Katharina Conrad Illustration

One Blog to Rule Them All

2011-04-27T21:05:00.000-07:00

Please visit me at my new blog at:

Katharinaconrad.com/blog

This one wont be updated any more in the foreseeable future. But don't worry! I imported all my old posts so if you have a favorite, you can still find it!

2011-04-25T19:56:00.000-07:00

This is one of ten paintings done as part of my thesis. Here we see Princess Lolly as the quintessential drunk pop star.

Blog Re-Design!

2011-04-14T00:43:00.000-07:00

Phew, I finally got around to sprucing this place up a bit! I've made it match my (new!) website a bit more, added some stuff, re-arranged some stuff, deleted some stuff, all in the hopes that this is a much better user experience. I hope you enjoy it!

Portfolio Piece #2

2011-04-13T09:50:00.000-07:00

A portrait of Romy Schneider in her best known role as Sissi.

New Work

2011-03-19T12:08:00.001-07:00

Cake House and Other things

2010-12-19T13:16:00.000-08:00

Forgotten Work

2010-11-14T12:18:00.000-08:00

One Weekend

2010-11-08T10:41:00.001-08:00

Fantasy Landscape

2010-10-21T20:11:00.000-07:00

For this assignment everybody in class made up their own perfect job and then we switched with one of our classmates and where the art director for them. My assignment was to create a fantasy/science fiction world and do some production art based on it for a movie.

Lewis Carroll piece

2010-10-21T20:07:00.000-07:00

For a magazine article about Lewis Carroll and his weird relationship with the girl who inspired the Alice character. I put a varnish over the whole thing which made it very shiny and hard to scan. It needs a couple of touch ups in the background so it doesn't look so dark.

Magazine Cover

2010-10-14T21:40:00.000-07:00

Fake New Yorker cover for Halloween. I had fun painting the little girls and their costumes.

New Work

2010-09-12T14:07:00.000-07:00

Interpreting the phrase "Pet Noir". We could only work on the piece for 2 hours. I thought it turned out okay.

Paintings

2010-05-04T22:08:00.001-07:00

Desk

2010-04-28T23:50:00.001-07:00

Just some stuff

2010-04-22T16:32:00.000-07:00

If I were an animal I think I'd be a pygmy slow loris.

This video's over all feel is exactly how I want my summer vacation to be like/ how excited I am for school to be over.

My Desk

2010-04-06T00:32:00.001-07:00

This weekend I was sort of sick. But I still worked on my color spread for my children's book illustration (which you can see here, before I changed some of the colors). This is my desk, filled with everything you could possibly want as a sick person; tea, tissues, ginger ale, honey for my tea, and cough drops.

Some Stuff

2010-03-30T22:44:00.001-07:00

A color chart, my palette, and a sketch for my children's book. Just some little stuff until I can post some real paintings.

Start to (Semi-) Finished Painting

2010-02-09T20:13:00.000-08:00

I thought it might be kind of interesting to document one painting (not the best painting I've ever done but certainly not the worst either) from the start to an almost finished piece.
So here's the "finished" painting, almost 7 hours later. I don't really like how some parts came out, especially the face and arms, so I'm thinking I'll wait for the paint to dry (since it's oils) and then make some changes.
Here it is with all the colors blocked in. This is probably about 5 to 6 hours into the painting.
Starting to just block in some of the basic shapes with color after about 2 and a half hours.
Adding a wash of color over the sketch.
The very start of the painting. I did a basic drawing in pencil so I know about where everything will be, size, shape, etc. Took me about an hour.

Paintings

2010-02-02T19:30:00.000-08:00

Stuff from Finals

2010-01-08T14:47:00.001-08:00

My final portrait for my Drawing II class. I always make my nose to long for some reason.

My sub-cultures illustration final. I picked quilters. Now that I have a new camera (Yay!) I should be able to take photos of my art again.

T-Shirt Design Fun

2010-01-08T14:40:00.000-08:00

T-Shirt Designs. I used ink and colored pencils.

Junior Review

2009-11-07T12:27:00.000-08:00

A photo from my Junior Review. I'll try to upload the photos that I took soon.

Bookplate Finals

2009-09-19T11:39:00.000-07:00

Here is the final for the unicorn bookplate. I did another sketch inbetween the final and the last sketch.
This is the other bookplate I worked on (We had to do two). It's in the art deco style.

Sneak Peak

2009-09-07T20:36:00.000-07:00

Stage Three: A refined sketch. Now I was actually looking at pictures of horses. It's still on tracing paper though so I can still make some changes for the final sketch if I want before I transfer it onto illustration board.
Stage Two: A more refined version of the very rough sketch but still no reference. You can see it still looks cartoon-y. An over-all better design though.
Stage One: a rough sketch, no reference just a basic idea kind of thing. This is for my new assignment which is a bookplate done in a specific artistic style which in this case is Art Nouveau.

Massive Update Part 2!

2009-09-07T20:31:00.001-07:00

Some woodblock prints (I think I've posted the polar bear before...) and some more oil paintings. The top two is a master study I did. The very top is a poster I have of the original and the one below that is my copy.

Massive Update Part 1!

2009-09-07T20:25:00.000-07:00

This is some drawings and mostly practice paintings from last semester. The classes were Painting 1 and on of the Illustration Tools. Both classes were focused on painting in oils which was fun to learn.

Children's Book Illustration

2009-04-10T22:04:00.000-07:00

Here's my children's book illustration. Most of the things had to start with a given letter (in this case P). I don't know why the image quality is a little off. I think it has to do with the fact that I washed and dried my thumb drive for the second time...

Magazine Cover

2009-04-09T09:50:00.001-07:00

Here's my magazine cover. It's pretty bright.

Promotion piece

2009-03-11T14:11:00.000-07:00

Here's my self portrait promotion piece. The bottom one is the first version and the top is the final. I just made some minor adjustments.

Random Sketch Book Pages

2009-03-06T18:19:00.000-08:00

Wine Label and Editorial piece

2009-03-01T14:03:00.001-08:00

My editorial illustration for an op-ed piece about how soldiers with PTSD aren't receiving purple hearts and my wine label piece.

More Quilt-O-Rama

2009-02-22T23:20:00.001-08:00

Here are some more photos of the inside of the quilt. I had to use two different fabrics for the backing because I didn't have enough of the yellow animal pattern. The second fabric is of pink and yellow schools of fish

Quilt-O-Rama

2009-02-22T23:04:00.000-08:00

This is the quilt I made. I did all the stitching by hand except for once when I used the machine to sew the large back piece together. I started by collecting different fabrics. Most of them are vintage ones I got online, some of them my roommate gave me, and some of them I got as scrape fabric. Then I cut them all into 3 different sized squares. While I was in Germany over winter break I sewed all the pieces together like you can see in the first couple of pictures. When I got back home I bought the fabric I used for the backing, sewed it all together with the machine, and then sewed it together with the front piece along with the batting (the stuff in the middle). I added the horse from an old pillow case of mine. Last but not least I (finally) added the border. It fits on a full bed no problem as you can see in the second picture.

La La La I'm not doing my color charts

2009-02-19T00:50:00.001-08:00

In Order: An old reduction print from my woodblock class featuring a polar bear, a recent still life in oil, and a drapery study for the class that I'm not doing my homework for right now.

Kathi Mouse

2009-01-27T21:09:00.000-08:00

We had to make ourselves in to an animal. I choose a mouse. I don't really like how it came out in the end, the wash over the candies didn't really turn out to well.

Octupus's Garden and a random oil painting

2009-01-20T17:36:00.000-08:00

The top painting is an illustration for the song "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles. The first photo is of it before I finished the gardening tools and added the pattern on the octopus. The other picture is of the first oil painting I've done in a couple of years. It's of a ceramic sculpture of grapes.

Willard Part 2

2009-01-20T17:33:00.000-08:00

The last section of my Willard story. The print with the owl got a little messed up due to some masking fluid.

Willard Part 1

2009-01-20T17:26:00.000-08:00

My story featuring Willard. He goes on an adventure looking for his luck. The writing isn't very good but the pictures were okay. I carved linoleum, printed them and then used watercolor over them.

Old art things

2009-01-18T00:40:00.000-08:00

Mermaid painting from last year
Wood block print with watercolor
Alice in Wonderland watercolor with ink
Jack Be Nimble watercolor with ink
All of these are from 2008 both spring and fall semesters. The photos are not really the best in the universe and the colors look a tad faded.