Lin Nazzaro 2

I knew there was another reason I needed to go back to the studio last night, besides more gesso-ing. Pictures. Dammit.

So I don't have pictures of my progress at this time, but it has been made, and I will have them soon! For now, I have pictures of sketches.

I made an underpainting of what will be a snail with the fibonacci sequence on the shell, and a funny tagline. I'm also a little over halfway done with another painting, which doesn't have a name yet, but involves an astronaut and an eye and a black hole. It needs a lot more work but it's coming together. I've never painted a closeup of an eye before so I'm kind of learning as I go.

I've also brainstormed a few more ideas for pieces, like the lungs/tree roots one which will be challenging but interesting, since there's some transparency and a lot of detail in it. And the bird one. I'm really excited about the bird one. I'm hoping the ideas keep flowing once I'm done with this round.

I'm still waiting on two tubes of iridescent oil paint, which I'm also really
excited about.

SAMI #2 !!!

Hello World,

Since my last post I have focused more so on my interest in architecture, and geometric shapes. I am looking to light and the way it interacts with the architecture. During our trip to NYC, rather than going to the Met, I went to the MoMA and was able to take some photographs on the way.
Here are a few from this week:

I am also still attempting my ephemeral series. I am not quite sure how to accurately portray that feeling, so I am still just in an experimental phase. I have decided to go against my original idea of creating a scene, similar to artists like Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson. It is far from how I photograph normally, I enjoy spontaneity and capturing what already exists. It does not feel authentic to go against what I know just for the sake of being different. So I'm gonna keel rolling with it!

Here are a few:

Peace and Blessings,

Sami-Skye

Emma Daniels' Post #2

Unfortunately, I do not have pictures for you to see this post. I have been focusing on taking photographs the last few weeks and I am currently finishing my third roll of film. I plan on developing them this weekend. I have three-ish concept ideas I've been working with, one is still in the process of forming, one includes photographing things,places or locations that were altered or destroyed by man, that once belonged to nature, and for the other I'll be using my half frame 35mm camera to focus on shooting motion through multiple frames almost like a flip book.

Besides that, I have printed using the Chlorophyll Process (contact print using only the sun) a few more times, though each time it takes longer to develop due to Fall/Winter because the amount of UV light is decreasing. Essentially, it means I am quickly running out of time to work with live leaves and the sun :(

But, my darkroom is completely set up and supplies ordered and on their way, so by next week I can start painting objects with the light sensitive material, drying, and exposing them under an enlarger. I'll have pictures up on the next post!

Carissa Guthrie #2

 Here is my progress from the last two weeks.

Rachel's second post

So two more weeks and I have my second roll of film shot for my careers idea. I have also started trying to work out what size I want my images to be printed as well as seeing how the images look printed. I will be shooting a mechanic tomorrow and hopefully some others if I find interesting people. I'm giving some thought to scanning my negatives in and digitally enhancing them and most likely I will just shoot in digital as well as film for the mechanic tomorrow.

For my Feminism idea I have done a bunch of research which got the ball rolling and I thought of hopefully a good solution and have set up my first photo shoot for that for tomorrow evening. I am really excited about my plan for this because I think it really covers the topic well and send the message I want sent, as well as making the viewer/society responsible for the treatment of women.

This print isn't the greatest but it was more of a test to see the size and how the images were coming out and to see the details of the image.

Corrine #2

Started working with fabric and oil paints. Started mixing different color when it comes to the paints. I want to start working with wire and other materials.

Steph Bicchetti #2

Welp. Its been 2 weeks again. Things took a turn...it got messy. I don't have much to say other than this project is not fun to work on at night. 

Joseph Troxler .2

     A month into the senior thesis and I am beginning to see things come together. Within my work I'm trying to create a visual language or lens for viewers to look through. This has kept me up at night, to the extent I can't get sleep. Part of me is slightly disturbed how this new language has really consumed me. The other part of me is so overjoyed at being enveloped by creations.
        It's one thing to work on an individual piece, finish it, and then proceed to the next one, but for myself, by creating numerous pieces at once has spawned a birth of ideas I did not see before.
   Progress is going well, although I am in the refining stages on most of my sculptures. Lots of sanding, lots of tweaking, and finally priming surfaces for painting. On top of good progress has also come some failure as well. I started working on a piece that I quickly became fixed on, rushed the crafting and building process and soon discovered some of my building techniques were not sound from the beginning.
        Learning from failures has always been difficult for me. Artwork is no different for me than that of my personal life, they are one and the same. When this piece I was making began show its flaws, I got upset, took off all of the flawed elements of the piece, and told myself to start over. This is not a new concept to me, though I have rarely done it so far into a work of art. It seems so fitting because the art that I am creating is touching on my fear of finishing things.
    Since I was 4 or 5 I have been semi afraid of finishing things: books, tv shows, and art. I don't simply see this piece as a definition of who I'm becoming, but also who I was. Giving up is easy, simple, and disastrous, which is why I'm so excited to continue. New ideas can come about, an entirely new concept can be created. Perseverance is key to this visual language taking a successful shape, and I'm very confident even in my failures that I can create a successful tool to spark a conversation about fears.

                                         

                                    [The top two images are the piece I started over]

Sophie Herzing #2

So here we are at week number 4, HOLY COW. I've just painting away on my huge wall of linen here, and I am pretty pleased with how things are going. Right now I'm trying to decide what direction I'm taking as far as the right side of the painting. I've started painting less from photographs and more from distinct memory. For example, my dad's shirt, canning tomatoes, the satin ribbons of my ballet slippers. I'm adding smaller fractions of memories into these two large ones of myself.
One thing I'm working on is knowing when to stop adding and just completing. I tend to jam things together one after another and sometimes create things that are too cluttered.
However, I'm liking where I'm going with this so far, and can't wait to get back in the studio.

Rachel's first post

So as everyone knows by now i had two pretty strong and completely different concepts. For the sake of clarity i will refer to the one as careers and the other as feminism. obviously there is A LOT more to both of them than that but the appropriate title would be far too long.

I figured my best approach would be to work on one at a time so i don't overwhelm myself with thinking of different things to shoot. I have started off shooting for the careers concept I have only managed to shoot one role of film for this and I was messing around with how big I thought I will be able to bow up a 35mm negative (we all know it won't be massive or anything).

I have more photo shoots lined up for saturday and the next few weeks and i'm always open to suggestions of someone can think of a unique career or ways to contact them to take their pictures.
This first roll of film has definitely given me an idea of how i want my photos to look before i had imagined everyone looking at the camera but now i think i will base it more on the individual job, some of the images work better with the people not looking and some look better with them looking.

-Rachel

Emma Daniels' Post #1

Over the summer I researched how to print images on nature. By that I mean, printing images in the darkroom from film negatives onto surfaces such as leaves, rocks, and wood. I was successful with wood using liquid light, semi successful with rocks using cyanotype. Leaves were unsuccessful.

Here are examples:

These past two weeks I have been setting up a darkroom space, collecting nature such as different types of leaves, flat rocks, and wood. I plan to find a way to pain the rocks a lighter color so that when I print the photograph, highlights can be seen.

I've also been trying out a new process for putting an image on a leaf. The chlorophyll process, which uses photosynthesis to leave an image. I used a very light in color leaf which was a fail on my part. My next step is to find darker leaves.

 Here are my results:

 

Corrine #1

I first started with canvas just messing around with the paints. Then I started working with paper to see what patterns and paints I liked to use. Today I started working with fabric.