Im leaving Hartford tomorrow with a definite thesis direction. Meeting with Bill Thompson, my adviser in the program, we narrowed it down to focus on the watercolor. Its better to direct full attention on one direction rather than to dilute that particular energy. I like to think of it in terms of a shark going after a group of fish. If the shark tries to get them all, it may get none. If it goes for one fish, it will surely catch it.
For the Olmsted poster, I did the underpainting in PS and the build up with the chalk brush in Painter. The script was done with a brush pen on tissue and traced in AI. The pattern was done in AI as well, repeating some of the foliage shapes to tie in.