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Matisse: head fell off

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Artist Talk # 1 (Suzanne Schireson and Craig Hood)

So today I was excited to go to my first artist talk ever! I know that is completely bad of me especially because I am an art studio major but life gets so busy sometimes. Anyway I learned a lot at this artist talk and found it surprisingly inspiring. I was surprised that I found it so inspiring because i had already walked through the museum and seen all the work but I didn't realize how different and eye opening it is to hear the artist talk about his or her work.

Particularly hearing Suzanne Schireson talk about her work was inspiring to me. Something particular that was so fascinating to me is that it really seemed that the group of paints and the individual paintings really represented a part of her life. Like how she was naming her paintings after an books that she was reading I think it was Moby Dick and she titled her work after a singers song but it was her interpretation of the tittle not the artist. Suzanne talked about her friends or what seemed to be mentors and how they have affected her work. For example she talked about how one of her older friends was so appalled by a color pink. There was a group of hot pink flowers and Suzanne's friend claimed that it made the flower bed look unbalanced. Something as simple as this mad Suzanne inspired to create a whole painting around this color.  I found it interesting the way that she said she uses portrait paintings as kind of her home base to center herself and bring her back to a place where she was comfortable. I enjoyed hearing her talk about how she planned the composition of her paintings and what she was looking at when she was creating them. I like how her paintings consistently had her self in them it added a unity to her work. I am an art major as I mentioned and painting/ drawing is my concentration I have a hard time choosing between the two.  However painting is a love of mine it grabs me and reels me in particularly life like paintings like Suzanne's.

Although I do have a soft spot for crisp realistic paintings I was taken back by me interest for Craig Hoods paintings. They had a sort of quality to them that was unique and beautiful. They had a sort of peaceful quiet message to them with big stories behind them i feel like. I liked the unity of tone in his paintings. I also loved drawings i found it so interesting that he had such trouble them them before because of a simple task like erasing and when he found a new tool that fixed the problem that the crisp eraser gave him it opened up a whole new world of drawing to him and he fell in love with drawing all over again.That just proved to me that you have to have an open mind and keep at whatever is frustrating you. Suzanne also talked about using different tools to make curtain marks on her paintings. That just proves to me that that is what being an artist is. It is having an open mind and that there really is no rules you make your own and you constantly strive for goals that you make yourself weather it is to stay inspired like Suzanne's or to accomplish a simple drawing technique like erasing the right way in oder to fall in love with drawing again like Craig's.

Unfortunately I did not have time to stay for the last artist that was scheduled to talk but I took a lot away from the two artist that I did get to hear talk about their work. I was greatly inspired by what they both had to say and learned a lot of what challenges is to look forward to as an artist.

Scavenger Hun in class assigment

M 1/4000 F 5.6 IOS 400

A 1/320 F5.6 IOS 1600

A 1/640 F5.6 IOS 1600

Homework # 6: one color: Yellow Yellow Yellow

This homework assignment we had to take photographs off one color in different lighting, outdoors and in doors and more. I chose the color yellow it is my favorite! Here are my favorite two.

Just for fun. couldn't stop myself from Posting dog pictures

 I know we are not supposed to take pictures of dogs however I can not stop myself from posting these. I was home this weekend and did some experimenting with taking pictures of my dogs here they are just for fun even if it is breaking the rules.

Homework # 5 Time of Day/Type of Life (IOS 100, different times of day)

This was the part where we had a subject and had to take pictures of it at different times of day. These ones are just night time and afternoon. I plan to do the morning pictures tomorrow and post them then. It was my first time smashing a pumpkin it was pretty fun. 

Homework # 5 Time of Day/Type of Life

I posted a couple of each of the categories of city, suburban and rural. I think I like the rural ones the best because of how they came out and because i was more inspired by it at the time. I tried to do more simple subjects that gave the feel of a city or a suburban life style. Hope they are ok!

j

White balance homework # 4

This was the first time I have ever messed with the White balance setting on my camera. I found it a little frustrating because I felt like I didn't get the best pictures. However I did grasp an understanding of this setting that I didn't have any of before.

Water fountain four x four assignment

I liked this class assignment alot. It took me a bit to warm up and get creative with it but once i did it was more interesting than i thought. sometimes i really enjoy working limitedly. 

2 Favorite Scan posts

MichelleKristen

These two are my favorite scan posts from other students because I think that they are unique. Kristen's scan is something I have never seen before and I feel that I would never be able to think of or know how to do. I like michelle's because it reminded me of outer space and that it gives the illusion that everything is flying. 

Scanning Project of a Self Portrait Homework #3

This homework assignment was very interesting and challenging for me. It was challenging because I had a very hard time thinking of what to do for a self portrait for myself. I am used to and have done many self portraits in drawing and painting. I feel that with drawing and painting that there are so many other elements involved such as your brush stroke or color choices etc. that can make a difference. When using a scanner it really felt all about composition and objects to me anyway. The was my first time using a scanner like this and I didn't think I would like it very much but I actually enjoyed it a lot once I got in the swing of things I had a hard time stopping. These scans came out a little more moody than I thought that they would but then I started to like it and just went with it. 

-J

2 Favorite Kitchen shots Homework #2

This Kitchen project I have to admit I wasn't as inspired by and I think it was simply because I didn't really have a kitchen to work with. I had to use a kitchen that was in my door that was very dirty and not really in use which i think made my pictures more grubby looking. However by having a lack of a kitchen i think that it pushed me to take pictures of things that i would not normally have taken pictures of. I didn't really pose the objects or set up still life's i just tied to capture them how they were. 

6 From The Golden mean Project

Class portraits contact sheet

I defiantly didn't get everyone. Sorry.