july updates

It's almost two weeks into July and I've been hard at work making books and enjoying life. This weekend I've been working on my second themed book assignment which is a how to book. It could be about anything we wanted and in any one of the book forms I have made in the class so far. I chose to create a book about how to do sun salutations, a warm up exercise in yoga. I also decided to illustrate the yoga poses by painting them digitally in photoshop which I had never done before. I feel pretty good with it considering it's my first time painting that way and I certainly plan to practice more.
I'm getting it printed tomorrow and then I will bind it together to be ready to turn in come classtime. I hope it turns out alright, and that the boards I created will be the right size for the width of the paper. I wish I had done a trial before hand, which I did for printing, but the paper I plan to have it printed on is much thicker than the paper in the printer and so it wouldn't be an acurate portrayal of the book. I have definitely gotten practice making mock ups at my internship.
Speaking of my internship, I got to go to a photoshoot last week for John Deere Boots and their upcoming catalog. It was on a farm on the outskirts of Nashville and despite the bug bites and and heat, I had a really great time! My creative director and art director were there and talked to me about the process and all the things they had to learn, consider and plan to bring the photoshoot to fruition. When I worked for my father's marketing firm I was able to go on photoshoots before, but they were all in studios so this was a new learning experience. So the month is going well and I expect it to keep going well. Class has only 2 weeks left and then I'm heading to the beach for a little vacation which will be very nice. I'm so grateful for this summer.