Warmity

It's been a long and rough three weeks.

Progression of Deliciousness..

Overwhelmed! It's awesome and upsetting at the same time. Putting my schedule together for next semester. Tweaking a few extra details. The real issue though is finding a way to pay for it all next semester...

Went to the Tolstedt show the other day with Christopher and Katie. First off the gallery was far from your ordinary set up. This house in a quaint house in the German village. All the artwork was hung around the place as one would just hang art in their home. I kind of liked it in that setting. It really added to the whole feeling of the work. 

I have to say. Seeing the images I've posted here on my blog is NOTHING in comparrison to seeing these drawings live and right in front of you.

Most of his drawing are done in colored pencil but a few are drawn in Silverpoint [which we're going to learn starting tomorrow! *glee!*] Yeah, drawing with actual silver.

Also showing at Keny gallery was Ray Kleinlein who actually studied under Tolstedt. He does still life work as well but in oil. And he cakes that stuff on! Amazing though.

So now, my attempt. 

Here are some progress shots of the long, tightly rendered still life assignment for Drawing class. Cookies! done in prismacolor pencils.

Not completely finished yet. I'm actually finishing it up right now. Have a pre-portfolio review in class tomorrow. Going to go over EVERYTHING I've done for the class to prep for the finial portfolio review and assignment.

Here's the set-up for the Cookie Still Life. Had the cookies stacked up in my kitchen cabinet. Safest place for them so they wouldn't get disturbed for the few weeks and no worry about if Eevee would eat them or something :( Set up a small lamb IN my cabinet to give light. I sat pretty much in the kitchen sink to draw the still life. What artists will do in the name of art...


The cookies are beyond stale now. Sad since I've been holding back from eating them since I set up for the drawing.

I'll take a final photo of the drawing as soon as I can. I'm also going to try and get some scans of some a few of my other works.

Summer's coming. I'm super excited, aren't you?

Sweet Success Drawing Near...?

I have never been so overwhelmed! In a good way though. We're coming down to the last month or so of the semester and I have tons of projects to work on. I'm really trying hard to get things together. 

Art History Paper.

Triad Painting for Color Con.

Bunches of Structural.

...and that's just the start.

I better get back to work. 

BTW, Lowell Tolstedt [the colored pencil artist from my last post] has a gallery show here in Columbus at Keny Gallery in the German Village going on now through May 4th. I think I might stop by in between my pile of work tomorrow.

Still Lives Are More Alive Than You Think

We've reverted back to still lives in Drawing Class. Just for a while.  We're focusing on tight rendered drawings. As well we've been messing around with colored pencils.

We also have a major homework assignment where we are creating still lives at home.

I'm more of a figure drawing girl and it's a bother somtimes drawing a still life, especially when I have a hard time finding the object interesting.

Because of this and painting a still life in Painting class I felt like sharing some still life artists that I found who take ordinary objects and make them amazing!

Tom Gregg. Oil.

Lowell Tolsteadt. Colored Pencil. Former Dean of Fine Arts and Professor at CCAD.

Chris Wright. Oil. 

Glen Holland. Oil. Local Columbus Artist.

Enjoy.

I'm Missing The Desert...

Project for Structural Class. Take an actual product and change it's name to your name. Take that and put in on a billboard drawn in two-point perspective. Add scenery.

I lived in Arizona for a while, a couple of years ago. It wasn't til after leaving I realized how much I truly loved it out there. I've been thinking about it more often than I'd like lately. It's the horizon I miss the most. Mountains. I'm still breathless when I see photos of the red hills I once climbed.

I shouldn't be up this late...

Major Selections.

My unfinished interior drawing for Drawing class. She said I could continue to work on it and turn it in again later. Good, since there are so many things wrong with the perspective and the only thing that's complete is my hookah [hence why it's popping out of the image so much]

Thursday, CCAD had the Major Selections open house. wandered through the Illustration and Fine Arts departments. Met an alumnus of CCAD at the illustration opening,Eric Fortune. His paintings were marvelous. 

Glad I went to the fine arts opening. Met senior, Jon Stommel, who was having his Senior Thesis show in the Acock Gallery. He was telling me how he majored in Illustration but took tons of Fine Arts courses so he could get a balance of both [which is what I'm trying to get at] It's nice to see that it's possible.

This will be a busy few weeks.