These are photographs which I took of the moon. I moved the camera as I was taking the photos in order to create different shapes out of the light. I also adjusted the white balance in order to create the orange haze around the light.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
10 Chloe Cohn Final Project Proposal
It's springtime, which for me means two things: first, flowers are out, and second, my hair is getting really long. Spring is my favorite season, so I'm going to use spring as my inspiration. I'm leaning in two very different directions. One of my ideas is to make headbands, using string, or to make decorations for headbands or clips. I wear headbands almost everyday, so if I do this well, I would wear them. The other idea I have is flowers: anything to do with flowers. For my color and light project I think I'm going to paint flowers, which is something I could continue, making a series of paintings. I was thinking of somehow combining them, and maybe making flowers to put on headbands, or that are wearable. I'm still very open, and am not sure which direction I want to go in.
10- Amy Liu: Final Project Proposal
I am thinking of working with digital art to design a website layout or working with using oil pastels to create a more traditional piece. I like digital art, so I would like to try to make a layout using my own art. Alternatively, I am probably more familiar with oil pastels than any other medium, and I enjoy working with it. If I used oil pastels, I would probably end up making a portrait or a still life.
9 Chloe Cohn Material Alchemy
Sorry about the quality, my camera isn't working. Also, I made one of the bracelets into a key chain, which I am now using
Monday, April 19, 2010
11-Edy: Final Project Proposal
I haven't settled on one single idea for the final project, but I'm sure that I will try to experience colors. Ideally I hope I can get the chance to play with oil a few times before the final painting. Two initial ideas of what I might do: in the first blog I posted for our class (What is Art), there were two pieces featured---one is Van Gogh's Starry Night that started my passion and appreciation for impressionism and the stories behind these masterpieces (interestingly we just read about Vincent and Theo in class), so I want to challenge myself to do something close to the impressionist style; another is the velvet oil painting-feeling photography of the Afghan girls, which I want to transform into a real oil painting...with my very limited painting skill. I might also explore a more decorative style like Klimt and paint something to match my room setting.
10 - Justine: Final project proposal & Imitation
I've had a really hard time narrowing down what I want to do for my final project. I have a few ideas and I would love feedback on what you guys think would be the most interesting.
First, I really liked doing my hair drawings for my self portrait and I was thinking of continuing with that theme by doing a series of portraits of people -- either my family members, friends, or strangers, including only of their hair. I think that hair is an interesting way to approach identity: it is the feature that frames the face, and I wonder how much of a sense of identity hair by itself can confer. How much can you pick up about somebody just by looking at their hair? How much can I suggest a face without drawing one? Will the hair be enough to recognize an individual? I would do these drawings in graphite.
My second idea is based off of something I used to do as a little kid. I never kept a diary because I was scared my older sister would read it (legitimate fear), so instead, I kept little sketchbooks where I would try to symbolically convey an event or how I was feeling by drawing figures with animal heads interacting with each other. I gave them animal heads because I needed some way to get across their identity in a sort of coded way...so my sister wouldn't know who I was referring to (obvi). Different people reminded me of different animals, and they would be depicted with that animal as their head. For example, I usually drew my friend Megan with a dog head, a friend Joaquin with a ram's head, I usually had a falcon head...etc. So I was thinking of maybe doing portraits of friends or family by combining them with the animals that they remind me of. Sort of like surreal, hybrid animal-people portraits. I would probably do these drawings in graphite. I may add in a little water color...haven't decided yet.
Both of these ideas are based in similar concepts--the idea of capturing the identities of people through uncommon means, pushing the definition of a portrait and what is included in a person's identity. Let me know if you have any feedback...or favorites...I would love the help.
ALSO: Looking back I realized that I'd done a post for my imitation project, but didn't actually
include the image of my piece on it. So here is that:
First, I really liked doing my hair drawings for my self portrait and I was thinking of continuing with that theme by doing a series of portraits of people -- either my family members, friends, or strangers, including only of their hair. I think that hair is an interesting way to approach identity: it is the feature that frames the face, and I wonder how much of a sense of identity hair by itself can confer. How much can you pick up about somebody just by looking at their hair? How much can I suggest a face without drawing one? Will the hair be enough to recognize an individual? I would do these drawings in graphite.
My second idea is based off of something I used to do as a little kid. I never kept a diary because I was scared my older sister would read it (legitimate fear), so instead, I kept little sketchbooks where I would try to symbolically convey an event or how I was feeling by drawing figures with animal heads interacting with each other. I gave them animal heads because I needed some way to get across their identity in a sort of coded way...so my sister wouldn't know who I was referring to (obvi). Different people reminded me of different animals, and they would be depicted with that animal as their head. For example, I usually drew my friend Megan with a dog head, a friend Joaquin with a ram's head, I usually had a falcon head...etc. So I was thinking of maybe doing portraits of friends or family by combining them with the animals that they remind me of. Sort of like surreal, hybrid animal-people portraits. I would probably do these drawings in graphite. I may add in a little water color...haven't decided yet.
Both of these ideas are based in similar concepts--the idea of capturing the identities of people through uncommon means, pushing the definition of a portrait and what is included in a person's identity. Let me know if you have any feedback...or favorites...I would love the help.
ALSO: Looking back I realized that I'd done a post for my imitation project, but didn't actually
include the image of my piece on it. So here is that:Sunday, April 18, 2010
Natalie Jones: Final Project Proposal
For my final I would like to use this image of a sunrise on North Haven as the basic for a collage that I would like to make using different colored paper. I was at the RISD store and I saw all of the their pulled paper. I really loved the colors, texture, and printing on the paper and would like to make a weaving/torn paper collage the recreates the image above. I would like to focus more on this, so I would like to do it as my color and light study as well.
Sophie Soloway: Final Project Proposal
I don't know what I want to do for my final project. So far this semester my stuff has been all over the place - charcoal and graphite drawings, woodworking, maskmaking, baking, staplegunning, facepainting, etc. There is no unifying theme. For the Color and Light project I will probably experiment with natural dyes, light fabric, sculptural wire framing, and a lightbulb. I will make my dyes out of onion skins (yellow), turmeric (orange), coffee grinds (brown), spinach (green), grass (yellow-green), tea (ecru), and beets (red). As Monty Python would say, "Now for something completely different."
I'm excited about the dye project and I think I would like to explore that for the final project. If I had to make a guess at what I will do, this is the plan: I will stretch a muslin cotton fabric over a wooden frame. On this "canvas," I would like to make a charcoal drawing of something - a person's body stretched across the frame and going off on both sides, or a spray of flowers, or a reaching hand, or a friend's face turning down to some task, an image from a favorite poem. Who knows. I'll figure out some way to fix the charcoal and color the scene with natural dyes in order to give it an ephemeral, natural look.
And now for some inspirational quotes that have kindled some excitement in me about the Color and Light project:
"Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward. They have no identities. They are probes." - Marshall McLuhan
"It’s almost as though communication becomes high-speed sculpture in a conceptual dimension made of light and intentionality." - Terence McKenna
I'm excited about the dye project and I think I would like to explore that for the final project. If I had to make a guess at what I will do, this is the plan: I will stretch a muslin cotton fabric over a wooden frame. On this "canvas," I would like to make a charcoal drawing of something - a person's body stretched across the frame and going off on both sides, or a spray of flowers, or a reaching hand, or a friend's face turning down to some task, an image from a favorite poem. Who knows. I'll figure out some way to fix the charcoal and color the scene with natural dyes in order to give it an ephemeral, natural look.
And now for some inspirational quotes that have kindled some excitement in me about the Color and Light project:
"Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward. They have no identities. They are probes." - Marshall McLuhan
"It’s almost as though communication becomes high-speed sculpture in a conceptual dimension made of light and intentionality." - Terence McKenna
Saturday, April 17, 2010
10: Rachel Watson - Material Alchemy
This is my material alchemy project created by deconstructing crayons.
This is a picture of the piece that I put together in class at Tockwotton by using scraps of wood that I found.
This is a picture of the piece that I put together in class at Tockwotton by using scraps of wood that I found.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Sophie Soloway: Self Portrait, Material Alchemy, and Imitation
I know this is quite a lot to be posting at once, but I've been a bit lax on posting my own work due to photographic limitations. As such, I apologize for the cellphone quality of these images, it's the best I can do! PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE IT FULLY.
For Material Alchemy, I did two projects.
First of all, here is the Newsprint Raincloud from two angles.
And my #2 Material Alchemy project was a small folding chair/cot made from 6 pieces of scrap wood and 6 screws, plus some fabric, staples, red paint, and blood. Tockwotton Studios was such a fun place to build things.
Here is my self portrait. The piece is called "Facade." It is made of plaster on a perforated sheet metal background, and the black lines are kitchen string coated in shoe polish. I used industrial materials in order to convery the sense of building the mask that you show to the world each day - how our public persona, like the front of a building, is a thoughtfully constructed piece of work and can hide pretty much anything. Although the contour lines mimic window panes, there is no way to see through the mask. Before you get to know someone, you have to infer everything about them by how they choose to appear.
Lastly, I am posting (very belatedly) my imitation piece. I've had a good quality image of this one for quite some time, but never thought to post it to the blog. Here you go! It is an imitation of Gustave Courbet's "self-portrait" or "the desperate man."
For Material Alchemy, I did two projects.
First of all, here is the Newsprint Raincloud from two angles.
And my #2 Material Alchemy project was a small folding chair/cot made from 6 pieces of scrap wood and 6 screws, plus some fabric, staples, red paint, and blood. Tockwotton Studios was such a fun place to build things.
Here is my self portrait. The piece is called "Facade." It is made of plaster on a perforated sheet metal background, and the black lines are kitchen string coated in shoe polish. I used industrial materials in order to convery the sense of building the mask that you show to the world each day - how our public persona, like the front of a building, is a thoughtfully constructed piece of work and can hide pretty much anything. Although the contour lines mimic window panes, there is no way to see through the mask. Before you get to know someone, you have to infer everything about them by how they choose to appear.
Lastly, I am posting (very belatedly) my imitation piece. I've had a good quality image of this one for quite some time, but never thought to post it to the blog. Here you go! It is an imitation of Gustave Courbet's "self-portrait" or "the desperate man."
Isabel Lopez Polanco - Final Project Proposal
I have had so much fun making the handbag for the material alchemy project, which I made out of old t-shirts, jeans and a belt, that I want to keep playing with that for my final project. Ideally I want to make a dress that I can then wear, as I have already started using the bag!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Mary Kate LoPiccolo: Final Project
For my final project, I will be constructing a garment of my own design. I am looking to make a dress--working off of a basic pattern to create something unique. Hopefully by the end of this semester, I will have completed a small collection!
9-Jaclyn Ponish: Final Project Proposal
For my final project I really want to explore more with saran wrap and tape. I feel like it would be really neat to make two full body sculptures out of this material. I see the two sculptures interacting with each other doing some daily activity. I also plan on putting them in some sort of scene or setting.
11- Danielle Sheridan: Final Project Proposal
My head has been swimming in GREEN SCREEN talk of installations and performance pieces so I am feeling inspired to work on a performance piece of my own. In the past I have done performance work on public transport in Boston- centering around the female re appropriation of the gaze- and might be interested in taking these ideas further. I have a few other plans cooking but one thing remains certain: I would want to construct/ build all the props I intend to use.
Some things I will need to think about-
- How I will document my work: Photography? Blog? Exhibiting the remnants afterward?
-Duration: prolonged over a few days/ week or one concentrated event?
This piece would demand intensive planning, research and perhaps also some collaborative work.
I am going to outline some of my ideas in greater depth over the course of the weekend.
Some things I will need to think about-
- How I will document my work: Photography? Blog? Exhibiting the remnants afterward?
-Duration: prolonged over a few days/ week or one concentrated event?
This piece would demand intensive planning, research and perhaps also some collaborative work.
I am going to outline some of my ideas in greater depth over the course of the weekend.
11 - Yaprak Baran : Final Project Proposal
For my final project, I would like to experiment a bit more with my material alchemy purse and take it further. I hope to continue using cheap foundation materials, such as cardboard and different types of paper, but also use various different media, such as ribbons, fabric, paint, metals etc, to make my creations look more elaborate and expensive-looking. I will begin sketching out ideas and look for interesting media this weekend and based on how much material I can find, I hope to create at least 3-4 more purses.
9 - Rachel Watson: Final Project Proposal
For my final project, I am considering creating a mosaic of some kind. I have not yet decided whether it will be more of a traditional mosaic with pieces of broken tiles, glass or other materials reminiscent of the material alchemy project, or whether I might go beyond to challenge the idea of a mosaic by creating a final piece built from smaller drawings, paintings, etc. In this case, there would be multiple ways to view the composition depending on how close one stands to it look at it. This type of mosaic would utilize lots of individual works of art to create a whole picture.
9- Joe Milner: Final Project
For my final project, I would like to use a graphical representation of language to create a “meta” discussion about the question “What is art?” In speaking to one another each day, we assume that whoever is listening to us shares with us common definitions for our words. In the vocabulary of semiotics, for each individual the word signifies the same concept. Yet the interesting thing about language is that signifiers “slip.” This can be seen when two people misunderstand each other, or when a word’s (commonly accepted) definition changes over time. While slippage can cause problems, it also opens words and literary works up for reinterpretation. I plan to arrange the word “art,” its roots, and the words etymologically related to it on a 2D space. I haven’t boiled down the idea further than that so far, so any suggestions would be appreciated.
Final Project Proposal
I am thinking of designing a book cover for my final project. One things I like drawing is anime and I'm going to use the anime characters that I've already made to make a anime book. I'm thinking of drawing it first and get it colored by using photoshop to emphasize it.
Susana Ortega- example of material alchemy
These sculptures were done with recycled materials by Sayaka Kajita Ganz who is a Japanese sculptor.
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