A saturday snooze

Soooo not nervous yet, but a little annoyed that I've gotten like 1% of work done today. I sat down to work on my poster, but immediately got a headache and decided it was a much better idea to fall asleep on Erick. Um, alrighty then, brain.

I'm starting production on my Posada-influenced poster, which hopefully will be mostly finished in time for 9:30 am on Thursday. I would also like to make good headway on my Art Nouveau poster, as well as the Estridentista poster. I think the Art Nouveau one will be the absolute hardest, since that requires a very strict sort of illustration style that my skills don't really measure up to. But I am sure as heck am going to try. I wanted to do my own illustration of a woman reading a book, seated, but she's a skeleton. It will be wonderful, according to the vision in my head. Now just to get it out on paper.

I also came up with a tentative sentence for the constructivist/Estridentista poster. "A renewed interest in the hand-done led to the popularity of linoleum and woodblock illustrations." I have to figure out the illustration for this one, though.

So that just leaves the Art Deco poster, for which I have no ideas for content.

I emailed Marina, and while I appreciate her advise and definitely need it for my project, I'm getting a little frustrated. She said she was too busy to respond to all of my email, and would get back to me this weekend, but said that my ideas were all over the place and out of order. Really, I want to do this right, but I have run out of time and I just need to move forward with all of this. We originally had the idea to create a matrix of images in order to be able to have a sample of general layouts and colors, etc. I figure I can do this for each era of my posters, Posada, Art Nouveau, Estridentista, Art Deco, and Indigenous influenced. Then I will feel a little more confident about what I'm doing, because I can show off my matrix for each poster and say, "I made this this way because of that."

Soooo anyway. Hopefully I will get more done tomorrow. My review is Thursday morning at 9:30 am, and Marina should be skyping in. I also found out that it will be Natalia and Rossi on my panel as well.