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.

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
  

Artists to consider:

• David Salle
• Gerhard Richter
• Andy Warhol
• Roy Lichtenstein
• Jim Dine
• Tom Burrows
• Phil Irish
  

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.

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:

the second day of the rest of my life

i know this is kind of a cop out post, but i'm so busy today and all i want to do is sleep forever. i lost a night of sleep on tuesday night working on homework for my alternative media and techniques class. poor me.

anyway, i'll take a dave grohl and cee-lo sammich to go please.



also, please enjoy the intensely lovely floral scanner art of katinka matson.

the first day of the rest of my life

Day 1 of NaBloPoMo...ahem...

Hai!!!

So anyway, the loft is sold! What a relief.

Except for fact that as of November 27th, we are moving in with my parents.

Sigh. I know.

I said I'd never do it. But we ARE doing it.

I mean, how hard could it be to find the perfect balance of price, size and location for a live/work space in the city? It's fucking impossible is what it is. At least, it's beginning to feel that way. The only real good house we've seen, and tried to bid on, sold for 70K over it's asking price. I guess that's why they call it a seller's market.

We're basically putting our stuff in storage and moving there until we can find a new place, buy it and move into it.

Anyway, let's forget about all that for a few moments. Let's contemplate some artwork completed for my 2nd-year painting studio course.


acrylic mediums and techniques study.
acrylic paint on canvas
4'x4'


collage study
7"x9"
old magazines, japanese papers and acrylic paint on canvas board


collage study
7"x9"
old magazines, japanese papers and acrylic paint on canvas board


collage study
7"x9"
old magazines, japanese papers and acrylic paint on canvas board


20"x26"
acrylic paint on braced wood panel


study in observation and transfer of a scaled up image onto a solid ground.


So....whatchu think?

nablopomo is coming...

things are really crazy right now. so i know this blog sucks doney balls.

but that's about to change.

well. not just yet.

i'm doing nablopomo in november. that means as of november 1st, i will be posting every day in accordance with the National Blog Posting Month challenge!

for reals.

i know you're quivering with excitement.

now enjoy this.


and my loft is still for sale. i know you want it.

My Summer Vacation (when I wasn't doing homework or renovating my home)

OK, so sometimes I still did homework.
























yes. i have webbed toes.

i love princess superstar.

OMG YOU GUYS!

So school started today and I figured it's about damned time I make a little time to post something here. In the last 4 weeks, we moved out the last of our shit, did a cosmetic reno of our condo, put it on the market and now school.

Poor blogger, no deliciously boring content to process...for so many weeks, days, hours. Le sigh. I love you all my 4 loyal daily visitors.

I'm contemplating ditching the whole poopeeshmoopee shtick and just using my real name. but I can't decide.

impossible is the opposite of possible

We're planning on putting our condo up on the market in a couple of weeks, and I'm kinda freaking out about it.I just finished summer school and will now spend the next week or so doing nothing but moving, painting, sanding, staining and replacing shit.




I'm in need of proper studio space and can't really afford to rent something on top of what we have, so it's time. There is dedicated studio and storage space at school for 4th-year students, but I'm only in 2nd year.



I didn't realise how much it sucks lugging all my shit around, especially when the lockers we are offered are usually not big enough to store anything larger than a knapsack and boots and a coat in the winter. Riding the streetcar with anything larger than a coffee? Ugh.



So once we sell...well, then we have to try to buy a new place and hope that closing dates work out and all so we're not homeless for a couple of months.



And I start school again in 4 weeks.



Gulp.

i am so disgusting

so disgusting in fact, that i earned TWO whole entries on imsodigusting.blogspot.com! i DARE you to beat that. HAH!

oh yeah, i also have wickid cramps right now and am totally burned out from ACING my last course of the summer, so blogging to resume shortly.

betch

i wish i got vh1. i don't even have cable.

I Hate My 30s

oh god.

holy crap!