Happy Halloween!

what might be the final

everything actually says something. I swear.

Oil pastel drawing

Project: create a new image using an art work from the Tweed. The art work I used is a bronze sculpture called 'The Faun' and this piece is collage and oil pastels. LOTS of blending was involved.

I think I now have a picture from my window at all times of day! Pretty sunrise.

2D design project

So these are two of my four pieces for 2D digital design. I was really happy because even though I HATED this project I got an A. The top one is contrast and the bottom one was alignment. I like contrast the best. The task was to create a composition based on an object you disliked and the design terms proximity, contrast, alignment and repetition. My object is this crazy big sweater I got. I always felt like I was going to get beat up in it. I had contrast as my main piece. The critique I got for that piece was that they wished it had more of a sweaters texture and that the leaning of the image made it look gangsta. hehe.

the Fox and the Crow

here is my second 3D design project. wood and acrylic paint. Its based off of the fable the Fox and the Crow:

A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree.
"That's for me, as I am a Fox," said Master Reynard, and he walked up to the foot of the tree.
"Good day, Mistress Crow," he cried. "How well you are looking today: how glossy your feathers; how bright your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of other birds, just as your figure does; let me hear but one song from you that I may greet you as the Queen of Birds."
The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best, but the moment she opened her mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground, only to be snapped up by Master Fox.
"That will do," said he. "That was all I wanted. In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future: "Do not trust flatterers."

I didn't post the first project because it sucked.

remembering a good conversation

I was remembering a conversation I had recently and have decided to share it with you all.

Ok so the tweed has free coffee
So me, Andi and that one guy (all from drawing) had some coffee and started talking about how much we like coffee
Then we got into TV shows
And we got to the powerpuff girls and the other weird cartoon network shows....
Like Billy and Mandy
And how we wished that the Grim Adventures and Evil Con Carne hadn’t split up.
Which led to animated movies
And we talked about movies we need to find
Andi wants space jam
And the guy admitted to never seeing the jungle book!
Andi and I were scandalized.
But then we got on to POKEMON
And they both play the gameboy games
And we debated which evolution of eve was the best
Me and the guy said joltion but Andi said vaporion

JOLTION ROCKS

and then we talked about ZOIDS. and how freaking awesome liger zero is and how we wished there was an easy way to get the series. That of course led to the various Gundam shows and how much better zoids was than gundam.
And then we had more coffee
And the guy said, "this is great I can ell everyone that this morning I talked about pokemon and zoids, and they’d say ‘oh with your guy friends?’ and I get to say no, two chicks" and I laughed because we really were just that cool.

T-shirt

ok, so this a design I submitted to Threadless.com. I still haven't been told it it's been approved for rating and all that, but if its declined, anyone got any ideas on how to make it better? Seriously, suggestions please.

Drawing

It is finally that time of the semester where all of my drawing projects are due. I figured that also means that this is when I post all of them on here.


Depiction of travel- not my favorite project.
Use the 3 different kinds of line, harsh, soft and... that other one.
Show the texture of hair in a comparative manner- me when I was 5 and cut off all my hair, and me at 19. Words below to describe states of mind- I went with my idea of being an artist, then and now, the words you cant see are shows and portfolio.
Value and value reduction of an object. value reduction is where you fill in the space and then erase the image.

Text portrait

the short description of what this project is is in the thought bubble. It was going to be a speach bubble, but I got lazy. Half way portrait! note: swirls and hat were just to make it semi interesting... they will not stay there, neither will the bubbles. oh and there is supposed to be so 'essence' of collage in it... still workin that out.

Froggy

Kate's awesome hat as we head to the hockey game. Our team lost. It was unfortunate. Thankfully Kate's hat remained cool.

Alien invasion

Radio towers on the cliffs, click to actually see the lights.

Me

I am not a writer
So here are some haiku poems
Describing me yo

I will illustrate
A children’s book before I
Am pushing up daisies

Ingrid Michaelson
“Be OK” is a great song
I dance badly along

I am proud to be
A lady of the letterpress
Lead type rocks forever

Obsessions with fables
Is something I have come to
Accept as a positive

Skittles is a good name
For an indifferent cat
When in second grade

I am terrible
At counting syllables
You may have noticed

MCBA

I miss MCBA. Minnesota Center for Book Arts was practically my home for the months between fall 07 and summer 08 and true to my prediction I'm rather lost with out it. There is no paper studio here. No 100 year old presses for that matter, and no dungeon-like atmosphere. We are lacking an the old, crumbling stone area, all ceramic tiles up here. All this weekend I had this urge to make some paper, just to go through the process. Lame, I know, but I really do miss the ability to just go DO it.


I remember the first By Design show I got to be a part of. We all got to make medium sized projects because there were no Advanced students. Well, all of us finished our projects the day of the opening. We were all in the basement going crazy, freaking out, telling ridiculous jokes and trying to keep Molly from crying. Aubree and Will talked about giving their little speeches through interpretive dance and I was taking deep soothing breaths to avoid hyperventilating before my talk about Coptic binding. Hailey was pretending to put crayons up her nose.
Perhaps my favorite memories of MCBA and By Design come from my first advanced session with my mentor Sarah. Sarah taught me the joys of paper making and extremely random art conversations. Like how one of her paper castings reminded her of a 2 headed cartoon sheep.
I learned how to pull a plastic garbage bag out of (insert special name) box like a bull fighter.

I learned that hydraulic pumps are REALLY annoying when you have to make it go down about a foot and its moving down a centimeter per pump.
I learned that the dryer is very popular, and everyone fights to be its friend.

I learned how to use this monstrosity of a beater. I actually had to go in with giant tweezers to clean out my fiber because it had gotten wrapped around the wheel. GOOD TIMES. I also miss the loud and scary 'buh thup' s it makes.oh, and the brown foam... just thought everyone should she it.

And FINALLY I actually do miss the smell of cooking flax. I guess its just something that grows on you... Sarah always said it smelled like wet grass.

My last session with By Design doesn't need to be discussed. My mentor was scary... but my project was pretty cool. Yay 12 ft. long scroll book! I seem to have lost my train of thought...

Dorm Room

My best friend recently posted pics of her dorm room and since shes really the only person who looks at this I shall post my dorm pics and we can compare!

Chameleon

this is my hand. It was wonderful to wave to people.

The view from my window on a cloudy day