For Once..

Just to take the edge off the narcissism of this whole thing, here is my (premature) song of the summer:

Drawing Class

This is weird and html-y, so I'm not gonna even bother typing- it's way too confusing. Here's most of drawing stuff from the semester.



















Except for this one ^; figure drawing quantum leap deserves a couple words.

It is Complete

Ceramics

I've not really put any of my ceramics on here, but now that I have a piece (well, four) that I really like, I thought it a good time to show off.

These are for my final Ceramics project. We're putting decals on cups- my decal is the wood grain, on some really loose thrown cups, with willow handles. Hopefully they work!




(they worked)



This pot was for our Historical Pot project. We had to reference historical ceramic design/subject matter, and modernize it. I used a shape that I liked. Unfortunately, it lost a handle somewhere along the way, as well as a little bit of decoration. Some of my slip flaked in the kiln, which I was kind of asking for. I played it fast and loose with this pot, if you can even apply that to ceramics.





My "modernization" was a little bit tongue in cheek, if not borderline offensive. I was inspired by the pot below, called the "Suicide of Ajax", which is as it sounds; a disgraced soldier is killing himself. My pot depicts Ajax gassing himself in his garage, and I'm really happy with it, which may or may not make me a horrible person.



And, at the very bottom of this post, is a big spoiler for the secret project. If you want to spoil it for yourself, scroll all the way down
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+/- 18 hours of work so far.

Book, for Drawing Class

This is a book I made for Drawing, for a project based around a short story my teacher gave us. The story was written as the literal structure of the story; the first sentence read "this is the first sentence of the story", the second "this is the second sentence of the story". We also went to a lecture by an artist who makes books in her practice, and since that's something I've been known to do, I decided to make a book. It's leather, with typewritten, handwritten, and branded text. The writing is a code I made up, which you can actually decipher with the codex at the back of the book. The drawings are ink and acrylic paint, and meant to be random and unrelated, so I based them on dreams that I had while making the book.

Sculpture: Final Project, or: Why I Love Art School

First, a drawing. One that I'm not a huge fan of, but has kinda grown on me as the semester passes.

And the secret project. There are 109 126 of them so far, not a single one mine (and they're all washed, don't worry).

From all of that, I won a donut. Who would throw that away?