accumulation: week 13

When I went home to Florida this weekend, my mom had two bags of buttons waiting for me! haha

she's so thoughtful, and a lot of help.

Im beginning to be satisfied on the amount of buttons that I am accumulating. I know that I want to make a sculpture out of buttons, but im not really sure what to make. As in, what could I make that would have a significant amount of meaning behind it. I'll come up with something when that time comes...

the michaelangelo of noda: amazing!

First of all, his house was adorable, I wish that one day my house will somehow look similiar to that house. It was very colorful adn cozy and full of artwork. I could totally live in such an environment. And also, the area that he lived in was completely adorable as well, there were the coolest shops just around the corner, how convenient!

Anyways, concerning his artwork, I absolutely loved his style. It was very texturized and I loved how he blended all teh colors, he used such a wide variety. I also adored his home studio. It was such a nice atmosphere, with the paint scattered everywhere and unfinished paintings and cool music playing in the background. Very modern artist. I liked how he had a lot of his sketches hanging all over the walls. It was neat comparing his sketches to his finished product. His painting style is definitely good, I loved it. It was very van gogh-esque I thought. That was my initial thoughts after viewing his paintings.

Furthermore, his mural on the floors of Noda were phenomenal. I can't even imagine how long that must have taken and the labor and patience and talent! I was so impressed. I dont think I could ever do such a task, it'd be too overwhelming. I just can't picture working on the same project for a period of months!

the rest of the projects

So we saw the rest of the classes projects last tuesday and once again, I enjoyed it. I always like listening to how the other students interpret eachothers work and then comparing their thoughts to the actual intended meaning of the artist. Interpretation varies amongst everyone, it shows individuality, personility. It's a good identifying factor.

anyways, i was glad to finally present my project and get it over with, im glad the sound accompaniment worked. I was afraid it wouldnt and then my project would be so different, mainly just boring without the sound. This is the first project that I presented that I felt somewhat confident about, I hated my other projects, they were far from what I had wanted. So overall, a success.

Im starting to brainstorm for out third project and im having a lot harder time with this project then the others, concerning coming up with ideas....

accumulation: week 12

So I went out and bought buttons. As much as it killed me to spend my money on buying buttons, of all things, it was nice to add to my collection. I feel that I am beginning to have a decent amount for my project. My goal is to at least have 5 thousand by the end. Let's see if I can do it.

yay, projects!

So we got to view about half of our classes projects and once again, I enjoyed it. I wanted to present mine but I always chicken out. haha. And Im still unsure if my project will work on her computer, I really Really hope that the song plays!! Or else my project will be super lame and boring and borderline gay. Anyways, I liked the project that combined two music styles from different times. I thought that was very creative and simple yet had a lot of meaning behind it. Also, I thought the finished piece sounded cool, made me want to dance.

Another one I liked was the one that used fruit on canvas. I saw the movie across the universe and despite how most reacted to the movie, I loved it and I do remember the part where jude flipped out and made fruit art. It was a pretty cool scene and it made me want to go out and do the same thing!

missed class

So I looked up artists in the magazine that MAlena gave us and found two artists that caught my attention.

One artist that I found was ELIZABETH MURRAY and specifically her piece called The sun and the Moon. The piece is very vibrant and bold, full of energy. It has a very comic book/cartoon feel to it and I like that about it. It uses a wide variety of bold lines and bright vivid colors. I LOVE all of the colors she used in this piece. I also enjoy how she cut into the shape of the original canvas and created this irregular shape of a canvas. It reminds me of a piece that I recently did in 2D-Design where we used only a variety of black and white media and cut into the original shape of the canvas to create this new shape.

Her gallery is very colorful and energized. It looks almost like graffiti art, cartoonish. It's so much fun to look at and I would LOVE to have some of her artwork in my home. I feel that it would give off a positive vibe to my visitors and myself. Her work intrigued me! I choose her because I absolutely love color, color makes objects, life more beautiful, whether it be black and white or all teh colors of the rainbow at once. Also, her incorporation of the use of abstract shapes and lines, very geometric was captivating. It made her work bold, stick out. It was very dynamic and had so much to look at. It wasnt borng at all. That's why I chose her.

I plan on looking up some more of her work and probably using her for inspiration for my next project. I now want to use a variety of lines and bold vibrant colors for it but Im not sure how to incorporate time into that with a use of bold shapes.

Another artist that caught my attention is WILL RYMAN who makes sculptures. Of course, they aren't the normal sculptures; they aren't really eye appealing and don't look as if they require that much skill but when you take into consideration the media that he uses: resin, PVS pipe acrylic pipe, wire mesh and papier mache then you realize that the sculptures he makes do in fact require a good amount of skill since the materials he used aren't really the normal materials used to make sculptures. They look a bit like the playdough things I used to make as a kid but a little bit more skill oriented.

You can tell that he paid attention to detail; not with the people particularly but more with the trash standing next to the lamp post. I choose him because I've always been fascinated by sculpture but i've always been timid to actually try making sculpture. It had a nostalgic feel to it when I looked at his work, the whole playdough resemblence. I think that's what initially caught my attention.

accumulation: Week 11

So, I just got all the buttons my mom collected for me in the mail! Im so excited, there are so many, she said at least a hundred! yaayyyyy! I love my family, im so glad they're helping me out. I've just got too many things going on to be able to collect as many buttons as I would like on my own.