Art at Los Medanos College

closeup value assignment , originally uploaded by losmedanosart . This extreme detail is from Shelly Boyd's self portrait. Students in Dawn Black's 2D design class painted nine different values on separate pieces of paper, cut varied shapes and then assembled them into portraits. Shelly's whole piece is below. Click on it to see it at a larger size.

Selfportrait Cameron D , originally uploaded by losmedanosart . Cameron Dreger made this self portrait as part of an assignment in his Photoshop class (ART 54). He used photos he shot and assembled them using lots of layer masks. He got the cool textures by photographing clouds and dirt. He'll be getting an "A" but he doesn't know it yet, so don't tell.

Randy Hake made this photo "Reflections, Embarcadero Center" as part of an assignment in the "Survey of Digital Photography" (ART 72) class. It first place in its division at the Northern California Council of Camera Clubs competition. Pretty cool, huh? But wait! There's more! This semester's photo class has a Flickr Photo Pool. Here's a slide show of the work students have uploaded to Flickr and sent to the LMC pool.

Art gallery show , originally uploaded by losmedanosart . Ebodied, the curent show in the LMC gallery, runs through Nov. 2. It features some startling images by Jocelyn Shu, Alica Debrincat, and Karen Hass.

The Annual Faculty Art Show was the first show in the new LMC Art Gallery. Located in the new library, it's a wonderful space full of light, and now full of art. Lucy Snow, the latest addition to the department made cool stuff and hung it from the ceiling. The other faculty members didn't make anything as large, or that moved in the breeze. Still, her fellow instructors are still speaking to her.