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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
1/14/2009
10/22/2008
Slideshow from this past weekend's school bus trip to Pittsburgh, PA
Cause I'm too busy to upload individual images. Anyway, we went to visit the 55th Carnegie International, which was ridiculously amazing. We also visited the Andy Warhol Museum, the Mattress Factory and Wood Street Galleries among others. I'm so frigging tired, but completely inspired. OMG that totally rhymes! (SIGH. that is how out of it I am right now.) I finally got some shots of recently submitted homework, so keep yer peepers peeled!
10/08/2008
more proof of my lame-ness
I totally bailed on Raymi's fantastic second art show last night at The Central.
I was all super excited to go, but I had class this morning at 8:30AM in which my first assignment was due. Because I spent the whole weekend recovering from Nuit Blahhhhhhh-nche, I ended up painting most of last night to make up for it.
Oh Raymi, I think the world of you and it is so important that you are pushing the notion that "to be an artist you have to go to art school" out on it's ass. GOOD ON YA.
6/08/2008
So I spent the whole day outside today...
I'm kind of kicking myself for not taking a camera along. Though I sometimes get tired of seeing and experiencing things through a lens or filter, rather than using my own eyes. I'm now doing a lot of reading, writing and sifting through a BAjillion pics and vids, which is taking forEVER. In the meantime, enjoy the work of Jim Stoten. Make sure you take a look at his sketchbook. Oh and I think I got a bit of sunstroke. Whee!
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5/04/2008
5/02/2008
4/15/2008
Squarelawn Chair
My new RSS reader is compelling me to share these nuggets of delight with all 16 of you out there.
So, ummm...anyone care to weigh in on this handcrafted wood chair art piece? you know! the one that looks like the shitty plastic chairs everyone and their gramma have rotting (actually they'll NEVEREVEREVER rot) in their yards, sheds, cottages, garages, carports, decks, patios, poolsides, landfills, or what have you.
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4/14/2008
mmmmm...pretty....
See more on the amazing Kawasaki at www.audrey-kawasaki.com.
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2/06/2008
BEHOLD! my recent printmaking homework!
screenprint
acrylic ink on cougar coverstock
8"x10"
The assignment was to complete a screenprint with 3 separate screens and colours. Next assignment is etching! Anyway, here's the process (well most of it):
1/16/2008
more of my assignments from last term
mixed media on braced panel
20"x24"
acrylic on braced panel
24"x26"
-- i'm not totally happy with this but had to stop and hand it in anyway. i think the white eyes are a little much. will keep working on it and post updates when i get a chance
egg tempera on masonite panel
7"x10"
11/20/2007
11/15/2007
finally! now i own a piece of raymi!
hungover-raymi and i had coffee today. i really needed a batman t-shirt and she really needed to sell one, so it worked out great for both of us. read this and this if you want to know what happened.
PROOF!
current status of my panel painting. 75% done!
finally found something besides purses and accessories in H&M that doesn't make me feel like a big fat pig. ignore the socks. imagine opaque tights and cute shoes 
when i was in 23 i used to have this recurring dream where i could sing like this. someday i will get over my singing in public issues. sigh.
11/13/2007
progress is being made.
here is the current progress on the wood panel for my diptych project. 
the best part of my day today was my visit with stefania.
i brought her some art nouveau/deco inspired source material and she tweaked it and is tattoing it on me!
this is the stencil we designed together.
this is phase 1 of 2. 
this is oscar being bored.
11/11/2007
there's a lot going on - and none of it meth lab-related, contrary to what yesterday's picture post might lead you to believe
for the last 4 days i've been working on one of the panels for my contrast diptych using plaster to smooth it out. well i didn't sand enough of it away and tried painting on it. as soon as it dried, the paint just started peeling off. last night i spent an hour trying to hand-sand it off. because it had cured, it was so hard that i just plain gave up. 
dejected, i ended up going over to a friends' place for dinner, then came home and watching Dnevnoy dozor, which was pretty good. i was supposed to go to a birthday party (sorry tina!!!), but we didn't end up eating until pretty late.
anyway, the film is the sequel to Nochnoy dozor and second in Timur Bekmambetov's trilogy. It is all over though in 2009 with the Fox produced Twilight Watch in 2009. i actually enjoy watching movies in their original languages with subtitles - it adds a little more flavour when you can hear the actor's real voice/words/intonations. this last one is being filmed in english. oh well.
today kirk and i rented a storage unit for all our stuff while we stay at my parents' place. 
we also went by their house to pick up our palm sander. kirk was wonderful enough to volunteer to sand all the shit off of my panel.
so i could basically start from scratch.
sigh. seriously, you guys, i wanted to cry. he's so lovely.
anyway, here's where I am so far: 
11/08/2007
honey honey
This morning I was (unintentionally) standing on Oscar's blanket and he yanked on it (intentionally - but really just to play) and ZOWIE! I kicked a wooden chair and totally messed up my toe (not the pinky one but the one before it), and that part of your foot where your toe connects. I yelled so loud that Oscar immediately hit the ground, practically melting into the floor, giving me the "I'm so saaaaaahhhrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" look. Poor guy, I wasn't mad at him, but man, did that hurt (still does...muaaaaaahhhh!) The bruising is just starting, and will prolly be uglier tomorrow, so I'll be sure to get some photos of the carnage.
In the meantime, please enjoy more shamelssley borrowed images. This time it's the work of Alberto Cerriteno:
11/07/2007
yes, my mouth is almost always open
so here are the last 2 homework assignments i submitted for alternative media and techniques with shirley yanover.
tape transfers of old letters, acrylic paint and gel medium on braced panel
20x26
found papers, buttons, yarn, beads, acrylic paint and gel medium on gessoed canvas
16"x36", 20"x20"
i feel like they are both only about 75% done, but submitted them as time just ran out. I will continue to work on them and will post my progress.
any comments would be appreciated. seriously.
unless you want to tell me you hate it and that you'd change EVERYTHING.
in which case you can piss off.
now please enjoy some (shamelessly borrowed) images of the ridiculously beautiful work of mary o'malley:
11/05/2007
day 5 - rollercoaster of love
Here are some studies I did for my Materials and Process class, with Nicole Collins. The assignment was to experiment by tinting some gessoed and sized papers with pigments, then draw or paint on them with different media.
Here are the gessoed papers:
200lb watercolour paper primed with acrylic medium
dry rubbed with raw pigments
drawn with charcoal
painted in gouache
140lb watercolour paper primed with acrylic medium
washes of pigment, water and medium and scraped back with plastic knife in multiple layers painted inks
90lb watercolour paper primed with acrylic medium
dry rubbed with turmeric, saffron and cinnamon
penned and blown inks
The sized papers were sized with rabbit-skin glue (if you are a vegan, I'm fully aware of the ramifications, now go eat a bowl of jell-o and be quiet) are around here somewhere, will post photos of those as soon as I can find them.
11/04/2007
day 4 - oh joy
This is the view from my kitchen window:
From the way my week has gone, this blog is going to end up being a repository of whining and bitching. BO-RING!
Instead I'll tell you about my homework for Painting Studio. Here's the project description:
Contrast Diptych
Materials: compositional studies; 2 supports (any size) with gesso or other preparation; acrylics (or other media), mediums, equipment; mounting and hanging equipment.
Process: make preliminary studies demonstrating variations on your theme; select and execute, making changes and additions that suppport your subject as you work; hang the work in various relationships using mounting equipment.
Examples of Contrasts:
- complexity/simplicity
- organic/geometric
- warm/cool
- large/small
- interior/exterior
- transparency/opacity
- painterly/graphic
- boldness/subtlety
- linear/curvilinear
- depth/flatness
- heavy/weightless
- male/female
- accent/neutrality
- activeness/stasis
- public/private
- irrational/rational
- representational/abstraction
- romantic/classic
- asymmetry/symmetry
- textural/smooth
- acculturated/primitive
- blah/blah/blah/you get it
I also have to construct my own supports instead of buying them ready made like I've been doing so far. Sooooooo, I'm doing 1 support in door skin and pine and the other support in plexiglas.
I'm still working out the actual painted part.
11/03/2007
is this art?
nuit blanche toronto, sept 29 2007
and dear baby jesus in heaven, you MUST VOTE FOR RAYMI for best Canadian blog - she is committed to blogging like no one else i know. and i barely even know her. she is a hot, funny, contrary, sassy tornado of canadian blogging toughness. DO it. If that doesn't convince you, these recent photos (shamelessly) stolen from her blog just might:
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