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| Dinosaur Island Oil on canvas |
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| Untitled Waterfall Oil on canvas |
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| Fox Man Oil on Canvas |
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| Untitled Waterfall Oil on canvas |
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| Untitled Waterfall Oil on canvas |
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| Untitled Oil on canvas |
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| Untitled Waterfall Oil on canvas |
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Advanced Paintings
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Intermediate Paintings
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| Untitled Oil on Canvas |
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| Untitled Oil on Canvas |
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| Sleeping Fox Oil on wood |
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| Untitled Oil on Canvas |
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| Tropical Panorama Oil on Canvas |
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| Waterfall Oil on Canvas |
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| Untitled Oil on Canvas |
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| Untitled Waterfall 2 Panels Oil on Canvas |
A Lesson on Comics and Photography
For a lesson, we were put into groups of 3 and expected to create a series of photographs which would make up a comic. We were each given a phobia to base our comics off of.
My group got fear of chickens. We instantly started making props to turn a group member into a chicken.
We found it difficult to create props for our photographs in such a limited time. However, in a classroom setting you would have more than one day to make a series of props. We only had 15-20 minutes to do everything.
Our idea was to have a girl sleeping and dreaming of a chicken attacking her. This was the photo we ended up with:
Something we definitiely struggled with was our background. Without being in an area where we could make it look like a bedroom, we found our idea kind of difficult.
My group got fear of chickens. We instantly started making props to turn a group member into a chicken.
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| Amy as a Chicken |
Our idea was to have a girl sleeping and dreaming of a chicken attacking her. This was the photo we ended up with:
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| Chicken attacking |
Photography Throughout The Semester
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| Untitiled Scanner Image Basic Photography |
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| Untitled Scanner Image Basic Photography |
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| Untitiled Scanner Image Basic Photography |
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| Untitiled Scanner Image Basic Photography |
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| How I Fear People See Me: Crazy Cat Lady Basic Digital Photography |
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| How I Fear People See Me: I'm a Redhead so I Must Be Irish (based off of Irish folklore) Basic Digital Photography |
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| How I Fear People See Me: I'm An Artist so I must be like (insert famous artist here)... Basic Digital Photography |
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| How I Fear People See Me: I'm a college student so I must be getting drunk all the time Basic Digital Photography DISCLAIMER: None of the above shown drinking is actual alcohol. The wine is sweet tea, the shots are seltzer and the pink drink is terrible sour koolaid. |
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| Untitled Panorama Basic Digital Photography |
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| Untitled Panorama Basic Digital Photography |
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| Untitled Panorama Basic Digital Photography |
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| Untitled Panorama Basic Digital Photography |
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| Catcher and The Rye Model: Self Basic Digital Photography |
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| Fahrenheit 451 Model: Kenny Basic Digital Photography |
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| Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Model: Michael Basic Digital Photography |
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| On Keeping A Notebook in Slouching Towards Bethlehem Model: Mother Basic Digital Photography |
A Lesson on Communication
During the last class, a group presented their project on making art with communication. We were paired up, and told to describe a memory. As we described our memory, our partner was to draw out what we said using craypas.
The memory I chose for this was over the summer my boyfriend and I had gone to the beach, but the water was so full of horseshoe crabs that we couldnt go in the actual water and instead spent the time walking along the beach surrounded by horseshoe crabs and sunbathers. My partner, pretty much got the memory down well, or to the best she could with the descriptions i gave and the materials. When it was my turn, I drew out her christmas memory of being so excited for her N64 system. I found it hard to draw well with the craypas, and realized my end result looked very childish. I would not have been happy with this as my final project. I was curious to what the class would say, and during the critique of the lesson I found they also felt that way. However, it was a very fun assignment. Possibly adding a sketching stage and more chance for details and then using the craypas to add color and such.
I think it was definitely an interesting lesson, and I hadn't considered doing a project this way until now.
I think it was definitely an interesting lesson, and I hadn't considered doing a project this way until now.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Fingerings lesson reflection
My real concern is the age level for this lesson. I can see middle school kids doing this, and possibly younger. But I feel a high school (or up) level might get bored or think it's too easy. I found myself finishing at a rapid pace, and while we were given multiple sheets of paper to do more and more, i would've gotten bored in a highschool setting of doing repetitious assignments. However, I did think it was quite interesting about using the body to create art. Most people think finger painting and assume it's for toddlers, but it was new to see an older group work with their hands to create 2D work. So at the same time of me wondering about the age group, I really enjoyed the new inventive way to work.
Fieldwork has finally come to an end...
For my placement I spent an extra two days there, trying to work in my lesson to teach to the students. A part of me is a bit sad that I didn't get the chance to teach a lesson but at the same time it allowed for me to see first hand all the chaos that happens in a classroom.
I was placed in an art subject that I was not very familiar with, ok...to be honest, not familiar with at all. I have dabbled in photoshop but never explored it in the depths these viscom students were going in. It was cool to learn from them and the teacher, because I had no idea what I was doing in regards to viscom lessons. My teacher worked with me and we came up with a lesson that ideally I would have taught. However, holidays happened, teacher absences, chaos and more chaos happened in the classroom. Servers went down wiping out a lot of the students hard work, and I got to see first hand how a teacher would handle the situation of telling the students the bad news.
To get more specific, the students who are a part of the school newspaper had their next issue entirely deleted off the computers. My mentor teacher, and the helping teacher for the class, dreaded telling the students but when they did, the students had a very surprising response. After being told all their work was deleted, they banded together and began throwing out ideas about coming in on extra days and free periods to all work together to get the paper back on track by their deadline (the 10th of december). The teachers themselves were shocked at how hard the students were willing to work to make sure that the paper was printed on time. It was quite a moving moment, and even the teacher joked that he felt he was in the movie It's A Wonderful Life. Throughout the day the kids came in on their free periods and started the process all over again.
It was because of this and other hectic days, that I was unable to teach my lesson. Luckily, I was able to work with the teacher and develop a very interesting lesson which I can use at a later date.
I was placed in an art subject that I was not very familiar with, ok...to be honest, not familiar with at all. I have dabbled in photoshop but never explored it in the depths these viscom students were going in. It was cool to learn from them and the teacher, because I had no idea what I was doing in regards to viscom lessons. My teacher worked with me and we came up with a lesson that ideally I would have taught. However, holidays happened, teacher absences, chaos and more chaos happened in the classroom. Servers went down wiping out a lot of the students hard work, and I got to see first hand how a teacher would handle the situation of telling the students the bad news.
To get more specific, the students who are a part of the school newspaper had their next issue entirely deleted off the computers. My mentor teacher, and the helping teacher for the class, dreaded telling the students but when they did, the students had a very surprising response. After being told all their work was deleted, they banded together and began throwing out ideas about coming in on extra days and free periods to all work together to get the paper back on track by their deadline (the 10th of december). The teachers themselves were shocked at how hard the students were willing to work to make sure that the paper was printed on time. It was quite a moving moment, and even the teacher joked that he felt he was in the movie It's A Wonderful Life. Throughout the day the kids came in on their free periods and started the process all over again.
It was because of this and other hectic days, that I was unable to teach my lesson. Luckily, I was able to work with the teacher and develop a very interesting lesson which I can use at a later date.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Basic Photography Class
I've learned a lot of about photography and myself in this class, and am kind of sad that this class is almost over. A part of me wishes I had taken digital photography classes sooner and had choose to have my concentration be photography rather than painting. While I still love painting, I think I've really found myself in photography. Each project is interesting, challenging, fun and thrilling. I have yet to find myself bored in any of the stages it takes to create a good photograph.
For the last project, we were directed to use text in the image. I decided to do a series regarding people in my life, including myself, and how our favorite books have influenced our voices. For me, it was easy to pick a favorite book cause it's been the same since high school: Catcher in the Rye. The particular quote that I felt to define me was "Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone." I also decided to throw in some hints about where the qyote is from. For instance, in this picture in the background to the right is the book which is found on a cover of Catcher in the Rye.
The second in the series is my friend, Michael. He choose a quote from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. I'm still tweeking the colors in his, so this is just a in process photo. A clue to his book can be found in the bottom left corner, which is a sketch that is found in the actual book.
For the last project, we were directed to use text in the image. I decided to do a series regarding people in my life, including myself, and how our favorite books have influenced our voices. For me, it was easy to pick a favorite book cause it's been the same since high school: Catcher in the Rye. The particular quote that I felt to define me was "Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone." I also decided to throw in some hints about where the qyote is from. For instance, in this picture in the background to the right is the book which is found on a cover of Catcher in the Rye.
Eirik Johnson
For my digital photography class, we are required to go to an fine digital photography exhibit and write a paper based on the work. For this, I decided to go to Vassar's Lehman Loeb Art Center's exhibit of Eirik Johnson's work. I had actually never heard of him and was quite thrilled once I did. He has a great series titled Sawdust Mountain which is absolutely marvelous. It's definitely such an amazing experience to go to a museum and see all the photographs in person since the quality is so much better.
You can view all these photographs (and more!) on his website: http://www.eirikjohnson.com/index.html
Here's some of the photographs that I felt were his strongest:
You can view all these photographs (and more!) on his website: http://www.eirikjohnson.com/index.html
Here's some of the photographs that I felt were his strongest:
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Candy Art and Reminscing of a Previous Project
Last class, a group presented a project where the medium was candy. I thought it was quite interesting because of how different of a medium it was. I've never thought to create a piece of art using candy. I did think it was a refreshing way to make art, and reminded me of a project I did in my last college.
At my last college, I had an art teacher who wanted us to create something using edible objects. The main focus was that whatever we created was going to be "marketed and sold" to the masses. For my project I had played off of the edible fruit arrangements. I thought, well if they can make flowers out of fruit, why not vegetables? And to push the edible art aspect, I decided instead of using already made bowls that I would create my own. But how? I started thinking of how pretty glass bowls and stained glass and how interesting it would be to combine those? But how? Instantly, I thought of citrus fruits. So I dehydrated oranges, grapefruits and lemons. This was a very long process because I needed the citrus fruits to be entirely dried up before the next step. I then adhered the dried fruit to a plastic bowl and glass plates. I was quite pleased with how it turned out! And to finish it up I added vegetable "flowers"/kabobs. I made sure to carve into the radishes to make something symbolizing a rose.
(im not sure why they are sideways because they arent saved that way but oh well, technology flaw!)
At my last college, I had an art teacher who wanted us to create something using edible objects. The main focus was that whatever we created was going to be "marketed and sold" to the masses. For my project I had played off of the edible fruit arrangements. I thought, well if they can make flowers out of fruit, why not vegetables? And to push the edible art aspect, I decided instead of using already made bowls that I would create my own. But how? I started thinking of how pretty glass bowls and stained glass and how interesting it would be to combine those? But how? Instantly, I thought of citrus fruits. So I dehydrated oranges, grapefruits and lemons. This was a very long process because I needed the citrus fruits to be entirely dried up before the next step. I then adhered the dried fruit to a plastic bowl and glass plates. I was quite pleased with how it turned out! And to finish it up I added vegetable "flowers"/kabobs. I made sure to carve into the radishes to make something symbolizing a rose.
My college teacher loved the idea, and was quite pleased with my project. But getting back to this lesson, I thought it was quite fun to learn different ways to manipulate the candy. And the demo that the group did was interesting. I would have never thought of using skittles to make paint. And it was a fun project to do. We got a chance to sketch our ideas, practice on a sample and make a final piece. While I really loved the project, I did understand the critique that they got. It was harder to come up with fine detailed work (at a highschool-college) level with the candy in my opinion. My work ended up looking simplistic. However, that might just be because we didnt have the time a regular class would have had. An interesting twist to the project that the art we made had to depict either a song title or lyric from a song that was from the Beatles. I really enjoyed this collaboration between art and music. I ended up with "I'm looking through you" and I used the lyric line "Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight." to create my piece.
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