Studio Exploration: New Idea!

Deciding to go off of my old idea about what makes your space "your space", while conversing with a friend and trying to figure out how exactly to make this work - it finally hit me.

What I'm looking to do would be, at first, purely journalistic.  I would keep a daily journal about where I am, how I'm feeling, what I'm feeling and why.  How do I react to my environment?  What am I bringing to that space to help make myself more uncomfortable or what's possibly making it uncomfortable?

For each entry, I'd like to work small; do a number of 4"x6" cards (postcard size?) made of bristol board or some other card stock material, and do a piece to possibly put my feelings from that journal entry into physical, tangible art.  I could either display them in a scrap book with excerpts from the journal I keep or I thought about making some kind of clothes line display...could be different.

Albeit personal, I feel the best art always comes from personal experience and raw emotion.

Portfolio for Art Education Program

Academic Work:

Oakland Beach at Rye, NY

Promaster 2500PK Manual SLR

shot on Kodak TriX-400, printed on Ilford Pearl Finish paper

Soap box

Adobe Illustrator CS4

*can be printed, cut, and folded into a soap box!

"We Decide"

18"x24"; Conte crayon, black ribbon, and aluminum foil

Self portrait

18"x24"; Vine and compressed charcoal on vellum bristol

Self portrait as a zombie

17"x13"; Acrylic paint on canvas

Personal Work:

"Bohemian Rhapsody in Blue"

18"x24"; Chalk pastels on black paper

Gerard Way portrait

11"x14"; Watercolor paint and masking fluid on watercolor paper

Billy Idol portrait

2.5"x3.5"; India ink and Copic markers on bristol

Scott Pilgrim vs. The Undead

*fan art for a friend's birthday

9"x11"; India ink, Copic markers, and Prismacolor markers on sketchbook paper

"Hi-Lite" commission

*buyer asked for a commissioned drawing of a personal character

Adobe Photoshop CS4

Commissioned logo for Grave Yard Shift Studios

*freelance work commissioned by an artist for her personal website.

Adobe Illustrator CS4

Studio Exploration: TARDIS Sweet TARDIS

In all honesty, I haven't really thought about how I'd like to handle this project.  Having just recently moved up to Hyde Park after visiting friends for several years, this is now my home and I love it; I've affectionately nicknamed my new apartment the TARDIS (after the phone box Doctor Who is known to travel in which is bigger on the inside and is home to many of his traveling companions).  There are weekends when I'm asked to house sit back in Harrison while my mum's away to take care of the pets I couldn't bring to my apartment.  While I don't mind, I don't generally enjoy going home because of the grief I get from my extremely elderly great-gran, who makes me feel very unwelcome in my own house.


I'd love to hear some feedback or mostly just bounce ideas off of our small group if we talk about this - maybe exploring what makes your home "home".  Why does it feel so welcoming and what makes someone feel not-so-welcome?  How could I possibly interpret this into a piece?

Trimis & Savva Questions

The reading WAS intense, and a bit dense to work through, though I didn't have too many questions to really ask:

1.  It's mentioned on the second page that children have a small window of development when they are more receptive to learning things such as language, music, and art.  Do you think it's more beneficial to really play up not only language lessons but lessons in art and music to foster more creative thinkers as they get older?

2.  Is it important to continue activities that involve a student learning more about there chorotopos outside of the younger age range or would it be more up to the student to be seeking this information without aid from their teacher's activities?

3.   Should we as teachers implement more outside activities integrated into our lessons (such as trips to local parks, beaches, etc.) to encourage students to learn more about their environment but local community?

Artwork

I will admit, my personal work is vastly different from what I produce for school, seeing as I focus more on illustration in my spare time than I do what may consider to be "real art".  Illustration is real art, too.




School Work:

Contrast

17.5"x23.5"; Conte crayon

Music interpreted into art.

Dr. Steel's "We Decide"

18"x24"; Charcoal, conte crayon, black ribbon, aluminum foil

Self Portrait

18"x24"; Vine & compressed charcoal on bristol

Personal Work:

"Scott Pilgrim vs. The Undead"

Done for a friend's birthday; asked for Scott and Ramona fighting zombies

India ink, Copic and Prismacolor markers.

"Make love like time & space is ending"

I wanted more practice drawing couples. Fictional characters belonging to myself and my friend respectively.

Digital; Photoshop CS4

Billy Idol

I like to work small sometimes, so I'll do a lot of ACEO/ATCs. Here's one of Billy Idol from his "Idolize Me" album.

2.5"x3.5" bristol, India ink and Copic markers.

Group Work from 9/1

We only just started working and pulling our ideas together from our separate readings.  Though a lot of what we were writing down seemed to come as second nature or even more so, common sense when approaching different experiences in art education.  A lot of ideas I noticed overlapped with one another (basically saying the same thing or giving the same message).

I'm looking forward to seeing more of what we can bring to the table for our next class.  I felt a bit left out having not been able to bring my reading or have prepared due to the storm we got hit with.  Either way, I'll make up for it.