art review

Juried Art Show

The juried art show was a real success, not only did one of my pieces get in, which i was totally surprised at, but all of the pieces were really awesome. Lindsay won best in show for her wood motion sculpture. I was really jealous of her skill with wood when i was watching her make it, she made it seem so simple, but really i spent hours on my project and it didn't turn out half as good as hers. Her sanding was so good that when it was painted it looked as if it could have been made out of plastic. The colors that she chose to use contrasted nicely together and made that piece look like a child's play toy.

Another piece i really like and thought was interesting was Tim's hanging man. It looked just like him which is funny. I really like the glazes, and am disappointed that we don't get to use bright and vibrant colors like the ones on his sculpture. I think it was funny that this sculpture depicted him so well, from the tall lankyness of the body to the color of the clothes, it you know Tim you know that this is what he looks like and he wears those green pants and orange sweatshirt.

I also loved Marj's pieces, her glazes always come out so interesting and beautiful, I've seen her spend hours in the studio just glazing one or two pieces. In order to get the effects she gets you have to have a knowledge of not only how the glazes work together but where to place it in the kiln to get the brightest colors possible. you also have to know which pieces sit next to yours in the kiln to make sure that the glazes that are prone to jumping don't make it onto your piece. The white jar with the red and blue glops on it was my favorite; what i think is mamo white base turned a perfect white instead of different colors caused by jumping.

The juried Art show really give art students view of what is offered in the art department, which is a fairly large spectrum even though it doesn't seem like it when you just read about it. It also gives of examples of what could be accomplished here by showing what your fellow students are doing. This is also a good way to get yourself out there and see what people have to say about your work.

art review

Sophomore Review

On December fourth the annual sophomore review. It was beneficial for me to see where I need to go with my work, because i really had no clue where to go from where i was at. My favorite installation was Eliza's, I really like the giraffe that she had made out of bronze. Metal work is a whole another world to me, it's more of my brothers fortee, he's been welding for years but i have always been to unsure to try. The detail on the giraffe amazed me, i would be totally confused, however i was confused about wood until i worked with it also. I also really liked her drawings i have done the same images, they out from the drawing room, but hers where very clean and the use of charcol is way better then I could do.

Most of the students in the review I have had at least one class with and have seen their processes but it was cool to see their work all together to compare and contrast hat they have done over the year and a half we've all been here. Kate was the one that most surprised me. in the classes i have had her in her work seems free form but i got to see what she had been doing at her last school and i never knew before that she was a really good painter. i've only had her in 3-d type of classes so it was nice to see some of her other work that was not ceramics or sculpture. I also found interesting the work other people were doing that i haven't had in class. Such as Suzanne and Crystal, I was pleasantly surprised at what they had been doing in glass blowing. I really liked Crystals bowls, they showed her determination and skill in working with glass. My favorite of Crystals pieces was Patience ( the purple one) it had a weave patern on it that was really cool, she named it that because she had to re-do it a few times and it took a lot of patience in order to get the perfect bowl.

Suzanne's work always leaves me with my jaw dropped, all of her pieces have a lot of though in them and come out looking amazing. You can tell that she really loves what she does, and that has a confidence in her work that shows through her pieces.

is it too late or too early

so it is 3:44 in the morning and I'm up doing some essays with Abby and Jordan well Jordan left like 1 and a half ago but she was here for awhile. I hate when you get to like the last half page or even your last page and you hit a block, you can't think of anymore fluff, and you've exhausted all of your topics, and now sit and stare at the page hoping that the lack of sleep will turn on a light bulb in your head and all of sudden you just can't stop writing. But this almost never a occurs which sucks. you always end up staring at the page so long your eyes to to go blurry and you get a headache then have to go to bed because your whole head and brain start throbbing with frustration and anger.

art book

i have been working on this book since i was a senior in high school. it has drawings i did, quotes that i really like, and certain things that relate to a memory. on the bottom are some drawings i did in drawing 1 and 2-d design. on the top is a horoscope from the month that i met the love of my life...it says that in this month you have a chance meeting that will turn into a new romance.

this book was givin to me by my high school art teacher it is a german book about napoleon and desiree.

bows and snowflakes

the things i do when i am bored like make pot leafs out of christmas bow...lol....some people came over theand said they though it was a monorah...hello, a monorah has eight things not five, the snowflakes where from our stop motion project and because i love snowflakes so much that im just going to leave them up

i want to live there

my art history was canceled today i really hop that my english class is canceled also...so im goin to do as mush work as possible. Which includes my art history paper reading paradise lost and 5 art reviews and finishing up my blogs.

so this is the first rotating building in dubai. its amazing and theres a car elevator that takes your car up to your apartment because theres a garage in the apartment.

doooooo it tooooo it

i just finished glazing my plate yesterday i hope they come out looking ok....so today i had to deal with the stupidest situation. the couch i have been waiting for 3 days for. then jordan and i call him up at he is completely rude and when he dropped it off today in the snow he bitched to jordan and then when we could not get it up the stairs i called him and was like u guited me into to doing this and u didnt pay the delivery fee (the fee he never told me about until that phone call) and was just an asshole and turns out the couch doesnt fit up the stairs so we have to trade it in at the good will ahhh fuck my life

graffiti

this guy just added me on myspace and his graffiti is fuckin sick. it's so realistic i have never seen graffiti this amazing before

balloon dresses

The things you can do with latex are amazing. These are ballon dresses, kinda like ballon animals. I so want one.

I wonder how many pop before it was perfect.

review time

I hate sophomore review. I can't draw for shit and I don't have a lot of pieces because they are all back in California.