This diner scene is inspired by a bridal session I would love to do. I couldn't come up with a subject at the time and I was on fire about bridal portraiture, so I just painted an idea for a photo shoot I want to do.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Last Semester at TSU
This diner scene is inspired by a bridal session I would love to do. I couldn't come up with a subject at the time and I was on fire about bridal portraiture, so I just painted an idea for a photo shoot I want to do.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
My first Commission: I'm a big kid now!
So, anywho, this guy wanted drawings of all the houses he and his wife had lived in so that he could frame them and give them to her for Christmas. I thought it was a sweet idea! I think they turned out well considering I'm not an architectural artist.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
My Senior Show!!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
what i've been up to
"Baby, I've Been Thinkin"-clay sculpture
Photograph doesn't do this one justice. It looks like a bronze in natural light. I worked the entire semester on this in the Spring and I'm happy with how it turned out. I still need to find a piece of wood that I like and stain it, so I have something to display it on.
Most definately going in the show.
(Too many hours invested not to include this piece.)
"All Eyes on Me"- Acrylic
This one will be in the show. I had it displayed in a Fort Worth Gallery Night last semester during the student show at Tarleton and was unable to display it at the school. I feel the need to display it even though it's going to get some touch-ups beforehand.
I tend to frame things and when I really look at them, I can see the mistakes.
When we hang the senior show, I will be sure to post my entire displayed portfolio. There will be a few new pieces and I'm not sure if it's going to be a cohesive collection. Like I've said in the past, I'm juggling two different portfolios at once, so the challenge its tying them together.
Ta! ta! Off to paint now.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
rain rain go away... I need sunlight in my studio!
research is due.
paintings to get done...
I must confess I have wasted the weekend. Restricted to the house by the cold rain, I have neglected my responsibilities to sit here in my fat pants watching two seasons of 'friends.' My portfolio will get finished in due time.
Worked forty-five minutes on my roper's hands... "his hands look fuzzy"... can't get the positioning defined. Chris Ireland planted a seed of doubt in my mind and now I can't bring myself to resolve the painting, because of those stupid "fuzzy" hands. I sometimes wish I didn't have to get advice from my professors. I feel great about my art and then they point out the obvious. IE: "his hands look fuzzy."
I am going insane.
Absolutely giddy at the thought of my cousin, Josh's, upcoming nuptuals. I get to shoot them! I've been in two weddings this year and have been restricted to Maid of honor duty. But not for this. No restrictive taffeta dress or numbing heels to wear. No make-up bags or shoes or phones or purses to carry for the bride. No toasts, no being confined to a room while everyone gathers and no standing at the altar, holding two bouquets. nope.... I just get to observe and document.
Aaaaaaahhhhh.......... my calling.
McKenna will be there. growing rapidly... and being cute as always... I'm sure I'll sneak more than a few shots of my perfect little niece. That's what this is all about: babies growing, people changing and unifying lives. Everything changes. There are only opportunities to get that perfect shot. The shot that will remind you of a time.... remind you of how you were in that moment.
But, I digress. I won't go chasing rabbits through the voids of my mind. That we will save for another day. For now, I'm going to log off and enjoy watching my husband sleeping in his favorite chair. His mind is at ease. There is no work to be done, no worries to think on. He's just laying there. Pumpkin at his side, looking up at Daddy occasionally from her nap to see if he's awake yet.
In Preparation
Monday, September 7, 2009
waiting for my hair to dry
I am a hopeless romantic at heart, I love vintage things and I admire the lifestyles of those who have come before me. I admire their spirit, their simplicity and their ability to enjoy life without newer techonologies. The lifestyles of people in farming and rural communities inspires me. Not just the cowboys, but the wife that cooks a meal for her family, the waitress at the cafe downtown, or anyone who enjoys a simplistic life.
Now, my art is not just about those happy times and these simple communities of people. It is also about the advancement of technology and the loss of those "good old days." I want to encompass the insensitive take-over of those perfect lives. My work mourns the loss of community, the loss of people with simple dreams and the loss of the beauty of simplicity.
Therefore, in context my artwork can't be put into a 1940's setting. The loss hasn't occured yet. I know my surroundings and this ideal is a reflection of my fealings about the present. Not all of these communities are gone. The spirit still remains in small rural towns. Those are my backgrounds. The laundry matt, the cafe, the barber shop and the settings of childhood. Those backgrounds and settings reflect that good old spirit, but in many cases, I depict them as worn and old. They are being lost as we speak, and eventually, those locations will be lost: torn down for a new idea, a starbucks or a walgreens.
This leads me to the focal point of my art: the individual. The individual reflecting back on life. Thinking about loss and the advancement into the future. With my photography, I will be focusing on those "how we were" moments. Years later, they'll look back and see what has been lost, what has changed essentially. The individual is the significant aspect of my artwork. Although the settings are important and the context of the image matters a great deal, I want the viewers to focus on the individual and their life, because it is significant in time. We all are. And if I can focus my viewers on identifying with that individual for a moment, I will have allowed them to experience something lost and identify with my purpose. We need to pause in this period of advancement to reflect on life and its purpose.
Now that I have dealved off into the intense thinkings of my artisitic mind and allowed you insight to my soul, I'll log out so that I can finish drying my hair. It's labor day and my husband is wondering what is for lunch.