a new book i'm reading, and despite an occasionally very snobbish tone, i'm learning so much and intend to apply it all to my new painting. which i will post a picture of when it's farther along.
7/8/11
7/4/11
tile curtain
i made this about a year ago now and i long to sell it to someone who would hang it and enjoy it, since at the moment it sits sadly on the floor in a corner of our guest bedroom. it's pretty big, maybe 3' x 2'. i'd sell for the absolute minimum - $500 - far less than the actual cost of time and materials.
6/29/11
6/14/11
technical difficulties
I got my computer and i have all my pictures of past work to post, but at the moment i am unable to scan or photograph new work. it may be awhile. but i have many, many drawings of clouds and some other new projects to show you as soon as i can.
6/13/11
6/7/11
self portrait
i don't want to add anything more but the assignment requires that i integrate two more past projects into this piece...
anyway here i am with my face
anyway here i am with my face
'paint'ings
my dad just got a new computer so i got his old one, and the (touch)screen on it swivels down into a drawing pad! i never once saw my father make use of this feature but hanging out with my friend today, i gave it a fifteen-minute-trial period:
5/30/11
memorial day weekend
what i've been working on
the above is my final project for ap studio art, a combination of three of the projects we did this year. i'm doing a self portrait with the background reminiscent of my watercolor abstract project and my art trading cards from the beginning of the year glued to the canvas. right now they are just taped, but they look alright so i think it's going to work out.
below is the cloud painting i mentioned. since starting this painting i am obsessed with clouds and i want to do a whole series of them...
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| my studio today - needs cleaning |
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below is the cloud painting i mentioned. since starting this painting i am obsessed with clouds and i want to do a whole series of them...
5/22/11
5/21/11
wisdom
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monetmy legs
i do consider this my best work to date. i made the hips out of coils and the rest out of some mysterious form of handbuilding - it was like making a mud pie. and i was lucky enough to bring the sculpture in to the figure drawing class i had at the time and sculpt the feet from the model. my teacher Megan Martens, who is really wonderful, asked our model Emma to take the pose my legs were in and i got to experience the excitement of sculpting from life.
5/19/11
first print i ever made
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intro photo black and white film class @ the community college
5/17/11
works in progress
here are some things i am working on at the moment.
1. weaving a large rug for my dorm room next year. it's very simple, just twined horizontal stripes of varying widths and colors.
2. an installation piece (or it would be one if I had a place to install it) of a bunch of my sketchbook pages, to be put up over one entire wall. my sketchbooks are interesting because they are almost all done in the same style and same black pen, so they are uniquely suited to be combined into one large piece. my goal is about fifty pages and i have about thirty five done, some of which are years old.
3. a painting of an elephant and two figures
4. at school, a painting of the bars and rails of a playground structure
5. a large stuffed fabric sculpture (i guess that's what you'd call it) of a pack of cigarettes - this is a hard one to explain, when it's done i will post pictures and let it speak for itself.
1. weaving a large rug for my dorm room next year. it's very simple, just twined horizontal stripes of varying widths and colors.
2. an installation piece (or it would be one if I had a place to install it) of a bunch of my sketchbook pages, to be put up over one entire wall. my sketchbooks are interesting because they are almost all done in the same style and same black pen, so they are uniquely suited to be combined into one large piece. my goal is about fifty pages and i have about thirty five done, some of which are years old.
3. a painting of an elephant and two figures
4. at school, a painting of the bars and rails of a playground structure
5. a large stuffed fabric sculpture (i guess that's what you'd call it) of a pack of cigarettes - this is a hard one to explain, when it's done i will post pictures and let it speak for itself.
5/16/11
sorry about the time between posts
right now i'm working off of multiple different computers. when i get my laptop in a couple weeks and consolidate all of my images, documents, music etc on the one computer, my posts will be more frequent.
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