72 Faces, final

There we go!

"73 Faces"
22x30
charcoal, colored pencil, pen, marker
August 2008

It's not a very good slide, but it was the better of the 2 I took. In the zoom you can see where I tried to blend an edge I accidentally made from fixing the colors... I'm not very adept at photoshop...

What a Day

So, today I turned in my 72 portraits. I don't have a final picture of it yet, but I will by the end of this week. I was all excited for a crit day, and then I remembered I love getting my work critiqued, but I'm not very good at talking about others' work. For every piece I tried to think of something to say, falling back on what I know about art not the execution. And I hate to say it, but some of the pieces turned in today were at about the level of incoming freshmen back at my high school. I feel so bad saying that, but I guess I really did turn into a snobby fartist...

Unfortunate things: We had to haul a ton of stuff to the class and only ended up using the newsprint pad and india ink. Very sucky. Then, we spent 45 minutes doing an assignment I'd already done back in 10th grade, and back then we spent about 15-20 minutes on those portraits! So I sat there for about half the time, hoping the instructor would come over and say something about the fact that I wasn't doing anything... but she never did. And for homework we have to do 2 self portraits in the same style as the class thing, but we're expected to spend a total of 6 hours on it! That's way too long for such a ridiculously easy assignment, so I'm setting myself up to take longer: I'm going to sew together pieces of canvas paper and do the portraits in oil paint. Hopefully that'll take close to 6 hours...

Yeah, she lost some teacher-points today...

I just needed to rant about that, even if this wasn't the most appropriate place to do so. I shall now go tell Shelley, as hopefully she'll feel my pain.

Also, as a side note, I feel like I should mention that this blog and the attached one [Hypnotized, my artist name blog] use words from a Millimeters Mercury song "Ace Aviatrix". Their website and the song itself.

Tied Together

So, the following pictures are from a Time Studio assignment, which was a kind of performance art thing where we paired up and spend 3 hours tied together at the waist. I was tied to Briana, and we started with our art history class [there are no images from that, as I didn't want to get in trouble for that...], then spent almost 2 hours walking around campus.



This is us in Starbucks, waiting for our drinks to be made.




Here we are in Monroe Park, next to the sprinklers!

This a possible-homeless guy, who we named Joe. He asked us why we were tied together and agreed to be in a picture if we paid him a dollar, cuz he was trying to get another box of cigarettes. At least he was honest about what the money would be for...We went to the Student Commons, looking for people who would ask us abut the rope. We got a girl from a sorority to take this pic.

We took a survey about working while in school, and these are the guys who were doing it. Taken by another girl taking the survey.
At the end of our 3 hours!
The clock at the end of it all...

Making Progress!

This is how it's going now with the 72 self-portraits. I've got one done, and the grid thing for the other 71. I'm very pleased with how it's turning out so far! I'm actually kinda excited for how this will all turn out. Not bad for the first serious drawing I've done in about a year and a half...

Busy Saturday

I had meant to work on my 72 self-portraits yesterday, as I only had FI and that was over around noon. But, seeings as I forgot my meds, I got super distracted by this lovely laptop and failed to get any real work done. I did get completely fed up with trying to find a cool template for this that would actually work...

So today, after Ces's parents leave, I really will get started on those. Because if I don't at least start them soon, I'll never get them done and I'll never get around to that 3-4 page diagnostic essay I have to write for FI. So! This WILL be a success and I WILL at least get the larger of the 72 portraits done and lay out the grid for the rest of them. Or else I will shoot myself.... or something like that...

Brand New Life!!

This is how sweet my Surface Research prof is.

Anyway...

This is me, at college. Aren't I awesome?!