Marie Goodart

European Photography Set

Photos from a photography set I took while I lived in Spain and traveled a lot of Europe from 2000-2003. I was in high school and enjoyed photographing architecture the most.

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Fine Arts

My skills do include hand-drawing and hand-drafting along with photography. These are skills that I use to help formulate ideas, sketch a client’s idea during a meeting or visualize a preferred page layout, website design and flow charts.

This sketch is from my Design I course my sophomore year. This particular drawing took about 3 weeks and 1 week to study the still life setup.

Bamboo

Bamboo keeps repeating in my artwork during the years I was going to Evergreen State College. I used the bamboo inside my fish tank, on my desk, as supportive structure in my temporary building, and especially in my printmaking course. I enjoy the simplicity of the bamboo’s structure. This is part of an idea sketching assignment for my architectural design course also at Evergreen.

Progressive Sketch from a Photo

This is a great example of artwork I incorporated my photography into. This is a drawing of a photo I took in Rome of the Roman Forums. Then in this Design I course, the instructor had us progressively go from a drawing into a drawing made of typography. This was one of my favorite assignments because it used political, typography, sketching and my photography in one drawing.

Themes

Themes have been a focus of mine for quite some time now. Working with a themes allows me to focus on the image the event planning team is trying to work through their events. For example, this Homecoming Dance ticket has the dance theme of “Tropical Paradise.” In this particular project I combined my newly found knowledge of vector graphics, and coloring drawings such as is this sketched out single palm-tree island. This is when I began relying solely on Illustrator instead of a combination of PhotoShop and Illustrator for my colors and vector masks.

Playing with Fonts

One of my favorite things is typography. Although I admittedly lack in book-knowledge about the pieces and Sans of fonts, I know what looks best inside a composition. This is a ticket I designed for my high school of 200 students in Rota, Spain. The photo is actually of a snow-fallen mountain train tracks, but I was able to crop the train tracks just right to show a winter wonderland. This is one of my first projects with Illustrator, although I’d been using PageMaker for a few years previously.

European Museums

The museums in Europe fascinated me. I would spend hours and hours inside the Prado, or Vatican just looking at the sculptures and paintings. The sculptures I enjoyed the most, and I would take many photos of them, like this one, that I would use in future graphic work.