post.number.eight

This one's pretty plain and simple... I made this book from start to finish. Folding the paper, sewing it together, making the binding, creating the cover, and covering it with leather. Now if only I had something to write in it...

january.sixteenth.twothousandnine

These vessels are the six pieces that came out of my first time using a potter's wheel.

I really enjoyed it, and wish I could have spent more time practicing to make better pieces.

But for my first time, I think they turned out pretty well.

There's not a whole lot more to say about them, I think they're pretty self-explanatory.

However, the shorter brown and black one was a result of several accidents which I think makes it even more interesting.

post.number.six

This is an example of the kind of stuff we worked on in my Metal-smithing class. It was by far my least favorite project from that class. It took a lot of work and I admittedly did not spend as much time on it as I should have, but I'm okay with how it turned out. It is a raised vessel made from a hammered sheet of copper with acrylic paint and the stand is two more pieces of copper which are sandblasted and painted with acrylic which the bowl balances on and interlock at the bottom. They are not attached or secured in any way, which is an element that I threw together at the last minute to add some visual interest with the negative space that it creates.

post.number.five

This is a series of three paintings which was my second assignment in Painting II. We were required to do a series of at least 3 paintings that had a theme as well as challenged us in some way. I chose to challenge myself by limiting each panel to a different color straight from the tube since I usually like to dull down colors and I think it turned out pretty nicely... the orange one is not my favorite though.

The theme of these paintings is kind of "a weary traveler/far from home" and are designed to be hung together with the orange one in the middle, the purple to the left in line with the bottom half of the orange, and the green on the right in line with the top half of the orange.
This is because there is a layer on the both the purple and green paintings (of a lighter/transparent paint) that when stacked on top of each other, it creates the same image as the orange painting, an empty living room. I wish it was easier to explain as well as easier to see in these pictures, but it's a really faint layer.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, the purple image is a person sitting on the ground (their foot in the bottom right corner, resting their arm on a guitar with their hand hanging down). I think the other two images are self-explanatory, but if not, feel free to ask.

january.fifteenth.twothousandnine

These boxes were my next project in 3-D design. The assignment was to make an architectonic sculpture, using slabs of clay, with at least one removable/changeable piece. I chose to make three individual pieces that can be rearranged and stacked in many different ways for the movable element of the sculpture. I based my design off of some very interesting Japanese architecture as well as the work of Donald Judd.

post.number.three

This one's pretty simple - a still life. It was the first piece we worked on in my painting class and it was my first time painting on a stretched canvas, which I have grown to love. But in general, there's not a whole lot to say about this painting - a simple still life where I worked on using a variety of colors and directions of brush strokes as well as creating some sense of texture. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the brown arch is part of an old marching band tuba.

post.number.two

These are photos of my first project from 3-D Design. The assignment was to create a clay vessel (not on a wheel) that conveys a term such as love, anger, feminine, masculine, stability, and others based off of line drawings we had created the class before. I chose to work off of my drawing for love which was somewhat similar to ((())) where the parentheses increase in size as they travel out from the center. Based off this idea I chose to have the opening of the vessel be directed at the viewer instead of at the top and have the width of the vessel wave in and out to mimic the shape of my drawing. It's not really my best work with pottery, but it was my first piece at this scale.

january.fourteenth.twothousandnine

My hope is that I will be using this blog as a place where I can show everyone what I'm working on at school as well as in my free time. As an art major I have a lot of projects going on all at once and this past semester was a great example of this. So the next several posts are going to be what I accomplished this past semester (Fall 2008) in my three art classes: Painting II, 3-D Design, and Metalsmithing. But first, a piece I made yesterday as something quite fitting to the title of this blog "may.bee.knot" - just a simple silver necklace of four chains in two sizes with a heart-shaped celtic knot. Also I'm including a photo of the other necklace I made yesterday from the leftover chain with a breast-cancer awareness ribbon which I made in honor of my mom, a breast-cancer survivor.