Spring Break and Art

so.... i was not productive at all. I went to Los Angeles with a couple friends so during my visit i had absolutely no time to do art, however we drove all the way there and back, that is about 32 hours of car ride to do art or at least sketchbook stuff, but no. :( i have such a difficult time doing anything but talking and sleeping in cars so i didn't get anything done. I did however see two cool art things while i was in LA. The first was an arts and crafts museum gallery that we always drove past that had some kind of instillation on the outside that looked like rugs displayed like laundry in a Tibetan flag jumble kind of way. That makes absolutely no sense. The second is just a square full of light posts , i actually saw someone taking their engagement pictures there, who knew people took engagement pictures, not me. It was Located outside LACMA LA county museum of art. It is called "urban Light" by Chris Burden.

So encaustic wise... i have

african

lyrical

waltz

tango

broadway

modern

and im almost done with salsa

i need to do 5 in april and i believe i can, im going to work really hard and try to come up with my ideas before i work with the wax so i know exactly what i want, that is always how they go the fastest. I'm excited to get back in the art room and whip these out :)

Venting about encaustics

so.... here i go

i have finished my two pieces fo

r March and am very happy with them, broadway and tango. i played with texture, contrast, and colors more to make them differen

t than what i've done previously.

Right now i am playing with my contemporary and ballet one. Contemporary is becoming more like a redone modern so i hope that works because it has potential for being nice. I decided not to do the AP test , i didn't think it would be smart to pay for something that only gives me number and i can't really afford. Last year i would have done it for sure, but im not strongly pursuing art in the future, i am more focused on creating

art and discovering myself as an artist :). i feel less stress now even though i wasn't before haha. anyway i feel good about where i'm going especially since i am really behind in my art.

where i am right now.

lyrical : done

African : done

Broadway : done

Tango : done

modern : working on it

hopefully modern will get done this week

then i will have seven to do

oh gosh

wow

the good thing with that however is that me and Sarah have sorted ou

t the used wax and are going green with recycling the old wax, it's working really well. Hopefully this can conserve wax and i can continue doing wax without over paying way too much.

i will be in a car for 18 hours on sunday so i am bringing my sketchbook and coming up with all my ideas for my next pieces :)

in other words, this is form artist Ruth Gooch

it's encaustic :) :) :) ahmazing :)

This weekend

So this weekend I didn't do too much, i had a fun pot luck with a bunch of people and them we went to see a play. Then on Sunday i had a dance competition, the last competition that i will ever do as a group with LOAD, :( which is kinda sad to think about.

I finished an art piece last week. Fastest i have ever done one. I had sort of an idea going into it like a tangoy thing, but it didn't turn out how i intended, but i still like it. I'm hoping to do my next one fast too so i can spend time reworking my last two i turned in. I'm happy how everything is going.

My Haiti Cards!

progression of the sunset: So I had a few of these cards because i really felt like doing another watercolor sunset just because i've been working with wax and i need something to reassure me that i could do something i like that looked nice. But..... the water color completely destroyed the card! So i was all disappointed and sad but then on... friday I decided , hey! why not try my hand at some oil pastels. I've used them before but only for drawing pumpkins and stuff. sooo i was nervous . !!!! but. I think they turned out pretty nice and i got a few good hours of , well hours. I really want to do one of these with wax just to see. maybe ill do a really mini one the next time i have a brain freeze. That is what i did this weekend.

Oh and i saw St. Mary's Academy's Thoroughly Modern Millie.... sooooo funny. lots of tapping! lots of laughs :) and kent was in it which was fun :)

Critiques !!!

Hey so i just want to say i had a lot of fun critiquing and looking at everyones works (thats why i decided to just continue and do everyones) I just want to say thank you for all the amazing critiques and advice :) i am definitely taking everything into consideration to make my work better :) it feels like it's going to be a great week :)

IM TRYING NOT TO RELY ON THE MEDIUM ANYMORE

LYRICAL: So this one is done 100% i really like it, beneath it is a mixture of swirly colors and some stronger lines, it also has an etherial quality in the center which i love. the lines on top represent sheet music because lyrical is basically dancing to the words of a song. I like this piece and surprisingly it's the one that took least time. :)

AFRICAN! so this red one is my african piece and i like how the colors blend and how the thread comes through a little, the tree circle effect i wanted .... but this is no where near done!!!! this is like the epitome of relying on the medium!!!!!! I like the color and texture because it is warm and has a story esque feel but I always wanted to add a foot or something to this. I just ran out of time. I will definitely be adding some kind of foot element or feet to this. Not nice ballet shoes, but raw cracked feet. I may take away some of the built up wax and use that to make feet things. ya.

Ok so i had another wax thing, but I stole it back because I couldn't bear to look at it anymore. I thad a cool background but then these weird wire things that were trying to be gears, then i tried painting it FAIL. So i am not going to post my picture. i'm working on it next, basically its a cool background but more white. Then i am going to try and engrave gear images into the wax kinda like i did the top of my field for the whistling season thing , just small. then some kins of dancer image with oil staining so the imprint comes through. Hopefully i can "make it work" Tim Gunn anybody... anybody....

My other new piece is a nice colors background that reflects strength and softness then a dancer as part of it. then on top a corner of a room and yet another dancer on top of that. I like it so far.

So basically my concentration is how the dynamics of dance make each style unique and individual, such as a special feature that only that has (like the song sheet) or just the lines and how they reflects the dimensions and dynamics of the movement.

JUST FOR ME!

(twelve pieces right?)

1. Broadway : done but i can do better if there's time to spare.

2. Modern : done and like it , but i could do wax if that would make more sense.

3. Lyrical: done and i love it

4. African: not done

5. Ballet: will be done soon

6. Contemporary: will be done soon i hope

i need 6 more. lets see. those two done by wednesday maybe if i come in a lot i can do one every two weeks or one every week. I want time to fully evaluate my work as a whole and change the ones that could be better.

YO DUDESKIES

SO..... i just had an idea. for my contemporary piece i am going to work on my background and then make it a bit whiter because!!!! I wanted to incorporate both machinery and dancers into my piece but didn't know how!!!! ta da i think i want to engrave the cogs and stuff of machinery so it's just scratched into the surface and then i can do some cool dancer image with oil staining this way you get a peak of machinery through the dance image!!!!! i hope it works :) cecilia is happy