Recent Pics of Recent Projects

02/10/2012

Recently I almost tossed out the backing of a large sketch pad and I thought I should find a use for the spiral/
All of the sudden I had an idea to use it to hang necklaces. So, I just pinned it and its worked ever since.
And of course I organize them by color!

Last weekend I won first place at the Excellent in Printmaking exhibit at the Washington Printmakers Gallery!
Four of my prints are in the show that is there for the month of February!

On a completely different note more to myself, if this kind of thing ever happens again I should take off my coat and put down my purse.
And lose forty pounds but that's another thing all together I'm trying to do before grad school, if I make it, that is. 

A re-shoot of some of my work for grad applications. That's a bunch of print outs of my work on the table I was using to figure out the order of presentation for my portfolio slides.

I used this kind of sectional frame for the first time. For that larger piece in particular I was nervous that it was too flimsy once it had the mat and glass in it, however, I don't expect it to fall apart any time soon.

I got a print rack for Christmas, which I have turned mostly into a blank canvas rack.
I also got that sweet polka dot robe for Christmas, too! Win!

During a visit from my boyfriend a month or two ago, I started this drawing of him.

Naturally I took pictures of the piece along the way to see the progress!
Sometimes I feel as though using photographs is cheating.

But then again I don't really think it's cheating too much. It's a tool.
Although, there is that danger that it will look too much like a photograph...

Well, I made a few more changes after this state, but this is practically it.

I did my best to leave lots of markmaking to make it distinct from a kind of photographic copy of any kind. It's more fun to make that way anyway, aside from the expressive autographic or calligraphic kind of qualities.

Also, I know, the chair is super uneven, but I kind of saw it that way.

While I made many self portraits  in college, I discovered my eyes are uneven. And if I close one eye, then switch to use just the other, everything shifts diagonally. And I see color slightly differently.
That may be why I kind of see space differently and have a bothersome time with drawing in-proportion, on top of my astigmatism.

While cleaning out my room two to three weeks ago, I found my first woodcut from High School!
The week before I had found the HS orchestra t-shirt design based on this, too!
And then I proceeded to pull my back muscles by carrying that full box beneath it from my room to my basement, and couldn't really move for about a week!