reminded me of serina

i was surfing the web looking at artists who use recycled materials in their work and i stumbled across this image:

I automatically thought of serina since she's got a lot of lightbulbs in her artwork! this is a really cute terrarium, and a creative way to recycle used lightbulbs. i didn't know that lightbulbs were not very good for the enviroment--its even illegal to throw out lightbulbs in some states!

here's a website that will explain things a little better... http://earthcaringart.com/?p=1048

interesting stuff! :) well now back to research.

eeehhh... i'm posting at least

lol okay, i am ridiculously horrible at updating this thing... :/ so i added it as one of my homepages so whenever i open the internet it will pop up and beg to be updated!

anyway, i took my infamous pidgey-dog on a walk tonight and decided to bring my camera along with me. i figured i'd kill two birds with one stone and exercise the dog while i did homework! i snapped a couple of shots of some trees in my neighborhood that i liked. it was getting dark and it gave me an idea to maybe incorporate lighting into my pieces as well. trees have a completely different feel and emotion at night so i'm thinking my pieces will do the same thing. lights on they look one way, lights off gives them a whole new spin. i'm still playing around with the idea since i just came up with it, but we'll see where it goes!!

speak: perpendicular and parallel to my life

has anyone ever read the book speak and/or seen the movie? its a pretty good book and i highly recommend it to everyone. the movie isn't half bad either considering kristen stewart plays the main character, melinda. her typical pained/blank expression worked for this role so i didn't mind her so much. haha. anyway!!! i won't give the story away, but melinda ends up taking an art class at her high school. her art teacher was this really cool hippy kind of guy who had the students draw lots out of a broken globe that had the subject their art would focus on for the year writen on them. let me just say that i wish my art teacher in high school was that awesome. i had some stuffy, stuck up lady who didn't let you think outside of the box whatsoever and actually the reason why i stoppped taking art classes until i got to college because i hated her class so much. anyway! melinda pulled out 'tree.' aaaaaaaand this is where my post starts to have any relivance to my senior sem work. :P

melinda argued that she already knew how to draw a tree and wanted to draw another lot. the teacher forced her to stick with the tree and in the end she had some killer works of art. i feel like melinda did at the beginning at the beginning of the story right now. i know what a tree is and what it looks like. but i've not been able to capture that life that they seem to have and so far my drawings can be compared to melinda's "circle with two lines as a trunk" tree. i'm starting to carry my camera around to take pictures of any tree that gives me inspiration. :) i'm even making a trip up to the yorktown battlefields tomorrow afternoon to get some really awesome pictures of the trees that are out there. still working at it.

oh, and on a side note i'm going to take my first stab at making my own paper here in a few days. i've still got to build a screen and get this one ingredient that escapes my mind right now, but after that i'll be in business. after the trial run i'll be able to figure out what i have to do differently then its mass production time so that i can have material to work with soon!! :D

senior sem. concept

ok. so we're supposed to post our concepts right? well, i've been wracking my brain with what i could do with horses and still have a pretty solid concept... well after what? several weeks i've managed to come up with absolutely nothing and a horrible headache...
therefore, i'm going to return to my original idea of recycling and reincarnation. :P a tree grows and is cut down, ending that life and brought back as a sheet of paper, beginning another. that sheet of paper is used then discarded, ending that life. I intend to continue the cycle by bringing new life to said discarded paper and bringing it back to the beginning again as a tree. these trees will then illustrate experiences from my own personal life and the relationship between civilization and nature and how the two work with and against each other.

rethinking my idea...

so i've been going to the barn a lot since i've been out of school and after spending so much time with the horses i've been getting really good ideas for sculptures and pictures and all kinds of art! i'm still uncertain as to where i might go with this, but i'm thinking i would be a lot happier doing something with a subject i am already very well educated in and have a real passion for. i've done a little digging on the web and found a few pieces of horses done out of paper (which is still the medium i'm going to be using) and i've been looking up the symbolism of horses in various cultures... anyway here are some pieces that i've found:


Pegasus by Polly Verity
Silver wire and acid-free tissue paper
6"x10"x2.5"

i absolutely love this piece! its elegant and delicate, but still has a hard look to it with its sharp angles and geometric cut outs. This is definitely not realistically accurate to a horse's anatomy, actually it looks more canine to me (greyhound anyone?) than anything else, but i'm still able to tell that it is a horse. actually i think that the extreme exaggeration is cool. it reminds me of how i used to draw anime characters way back when. :P i'd love to play with exaggerating the anatomy.




Horse Head Sculpture by Patience (no other name was given...)
paper mache' and acrylic paint
20"x12"

this guy was part of a series of 6 horse head sculptures. this one definitely shows more detail to what a horse is supposed to look like. i like the emotion on the face. haha, actually horses make the funniest faces sometimes so this piece really makes me smile. if i hadn't of been searching for paper sculptures i would have thought this was stone! i like how even though it is paper it looks like a completely different medium.

(http://www.ebsqart.com/Artists/cmd_690_profile_portfolio__2_4_G.htm)






Apollo by Heather Jansch
driftwood and bronze

ummm.... WOW!!! ok ok, i know its not paper, but i figure wood is close enough right? i think i've found a new favorite artist to add to my list! its almost crazy to think that that is not a real horse! i was fooled when i was searching through pictures. all of her pieces are life size and so realistic! she truly captures the beauty of a horse in motion. i would really like to incorporate this graceful movement into my pieces.

now that i've got some direction i'm hoping to develop a good solid thesis out of this. i'm going to look deeping into the symbolism of horses and will come up with something other than 'i like horses so i'm gonna make me some." which is what it is so far. haha :P

anyway, i hope everyone is having a great summer and is coming up with some killer ideas for senior sem. :D

first legit post

hey guys, so i did a little surfing on deviantart for a few minutes today and found these awesome paper roses. the artist, known as 'artaddict,' just used regular copy paper to make them too!

check out their page here: http://artaddict.deviantart.com/art/Paper-Roses-with-Alice-Text-80208054

they mentioned where they found out how to make the roses, so i'm going to try and dig that up later and see how it was done!! but first, it's time to study for exams. :P

it has begun...

so this is my blog for senior seminar next year!! this is where i will post ideas, research, sketches etc. over the summer. woo woo get excited because i am!!