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Over this past year, I feel as though I have grown immensely as an artist. Starting with the drawing unit, I learned the importance of confident, energetic mark-making and learned to live with my mistakes. Although I am not exceptionally gifted with drawing, I had some important takeaways in terms of consistency, and my coordination improved significantly between my artist copy and my self-portrait drawing. Drawing will prove to be an invaluable skill in art 4 as I plan and d

This project is very out of my comfort zone. As someone who has mainly created objective works from a reference or at the very least from memory, I have never really tried to paint non-objectively. During the paths to abstraction, I struggled with creating marks that looked visually appealing, so I came into this painting with optimistic yet realistic expectations. Making the painting, my colors immediately got really muddy, which disappointed me, but the interactions betwee

"TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE" 2019, Dan Lam The contemporary artist I found for this post was the contemporary sculptor, Dan Lam. She creates colorful, drippy sculptures out of acrylic, foam, and resin. Inspired by nature and the human body, she tries to push the medium of polyurethane foam. When I first saw her work, I was captivated by its smooth yet spiky texture and vibrant, smooth colors. Her being able to get such a smooth gradient is very impressive to me, and I love how org

I don't really know why I chose this job to be the one I research, except for the fact I find it cool and niche. Being a flower arranger basically entails having a good sense of form and color to create designs out of flowers for displays, events, and facilities. This could be done with either artificial or live flowers, and takes a good eye for composition. The duties of an arranger include designing an arrangement, meeting with clients to understand their needs, procuring

Hi, it's been a moment. Let' check in on the oil painting I've been working on. Basically, I have been glazing it for the past few weeks, and have slowly moved into thicker, more opaque paint mixtures. The underpainting is basically MIA at this point, so I am relying on my own mixing skills and observation at this point. While there are some proportion issues I wish I could have sorted out earlier, we are past the point of no return. It's been fun, I've enjoyed painting and o

Sorry about the poor image quality first of all, my phone camera's been unhappy lately. Anyways, great progress has been made on this project over the past week! I finally got my background values darker and I even began using white for my details. I really enjoyed painting the tulle and the ballerina using small white lines and dots to imply form. it was a cool puzzle to solve. Hopefully, Monday of next week I will be able to start using color and glazing. The most frustrat

As the title of this blog would suggest, I've been, as the kids would say, "crashing out." Although my soul is telling me to do very thin, runny layers of black paint for grisaille underpainting, that's clearly not been working. Also, the composition changed slightly, in case you couldn't notice. Over time, I have slowly been getting over my fear of using dark colors, and in the future I will actually use darker values. Additionally, I am still working out how the box should

The latest art project we have been working on in class is theme-based oil painting. However, before you can oil paint, you regrettably need to find a subject (disgusting, I know :/). The theme I have chosen for my project is "superficial femininity." Although this is an abstract theme-based piece, it also hits home for me and my identity. In the past, long before the name Theo was so ungraciously given to me by a series of unfortunately nerdy coincidences, I tried to be the

Over the past few weeks, I have been working on a self-portrait sculpture using clay, and it has really begun to take shape over the hours I have worked on it. Going through the process, I have learned a lot about the sculpting process and gained a newfound love for working with clay. Generally, my hands aren't very good at regulating applied pressure, so I have found ways to work around that issue. One such way is using silicone brushes to help myself get into small crevices

Over the last few weeks, I have been working on an artist copy of "An Angel" by Bartolomeo Passarotti. Let's just say it has been incredibly frustrating and has led me to question my art abilities. There have been many issues, but among them are the following highlights: Issues with materials - due to the nature of inks and their respective pens, there are all sorts of struggles with flow, bleeding, and even the color of the ink itself. Much of this has been remedied through