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The Country Club at the Highlands April Newsletter

The April Newsletter at the Country Club at the Highlands, I'm working on the May one now. Here's just the cover, the inside is the same as the first newsletter, just different images and some tweeking here and there. I'm enjoying taking photos more than I thought, even though it's just digital and convenient. I do want to do some film stuff too, I need to bust out my old camera.


I'm so excited to be going to The Illustration Academy! I've been wanting to go since I found out about it three years ago. I can't wait!!

The Country Club at the Highlands First Newletter

I recently started my new job at The Country Club at the Highlands in Chesterfield. I had worked with my boss at my previous job at Richmond Country Club since 2008, so we have known each other for a while. He really helped me out with employing me with my new job, so I returned the favor of making him a newsletter for CCH. It was actually my idea, because this club did not already have one, so I had some freedom over what I could do. I did do the first one as a favor (though I did get a free dinner out of it), but I will be compensated for the next one. I did do some of the photography in there, though for the golf course images were already taken by a professional. I took my boss's photo, the chef's photo, the desert, the couple with the blonde hair and the couple with the teal shirt, I set up a photo shoot for the wine image, and I took the Sunday Brunch photo, and these were taken while multitasking serving (I just whipped out my camera and asked to take a photo). The only photo I took the time to set up was the wine photo. My boss took the other photos of the patrons and food with his camera phone, and I made the levels and colors better in Photoshop with them.

So, this was kind of a rush job, so it's not as polished as it should be, but it had to be rushed out to meet the March deadline and I didn't know I would really be doing the March issue till three days before it was to be sent out. I intentially made parts sans serif (because that's not something you really see in Country Club writing) and other things really cursive (because that's what you do regularly see in Country Club lingo). Next time, I'm going to make things a bit more organized and straighter and more grid like when it comes to the This Week and Next Week sections. Overall, for the really short time I had to do this, I'm pleased, though I would LOVE some critique to make the April Newsletter better.

I'm going to work on my photography more and actually setting up better photo shoots, and now that I have a studio, I don't have to set things up in my cramped bedroom.

So Much To Do

Just some quick things. I've been really busy just trying to make ends meet. I am doing some design work for the country club where I work, and I've got a lot of other things keeping me busy, but I don't want to say much until I actually have something to show. They include a painting going to be hung in a restaurant and a comic I'm collaborating on with a friend.


I've been rereading Art and Fear, it's always a very comforting and supporting read about art careers. I'm also reading Art Theory: An Historical Introduction, I decided I need more art theory in my life, so far it's a little boring, like reading a text book...

Business Card

So here is what I have for the front of my business card. I think whenever I upload images to blogspot, the colors lose some saturation. Anyway, I like the way it looks, I do want to get rounded edges when I actually get them printed. BUT, should I have anything on the back of it? I feel like I should, but then again, I want to keep it simple. If I have anything on the back, it could just be my logo again...but now that's just repetitive. Maybe I should have the rest of the cookie on the back? If so, I would need to make the cookie a little bigger to have a bit more on the back...I really don't know. I need some suggestions.


I've hit a bit of a slump. I've been working all the time and not making enough to make ends meet, so I'm pretty sure that's why. I'm going to rework some of my older stuff. I really want to redo the front and back cover of Three Cups of Tea. That, and I have some old sketches that I want to push more and see where they go.


If I started a series, maybe that would get my gears moving. I noticed that whenever I walk out at night, I like to look inside windows. No, I don't go and peer inside, but when I'm just walking down the street and I see a really pretty interior that's glowing from the outside, I think that's really lovely. Not even at night either, I like seeing glass jars on window sills from the outside, how curtains are draped, it doesn't really matter what it is as much as it is being viewed from the outside. Anyway, just a thought.

Just a Little Something Last Night

My favorite thing to wear in the summer. I really miss summer.

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I need more content on it though, I'll be working on that after graduation though. I gotta focus on them FINALS!