woah.

This is my horrible first attempt. I am defffinitely starting over. I look like a psycho.

Tuesday's Lecture, H. John Thompson

He was an interesting artist, definitely. He considered himself a painter but did more three dimensional works. I like the idea of pulling painting away from its usual setting and creating something different. I'm sure mad people consider him to be a sculptor but I feel like if he is conducting himself as a painter and setting up his work as he would if he were painting, than his works are paintings. I really enjoyed this lecture. It kind of inspired me to consider what qualifies as a painting ans how I can branch out from the box the art world has put the art of painting in.

Self Portrait

This is my self portrait. It was pretty easy to do and in the end I deleted some of my layers to give ait a more simple look.

Tuesday's Lecture

This week's lecture just focused on choosing next semester's classes. We were basically advised to get certain classes out of the way so that we could work on declaring or more experimental art courses. This means that I have to take my maths   -___-

We were informed of the option of taking summer classes at a local college or university of ours during the summer. I might just do that. Get the annoying stuff out of the way. Plus..aren't summer courses always really short? Like a crash course.

Jenny Saville

Jenny is an English painter who's works have been compared to Lucian Freud and Rubens. She has also stated that she draws a lot of influence from Picasso. Her paintings are all larger than life and generally have a gruesome feel to them. Understandable, I know she has observed many plastic surgery procedures for influence.

Self Portrait Collage

This is my self portrait collage. It was actually kind of relaxing to do this comparing it to other foundations homework. It didn't take me very long to do. I chose to take a more abstract approach to it. I figured it would be more fun that way :)

Patterns :)

This exercise wasn't hard to do at all. Took me like 10 minutes, max. I liked it too. It was fun experimenting with the paintbrush tool and then making the fun shapes I made into swatches. I'll definitely use this method for my self portrait.

procrastination

this 2d project is kicking my ass. i don't feel like doooinggg itttt. so i'll post a blog instead that advertises how studious i'm being right now. muwhahaha. are you reading this rob? are ya?!

Tuesday's Lecture, Doug Bucci

Doug was cool. I like his innovative way of mixing computers with 3d art. You'd think those elements were on completely different sides of the art making spectrum. I feel like he was one of the more relatable speakers we've had. His methods of speech delivery were more casual then the others and his subject matter was really, well real. Being an art major one doesn't ever truly know what they're gonna do career wise but like he said that's kind of the beauty of it. Comfort is boring; pshhhhh comfort.

Pen Tool Exercise

This exercise was slightly time consuming but otherwise easy to do.