catching up

june 16th
june 15th
june 15th (II)

awake again

photo of my twin, lauren.
reproduction in graphite (the scanner left out some softer marks...ugh.)

me and a cat?

live from lo.ue's room

i'm doing an entry now because i have updated pics of my chocolate bowl. the final presentation is pictured as follows: (i ended up scraping off some of the white chocolate on the inside...also added the rice crispies and spoon for an extra element of "food art")
i also wanted to take a picture from my little area of my studio space. i am really going to miss it. since i have to share a room at home, this was sort of something i called my own. i had to clean everything up, take all of my work home, and all of that kind of thing. when i heard about the art assignments for over the summer, though, i got really excited! they wiped away all of my sadness because they sound so awesome.

something i've been working on for one of my last projects, inspired by a poem by ramon lopez velarde called mi prima agueda

awake.

OBVIOUSLY i'm still awake. i finished (and started) my art final today after school. i had so many ideas because the topic was so broad--"food art." my ideas ranged from weaving pull 'n peel twizzlers to edible clay to decorated cakes...but i finally picked an idea i loved. i made a bowl (vessel) entirely out of semi-sweet and white chocolate. the pictures suck so i'm taking them down.

amalgam

i guess i would just say that these are a mixture of different sketchbook pages i've worked on over the last few days. none of them are stellar but here they are anyway
(1) me as a model
(2) wow, bine is veryyyy small
(3) mixtures of textures, etc.
(4) done before syracuse graduation

still undecided

i haven't had much time to update recently, since i've been focusing mostly on doing well on my sats and finishing up school stuff, but i figured i'd just post to keep the momentum going. i am still struggling about the colors of my statuette...nothing seems to look ri

ght. i don't know why, but here are two different colour combinations i've been bouncing between:

draft 1., "milky" color scheme
draft 2., brighter and bolder

i'm thinking of combining the hair from the second one with the skin from the first. i don't know though, i haven't had much time to deliberate. i've got to go to my math tutor now, though so... BYE!

alright, so i've decided to change the skin color yet again. i think i may have got it now--a milky complexion with darker hair...definitely a more dramatic look. here is a photo: (granted not a very good one...my camera has the habit of not being very true-to-color)

i don't know if i like it...i plan to add little daisies of some sort being sprinkled all over the curls. i don't know...or maybe a veil of some sort? i'm looking to add an additional design element, something. i don't know yet. i also want to mount it on some type of platform. i looked in the art room today and found nothing. luckily, we have class tomorrow for a very long time +2 free pds.

undecided

i am so tired right now, ah! i did these contours of animals from my ref book which is pretty good DK eyewitness you can never go wrong...anyway i went on this site during my art class i hope no one finds it that would be terrible. i was really pissed because my scanner was being very temperamental and since the sketches were done with such a hard pencil they barely showed. i have a few more sketches that i did yesterday from my book and i have realized that regular pencils are so much better to draw with than mechanical ones, i have no idea why this wasn't more obvious to me before? but here's the first page of the day.

the beaver is a little hard to see, as is the top of the pig. oh well.

the "undecided" part of the blog today is that i'm still not sure what colors i should paint the sculpture. i had this good idea of a very light aqua-colored skin with turquoise hair, but i don't know. i was thinking that since i just did something "realistic" with the sculpey that i would rather do something more fantastical. i'll think about it...more pics later.