Parmita's Blog

Finally selling the finished product! For a while now, I've been working towards ArtReach's sale at the Lynbrook Craft Faire. The sale is only one day, but it was really incredible seeing how in order to create that one good day, many different people had to put in countless hours of work.  We sold watercolor mugs at a table in the Craft Faire. Sounds simple, right? But really, there were so many other steps that had to be taken to reach that goal.  We had to r egister as vendors for the Faire, m anage and complete all required paperwork, f und for the mug-decorating materials, p aint the actual mugs, c reate advertisements and posters, b ook a table, and c reate vendor shifts so someone was present for all 8 hours of the faire.  The fact that so much goes into making this possible makes it that much more rewarding in the end. It was really great seeing all of our efforts finally put into one thing.  We ended up selling all of our mugs and we ha...

Working to make sets for SHOK ArtReach decided to do a fun little collaboration project with SHOK (Student Health Outreach for Kids). Basically, SHOK holds skits and plays for kids at different schools to educate them about health and health issues. This year, they were doing a "Despicable Me" themed play, so ArtReach stepped in to paint the props.  On the left is Gru's house and the right is Vector's It was really fun creating this. Usually, I do digital art, so it was pretty different having to paint something for once. There's something so therapeutic about the repetitive motions of painting. In digital art, I could have achieved the same final outcome  much faster, but I wouldn't have gone through the patient process of painting.  Patiently getting in all the little white spaces All in all, it was super fun, and it's so great knowing that my work is going towards a good cause!

Yup, there's more! Quick little ad for more of ArtReach's fundraising:

Yet another little project Here's a pic of the board I made to advertise ArtReach's fundraising:

Another process post  Here's the process behind the making of my second ArtReach poster: I'm proud of the minimalistic look I managed to pull off on this piece. 

The process behind one poster.  As the Public Relations officer for Lynbrook's ArtReach club, I have to make a lot of posters, flyers, and other ads to promote our club. I recently spent about two days working on one specific poster that I'm really proud of.  It started off with as a simple  idea, and grew into an amazing project.  Here is the very first preliminary sketch of what I wanted it to look like: It would say ArtReach in really big letters, but instead of having the letters painted, everything else would be painted and the letters would be left white, taking advantage of negative space.  In order to do this, I would need to use painter's tape to cover up the letters.  Then came the fun part...painting! But I didn't want it to look like regular brush strokes. I really wanted this poster to pop, so instead of painting normally, I used paintbrushes and sponges to throw the paint onto the poster, creating a splatter effect....