Finished Jomon Pot

My first project for my hand building class is finally completely finished. It just came out of the glaze kiln yesterday and i'm very happy with it.

Painting I: Geometric abstraction

So i forgot to post my first painting assignment. it was pretty much torturous to do at times, but i do kinda like it.

Low Relief Still Life

This was our first outside assignment for my drawing III class. we had to create a low relief still life and give it a clear focal point by using contrast to highlight that. we also had to use a variety of marks as well as tone. i'm pretty happy with the way this came out. it's 22"x30" so fairly big. i was able to do this in a bout four days so i'm proud of myself for being able to pull it off in such a short time.

Update!!

So I'm kinda already over this semester and we're only five weeks in!!! I've been keeping busy with all my classes and three studio's is definitely pretty challenging. I'm always working on projects and at times i feel like I'm crazy, but surprisingly it's nice to always have something to work on after taking such a long break without producing much over the summer.

My painting class is going pretty well. I've spent a lot of money on it but I'm excited to get some projects done. I'm still working on the first abstract painting, which is very tedious. I just want to see it done but it's taking forever. last week was my first time working with oils. we did our a la prima paintings. it's a lot harder than i thought. i'm still unsure about it, but I'm looking forward to getting into an actual project with oils. here are my first two a la prima's.






My hand building class is going well too. i just finished our first project. we had to replicate jomon pots. we were provided images and had to make them at least 15 inches. somehow i had some issues and it ended up being like 20 inches. i used a whole bag of clay and it weighs about 25 pounds. it's the biggest thing I've ever made in clay and it was definitely a challenge. I'm pretty happy with the result, even though i hated a lot about it when i was making it. not as good as i wanted it to be but I'm excited to see it glazed.







My third studio is my drawing three class, which is unfortunately my least favorite of my studio's. we do nothing but draw objects. i have about 6 gestural drawings of a stapler, a wine opener, and a sea shell, and have even more to come. none of them are worth posting. we have an outside assignment which is slightly more interesting. we have to create a low relief still life and draw it. I've had it for about 3 weeks and it's due this Monday!!! i only have a little bit done, so that will definitely consume my weekend.

Finally!!!!!!

I at least was able to get one actual drawing done. I had this idea form song lyrics and came up with this. It came together pretty quickly and I am overall pretty pleased with the result. i haven't drawn on this paper in years. it's done on strathmore medium drawing paper so it kind of has an off white yellowish tint to it. I usually do all of my drawings on bristol board so this paper was a nice change. 11" x 14" in charcoal. Here are some process shots too.

Feel like one

I 've basically been working on smaller stuff this summer. I wanted to work on things that wouldn't take me forever to finish because i really have very little motivation or patience as of lately. I've mainly been sketching, or doodling actually, so I have come up with a few ideas for projects that i want to eventually do. It's just really hard for me to just create for some reason. I feel like if I do something it has to be a good finished polished product or else it's not worth doing. i don't know why i can't get over it and just experiment and try new things even if it ends up coming out horrible. So this is me slowly starting to do that. I did this little drawing with charcoal on colored paper, there was also some ink and paint used, and then i messed with the colors in photoshop.

Animal Animal Animal

Wow, so I've kinda been not as productive as I wanted to be this summer, but I have accomplished some stuff. I've had a wacom tablet for a few years but have never really used it that much, so one of my goals this summer was to learn how to paint/airbrush digitally. I tried it out a little bit but didn't create anything amazing. It's pretty difficult for me and will take some time to get down, so I hope I eventually get better at it. Here is my first ever painting attempt. It's an owl!!!!



I also wanted to do some real painting. Once again I didn't really get around to doing it but I did manage to pull this little painting together. It's done in acrylics on some scrap wood and it's of a snake!!!



Nothing amazing here but I just wanted to try these mediums out and see what I could do.