Things to keep busy with

School has a lot of them, don't you know.

The spring semester of Foundations is split into three workshops, and I was in a couple called Figure Drawing, Color Abstraction, and my current and final workshop is Shrinkstallation. I think my work's generally improved since the fall.

Three pieces from my Figure Drawing class, from January through February.

 Figure Drawing involved a lot of steady work and practice. I felt pretty good about it towards the end, and apparently I got one of the higher grades in the class.

Having some fun with my feet.

The three paintings in the center and the scales and spectrum next to it are my work.

My color abstraction final - a palette and painting based on a particular 4-part sound.

Color Abstraction was an interesting one, and I learned a lot about mixing colors and paints. Unfortunately it's not something I want to experience again, because it burned a huge hole in my funds for paint supplies.

My building model, in progress.

My final workshop involves making a to-scale model of an actual location, and then creating a public artwork proposal to place in it. I chose the abandoned Michigan Central Station as my location, and it's still in progress. The artwork proposal will involve some figures inside.

Semester ends on May 11th and it's been quite an interesting year. All of my professors have been really awesome and I'm looking forward to start working with my specific major in the fall. Plus, apartment hunting. Woo!

End of Fall Foundations

Well, we finally got our foundations class exhibit up and running! It's running all weekend, and we're all displaying pieces from our finals - an exploration of transforming the human body.

My final project, a series showing different parts of the body transformed with pop bottles and labels, and three studies from beforehand.

Myself next to my final project display.

A fair number of people showed up for the first exhibition night!

The various studies we did before the final project, displayed on the front panel of the entrance.

An Altered Reality

Just a little snippet from my Foundations final. This was one of my favorite images out of a set of six I did - each showing a transformation of a different part of the body. Yes, it was as annoying to set up as it looks. I had to settle to do it in parts, as pop bottles are really hard to work with to get to stay together. I'm really happy with how these turned out, though!

We're a way the universe expresses itself.

A little spin on the quote by Carl Sagan in Cosmos, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

A project about a writing we made on "creativity," the idea was to condense the message and fit it on a large slab of cardboard. Most people spray-painted, I covered the cardboard in paper and used colored pencils and India ink. It was tedious, but the results were worth it, and nobody's banner really looked like mine. Whether or not that's a good thing... well, that's up to the viewer, I guess.


I took the pictures on top of my bed... yeah, classy!

If you find it hard to read, it says "We are human. We are a way the universe expresses itself."