Taking a Stand (Winter 2013)

This was done for my new genre class this semester. It is a performance piece called taking a stand, and this is the documentation of the work.

After a class critique it was suggested that the video would be sufficient with only the first segment because of the quality of the layout for the film (cred. Hannah Steward), and because the idea is understandable from the first view.

This is the second version of this project with that in mind:

abstract compositions

so this guy, Goncalo Ivo, makes the greatest watercolors. he seriously inspired me, and these are the paintings that i made after doing a little artistic research on him.

Purple and Blue Composition

11X14in

Watercolor

Green and Orange Composition

11X7in

Watercolor

Purple and Yellow Composition

11X7in

Watercolor

This last one is my personal favorite. I think it has a pretty strong composition and there are some really nice colors in there as well...

Green Composition

11X7in

Watercolor

Intuitive Paintings

More watercolors.

Just A Game - I

7X5.5in

Watercolor

Just A Game - II

7X5.5in

Watercolor

You Don't Speak for Me

11X7in

watercolor & ink

Water Color Still Lifes

So over spring term I took a watercolor class, and these are some of the first things I did. I haven't done any water colors since my junior year in high school...and that was only one painting. So I'm pretty inexperienced. I think in these four still life paintings it's pretty obvious that was trying to make the medium something that it wasn't. In my more recent paintings I feel like I've succeeded in using the medium for it's watery strengths. I'll post those soon.

Until then...

Still life with Jar

11X7in

Watercolor

Still Life with Vase and Candle

11X7

Watercolor

In-class Still Life in Black and White

11X7

Watercolor

In-class Still Life in Neutral Colors

11X7

Watercolors

Organics

Ceramic strawberry. Fired at a cone 6. Glazes used: Red iron oxide, chun green.

Fired twice.

Ceramic Pod thing

Fired at cone 6. This glaze I sprayed on as opposed to brushing it on, which I prefer. Glaze was called Bark Brown...I think.

Fired twice.

The first of many 3D adventures...

This piece went through a raku firing process.

It's a little weird. The color isn't quite what I was hoping for.

Monster Structure Paintings

So we had to paint this thing...I'd try to explain it better, but it's kind of impossible. It was just difficult. But anyway, we had to do one realistic big one (which I'll post later), and then a few experimental type paintings. These would be the latter. Nothing super, but I just don't have much else to post yet. So here they are:

Monster Structure as City

12X12

Oil on Paper

Monster Structure in Red, Yellow, and Blue

12X12

Oil on Paper

...More to come. :)

Waterfalls and bottles

- These are a couple pieces I've done for my painting classes. Both are in oil which is a new medium for me, but I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Broken tertiary assignment:
15X15
Oil on Paper


This is a still life we did a value study on. We're still going to work on them....just adding a touch of color here and there.
24X24
Oil on Canvas


anyway, here in a few weeks I should have plenty more to post.

Highlights from Drawing Portfolio 2

1 Point Perspective.


Box Still Life.


Cubist "Informed" Drawing 1


Cubist "Informed" Drawing 2

Highlights from Drawing Portfolio 1

We had a portfolio due a while back and we put everything we worked on, in class, out of class, inside. Most of the stuff wasn't very good, so I didn't bother taking pictures of it. I'll toss it all probably after the semester is over.

Rock Canyon Drawings -

We took pictures at rock canyon and then used to pictures to make these drawings. We had to do two, although I feel like they're pretty similar. I like the first one better.

VA112 - Digital Tech

So this class just started on Oct21. It's only half a semester long, but were supposed to learn photoshop, illustrator, and some other stuff I don't remember but this is the stuff from photoshop. We picked an artist out of Michelangelo, Raphael, Da Vinci, and Pontormo. I picked Pontormo because I was less familiar with his art, but its definitely good stuff...a little eerie, but good. We had to pick out a drawing, or a few drawings and make a little 5X5 inch collage thing 'inspired' by the drawigns. I tried to find the ones I used online, but I didn't have any luck. Anyway...I'm not posting everything we did, because most of it I hated (I'm new to the whole digital art thing, and besides that, I'm definitely not familiar with Mac's which is what we use), so I'll just put a few up.

This is the orignal collage that I scanned.

This was supposed to demonstrate value.

And this, rhythm.

I like what I've learned, but I feel like everyone else is already sooooooo much better than me at it. ugh. 'keep moving forward.'

fin.

First Week of Drawing

So this is an assignment we did in my drawing class a while back. First we put down a thin layer of black oil paint on a sheet of plexiglass, covered the plexiglass with a sheet of stonehenge, drew a blind contour of wilted sunflowers on the back of the stonehenge, and then the image transfers to the front of the page.
We were trying to get interesting line variations out of it. It was entertaining, but not my favorite thing to do.

Blind contour on the back of a sheet of stonehenge.

Black oil paint on the sheet of plexiglass.

The transfered drawing.

These next ones are just a few that I liked. We had to do this for 3 to 4 hrs as homework, so these are the best of the bunch, in my opinion. The last two have ghost images on them from pressing the paper back down after already using the paint on the glass to transfer an image. There's some nice detail that went through on the last one, especially.

and that's all I've photographed since the beginning of the term. haha. :)

Random Selection of Figure Drawings from the Summer

Conte Crayon

- my new bipolar friend. sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't.

So this is the stuff from my figure drawing class. This is the first formal class I've taken for it, so it's been interesting. some of these were like 30 seconds and the others are around 20 minutes...obvious differences...