Rita Masarin's Blog

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book cover design

ritamasarin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:37:37 +0000

Murdoch Books and Dymocks are in search of an Illustrator to create a new cover for the best selling book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.

Time has just allowed me to do a computer generated design, if time wasn’t against me I would’ve love to combine traditional medium and computer .

I was keen to watch the movie, having heard great reviews. I’m into thriller revenge movies so I really enjoyed this one, a bit on the gory side and a bit too much blood but, never the less an edge of seat crime fiction.

The brief- design a cover without using any of the elements of the current cover design, which was girl- dragon- tattoo . Didn’t follow the brief too well but it was good practice

Arts in Bushwick, N.Y.

ritamasarin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:02:14 +0000

This link was sent to me by Shona Masarin who was one of the talented artist featured in the short film and video division in the The annual Arts in Bushwick festival in Brooklyn, NY. The festival was supported by Lumenhouse.

http://lumenhouse.com

Lumenhouse is an emerging arts organization based out of a refurbished factory in the burgeoning creative scene of Bushwick, Brooklyn.

These are images and links of some of the artist featured in the festival which excited and inspired me

Aurora Robson’s sculptures are made from junk http://www.aurorarobson.com/

http://lumenhouse.com/about.html

http://www.jonelliottonline.com/

Fish

ritamasarin — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:50:03 +0000

Add a touch of nature to your page with these hungry little fish. Watch them as they follow your mouse hoping you will feed them by clicking the surface of the water.

via Fish.

VOTE for the naughty bunnies and the skeletor hands

ritamasarin — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:45:56 +0000

The Graphic Design students were to enter a ‘design a condom tin competition’ for the Aust govt health campaign . We’v done that , now it’s time for the public to vote VOTE for the “rabbits” and” In the name of love” PLEASE….pretty please, Thank you for your support. //www.stidesigncompetition.net.au/Vote.aspx?i=c86ed5fb-aa9a-44df-9ad8-61989d6c6126&v=1

naughty rabbits

Black, Red or Brunette ??..sorry blondes

ritamasarin — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:28:42 +0000

Another school assignment. The brief is to design a cover for Oz Graphix digital magazine, an annual publication showcasing a range of creativity from top Australian studios.As a colour assignment we had to design 3 colour ways of the final design.

Festival’s reel-time experiment

ritamasarin — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:15:06 +0000

Extract from The Age Newspapaer..Entertainment.

“Some come close to pure abstraction – from the grey-scale grids of Simon Payne’s 3D-on-a-budget Point Line Plane, to the uninhibited play with colour, light and texture in Shona Masarin’s Behind My Mouth, Beneath My Lips, on My Eyes, where scratched fragments of material drift by like off-cuts from a dressmaker’s workshop.”

Shona Masarin is currently the Assistant Director of Milleniumm in New York. The organisation is dedicated to the exhibition, study, and production of independent and avant-garde film, video and new media, including all technologies of the moving image.
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- No live models + bits of body parts =

ritamasarin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:36:08 +0000

“What is the most challenging subject to paint” is the most asked question from clients, friends or people who are just interested. No doubt the human form would be one of the challenging subjects and the most difficult but most rewarding.

As a self taught artist, my judgment and perception is all by eye, a lot of my time is spent deliberating and mulling over a part of anatomy..anyone would think I was slightly excessive compulsive ..well maybe, I am, but just when I’m painting.

There are no live models . I have a vision of the composition in my head , do a quick thumbnail sketch then I go through my stock pile of reference to which I select bits of body parts appropriate to the piece.

I’ll be starting a new nude piece in the very near future, probably on my next school break. Anyone interested in following my progess or get some painting tips, keep checking my blog.

Vector based illustration of the North coast

ritamasarin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:16:29 +0000

Our brief was to develop a vector based digital illustration which communicates a sense of the North Coast. What better image then to depict the sun setting just before dusk falls on Byron Bay.

We were asked to place our black and white scanned outline sketch into illustrator as reference but I found it much easier and quicker just to create the shapes and contures on a blank art board using the rectangle and circle tool. The gradient mesh was a bit of a challenge but I got most enjoyment from playing with the colours.