Cara Miller

MOVED

2010-09-07T19:00:00.000-04:00

I've officially moved my portfolio over to Facebook! Please join the group :)

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Art and Graphic Design by Cara Miller

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experimenting again

2010-03-03T00:10:00.004-05:00

A mixture of painting, photography, and computer manipulation. My three favorite things.

screen printing

2010-01-22T17:04:00.001-05:00

I'm in a print making class right now. We're doing silk screen prints based on symbols that we found. I found that pine cones are symbols to many people of everlasting life.

Reproduction- Aziz and Cucher

2009-10-12T21:08:00.003-04:00

This is a project for digital processes where I reproduce the work of another artist, or in this case, two artists, (Aziz and Cucher) I suggest you google them if you don't know who they are.

cleaning out my computer

2009-10-11T18:02:00.001-04:00

some images I forgot about. I love taking pictures in negative mode

Age

2009-10-05T11:48:00.008-04:00

I'm working on a project where I age people in photoshop. Very experimental.

Submerged 2

2009-10-01T12:29:00.002-04:00

making use of my reject images. I'm working on tuning them into semi-abstract digital paintings.

New Project

2009-10-01T12:10:00.003-04:00

In Digital Processes Two we are selecting an artist and then ripping them off by reproducing their work and making it our own. I Chose to rip-off Oleg Dou. I love his work and I think it will be so interesting to do.

Submerged

2009-10-01T00:07:00.004-04:00

making use of my reject images. I'm working on tuning them into semi-abstract digital paintings.

retouching and colorizing

2009-09-30T11:04:00.002-04:00

oh man.....I need to practice this lol It's not Horrible, but its not great either

magnets update

2009-09-28T23:02:00.002-04:00

they are now only $1 because I have a ton of them and only sold like 20 lol. I might be putting them in the take art-leave art thing this year, so watch out for them :)

ArtBeat on ArtStreet

2009-09-15T22:37:00.004-04:00

I'm selling Magnets for $2 at ArtBeat Festival

Truthiness

2009-09-13T20:33:00.003-04:00

image of the day

2009-09-09T22:06:00.002-04:00

I was experimenting with stitching two different pictures together.

Working with Self

2009-09-06T20:24:00.005-04:00

Sandy Skoglund

2009-09-04T12:03:00.004-04:00

thanks to my Digital Processes teacher, I've discovered Sandy Skoglund's work. I'm not her biggest fan, but some of her work is neat. You can tell she puts a lot of work into it.

couch design

2009-09-04T12:02:00.002-04:00

new ideas

2009-08-22T01:21:00.002-04:00

I want to do a series that allows me to study the difference between seeing something in a movie and seeing it in a still photograph. For instance, you're watching a horror movie so you are expecting someone to die. When it happens in the movie, you may not be too shocked, but my breaking it down into seperate stills, the end scene may be even more shocking. I'm not talking about just doing horror movies. I want to break down romantic movies, comedies, dramas, and even action movies. I want to see if i can get the same reaction to the movie as i do the photos and/or which is more effective at evoking emotion. This project will be ongoing, meaning I will continue to work on it for months, if not years, after i begin. I may even have my friend Christine Zuercher help me out because she loves both film and photography. I haven't talked to her about it yet though. We'll see. This is going to be interesting :)

purify

2009-08-22T01:20:00.004-04:00

The obsession with being pure. what is the extreme it can lead to? The tea bags represent the mild obsession and the red represents the point in the obsession when it occurs to the sufferer that their own blood isn't pure. How far will some people go to be considered pure and beautiful? Too far.

still life

2009-08-08T20:49:00.004-04:00

acrylic on canvas

self portrait

2009-08-08T20:24:00.004-04:00

this is from painting one. Not bad for a first attempt.

Character Photography

2009-08-06T02:11:00.006-04:00

Character 1: Wren.

This project is going to be so much fun. I'm going to portray any character that pops into my head. Good times.

perspective

2009-07-31T03:14:00.005-04:00

I'm obsessed with how perspective can dramatically change an image

found my camera's memory card

2009-07-30T14:33:00.002-04:00

The Jupiter Series

New work

2009-07-27T22:20:00.001-04:00

So i lost my bible study sketchbook, my card for my camera, and the plugin for my printer, which explains why I haven't been putting up work. Finally i decided just to take a picture of it using my computer's camera...so yeah here ya go. This is an experiment with watercolor chalk and graphite.

The Jelly Bean Experiment

2009-06-13T14:44:00.011-04:00

Jelly beans, wax, spray paint

News Update: I have an interview with Mead on Thursday!

Back on track!

2009-06-08T14:16:00.002-04:00

So i was offered an opportunity to work at mead as an intern designer! It's a year-long internship which is awesome. I haven't officially been given the job yet but I have sent in a resume and set up a shadowing time with a family friend that holds the internship now. She will be showing me the ropes and teaching me exactly what they do there and what her job entails. Her name is Allison Moore. She got her degree from Sinclair and has been designing for Mead for the past year. I look forward to learning a lot from her! So far all i know is that i would be designing notebook covers, folders, backpacks and things like that to be sold wherever mead sells them, haha. I'm way more excited than I should be at this stage in the game but I can't help it at the moment :)

Wish me luck please!

the mattress series

2009-05-14T17:08:00.006-04:00

New Paintings

2009-05-13T13:43:00.006-04:00

I'm experimenting with paint drips

Summer, time to get to work.

2009-05-11T21:22:00.003-04:00

Ok so the internship I was offered fell through because the people at that company have terrible communication skills. However, it has turned out to be a good thing because now that my name is out there, i've found 2 free-lance jobs, and the opportunity to shadow a designer at Mead paper. The 2 free-lance things include: a neighborhood newsletter and graduation announcements. not much but something :) I'm also working on a few paintings and drawings. I don't have my scanner up, otherwise i would post pics. I'm also thinking about doing some more collages and photos soon and i am working on filling my first sketchbook of the summer.

Blast from the past

2009-04-19T12:18:00.005-04:00

I found my old Photobucket account. There are a lot of images in there. These are from about 5 years ago. It's fun to see how I've progressed. A lot of these are from when I had my layout site on Xanga. I would create banners and background images to go with the website layouts I made. This feels like so long ago...

Worn

2009-04-16T20:59:00.006-04:00

human meets nature at the hip

2009-04-11T11:22:00.008-04:00

It's just a stain

2009-02-15T00:43:00.005-05:00

These are some of the things I submitted with my group's application to live on Art Street next year. We got in! These were made of recycled scrapbook paper that I then painted, dyed, drew on, ironed and basically anything else I could think of to make texture.

broken windows, rusted pipes

2009-01-19T15:54:00.006-05:00

Marion Peck

2009-01-17T10:55:00.005-05:00

This is the artist that shares a studio with mark Ryden. Her works are pretty interesting as well and are of similar style to that of Mark Ryden. A lot of her work i have seen before but have never been able to put a name to it, so i'm really glad i discovered her today.

Mark Ryden

2009-01-17T10:48:00.002-05:00

Just discovered this surreal artist. His paintings are beautiful, but creepy and somewhat comical at the same time. Wonderful combo. i Wikipedia-ed him. "Ryden studied Illustration and graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, in 1987. His solo debut show entitled "The Meat Show" was in Pasadena, California in 1998. He currently lives and works in Eagle Rock, California, in a studio that he shares with his partner, artist Marion Peck. He is divorced and has two children Rosie and Jasper."

Longest post ever.

2009-01-14T17:14:00.010-05:00

Collage, copy, and draw

photography

recycled materials and dyed paper

Charcoal drawing

poloroid

These images are part of my most recent typography project

getting ready for SYSR

2008-12-08T21:01:00.003-05:00

for those of you who dont know what SYSR is its the Sophomore Year Scholarship Review. Basically i have to show at least three pieces from each of my art classes to a panel of judges. Then they decide whether or not i'm good enough to continue in my major. It is probably the most stressfull thing i've ever encountered.

anyway. here are some of my pieces.

Summer art

2008-08-16T14:53:00.005-04:00

I'm so tired of charcoal, thats all we used in drawing classes at school. Here's pencil. This is still a work in progress. I'm still working on the hair as you can see

ok i've also been doing signatures for an anime forum. I'm not a big anime fan, but they give me art projects so that's good Here are some of the signatures i've made for people

these are t-shirts i made at my internship for a business called indentertainment. They're going to be sold on their web site. I'll post the link when it's up and running

photography

2008-01-27T20:07:00.002-05:00

Photography

Victoria Frances

2007-12-28T12:06:00.000-05:00

The Artist

one of my favorites. I love art that gives me chills

art

2007-12-07T19:29:00.000-05:00

by Hannes Broecker

People coming to see the exhibit can pick up a cup and drink from the actual piece.

IMovie

2007-12-01T13:03:00.001-05:00

This is a movie my group in 2D design made. It's made of all stills. I'm pretty happy with it, i just wish more of my own ideas were put into the movie. I'm making one on my own just for fun.

-Cara

First post!

2007-11-30T19:58:00.001-05:00

ok, i created this website because i needed a place to store my art work and whatever else.

I'm taking figure drawing next semester and i'm a litle bit nervous. The drawing teacher i have now pretty much keeps telling me my drawings are crap just because i don't have the same style as her. I'm not going to name names, i just know i gotta do better in this drawing class. I'm practicing eyes and other facial features right now because those are the hardest for me to draw. here are some eyes.

-Graphite on paper

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