Bryan McGinnis post 4 I think

 Alright so my concept is still on track although I have recently only been looking at photos of JFK. So some part of my focus has changed but only because I am emotionally attracted to JFK than the others. I want to say I finished two more paintings and these are the paintings of Amelia and Lincolns fathers.

the next three images are ones I started this weekend same process just on wood.

 

 

 

 

 

My glazes are made and used already.... but that's ok because I have a shipment of new glazes on there way! I added more texture to my tiles and have a personal goal for them to be out of the kiln by the end of next week. As I made my test tiles I really tried to mimic my paintings and I like how some of them came out so cool! exciting! ya yay aya

 

 

 

I fooked up and created a river of brown paint in the studio, luckily Lizzy was there to help me control the damage. So I was dumb and forgot we had a bath tub where I can have a better control of the mess but long story short, thank you Lizzy for the help and the laughs!

Cathrin - more pictures

I started trying things differently and I absolutely love it! I am almost creeped out by the work I am starting to produce.

I think there is more meaning and it showcases more of what a true struggle feels like and would potentially look like if you could see it!

Here are some unedited photos that I am working with now.

And then some bees came out to play and I stopped with the photoshoot....

Yes, I did make her naked intentionally. I wanted to show vulnerability but I'm worried that may be confused with sexuality... So I'm not sure where this is gonna go next!

Lindsay Myers - 4th Post

I don't know if this is early or late because I'm having a lot of trouble remembering when we're supposed to submit these.  Anyway, we had a bunch of crits lately and I did not care for many of them.  No offense to the crititiquers.  That one dude from the other college made several good points which I suppose I should consider seeing as I still need and idea for my body of work (can I call it that if it's only 1 piece?) so that I can write that artist statement thingy.  But I haven't got any of the kind of feedback I've really wanted so I finally decided to e-mail a professional equine sculptor for a critique.  Luckily she agreed to do it and I found it immensely helpful.  Here are some of the many pics I sent her.

She said it was a good start but there were a few tweaks to be made, the most obvious being that the hindquarters of my sculpture were square rather than trapezoidal. It took a bit of work, but I fixed them and several other things and I'm much happier now.  (Below is the picture before the change)

I'm working on the joints now in addition to the inner legs.  I'm struggling a bit as it's difficult to find good references, but I'm sure I'll get through it.  I have another critique scheduled in a month or two, once I am nearly finished.  I couldn't be more excited or grateful for the help.

Oh, and I went and tried to take reference pictures of the babies, but they're pretty fuzzy so I'm not sure how helpful they'll be.  Plus they're really old compared to what I'm going for, but they're still super cute.  So definitely not a waste of time. 

Jenn -post #5

(Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, I just took them with my phone really quickly)

Here are just a few of my pictures in the process of editing. After the critique I was really overwhelmed about what everyone said. I tried to regain what I'm trying to say and I figured the camera angle could say a lot. Most of these I haven't adjusted at all yet, I'm trying to show you the before and after pictures so you can understand my process hopefully more easily. I will post the edited versions probably for the next post.

arissa dickison post 10.26.15

these are some that i believer are completed from this shoot !

Cathrin - Above pictures

So last week I tried something very different from what I had been doing and I took images from above the water. And this is what I got...

I kinda took a week off to reevaluate my life after all these critiques because I just got lost in what I was doing. As I was going along I forgot my main concept and just started taking pictures so there was confusion within my work.

So I started writing a lot and focusing on what I want to portray. I have started coming up with a few scenes that show different struggles that I really want to focus on. 

Maybe this will continue to look murder-like and dark, I'm not really sure at this point but I'm open to change.

Elizabeth Hughes Post 4

So, I've started fresh with a new concept and project. When I started this on Tuesday, I didn't really know where it was going to go. All I knew was that I wanted to start drawing and just keep adding surfaces until a concept emerged (almost like automatic drawing). So, I did this and a concept did come to me! In the other body of work I've been doing this semester, I'd been working with emotional struggles and in many cases, it arises from the stress of separation. It makes me angry, frustrated, sad, etc.., but in any case, I wanted to look at the reason I get those feelings. Why am I feeling sad? What am I separated from? And a lot of it is because I really miss the one place I've ever felt at home. So, there's all these memories that are constantly coming into my head in little pieces and I began to draw them.

In a way, the new project is a record of my memories and a journal of the feelings I have when I remember them. It gives this project a lot of freedom because it grows every day as I draw whatever comes to my head.

I guess the concept could be seen as my struggle with living in pieces, with living in memories, and dealing with the emotional aftermath. I'm sure in a week, things will get more coherent and formed, but I'm happy with where I am right now. So, here's the visual work so far:

 

It's growing fast, so I'm not sure how presentation will work, but I don't want to think about that yet.