The Creepy Cool.

Rivet Gallery has been hosting some pretty sweet events. A short while back the hosted a visit and signing by Elizabeth McGrath to promote her new book release "Everything That Creeps".


(photo by Maxe)

Liz McGrath is a 3d-Illustrator who creates these very eerie characters and dark dioramas. Horribly interesting. I bought the book and have been slowly going through it, investigating all the details. She's super sweet and is even in a band called Miss Derringer. Kind of a punk-country thing going on. She played a show later on Campus but I didn't get to see it. Sounds pretty awesome tho.










Last weekend Rivet opened their new Curiosities-Group Show featuring New Works by Amanda Spayd, Jake Waldron, and J. Shea. All the work there was remarkable but I was particularly attracted to Amanda Spayd's creatures. She creates these plush figures with clay faces, uniquely detailed which such items as vintage porcelain teeth! They all seem to be so innocently creepy. Just check them out.








(this photo taken by the folks at Rivet)

Amanda was at the opening and I got to chat with her some. She was such a pleasure. Very approachable and open with talking about her work. I've met a few other artists and were real nice but seemed shy and not real talkative when it came to their art. It was very obvious with Amanda that she loved doing this. We had talked for a while. LOL I look now that Rivet's photos from the opening and all the photos of Miss Spayd are us us talking ;P

Make sure you check out the show going on through the rest of July at Rivet in the Short North!

Venus de Cocoa

Final assignment for 3d was to create a luxury item of our choice. I made a box of chocolates. 

Super Sculpey.
Acrylic paints.
Box made of a taken apart Whitman's Sampler and reassembled to my liking.
I made up the brand "Venus de Cocoa". Honestly stumbled into the actual box design. YaY! For winging it!

Yum.

Assignments.

The final result of my last 3d assignment. Take a cubism piece and recreate it in 3d using paper materials.  My artwork,  Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase No.2 

Made from mat board and hot glue. I fail at 3d anything so I'm pleasantly surprised with how this came out. 

This was due this past Thursday but class was cancelled so it's currently in the backseat of my car. Probably not the best place for it :/

I'm going to be strictly focus on school work these next few weeks. 

Or, as best I can that is. 

It's so easy to get behind here, staying on top of things is so important. 

I was behind on my paintings of Christopher for my Modulation project. I literally turned them in without a minute to spare. My teacher was packing up her things to leave her last class of the day as I came flying in. Miracle. 

I'll post finals after I get them back. 

Steel Cupcakes.

I was right about the busy weekend last post. My restaurant had it's highest sales on Saturday. 

I know my place is great but who waits almost 3 hours for a table somewhere? 

The art history exam went better than I thought. 78 B which means the tests were curved but, I'll take it! Have a paper due for that class next time.

Finished up the painting for Fundamentals of Painting. Just a simple still life, nothing magical. [Ignore the poor qualiy this photo, it's taken w/ my cell phone.]

This was my first time using oils, ever. I'm eager to master them because at the moment I hate them.  I can't manage them the way I'd like. I think I'm just too impatient for them.  I want to get back to my acrylics and master them first :P

TaDa! Wire figures!

Harder to make than you'd think.  

The subjects I made were a light bulb, my cell phone [sort of...], a cupcake, a sandwich without the top slice of bread, and a beanie baby bear. 

All the objects had to be make of steel wire and made by using a visual reference [nothing off the top of our head.]

The bear was the only one I truly like. It bobbles around because of it's spring like body. By the recommendation of a classmate, I might just use it as a bobble guy for my car, [whenever I get it working...]

Sandwich. What more do you want?
The cupcake.  It had one of those lil candy hearts on top of it. It was delicious.

I don't really want to go to class tonight.

Progression and Time Management...

It feels nice to actually feel productive. Not just working at the restaurant as a means to no obvious end. 

I have a few bigger projects already. For 3.D we have to make 5 objects out of steel wire. No idea what I plan on making. 

As well in Color Concepts we're starting our Border projects. For the assignment we have to create a design that shows directional movement and replicate it 3 times, each demonstrating:

A) extreme value contrast and subtle relationship of chroma, using blues

B) extreme contrast of chroma and subtle relationship of value, using primary yellow

C) extreme contrast of both value and contrast, using reds with black and white.

...did that go over your head a little? :\

I've got some sketches down, nothing finalized tho...