My to do list for the week:
1) Finish at least three prints for my class by Wednesday
2) Hang out with mom at a free concert
3) Pay my rent
4) Get to work on time
5) Organize
Listen to Falling Into Reverie
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
It's Called Appropriation
My print teacher told me that to make me feel better about using lyrics of songs as jumping off points for my art work. "Nothing is original. Nothing is new," he said.
That being said I think I have figured out a concept for my portfolio/my body of work. Some might even say it could be a graduate thesis or something. I want my work to be about the place where words fail and images pick up the slack.
I feel like lyrics work very well because they are already examples of when words fail: lyrics are words accompanied by music. Some lyrics are so strong they evoke emotions and elaborate imaginative journeys. Those are the lyrics that I want to use to make my art work.
The first piece I'm working on is from a St. Vincent song. The lyric is "Your heart is a strange orange to peel." That evokes such a strong image to me and the sketch I drew up looks pretty cool. I just need to draw it up for real and get a color mapping going so I can begin the screenprint process.
I also wanted to do a four color separation. I haven't gotten a chance to do that yet but I think it is a really cool process. I just need to find a good image. I'm not really sure though. I need to listen to more music to get some inspiration.
On a completely unrelated note, I drove back to Columbia today after spending the weekend in KC. I had to be at work at 8:30 and I needed to go to my house first to put away some stuff. Well I was trying to hurry up and I stepped over a pile of mud but didn't quite make it. I slipped and busted my knees on the pavement outside of my apartment. My right knee was actively bleeding and I was cursing to myself as I gathered my things. I realized that I made a noise that sounded very much like R2D2. I said "Whoaa!" while I was falling to my knees' doom.
So yea...that was my Monday morning. Good times at the rodeo.
That being said I think I have figured out a concept for my portfolio/my body of work. Some might even say it could be a graduate thesis or something. I want my work to be about the place where words fail and images pick up the slack.
I feel like lyrics work very well because they are already examples of when words fail: lyrics are words accompanied by music. Some lyrics are so strong they evoke emotions and elaborate imaginative journeys. Those are the lyrics that I want to use to make my art work.
The first piece I'm working on is from a St. Vincent song. The lyric is "Your heart is a strange orange to peel." That evokes such a strong image to me and the sketch I drew up looks pretty cool. I just need to draw it up for real and get a color mapping going so I can begin the screenprint process.
I also wanted to do a four color separation. I haven't gotten a chance to do that yet but I think it is a really cool process. I just need to find a good image. I'm not really sure though. I need to listen to more music to get some inspiration.
On a completely unrelated note, I drove back to Columbia today after spending the weekend in KC. I had to be at work at 8:30 and I needed to go to my house first to put away some stuff. Well I was trying to hurry up and I stepped over a pile of mud but didn't quite make it. I slipped and busted my knees on the pavement outside of my apartment. My right knee was actively bleeding and I was cursing to myself as I gathered my things. I realized that I made a noise that sounded very much like R2D2. I said "Whoaa!" while I was falling to my knees' doom.
So yea...that was my Monday morning. Good times at the rodeo.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Obsession
So I graduated. I believe I mentioned this before. At the end of the semester (a scant three weeks ago) I was dying to continue serigraphy. I was searching for a way to continue my work, either somehow rigging up a studio in my apartment (yea, likely) or pulling money out my rear to take a summer class. Well, the VA forced me to continue the student route so I'm taking a summer print class. I was excited.
I am excited.
That being said, the class is starting on Monday. I'm nervous now. The desire to do serigraphy hasn't left me. I'm just slightly unsure about what I want to work on now. It matters in a completely different sense now. I don't need the credits to graduate. I have graduated. I am just doing it to work on my process. Now, though, I want to establish some kind of a body of work. I want to apply to the Pacific Northwest College of Art, mostly just to see if I can get in. I really can't afford to go there. But I want to know if I am good enough. Is that strange?
I'm trying to see if I can actually establish myself as an artist, in the traditional sense. I'm not exactly good at drawing; though, admittedly, I haven't exactly tried to be one. I've just made art to keep my sanity, for fun. But in this past semester, I believe I have found a medium that actually suits me.
I am in love with serigraphy. Seriously. If I could, I honestly think I'd marry it.
It's weird to think that I don't have to do homework anymore. I mean, not if I don't want to. But here I am, trying my hardest to get back into school. I won't say any kind of school-I've done the liberal arts thing. Not that it's not my cup of tea, I just think I might be ready for a more specialized route (hence the baking and pastry/art school business). That prospect also terrifies me.
How do people make a living these days anyway?
I am excited.
That being said, the class is starting on Monday. I'm nervous now. The desire to do serigraphy hasn't left me. I'm just slightly unsure about what I want to work on now. It matters in a completely different sense now. I don't need the credits to graduate. I have graduated. I am just doing it to work on my process. Now, though, I want to establish some kind of a body of work. I want to apply to the Pacific Northwest College of Art, mostly just to see if I can get in. I really can't afford to go there. But I want to know if I am good enough. Is that strange?
I'm trying to see if I can actually establish myself as an artist, in the traditional sense. I'm not exactly good at drawing; though, admittedly, I haven't exactly tried to be one. I've just made art to keep my sanity, for fun. But in this past semester, I believe I have found a medium that actually suits me.
I am in love with serigraphy. Seriously. If I could, I honestly think I'd marry it.
It's weird to think that I don't have to do homework anymore. I mean, not if I don't want to. But here I am, trying my hardest to get back into school. I won't say any kind of school-I've done the liberal arts thing. Not that it's not my cup of tea, I just think I might be ready for a more specialized route (hence the baking and pastry/art school business). That prospect also terrifies me.
How do people make a living these days anyway?
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