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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...
5/30/11
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...
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.
5/4/11
it's piling up
my studio is about half of a room in the basement of my parent's house, which i will only be living in for another four months or so, but next year since i'll be attending college in town i will probably return at least weekly to take advantage of my own workplace.
right now there is barely any space in my studio though - it's absolutely packed, and every wall full, of paintings and drawings and sculptures and random junk. soon i will do a spring cleaning and give away as much as i can stand to... because no one wants to buy the work of a highschooler, certainly not for what it's worth... and clear up the space for the next bazillion works that are inevitably going to emerge this summer.
here is the corner stacked a few feet deep with canvases:
how can i ever get rid of all of this?
right now there is barely any space in my studio though - it's absolutely packed, and every wall full, of paintings and drawings and sculptures and random junk. soon i will do a spring cleaning and give away as much as i can stand to... because no one wants to buy the work of a highschooler, certainly not for what it's worth... and clear up the space for the next bazillion works that are inevitably going to emerge this summer.
here is the corner stacked a few feet deep with canvases:
how can i ever get rid of all of this?
some past artwork
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| leaf and vine teapot, ceramic, fall 2010 |
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| texture abstract, ceramic, november 2011 |
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| figure drawing, charcoal and chalk, winter 2011 |
5/3/11
5/2/11
ap day of doom - the end is here
today i turned my ap studio art portfolio over to my teacher and from there it is headed to the ap people, whoever they are, who will determine my future.
that's not actually true. the next four years of my future are to some extent decided, as i have been accepted to both colleges i am going to attend, one of which relates to this blog as it is a prestigious art school: SAIC or School of the Art Institute of Chicago. yes i am bragging, just a little bit. so whatever score i get on my portfolio, it doesn't matter much. it doesn't even really matter to my self-esteem, because what the ap board has to say about my art matters very little compared to what i think about it and what those i love and respect think about it.
but the ap portfolio and the process i went through to make it has to some extent shaped my life already. i went into the studio art class at my highschool because i liked art, thought i wasn't too bad at it, and had already taken or attempted most of the other art classes they offered. sometime in the two years i've been in the class, i decided art was the only thing i could ever see myself doing. so i suppose it was that class, the friends i made in it, and the dedicated art teachers who led us that made me decide to take more art at the community college and eventually apply to art schools. it's strange to think how much my attitude towards art has changed since my first day of studio art, which i still remember vividly, and how my life has changed along with it.
it took me these entire two years to create a 2D portfolio that i am proud of, and although most who know me know i am rarely proud of my art outside of rare, temporary bursts of cockiness, i am proud of it.
that's not actually true. the next four years of my future are to some extent decided, as i have been accepted to both colleges i am going to attend, one of which relates to this blog as it is a prestigious art school: SAIC or School of the Art Institute of Chicago. yes i am bragging, just a little bit. so whatever score i get on my portfolio, it doesn't matter much. it doesn't even really matter to my self-esteem, because what the ap board has to say about my art matters very little compared to what i think about it and what those i love and respect think about it.
but the ap portfolio and the process i went through to make it has to some extent shaped my life already. i went into the studio art class at my highschool because i liked art, thought i wasn't too bad at it, and had already taken or attempted most of the other art classes they offered. sometime in the two years i've been in the class, i decided art was the only thing i could ever see myself doing. so i suppose it was that class, the friends i made in it, and the dedicated art teachers who led us that made me decide to take more art at the community college and eventually apply to art schools. it's strange to think how much my attitude towards art has changed since my first day of studio art, which i still remember vividly, and how my life has changed along with it.
it took me these entire two years to create a 2D portfolio that i am proud of, and although most who know me know i am rarely proud of my art outside of rare, temporary bursts of cockiness, i am proud of it.
FYI
for a while this blog will not be chronological, or sensible in any way really, as i post all my favorite works from the past as well as current projects and updates and ideas for the future.
thanks for looking
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