3D Animation for a Class

Pain.

Untitled

Emotive

Spidey!

Pardon the nerd in me, but the Spidey HAS to come out.

Frustration!!!

This is a post which i will delete at some point but i need somewhere to vent!! Oil paint, grrrrrrrrrr! I have been covered in smelly sticky paint all weekend! And for what a dead painting!
A dead hateful painting which has ruined my curtains, about 2 dresses and my jeans, not even mentioning my destroyed carpet! Why do my paintings never love me back!? Painting is seriously making me feel defeated. Do you really talented people ever feel this way!!!!!!! There is no way I'll ever make it to art school at the rate this is going. Really I feel utterly miserable. I don't see why I can't be one of those people that just understands technique, I really can't. I don't know how to break through to my inner artist zen! Any suggestions? Because I'm pretty much going insane sitting here covering my keyboard in paint. Sorry Roz I don't have your decency not to demolish the blog with my ranting :)

I'm sorry, as usual, that I'm the wobbly leg of our table and whatever precious objects and delicious foods are balanced on top are in danger of sliding off. So, this is what I have to offer in the way of balance...

This is a sculpture I'm working on for my IP, which is outside of class time. Actually, it was due today, but I'm nowhere near finished. I plan to make the hair cascade about everywhere, and I need to fire and glaze. I think it's going to explode in the kiln, anyway, because I know almost nothing about clay. It's been fantastic, though, sculpting--so cathartic and satisfying in a way that painting isn't for me. But at the moment, the smugly androgynous blandly patronizing face of my becurled creation is getting on my nerves a bit. And the hair, which has progressed significantly since I took this photo, is a gravitational disaster.

These are a couple of quick sketches I did in my workbook

with white and black and brown charcoal pencils.

I guess I've done more with art in general. I could definitely be less happy with my progress this year, and I've done more than three things. The art program at UWC is fantastic...but lately I've been missing Leo's class, and figure drawing. And you guys, obviously, because you were a huge part of that. (Even you, Shem, despite your college status.)

Impressionism

An oil painting I did in Chama on site during a hike. Somewhat of an attempt at impressionism, I've been reading a lot on impressionists and Monet. I was very inspired. And this concludes my posting for today. Nice to have a Wednesday off school :) Most of the things I posted are all from sketch books or done quickly. Everything eles is at school and too big to scan, but I think next time I'll update my large finished pieces. Also I left my photo binder at school and I have a ton of photos I would like to post, . . . ahhhh for another day. Enjoy!
Also a special thankyou to aaron for loaning me your computer and scanner which made it possible to post today.

Sun Prints

Sun prints I did in art class, they were a lot of fun

No Poet Lives Here

Processing

Something I did in art when I didn't want to do anything but I had to look productive.

Hispanic Cultural Center

A sketch I did on an art field trip. I couldn't get it to rotate so it's sideways, turn your computer.

City of Human Trees

Old Letters and Photos

Old family letters and photo's I scraped together

Mom

A 1 minute sketch of my mom I did while she was making dinner.

Humanity

Sunflower

Photo's I took while out with some friends at a sunflower field. Model Rachel. Later I cut/ripped them up and painted over them.

Dark Planet

Another photo assignment, Topic: Dark Planet.

Abstract Mask

A photo assignment. The topic was: I wear a mask for the world.

Sketch Book Cover

My sketch book cover for my photo journal. Collage.

Chama Trees

Photo I took in Chama New Mexico. Looks darker on here for some reason. I had to print it twice in the dark room to get it to have enough contrsast originally, so it's sort of sad the resolution is low. It's also the only photo I brought home because I made it on Tuesday. I'm getting alot better at processing film and printing. The dark room is such a wonderful place! Photo = ultimate happiness.

random little poems for a random day

Because I've really been meaning to post but can't get my scanner working I'm just going to put these up. They're poems that I very randomly wrote in my sketch book today.


Untitled 1)

If someone led you to an abyss and told you to stand on the edge and see what darkness is,
I know you would,
you would stand there strong and sure and look into
endless depths.
But would I?
I who fear the dark
Would I?


Untitled 2)

You said you hated trees
Trees tall and looming
Trees that change with colors that betray
Trees with no feelings no screams for ripping bark
Trees bare and stripped, shameless in there nudity
You said you hated trees
And I said I didn't

Man

If you can't tell, I'm loving my new tablet!

Second Tablet PC work

More of an illustration than a concept this time. I was working on multiple vanishing points and on adding people to scenes. Only two this time...I'll need to work on it.

More Concept Work: Landscapes--Cliffs

I just got a tablet PC, so I'm posting up the first thing that I thought decent enough to save. So, here it is.
A little bit about this concept work. I read in a magazine about fantasy art, that a way to make things look super fantastic is to put a person in there. Of course, it helps to keep track of the size of objects when you have something so familiar, like a person.
But then, I thought, it's more than that. By putting a bunch of humans in a setting, it shows humans as a collective, moving through the world like ants, with little on their minds, just paying attention to what needs to be done. If there's just a few people, it has the feeling of enjoying the fantastic worlds together--intimacy. But if there's just one, it has the emotion of raw loneliness. The lone adventurer, the scholar, trying to make sense of things in a world too fantastic and large to understand. And as lonely as it is, it's beautiful--to be confused, unable to comprehend the majesty of a vast, unimaginable world.
Funny how emotions sometimes get sucked into art.

hooray! first drawing of college career...its a brain and a heart in the process of becoming a heartfelt letter to a friend here at pomona...if i ever write the actual letter part...