I notice...

From the Gallery at UW-Stout

I notice assignment for Life Drawing II class.

I notice...
-a spider hanging down into the water by a boat
-old Japanese style painting
-waves

Bone Drawing from Life Drawing II class

Bone Drawing!

Here's a recent drawing from my life drawing 2 class with instructor, Amy Fitcher. Okay, to be honest, I don't have a camera. So instead, I used the web cam on my lab top. I will try to get a hold of a camera by the end of the week and post up a new picture of this one. Enjoy!

Check this book out!

"Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life"
George Bridgman
Editor: Howard Simon

This is a GREAT book that I ran into and picked up! It's prefect if you would like to learn more about the human anatomy. It's got just about everything you need to know about all parts of the body. I'm going through this book little at a time. Picking up tips and tricks where ever I can. Go to your local library and check it out. It's prefect to what I am learning right now in my Life Drawing II class at college and it's great for other independent studies of other areas that you may have trouble with.

Artworks Again

Title: "Letter Form Designs" 2007
Media: Print on Card Stock paper
Description: Letters to form designs
Artist's thoughts: So this was one of my Graphic Design project that most of my colleague have done as well. The objective was to create sets of designs to express an emotion using letters. I really had a hard time doing this project and a lot of researching of design and how it relates to emotions. The end process, I used a black matting board with red paper as my cover. To bring out the red in the center, I thought I would off set the color by using a darker green as my binder.

More works from Stout

Title: "Frozen Motion" 2006
Media: Wood w/oil polish
Description: Movement in 3D form.
Artist's thoughts: When I thought of movement in 3D space, I thought of the human figure/form. To be honest, I thought back to the Greeks and Roman sculptures, the classic antiquity style of appreciation of the human body. However, we were working with wood piece and I didn't want to mimic the sculptures too much. So I decided on an abstract form, in this case a female form for a change. In the work, I have five different layers. (Not including the radical hair that sprouts up to mid-air). Each layers therefore works to bring 3D to the form. Bringing out the figures legs and arm while the head remains behind the shoulders. This work can also be viewed from behind in the same sense.

Some of my artworks at Stout

Title: Space in Time
Media: Color toothpicks w/phone ball and fishing wire
Description: Out of the Box concept. To show space and volume in a 3-dimensional representation.
Artist thoughts: When I was deciding what I should do to show space and volume, I didn't know where to start. I remember thinking to myself the night before class when our ideation were due, that I wanted my form to be chaotic and somewhat corrupt. (kind of like time) I started looking at works from Cornelia Parker. One in particular was her work titled "Anti Mass." Her work was the inspiration and ultimately the result of my work "Space in Time." I guess you can't see it well on this image, but the other side of the cube is broken and has the feeling that it has collapsed or started to deteriorate. The toothpicks there then looks chaotic, but at the same time, draws viewer's eyes into the broken section.