a more permanent place to be. I love having room to breathe.

Painted Drumsticks.

2009-10-23T14:58:00.001-04:00

Look at all the weight I dropped!

2009-10-17T23:49:00.007-04:00

This used to be me, 14 days ago. I am in my livingroom. This is where I spend the majority of my time.

Still me. Huh? what's happening? ...All of a sudden...

I tried this new diet and I lost all kinds of weight, except the stuff I wanted which gives me these awesome curves! Life couldn't be better!

Just kidding. I didn't really loose any weight, just transferred it to my right arm. I wonder how this will effect my drawing... Does this arm make me look fat?

"Feel the Music"

2009-10-12T21:14:00.003-04:00

I thought it would be a solid idea to put the drawing tablet to some better use! Can you guess who it is? Due to a lack of fine detail, and her eyes and eyebrows being too dark, which I think make her look different, I'll tell you!

It's Keri Russell, better known as Lyla Novacek from August Rush. But you could already tell that, couldn't you?

Research To Fuel Creative Process, Canaan

2009-10-02T14:54:00.004-04:00

I think these are a few solid quotations from an article I am reading... first and third are the best.

Music that melts my heart... [Right Now]

2009-09-26T01:36:00.011-04:00

Imogen Heap - The Walk

Bedouin Soundclash - Shadow of a Man
Moby - God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
Moby - When It's Cold I'd Like to Die
The Postal Service - Recycled Air
mewithoutYou - Torches Together
Imogen Heap - Psychobabble
Dave Matthews Band - #41
The Shins - Gone for Good
Radiohead - Planet Telex
Priscilla Ahn - Leave the Light On
Jack Johnson - All At Once
KT Tunstall - Under the Weather
Florence + the Machine - Hardest of Hearts
Feist - The Park

Of all the places to be, she chooses this.

2009-09-02T12:55:00.001-04:00

Excerpt from Bear Necessities

2009-08-22T13:33:00.005-04:00

"Look for the bare necessities,
The simple bare necessities,
Forget about your worries and your strife,
I mean the bare necessities,
That's why a bear can rest at ease,
With just the bare necessities of life.

And don't spend your time lookin' around
For something you want that can't be found
When you find out you can live without it
And go along not thinkin' about it
I'll tell you something true

The bare necessities of life will come to you.
They'll come to you."

Since Sept 2007:

2009-08-20T13:51:00.005-04:00

Debit transactions have cost me $250.
ATM charges have been approx $270.

And Go bus tickets would be around $2,000.
Subway tokens have been $700.

Cell phone has been around $1,000. Not bad.

School has been about $16,000
School supplies were $3000, laptop included.

Plus I buy lots of clothes, accessories and food.

So that's where my money goes... yeah...

2009-08-07T01:52:00.004-04:00

"I've got ten to twenty broken bones minimum. But life is pain, and we got to scrape all the joy out of it that we can Kevin." -Rod Kimble (Andy Samburg), Hot Rod

Birthday Cupcakes for Tamara

2009-07-30T01:47:00.002-04:00

Cupcake flavours, L to R:

Pink: Raspberry
Purple: Strawberry
Blue: Tropical Fruit
Turquoise: Tropical Fruit
Green: Mint Chocolate
Light Green: Mint Sparkles

Cake: Vanilla Rainbow

They were A-MA-ZIING.

I don't know if I'll ever get sick of Paper Planes... ever...

2009-07-26T23:55:00.003-04:00

Some Some Some I Some I Murder, Some I Some I Let Go...

Magic School Bus!!

2009-07-15T22:28:00.002-04:00

It gets better when you click the text...

Ms. Frizzle: Seatbelts everyone!
Arnold: Please let this be a normal field trip...
Other kids: With the Frizz? No way!
Arnold: (groans)

Cruisin' on down Main Street
You're relaxed and feelin' good
Next thing that you know you're seein'
Octopus in the neighborhood!

Surfin' on a sound wave
Swingin' through the stars
Take a left at your intestine
Take your second right past Mars.

On THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS
Navigate a nostril
Climb on THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS
Spank a plankton, too
On our Magic School Bus
Raft a river of lava
On THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS
Such a fine thing to do!

So strap your bones right to the seat
Come on in and don't be shy --
Just to make your day complete
You might get baked into a pie

On THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS...
Step inside -- it's a wilder ride!
Come on -- ride on THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS

I am going to do this!!

2009-07-10T18:21:00.004-04:00

Essays in the Summer

2009-06-22T23:22:00.007-04:00

" "

2009-06-14T22:49:00.001-04:00

Super White Person: "Tans are bad for the body..."
Awesome Tanned Person: "...But good for the soul"

-- Without A Trace

I love Demetri.

2009-06-10T21:52:00.001-04:00

"A burlap sack is the same as a musical... I would not want to be in either..."
"A Squirrel is the same as a can... When there is a bb gun in your hand..."
"Saying I appologize is the same as I'm sorry... Unless you're at a funeral..."
"Earrings are the same as sneezes... Two is ok, but 10 in a row is annoying..."
"A secret admirer is the same as a stalker... Except with stationary..."