Post 1: November 10, 2010

Hi there. Welcome to my new and improved website, complete with BLOG!

Now I know what you are thinking. Why on earth would I need a blog?  EVERYBODY BLOGS.

I wanted a place to share ideas and info about current and upcoming projects…that didn’t have anything to do with Facebook.

Speaking of current projects, this site has really been a labor of love.  A thousand thanks to my friend Eva Potter (a GREAT web and graphic designer here in NYC: www.evapotter.com) for finally taking this show on the road.

One of Eva’s many skills is to take your little germs of ideas and translate them into web magic.  I have a moderate (ok, paltry)  grasp on HTML.  I have been wanting to redo my website for a long time but couldn’t wrap my head around how to “build” a site that could be quickly and easily updated.  This site is actually adapted from  a WordPress Template called “Art Gallery.”  I know!  Can you believe it?

I wanted the site to be a completely “drawn environment,” all the way down to the navigation buttons and portfolio frames.

Eva created a grid of sizes of images in the template and how they would relate to each other.   Anything drawn that you see in the site I did with an old fashioned 3B pencil and our friend Photoshop. With a lot of tweaking, finessing, and a whole lotta coding, it’s finally on its feet.

Here’s a pic of a drawing that didn’t make the final cut:

There are so many of these! Should I add some more? Well, I CAN IF I WANT TO, because now I have a place to do it! Hooray!
OK, time for bed.
Jess