Pieces of Pictures

The Donut hand I actually started over winter vacation, but did not actually finish until recently. I really like texture and because my concentration is focused around food and people, specifically women and pastries, I thought about doing something like this. I was intending to do something like the sistine by Michelangelo where god almost touches man. I dont think that that completely came across in this painting, but that is what i was trying to do.

For this one I wanted to actually use a face in an attempt to display greed in some way. and i did not know how to exaclty display that so i decided to start with a face in the center flowing from a hand. the face is to show all of the greed that people feel for certain items, such as donuts.there is a light in the background to highlight the greed and to show the darkness, but the darkness is still surrounded by light.

dearth?

so... didn't have a whole lotta time this weekend to do anything artistic. well i mean in terms of me actually painting something considering I left at 12:30 on friday and got home oh... 15 minutes ago. But i did get to go to canada and that was really cool. alot of the stuff up in canada is focusing on the first people and their art, because that is what the opening ceremonies at the olympics wanted to focus on too. and i was looking at all of these gorgeous totem poles and thinking about that. and although it wouldn't be part of my concentration what if i did something american, but truly native american. or maybe not that, but something that would just break it down and get to the core of art. like what exactly makes something art? i donno, just get rid of the 12 principles and see what is left. and then maybe for something else i can combine all of the 12 principles and see what happens. but i wonder what is left of art if you take away all of the things that make art? would it just be white? would there still be art without rules? art is not supposed to have rules but it does in fact art is probably one of the only things that has to have rules to exist. but what if you took away all of the rules then what? can you take away all of the rules? how? hmm.... i think i am going crazy. *sigh* and i still have a chem lab to finish. i wish i could do art instead.
GO CANADA! eh?

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!

i down many more to go

well, the cardboard dress pretty much rocked, i really like how it turned out. but now i need to work on other stuff, such as the whispering season painting thingy, i am not quite sure what to do with that one. i also need to work on 3 other works!!! and have nooooo idea what it is i should do!! i need a concentration. so far i like the idea of using women, texture, and food. i would like to make my face out of liquorice. i remember hearing something about someone making their face out of fruit, and i think liquorice is better, for me at least. but..... ya concentration, women, food, and texture. the cupcake women prints pretty much failed :( which sucked, but oh well, i will come back to them later. the one i am working on now i just need to buckle down and finish it. i will take a photo of that one and put it up, but i will do that when i have more time.

dresses

my cardboard dress is almost done, the dress that i am making for morp is in the works, and the dresses that karen and i will make have yet to start, we need to finish those by spring because i want to actually wear them. but the cardboard dress is almost done, just need a little bit more time, i hope i can be done by the 9th, but we shall see. i am happy with it so far, the top is almost done and i need to add a bustle and i donno if i wanna add some ribbons or not, maybe i should. i will upload a photo when it's done.