Art, Yo.

Angelica Schay

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After MUCH trial and error– they’re not perfect which it what I was tying to achieve. Silly me, right? This my daily practice turn out. It turns out I don’t like using just complete pallet knives to paint a painting, so you’ll see I I didn’t completely stick to my original idea. But I enjoyed it nonetheless. Thanks guys!

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Chromophobia

“No longer intoxicating, narcotic or orgasmic, colour is learned' ordered, subordinated and tamed. Broken” (Chromophobia pg. 49). Just this one line had me thinking like crazy. Colors are a learned thing and have they changed through history? Is our primary green the same as the 1700’s primary green? The idea that it is broken though has me a little flustered. We evolve, and though the way we perceive and teach color and how that pertains to artwork, changes as well. So the idea that what we are passing on to our next generation is somehow “broken” has me questioning do I believe the writer or not. This could be because I grew up believing that green was green and blue was blue just like many of my peers have and have known nothing but these colors and cannot imagen any more than I know. I have many friends who are colorblind and this is even more interesting to me because are these people who are either missing color rods or some are not working, do they see colors I cannot? This was a very interesting read.

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Everything Sings

I don’t think about maps, in fact I use google maps to tell me where to go and it just speaks the directions, I don’t read it. This is probably why I’m horrible with directions and I wonder what it would be like to understand maps. I think maps are beautiful and there are so many ways to create them depending what you are mapping; and with, “Everything Sings” it becomes increasingly clear that that here is an exciting and remarkable mind at work which seeks to challenge the reader to reconsider not just what can be done with a map, but to reconsider the entire definition of a map as we know it. My friend actually makes maps for Dungeons and Dragons and he makes very indicate creative worlds that we as characters get to explore and experience for the very first time and it is really an interesting experience.  Sort of like the, “new atlas,” in Everything Sings we as character in a fictional game get to explore a new world and map.

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What a beautiful turn out! Loving how the only color are the tea bags! How lovely 😊

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Tricycle

Looking at this piece of work I couldn’t help but think child abuse. The longer I looked the more intense the piece became because the more you noticed the little things such as the way the ropes were tied, and how the different parts of the tricycle represented a child’s body, or the pearl necklace, the more horrific it became. These details were so carefully thought out to make a horrifying but truthful piece that I could not look away from. Not only those details but the tricycle parts were dirty and you could see the most handled pieces—which it even more horrifying. Though I don’t think I’m going to relate my concept art piece to child abuse, I would love to see other foundation artist connect to this piece because it is so powerful. I think the part that really caught my attention was the fact that the child was represented by something that all children use. That abuse can happen to anyone—its just a matter of what situation you were born into. Not only that but toys are bought by either family members or family friends, someone close to the child and that is the reality of child abuse. It is rarely stranger danger that hurts children, it is a predator in the family or close to the family. What does one do then? How does a child cope? The innocence in the piece was so clear and the childs pain rang through and I connected to the piece so much that it brought tears to my eyes.

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Citrus 🍊

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Final Paper dress!

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Place I didn't know existed

Borough Market, London

The Borough Market is the oldest market in London and is located in Southwark. People who have accents, but are not American, tend to say it like “Suss-ex”. William Shakespeare himself use to spend his free time there when taking time from his works. There are individual venders there and if you wanted to wonder to each one it would most likely take hours, maybe even all day. Venders sale everything ranging from freshly killed meats and farm fresh produce to, al a carts style food. Not only that, but handmade clothing to small batch alcohols. Venders are really into gin, so a large portion of the venders tend to sell gin. Many say that the environment is really inviting and the people there are very friendly and will sit and talk to you for hours and tell you their whole life stories. It is directly located next to the biggest cathedral in London and the Tate Modern is about a fifteen walk away. There is a train bridge that goes over it and a handmade canopy that covers the market as well.

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I finished my project and I am not that happy with my results, but I really appreciate Jason Walkers view on art and his pieces and how thought provoking they are.  

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Telling my roommate about my project ;)

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Jason walker sculpts relating to the idea that our society is taking over nature and we forget just how much the natural world is around us. He incorporates a very whole concept in very delicate pieces and it inspired me to make my own interpretation of how nature will consume our society once we have left it.

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End product for collaborations!

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Where did all my space go?

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This weeks progress– not exactly what I was going for but I’m working it out.

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Writing little notes to people ❤️

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Daily Project

My fist idea was to create one painting over the entirety of the term. This would allow me to spend more time on one single painting over the course of days rather then create one in one sitting, thus making six paintings in one week. But, when I started working on this project, I noticed that I'm horrible at waiting to finish a painting. I just want to keep going, and not waste the paint I just laid out. So, instead of making one painting over the course of the term, I will work on a painting until it is done and start on the next one. I don't know how many there will be by the end but there will be enough. Also, I will not use brushes. I'm going to practice using only palette knifes to create pieces, which will exclusively be images of nature. I hope this helps me develop the skill to take my time instead of rushing through a piece and not only that but as well as make my palette knife skills increase. I also will sketch and plan a painting before I make it because I normally don't do that, and when I research artists they advise to plan. This, in turn, will make me a better painter, at least I hope so. If not, I gained the skill to be patient when it comes to art.

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The fist picture is the sketch I made yesterday of the waterfall and of my thought process. The second is the start of the waterfall. This is gonna be harder then I thought.