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First things first...I am finally, FINALLY starting to feel a little better. Fever is gone (for good, I hope!), not coughing as much, not feeling so stuffed up, and that sinus headache is finally getting a little less intense. I stayed home from school today and..SLEPT. It was so beautiful outside, but I just slept all day. I think it might have paid off. One thing that I did do in between bouts of sleep was look through some work...mainly my monochromatic series from May...seeing the more detailed faces made me look at what I was working on now, and start thinking about how my treatment of the face in my current body of work. I think that in September I started to focus more on quick, gestural drawings when I was working on my daily, 'timed' pieces. This is also the month that I really made the connection with fashion illustration, again, focusing more on capturing the essence of the figure, the clothes, rather than the face. Eyes are my favorite thing to draw but I moved farther and farther away from facial features, especially as I got more and more excited about the fashion. And it just kind of continued...in October I started to reel myself back in, get back into more detailed work, especially in the face...then my brother got in the accident and I moved towards more stylized daily pieces again, for the most part. The fashion illustration continued to include less and less face. And now I am working specifically on fashion illustration for the month, my current work is based on photos from Oscar de la Renta's fall 2012 runway. Yesterday I started to get more detail back into the face, and today a little more, finishing up #320 while re-watching last week's Project Runway All Stars.
So... caught up and feeling a little better. ...tonight I worked on the pieces for the Art Nouveau show that is fast approaching. I feel like I have got a good start but still a long way to go. I have little wooden plaques, some 8x10 canvases...all with some scrap of paint on them, even if it just the background color. Hey....gotta start somewhere, right? Still working with the Hedwig/owl inspiration…really having some fun with this theme… About an hour or so into painting I picked up one of the plaques that I had painted with a coat of blue and quickly painted the simplified owl shape...but then quickly put down my brush to pick up a pencil….seemed only fitting that I elaborate on the branch…before I knew it, one of my trees had creeped into this small work…and then I started to think, yeah, that makes sense. Owls live in trees…yep. So I unwrapped my new blank canvas and just started sketching…owl shape, check. Crazy, curvilinear lines…check. After going over the pencil lines quickly with black paint…ready. This will be the canvas that I paint at the live-art event. So that is where I am as of this evening. Several plaques and small canvases in progress…three trays of ornaments not even opened and two packs of square canvases that need to be addressed. Alright. Back to the business of making art and writing about it. My friend Jessica posted the pictures from the Creep Cinema show this past Saturday, so those are included in a slideshow below. (Thanks, Jessie!) I really can’t say enough about what a cool venue the show is in…a comic book store…but a really big one. When we dropped our art off a couple of weeks ago we probably lost an hour just wandering the nooks and crannies of this place, checking out ‘Ugly Dolls’, anime, graphic novels, cool art books and collectibles. I got a few ideas for some grants and art projects…having the kids create a graphic novel or comic book, contacting a local artist, exploring Pop Surrealism, creating our own ‘Ugly Doll’ pillows…and even more ideas for my own art. I forgot how awesome Wonder Woman was. Wow. So, back to the opening….it was great. We got all dolled up in some fancy schmancy art attire…embellished with plastic centipedes, rats and such for the occasion and set off for the art event at Bear and Bird Gallery. (Hey, when else are you going to get away with this?) It was crowded, just as she had said it would be. The work was hung salon style, really packed in. I had to make a few rounds to really check it all out, and I am sure I missed some. We found the event photographer and got pictures beside our work, then just mixed and mingled among the tight crowd of folks there to appreciate the work. Walking downstairs in my red heels my mind was already spinning with the next event, the next opportunity to create and to share my work. I finished up the three ‘Word Fixation’ paintings that I was working on in my ‘Classroom Studio’. I didn’t work on them last week but I guess they were pretty close to being finished…or abandoned. I have two things that I would like to work on…a piece for a show down in Boca, due date is November 30th... …and I feel like I need to do some just…DRAWING Pencil. Simple line, selective rendering…accented with some colored pencil details or a light wash…that might be my next project for the ‘Classroom Studio’…which I think I will refer to as ‘Studio C’ from here on out. Just cause I like the sound of that. |
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