santa amanda

taken on photobooth

can't stop for tea

MUAHAHA gesso'd the monsterr. knocked this sucker out in approximately 30 mins heh. 5'x3' i believe but i'll have to recheck measurements. how will i bring this home? meh i have to start making up the 'sequences' which i decided i am going to 'divide' the painting into. they're not going to be distinct separations but will resemble the approach i use in my sketchbook which is basically comprised of different motifs, themes, images, etc. combined and composed on a single plane. my idea is to take personal experiences, abstract them and somehow relate it on one canvas. these images will be taken from dreams and ideas that are present in my life right now. my vision for the painting is similar to that of a symbolist painting..many allegorical things possibly referential to greek mythology? gah i have so many ideas brewing in my brain! there are going to be bright colors and tromp l'oeil elements as well! more later.

alright so basically i had my studio today at main line art..went alright i think. wasn't expecting to use acrylics but i think it turned out okay. this is just a snippet from the painting which i think is actually 7"x17". these photobooth pictures are killing me! you can't see anything..it's a wonder i even bother to take them. it's just so convenient!
anyway i promised myself that i was actually going to make that large canvas my baby instead of approach/avoidance-ing the shittt out of it. so tomorrow i think i am going to bring it home and start crackin' on it. i think i might need to strap it to the roof of mother's car. i really need to start nailing down ideas for the painting. i also need to make a timeline. i just don't think now is the time because it's 12am. and i need to do other things, unfortunately. gah i am so exhausted

pierrot

so i started this blog to motivate me to be more productive. i guess i'll post some of my sketchbook pages, progress on larger projects, ideas, and ramblings! it's really important that i keep working and producing so we'll see how this goes. for now here's a photo booth shot of a shnookums-painting i've been working on for the past few hours (it ain't done!):
i know the face is kind of strange-looking..the nose looks broken, the eyebrows, the lips, everything is just kind of odd. i also think i am going to add some sort of concept element to this li'l portrait thing..don't ask me what exactly that means i just want to spice it up somehow. for some reason it reminds me of a sad clown or harlequin or something

look at my sophisticated workspace..cewt panera cup

this was a progress shot of a piece of a piece for our class' holocaust assignment. i ended up adding an element of fiber-work and presented it in a distressed picture frame..i am a little upset/displeased that these pieces won't be in the senior show in may because they're going to be sent to a different gallery. everyone's in my class was fantastic! oh well

let's see, i have:
the large charcoal on rag that has already been in the isc show
the pastel seashells? i don't know about those i don't really like them
anything from kassem's class, probably the cinnamon-eyed man and anything else i feel like
self-portrait in yellow and gray
boring still life from class (yellow vase, blue bottle)
stuff from over the summer, like the shnookums paintings of the boots and denim shorts
first oil painting (tea kettle, orange and blue fabric)
thing i'm workin on in classsss (large shnookums with piercey)
possibly photo painting of lauren? if i finish it?
three-dimensional work? talk to ceramics teacher about shnookumzing around the studio

i thiiink that's all the 'work' i have. add sketchbooks to the bubbling cauldron and stirrrrr good.

YAY i want to do a post like this almost every day!