Art Portfolio Website Updated

I have gone through and updated my art portfolio site at http://www.kellynixonart.com . I added a slightly bigger and smoother slideshow to display the images. New artwork has been added to each section. Information in Resume and Contacts has been updated. Last but not least, I added links to my new Art Ed blog.

Light an Color Study: Added to Website

It took about a week (on and off) to get the slideshows and coding updated. The only major problem I came across happened right after I had uploaded the new version of the website to the server, to make it live. I had tried all my files locally on my computer and everything looked perfect. I added the files to my server on GoDaddy.com and then when I viewed my page, the main image for the slideshow wouldn't appear. I spent a day and a half trying to go through the html and javascript coding to see what was wrong. Finally, I checked to see if there were any suggestions online. One of the entries I found, talked about everything being case sensitive. I double checked my file names and sure enough, the website server had converted all the titles to lowercase and that was why the slideshow wouldn't work. Once I made the image titles lowercase to match the html file, the slideshow began functioning properly again.That is the funny thing about coding, one little mistake somewhere can throw everything off.

Now everything is ready to roll! Enjoy!

Bison Sketch: Added to Website

New Update and Portfolio Website Live!

Finally a new update!

I have been busy with student teaching and building up what I need to do some freelance work over the last year, so please excuse the lack of posting. I will be adding in some new material that I have been working on in the next few days, so expect some regular updating.

For now, I will leave you with my brand new art portfolio site. kellynixonart.com just went live a few days ago! Go check it out! If you or anyone you know would like to have some illustration, design, or other type of artwork done, please get in touch with me at kellynixonart@gmail.com.

Enjoy for now, more to come soon!

Box Portfolio

This is something I've been meaning to upload for a while, but I hadn't gotten around to photographing it until now. Last Spring I made a box portfolio that was designed to take with me on interviews, etc. and hold my art samples, business cards, postcards, and DVD portfolio. I based the design/structure after a japanese style bookbinding method that I learned in a class a while back.

It's made out of some thin sheets of wood for the top and bottom, the sides are pieces of plywood that I stacked and glued on top of each other. I lightly painted the plywood so the lines in it could show through and resemble pages. I made the cover by cutting out some windows with a drimmel and covering the wood with paper. The paper is actually only glued on the edges because it kept getting bubbles in it every time I tried to glue the whole thing down. I went through about 2 extra papers before I got it right. The windows are some plastic overhead projector paper. I added a ribbon in the book so the contents of the could be easily removed.

Overall, I'm really pleased with the way it turned out. There are a few little issues with it though. The inside could be bigger, I've had to trim down papers to make them fit. The only other thing is the hinge were the top opens. There isn't enough space between the spine and the cover part of the book, so the top can't be fully opened. I've been thinking about making a second one to go with my Art Education Portfolio that will be made so it won't have these issues. I'll definitely be hanging on to this one though, for my illustration portfolio. I learned a lot by making this box portfolio and actually used power tools on my own for the first time in the wood shop :D. It was challenging and a lot of fun to work though the problems I had while making this and now that I have a better idea of how to approach it I feel like I could make another one easily.

That's all for now! Enjoy!