Op-Ed

 I never really thought about the difference between op-ed art and political cartoons. Probably because my little local papers never had anything like the op-ed art of the big papers, so I never saw them. This video really made me think about op-ed art in a deeper way than I had ever done before. It's really just too beautiful to be in a newspaper, it seems. I really prefer unique ink drawings over more modern vector graphics and photo manipulations. They seem too sterile, too manufactured. Hand-drawn ink is organic, it comes right out of the psyche, without any filters, photoshop or otherwise.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/25/opinion/opedat40-illustration.html?ref=opinion%3Fhp

Flux...Capacitor?

Mm, more objects from my object sketchbook. More things later. I have been trying to keep up productivity in the midst of a move to my sister's apartment. Closer to my new job, and out of my parents' house = much better. Things, however, are in flux.

Election Sketches- Round 2

Some more sketches from when I was following the 2008 election. Ah, good times, full of hope.

Arts and Things

Lots more updates on my website. I have been very busy! Check it out:

http://catherinelapointe.com

Some sketches from my semester abroad *misses Europe*

This was the scary bone church we went to visit in that badly-planned trip out into the Czech countryside *shudders*

Some houses

Horsemen in Budapest!

Rape of the Sabine Woman- creepy, but possibly my favorite sculpture. You can keep walking all the way around it, and it still looks interesting!

Roma

Resume Help

I know they're irritatingly similar, but help me out. I'm trying to redesign my resume- please vote for your favorite design. 1,2,3,4, or 5. Or tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Long Days of Low Wages

These are things I drew while I was bored at work last summer. Must have been very boring for these to seem interesting in comparison.

These first few are during the day-long viewing of safety and sexual harassment videos. Exciting stuff!