Parmita's Blog

An ink drawing a day for the whole of October This year I decided to participate in Inktober. ( More info here ). Basically I had to create a drawing in ink for every single day of October.  It was both easier and more difficult than I thought.  Easier: I thought drawing in ink would be this crazy new experience that I wouldn't be able to handle very well since all the art I do is either digital or with a pencil. But really, a lot of the same principles apply; they're just modified a little bit. You still have to think about form, shape, contrast, value, but just in a different medium.  I also thought I would probably give up after the first couple days, but I actually stuck with it for the whole of October! It was easier to continue than I thought. The main thing is really just getting it into a habit. Once you develop that habit, it becomes so much easier.  Harder: Though many of the same ideas from drawing digitally/with pencil apply in drawing with ...

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....

The end of a long journey Camp went amazing! It was a huge success! I feel so happy and invigorated right now. I can’t believe how much of an impact I was able to make! At the very end of camp, parents were asking for my email, contact info, to take a picture with their girl. It means so much to me to have parents come and personally thank me. The entire experience was so amazing and I just felt so important. It makes me so proud to know that I made such an impact on so many people. And we raised over $1400 in donations!!!! Honestly, when we were first starting the camp, I thought I would be happiest when I was finally counting the money! And to tell the truth, I was pretty happy when I was counting the money. It was immense proudness in my achievement! After all, I actually earned this money. Still, that happiness could never match up to the happiness I got when the girls and their parents came up to me, asking for pictures, hugs, and giving thank you cards. That happ...

A little update on how the GWC Summer Camp has gone Our summer camp has been going pretty well so far. The girls are all so amazing. They manage to pick up complex concepts at alarming speeds. One girl had never seen a line of code in her entire life, but now, in just a few days, she understands every single topic we covered perfectly as well as all the challenging concepts I gave her as extra work! They are so incredibly smart, sometimes I forget how young they are! Young children can unwittingly be so funny sometimes. Some of the girls this age have not yet developed a sense of personal boundaries and ask me and the speakers the strangest questions. Yesterday while our speaker, Rod Begbie , was talking about the social changes needed to bring women and minorities into CS fields, one girl cut him off to ask, “Are you married?” He was very tactful though, and answered the question along with the myriad of other questions (some relevant and some not-so-much) that the girls a...