Choice Amnicon pics

These are some of my favorite pictures from our amnicon trip with LCM (Lutheran Campus Ministry) They are mostly from the tent raising and the canoe trip but theres also a shot of lake superior and the stupidest red squirrel ever.

ATC's

THE TIME HAS COME FOR ARTIST TRADING CARDS!!!!!!!!
Ok, so all semester I have been waiting for this ONE project. We will be making 12 artist trading cards based on a theme of our choice and materials of our choice. The cards will be 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches.
My theme is humans as animals. Referencing how humans encroach on natural habitats. I want to use animals that are kind of overlooked. So no tigers, eagles, peacocks etc. Since I'm only making 12 I have narrowed the animal kingdom down to scavengers. Animals like crows, hyenas, bugs...
I am using a mix of collage, prisma pencils, AWESOME paper that I don't know the name of, shiny glue stuff and sandpaper. The style of the pictures was inspired by "sisters" by Harakut. Look them up, there are a husband and wife team and their stuff is awesome. The mood of the piece is kind of reflected in the song 'the animal I have become' by Three Days Grace.



I will post the cards as I finish them.

Some art

This semester I only had (have) one studio class, 2D design. So the art works have been coming along slowly. From the top: My most recent assignment, going for surrealism around a train of thought using our water color pencils. My piece was about print making and I apparently need to add red to the bottom right corner. Next was the matting assignment where we matted something. The piece I matted was an old appropriation piece using a love story and an image transfer of an owl bringing a chipmonk to it's mate. Third was a doozy of a piece where I had to make an imbalanced image first, and then after the first crit. make it balanced. Keeping in mind we did not know about the balancing it later part. So finished the piece, all unbalanced (the red parts) and then had to keep going. not cool. My piece was originally about how much more I liked knitting than crochetting. Finally, the last picture is just a linolium cut of that picture. I wanted to be able to draw in different heads :-)

Surprise!

our silly picture after raising the tent.

Back again! Its been a while but I finally have found the motivation to post again. Lost of great stuff has happened since mt last post. Fist of all, I am officially a graphic design major! My portfolio review went really well and I didn't choke on my speech. I have also chosen my minors,Studio art and Russian!! Thats right everyone, Russian. Since I can now officially handle small talk, (like hello and what is your name) I decided that the next logical step was to declare it a minor. Very cool, except I have to go to Scholastica to take the next class. I have an apartment for next year and my room mate (Bethany) and we are already planing how to decorate. The churchish group I am part of here on campus went to camp amnicon for our spring retreat and it was epic. Beth and I attempted to canoe, but soon realized that neither of us had any idea of what we were doing so we stopped. But tasty food and tea was consumed and everyone had an awesome time. We also helped raise a tent. I participated in relay for life this weekend and walked over half a marathon. By walking I am including the parts where we skipped, danced, walked backwards, grape vined and pretended to cartwheel. So yeah. That's pretty much it. The major stuff any ways. Oh, and I am in a Dr. Pepper withdrawal. Apparently it is banned here. Dumb.