Gallopering

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

May 27th 2010

With my moms smallest drill bit, I embellished the results of my sugar craving. After eating all these dates, I kept their seeds and strung them onto some embroidery thread. I made this because I've been working to look like I really want. I took my habits and surrounding materials and transformed them into something practical and beautiful. Its the very very beginning of SO much from me. I've also found multiple used really interesting. How that relates to this, is that I've been using it as a necklace and a headband. I'm just waiting to find more uses. I guess this paragraph was just as much of a statement of intent than a reflection on what I've made.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

May 30th 2010

This was drawn with pencil. When you click on the picture, it goes to its original size.
The part that I am happiest with is that the position of the people are reflected in shapes below, the peoples objective, and the detail of the people. Their objective shows my own for the summer. I want to be able to do handstands and I want to get freckles in my armpits. If the viewer is able to look close, there are speckles in the armpits. As I try to boost myself up in the air, I find myself hesitating because of the fall back down. I unintentionally made the people hesitating but I'm pleased with how it did turn out because I think it shows my own position in the beginning of this summer and goals. I didn't really decide whether it was actually one person stuck in the process of the handstand or if it is many people in a row at different places in the process of the handstand. I prefer the second just because its more of a collective yet everyone is focused on their own ideal ordeal. The people have so much more detail than they had in my past drawings. I am happy continuing on the body structure and detail still.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

southeastedge

This drawing encouraged me to work with height more. This drawing was used for the background of a poster for a benefit we were holding at the school. I need to work on the human figures and how they move, not just profile drawings. Here, most of the figures have the same back leg position which doesn't help it them to look like they are creeping up, but more just hanging around looking for bugs in the cracks of the rocks (which isn't bad but I intended it to have more motion). I'd also like to have more going on. It would be great to add more drawings to it, along the side for instance. It would create more of a story but still, this is probably the most attractive trait of this drawing to me because it encourages stories so well.

Sketchbook, beginning of May

My favorite is the little catman. He has a choppy and scratchy meow, mew, mow.
Texture Texture. I hope to expand on that and detail. Freckles and wrinkles are the most comfortable yet challenging to draw. Well, I suppose that not drawing them makes it harder because I have to pay more attention to the basic shapes and shadings so that it will look full and finished even without them. Both the people were pictures from library books. A book on Julia Margaret Cameron provides profile pictures that im very attracted to draw. I prefer to draw elderly so working off her photos provides a new practice for me of drawing youthful people.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Stay under the tent (statement of intent)

I aim to use as many textures as possible. Recently I've been wearing my magnifying glass around my neck in search for textures that we would not normally see and have also been paying attention to the small strip drawings in children's books at the beginning or end of each chapter which has encouraged me to add boarders around the drawings. These are the sorts of small accenting drawings I plan on creating. Some more things I plan on practicing though my drawings, collages, contrast (to help understand the middle grounds of light and dark), still life, and most importantly, will be practicing the basic human figure (in the form of Native North American clowns).