Kaitlin Koch

Standing in the Shadows

2010-02-02T18:25:00.000-08:00

Ok so I'm not really following my New Year's resolution, but I'm watching the LOST PREMIER so I thought I'd post the Valentine's Day card I made for my boss 3 years ago to commemorate the day!

Nisei and 2shy

2010-01-23T14:29:00.000-08:00

...So I'm just starting out with a lot of projects, and that means I'm going to have to be lazy and use work from last semester for this week's post. This is one of the process prints from a 4-screen illustration in yellow, magenta, cyan and black that I did of Chris Lee when he went to Egypt this summer.

In other news, Glen Bell, the revolutionary founder of Taco Bell passed away this week, and we will be commemorating his life and accomplishments with a 120,000 calorie meal tonight. Without nacho cheese chalupas, chicken ranchero soft tacos and nachos bell grande who knows where I would be today? I read that he was a war veteran, and a pretty nice guy, so I'm sure he will be greatly missed, and- like the mucho grande nachos- never forgotten.
RIP Mr. Glen W. Bell, Jr.

Wild Country

2010-01-18T08:46:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I'm late on updating already, but Jess and I found out that hand printing/sewing some portfolio books for me was a lot more time consuming than we thought, and I just finished last night! So I'm going to catch up now on ALL of our other work, and paint in my "at" circle in my contact info.

Jess obviously helped me with the design and type, and I'll post a link to his newly reconstructed website when it's up sometime in the next few weeks!

Everyone Says I Love You

2010-01-07T12:38:00.001-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR
I have a great feeling about the 20-teens, and to start it off one of my new years resolutions is to update my blog once a week!

Last semester I silkscreened a promotional poster for Second Chance Consignment. I've worked there since sophomore year of high school, and am always thankful that they let me come back to work during break. We're also currently revamping our website, so I'll give you that once it's up again, but for now you can follow us on twitter at: secondchanceGV

Milk

2009-05-01T08:08:00.001-07:00

ok so this is just a view of the DIA from the roof of my building
Here's my last in-class painting
This is my final out-of-class painting of Morgan.

Here's a sample of the digital stuff I learned. I had to do all 12 zodiacs for a project, but I think I'm going to make the better spots (shown here) into more plastic jewelry like obama earrings. Look I learned how to render an iphone digitally! Haha, my poor prof got about 4 emails a day from me with a list of questions about that program... We worked with a senior class in the ad dept for one of their projects and I got chosen by a girl who's campaign was juicy couture's viva-la-juicy perfume. I did some full illustrations for her print ads, but the bow was just something I drew her for a mailer. Lastly, in my weimar republic history class I got to do my final on fembots in films from 1927-2007!

blue angel

2009-03-19T10:25:00.000-07:00

So back to school after a work-filled spring break! I still have work to do on this portrait, but it was my midterm for figure painting:
Heather made me these throw pillows from vintage kitchen towels she had. I think they're GREAT and if you're interested in getting any (one of a kind!) you can order them at Second Chance Consignment or Heather's etsy page:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5613394

Jess is home in two days!

home for the holidays

2009-03-01T17:20:00.001-08:00

My second in class painting for my fine arts class:
It's pretty big (36"48" I think), and so it makes me feel like high school! Sophia was the model; wish I had another week on it (we have 4, 6-hour classes for each pose)

Hey it's almost spring break and everyone is pretty overwhelmed! phew.
Excited for Jess to come home in 2 and 1/2 weeks but glad that he seems to be having a great time in England:
"and then I printed it and talked with the teach
it's a 2 hour class, and I usually leave an hour early to sit in on a senior seminar
but today I was meeting with one of the department heads who is compiling archives on british modernity, which I'm really into
but there's basically no resources on it
it's nothing like modernism of the swiss and american, it was a period of strict practice, correspondence and methodological thinking towards typography
so there's a lot of great writing from the period, and interesting work, much of which is archived by this guy
so I talked to him for about a half hour, and we're going to meet again tomorrow
then I went home for lunch
then came back to my theory class
which was pretty interesting
(learned about the guy that invented bar graphs!)"
(^real life jman convo copied from ichat)

the covenant

2009-01-12T16:47:00.000-08:00

twilight wishes you a happy's pizza!

2008-12-15T17:49:00.000-08:00

Here are some of my last paintings for the semester hope to see all of you soon!

This one was one of my two-week-long projects. The assignment was a voyeur piece that I got Meg to pose for. It was pretty difficult putting pics of her, the side of the house, and reflections on glass together so I probably shouldnt have done it for such a short assignment... however, I guess I'll have time to work on it before reviews

Some in class head studies of Ron:

Head study of Rhanda:

Book cover illustration of "The Old Man and the Sea" with Chris as the model. ANOTHER two week project but it was quick and easy!
Portrait of Irene:

happy-go-lucky

2008-11-21T18:17:00.000-08:00

Chris took Jess and I to Jeni's for our b-days:

^Meg's sleeve tattoo!

(this is the bottom tissue, I'll update with what she has done so far soon)

I love you and miss all of you and I'll see you for Thanksgiving!

BRAINSCAN: massive blog!

2008-10-12T11:16:00.000-07:00

Dear wonderful friends, I MISS YOU SO MUCH! so so soo sorry I havent updated since moving back, but I want to keep in touch more than ever! Here's what I've been up to so far:

Jesse is still cute, and rocks his conflicting temp tatts

I bit the bullet and bought a cam. It was on sale at best buy for what Irene and I thought was a worthy $120. It was time I stopped borrowing everyone elses. check out my monster hands...Lastly: a set of real (not water-based) oils. Some supplies not pictured. The guy at dick blick took pity on me and my huge bill and gave us free sketchbooks!

My favorite class this semester is Portrait painting. Above is my first project for the class: a portrait of a deceased, inspirational celebrity. I did mine of Otis Redding. It isnt done, but I'll post it when it's finished in the next week or so. Below are some of my 25 min head studies of one of the ccs models, Harry.

TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR THE APPLES!

Something I like about Michigan is beautiful countryside minus the unbelievable industrial/residential growth of Ohio. Right now I'm making about 2 gallons of apple sauce in our apt.

Irene= my tree climbing soul mate. With my massive hands and long limbs and her 1/2 Japaneseness, we rock

Below: ou est Morgan?

Cute things in our apartment building:

above- bizarre submarine porthole thing for turn of the century reasons beyond me

below- adorable trash shoot we use

Below: bathroom details

Did you know that the US owned Guam? Or that there is a body of water called the "Celebes Sea?"

GIRLS NITE OUT

2008-04-23T19:10:00.003-07:00

12 more days until summer/Irene's b-day and possibly only 13 until friend visit!

So, I'm not very good at keeping internet things updated, but here are some pages from my figure II sketchbook from this semester:

Palindromes

2008-03-26T07:57:00.000-07:00

Jesse and I are celebrating

our 3rd anniversary today!

It's amazing that we lived long enough to meet, considering our level of loserhood at such young ages

high school dancessss

j+k=bff4eva

confused for siblings=4eva

Innocent Blood

2008-03-10T20:54:00.000-07:00

A muscle study for Anatomy last semester.

Bailey, myself, Suzanne
high school best friends; just making blogs.

So Columbus got 20.5" of snow for the first weekend of spring break. That means snow days for public schools not on break, and reminiscing about our own snow days. Here is Bailey and I at 16 after making the stop action snowman film, "Wayne Coyne and the Inevitable Destruction of Emo Boy."

Above is Suzanne and I at 17 under a friendship tree.

Man and dog print from design last semester.