Retrogression

Due to the fact that I have no completed anything lately that I find to be very interesting/ lectures have repeatedly been about registration, I will post about my first completed 3-D project.  The project was to make an inflatable (a closed sculpture out of sheet plastic that is inflated by a constant stream of air).  Our inflatable has to convey collision.  Me and my friend Bonnie made a frankenduck.  Innocence meets violence.  She had previous knowledge or ironing plastic so after we both cut out the pieces she started ironing them together.  I was in charge of duct tape decals.  First was the basics, make it look like a rubber duck.  Wings, check; one big adorable eye, check;bubbles, check.  This is where the project became specialized.  Half of the duck was to be made satanic.  Bleeding upsidedowncross eye, check; pentagram on wing, check; severed head, check; fang, check.  We inflated our evil ducky and well satanic or not, it couldn't have been more adorable.

Punk Rawk

For my 2-D project I had to make a collage that mimicked a pattern of behavior.  When I get stressed, I go to concerts and go into mosh pits.  The project is 4ft by 5ft, the background is a large ink drawing of a concert I attended.  I printed other photos of concerts I went to onto transparent paper then laid them down in a radiating pattern.  The second part of the assignment was to take a photo of it in the environment it belonged to, aka a concert.  First I went to my friends  house show and attempted to take a picture, this ended with a collage torn all around the edges.  The show was too small and too rough for the assignment.  I duct taped a black boarder around to make up for the damage and brought it to another concert, which was much more spacious.  This proved to be a much more fitting venue for the assignment, despite the poor lighting and very dark images produced.

Future

Today was a lecture about advising and next year and FINALLY being able to pick classes.  When I had my portfolio review the lady told me I would be a painting major, possibly printmaking.  Not to be argumentative or disagreeable but my major interest has always been glass.  I absolutely love everything about being in a glass studio so I have decided I want to get into a glass, sculpture and metal class, the exact opposite of my predicted future.  Besides glass, I have never worked with 3-D before, but that has been the only foundations class I found interesting.

Photoshop Painting

I scanned in my ink wash, duplicated the layer, then added a filter to one.  Decreased opacity of the filtered one then liquefied the background.  I then went in with a paint brush and increased the white highlights as well as adding a transparent dark blue and green highlights to add color to the piece.

The Monster

In the 3-D Olympics, my sub-team (Sam, Josh& Austin) were assigned to make a kinetic puppet that required at least three people to move.  We had an hour and were supplied with wood, cardboard, tape and whatever we had brought.  My team quickly decided to make a monster....that ate me.  We had Josh and Austin each make a claw and arm while Sam and I made the large head.  The monster turned out amazingly for an hours worth of work.  We won the competition and were rewarded with a crappy wood-slotted trophy that is sitting on my desk.  It had clearly been spray-painted moments before it was awarded to us, but either way it was worth it because our puppet kicked ass.  I wish I had photos of it...