The Life & Times of Allison Jane

Bamboo

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:13:12 GMT

Adobe Illustrator practice

A new place to play

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:26:25 GMT

ColourLovers

Segregation, sterilization, corn flakes

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:57:06 GMT

Pencil sketch, text added in Photoshop

I was reading about eugenics last night, and made a little discovery. John Harvey Kellogg was apparently a big believer and proponent of this faulty science (he was also a believer in some other faulty "sciences," but is nothing compared to this). Eugenics is the idea that humans can control their own evolution through selective breeding. Generally, it's not a good idea to treat people like domesticated dogs. This dangerous, flawed idea led to such things as forced sterilization, laws prohibiting mixed race marriages, and immigration restrictions in America. In Germany, however, the Nazis took it to an extreme (as they were known to do). The influence of eugenics can be seen in most everything the Nazis did, but my interest really comes in where Hitler started. Institutionalized disabled children and adults were the first to be targeted by the Führer in a program called "Action T4." The mentally ill, developmentally disabled, and the physically handicapped were gassed, poisoned, or just left to starve. When families asked about their missing loved ones, they were told that they had died of natural causes and had already been cremated.

Okay, getting back to Kellogg... He was a pretty early supporter of eugenics. He started his Race Betterment Foundation in 1906, and held conferences on the subject at his famous sanitarium in 1914, 1915, and 1928. He had huge influence in his time, and I just wonder how much this seemingly benign eccentric contributed to the future evil done in the name of eugenics.

More people need to realize

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:30:21 GMT

Getting ready for St. Valentine

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:16:06 GMT

Enid of Ghost World Fame

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:02:05 GMT

Enid, Hi-Fashion Doll (it actually says that on the box)
Made completely in Adobe Illustrator
2008

I'm really pleased with this one. I've been playing around with more of Illustator features. I only used Photoshop to add the watermark. The rest is vector.

Robit!

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:44:47 GMT

Adobe Illustrator
2008

A third vector illustration of a toy from Cardboard Spaceship

the parody video Tom Cruise WANTS you to see! on FunnyOrDie.com

???

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:42:36 GMT

Adobe Illustrator
2008

Another vector illustration of a toy from Cardboard Spaceship

One Eyed Monster

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:36:25 GMT

Adobe Illustrator
2008

Vector illustration of a toy from Cardboard Spaceship

McCarron: stage one

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:55:13 GMT

pencil sketch in sketchbook

Stage one of my Katie McCarron project.

Perfect for your girlfriend... or your mom!

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:44:59 GMT

"Victorian Ladies" Valentines
Old found photographs and Photoshop

The Graphic Design Club on campus will hopefully be selling these (and other) Valentines in the coming weeks.

Photos from DustyOldStock. Fonts from DaFont.

Also, Happy New Year and visit my newly redesigned website!

Warming Up...

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:11:42 GMT

A boring little still life
Oil on canvas
7in x 5in
Late September 2007

Anthropomorphic Citrus and British Comedy

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:04:23 GMT

This is a little lemon-lime guy a created for one of my package design projects.

Made entirely in Adobe Illustrator.

And now for something completely different... I love YouTube. Someone on there is posting full episodes of a British comedy I watched all the time as a kid. Check out one of my favorite episodes of Are You Being Served?

Part One:

Part Two:

Part Three:

I'm a busy girl...

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:21:11 GMT

I can't scan anything right now... so, here are a couple of my recent favorite youtubes

SLAM

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:05:22 GMT

Max Beckmann
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
1917
Oil on canvas
58 3/4 x 49 7/8 in.
St. Louis Art Museum

So, my painting class took a field trip to the art museum, and I actually got to go! I've been going to that school for four years and had no idea they had an accessible van/bus thing. My teacher was good enough to not only deal with the bureaucracy of getting it, but also driving the damn thing. Anyway, I was really taken with the painting above. Apparently SLAM has the largest public collection of Beckmann paintings in the world. This one was, by far, my favorite. The faces and the hands the and the colors and the brushstrokes - it's amazing. You should see it in person if you ever make it out there.

Last Sunday at the Fox...

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:26:50 GMT

Silent version of The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney ♥

She brought nine 10(ish) year olds to a silent movie... bra-vo, lady

Stan Kann played the score he personally wrote

Photo Restoration

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:16:45 GMT

After:

My grandmother, c. 1927

Before:

Spark Package Concept

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:37:16 GMT

Spark Men's Body Wash
Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Project for my packaging class (still in progress). It'll probably get ripped to shreds on Thursday :D

If you are at all interested in package design, you have to check out The Dieline.

Vectorness

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:30:34 GMT

Grand Marquis de Sade
Adobe Illustrator

Done for a class... I might take it into Flash and try to animate it.

And for something completely different... check out the first red leaf of autumn!

I've disappeared again... (photos!)

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:44:46 GMT

Classes started again on the 20th. I only managed to keep up daily entries for a few days after that. From now on I'll try to update every weekend. To catch up, since I started school I...

Went to class:

Saw some friends:

Ate a heart-shaped potato:

Drew some stuff:

Saw a squirrel:

Went to an MDA Telethon and saw... some kind of Elk-deer-thing

... ultra cool behind the scenes TV stuff

... but mostly I saw a bunch of these. I hate crowds.

Saw that Tara's owl is still being held hostage:

Took some photos of flowers:

And tried to keep my cat from destroying my room

(she's chasing a bug)

I'm a busy girl.

Mug idea

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:39:26 GMT

My idea for what the Ouch Podcast mug could look like.
Illustrations done in Photoshop.
Ouch! and BBC logos belong to the BBC.

I've heard it mentioned that some people don't really like the mugs they give out now, and wish the the hosts faces were on them. I also decided to put the braille for Ouch! at the top. At least I tried to... I don't know for sure if I got it right. The braille is at the top because I figured if it was at the bottom, with hot coffee or tea in the mug, they wouldn't need to read the word to say "Ouch!"

Sunset over a car dealership

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:54:51 GMT

Digital photo manipulated in Photoshop.

Daisies...

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:14:34 GMT

8"x10" Photo Mat
The first of my floral themed mats
All artwork done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Photograph is for demonstration purposes only. It is was one many lovely photos that are archived at the Koreshan State Historic Site.

Andrew Cunanan

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:05:49 GMT

Graphite and colored pencil sketch
The caption is an excerpt from Joseph Geringer's Crime Library article. It reads: "But, underneath, waiting to explode, Hell smoldered" - Jos. Geringer

Andrew Cunanan killed five people in a span of three months in 1997 before killing himself. He had no history of violence and nobody will probably ever know for sure why he snapped.

Devendra Harne

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:39:19 GMT

Pencil sketch of Devendra Harne, the Guinness World Record holder for the most fingers and toes (25).
The caption at the top reads: His name is Devendra Harne (he has five extra phalanges)

I plan on turning this into a painting sometime in the next few months.