work

well with finals finally done i basically spent this whole weekend painting and watching tv. which was really nice. i am working on a self portrait right now, and i just need to figure out how to incorporate food into it somehow. but i will figure that out later. and i have an idea for my next piece as well. i was thinking black and white with a piece of food as the only thing that was in color. i think i want it to be a close up of someones face, specifically a mouth, with one of those fruity ring things on and they are eating it. maybe a candy necklace too, but i dont know if i want to have both of those things in there. and i also want to do something where the person is made out of food, but i need to figure out how.

influences

while at portfolio day i was forced to reflect a bit about what was really important to me and what i really wanted to portray in my work, and in all honesty i dont really know. i like the idea of portraying women somehow, but where does the food come in? why are any of my pieces even mildly interesting? are any of them interesting? i think that i need to rethink my idea and think about what really matters to me and what i really would like to display in my art, but i need to think about that a bit more before i can really change and define the parameters of my concentration. because if i am going to box myself in, i want to place myself in a box that i think i could last in for the rest of the year.

winter vacation

It has been a good two weeks just sitting around trying to do as little as possible. But all good things must come to an end. in terms of art i have been playing around with oil paints this week, so that is what i have been doing most of the time. I think they are fun to work with but a pain because they dry so slow which is good and bad. i have been working on four and am finished with none. meaning today i will have to work work work away on art and chem. and i just found out that i received a gold key for my cardboard dress!!!! soooooo awesome!