Landscape

This is one of my litho prints from my lithography class. (That's right. STONE PRINTING!)
YOU ETCH IN STONE. That means, no erasing. No smudging.
As a class, we were severely behind schedule, yet our professor made no moves to adjust the syllabus to acknowledge this.
So I had to work double time to make up for the time lost. For our landscape project, I took the initiative to draw out this little diddy. It's nothing glorious but everything was drawn out of pure spontaneity. It was fun to take on this personal challenge and I was surprised that it came out the way it did -given the time restraints I had.

I think when you don't have the chance to worry and stress over perfection, you can appreciate things that you normally wouldn't.

It was a nice experience, and nice outcome.

Who Is this girl I see?

I could never accurately capture who I am - and the way I look. My ultimate weakness? Self portraits.

If I was a super hero- all you would have to do is shove a pencil and a drawing pad my way and challenge me to a self portrait contest and I'll be done. (Yes, I will collapse and reach for the skies as I slowly drift into a dark abyss. Ha!)

I'm terrible with self portraits and having to do a sketch for a lithograph was a challenge. I'd like to think I've improved with such an endeavor, however.

The project was to etch your self portrait in stone- print and then make an edit. Well. Mine was about my hair since I had hair that was almost at my butt! So I cut off 15 inches for Locks of Love
So my second print would be where I removed my longer hair.
(Stay tuned for the litho print!)

Tagging Traditions

Thanks for Emily Thompson and Matt Lynch for the photos!
In an installation class we were given an assignment to work in a group and come up with an installation idea that we would later present to the art curators at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

My team consisted of Emily Thompson and Kristen Johnson . We went over several ideas, things that were visually abstract.

But after studying the space we discovered that we had to scratch out our ideas. The space was smaller, and due to the fact that it was a hallways, nothing could protrude from the walls that could potentially serve as an obstacle. So we went over a lot of ideas- thinking about murals and anything with vivid colors. We weren't sure how to depict what exactly we wanted.

I'm not positive but one of the two fellow artist of mine mentioned 'graffiti' and I brought up the concept of Chinese calligraphy and how it was an art in itself since it was an old tradition. This lead to a conversation about how graffiti was also an tradition and that a lot of graffiti usually contained some sort of back meaning.

We talked about Graffiti being popular in other countries as well.

We came to the conclusion that we wanted to take the art of Chinese calligraphy and Chinese literature and use that for the content of our 'graffiti'.
It was interesting because we all had ideas and contributed in ways that made us a perfectly compatible machine!

It was amazing, we knew we had a great idea, we perfected it- and we were selected. It was an empowering feeling since the three of use were one of the few undergraduates in the class. Having the power to direct a show was so motivational!
Anything is possible.

Born of Hope

Everyone is familiar with the "Lord of the Rings" Movie trilogy (as well as the books).
Peter Jackson had a success in filming the movie and spending £200million.

I personally love each movie and I appreciated the time spent on it.
But one fan proved that you didn't have to have a huge budget to accomplish what you want.
With only £25,000, Lord of the Rings Fan: Kate Madison (pictured on the left) made a fan made prequel that she based off of the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Being the writer, director and actress in her own film, I'm only wow'd by her level of passion and motivation to pull off such an astounding piece!
I'm personally moved by her attitude and just her LOVE for the trilogy and how she was so inspired by the Peter Jackson's film!

It's not only comforting for me to see that people do what they want with themselves no matter what obstacles they may come across (foul name calling, judgmental criticism, personal insults), but it's just nice to see someone do SOMETHING for themselves and for everyone else they believe would enjoy it for no other gain but satisfaction!

I think she's done a great job in trying to replicate the costumes used in the film as well as having it look professional






Click Here: for the Film

Angel-aahhh

I'm not sure what happened. I don't know why I worked so lightly with this image. I also feel like I didn't put my full effort into it.

It was an off day for me.

Initially it's unfinished.

I guess I was trying to slowly build up on tone and ended up... not. Haha Oops!

Stealth

This is a concept drawing I made of a character for a comic idea that's been stewing in the back of my head.

FIRST. DIGITAL DRAWING. EVER.

Signatures

Who doesn't enjoy dressing up and taking photos with some friends?
I actually made this little signature out of our pure motivation, I thought the picture used captured a lovely side of my friend Emily Thompson! (Check out her blog: http://italianginger.blogspot.com/)

Toyed with a few brushes, spent about 5-10 minutes really.

Fun!