This one's for Chave

Raquette Lake

I would have to say that yes it would be nice to see the professors create something and I would also have like other activities. I felt like at points we had too much free time that I didn't know what to do with. Although it was a good experience, and in the end I did enjoy it I would have like more ideas to do together.

raquette lake was great for one reason and one reason only. CHAVE. I dont know where i would be now if i did not meet the beautiful unicorn known as chave. And i guess what everyone else said makes sense too. i would also like to thank all the professors _ pause_ thank you.

I have to agree with everyone else, I would have liked to see the professors create something. It'd be nice to see what they would create under the same conditions Other than that I wouldn't change anything. I think it was a great bonding experience and should be done yearly with the art department. I feel like we all wouldn't have been as close during the semester if we wouldn't have gone.

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I agree with CBrown... if there were one thing to add/change about the Raquette Lake trip it would be for the professors to make a piece of art in the woods as well. It is not often that we get to see or hear them talk about work that they made on a personal level. And I think that would be a great opportunity for that.

the lake experience

Being up there was really fun even though i didn't catch a fish i guess it's ok. I don't think i would change much at all the experience was really great and it helped me to get to know people in the art department. I would say to change something is the interaction between prof's and students while we were building our art of nature. I would say that everyone should have jumped in the water it was very refreshing.

Raquette Lake:)

I had a really great time going to Raquette lake. I thought the whole experience was beautiful and would honestly change very little. I really enjoyed getting to know everyone better. Its kind of odd that the more you value a friendship with someone the more you trust and respect their opinions on your own work. I liked that it allowed everyone to removed themselves a bit from their own work and start something completely new. On the other hand, I loved seeing everyones sketches, maybe if everyone brought pictures or something of a few things they are working on there could be sort of an open critique. This could also set the tone for more open critiques throughout the year....Just a thought. I hope everyone has a great winter break! :)

raquette lake

Raquette lake was definitely an experience. i definitely enjoyed all the free time that we had at night and on sunday, it was definitely a time to enjoy each other's company and get to know those students you didn't already know. i loved being able to become a part of the environment with our earthworks that we created. i would have liked to see the professors become more involved, perhaps if they formed a group themselves, or each of the professors were assigned one of our groups. they could've maybe given an in process critique to each group they were assigned to in between the work sessions. besides that, i really don't see how much more the weekend could have improved. i am not the outdoors type of girl, and i wasn't exactly looking forward to the weekend, and i really don't have anything negative to say about the weekend. (afterall, we were supposed to be thinking postive the whole weekend, right? no negativity!)

Raquette Lake

I loved going to Raquette lake with everyone. It was such a bonding experience for me and I hope it still happens in the future. There is only one thing that could be changed to make it better and that would be to go with a different group besides the leadership group. They did provide so much entertainment for us but I feel that all we did was make fun of each other the whole time. I think that it wasn't the point of the trip to bicker with the other group and then each of us make complete fun of the other. But besides that whole deal I thought it was fun, and don't get me wrong,...I throughly enjoyed making fun of the leadership group because they were so uptight.

how to improve...

I thought the weekend at Raquette Lake was awesome. I enjoyed the games that we played, especially the drawing game, and I enjoyed the time that we had to ourselves at the end to go paddle boating and kayaking. The time at night for ourselves was really nice too and I think it was a nice little bonding moment for all of us, and we all had a lot of fun. I also loved our environmental piece that we had to do. I really enjoyed my time there so its hard to say how I could have made it better. I thought we had a great group of people and to be there with leadership just ended up being priceless. I think I would have liked to see more Professors join in on making the earth art. I loved Jeremiah's piece and it was really motivating. I think it would have been more interesting if all of the Professors did something, or even if you all just got together in one group and made one piece, like we did in our groups. But I have to say, I do wish we could all go back again for more fun!!!

Thanks everyone and I hope you all have a wonderful winter break!!

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Photos

Nice.

Thank you all for contributing this semester!  I love to see you all connecting on this level.  I will keep this blog up for you to continue your conversation....  I also want to post more pictures.

Maybe we should start an art department blog and open it to majors?  A great place to post work and get feedback...  It is also just a great place to stay in contact.

I really enjoyed being the instructor on record for this course. Thanks again.

Best,
M

snow

so since there is snow out, are we going to be building a wall of snow ? and if so when and were ?

Artist

MY Three Artist
1. Suelan Modrejewski - Photographer: http://www.suelanphotography.com
2. Harry Yeff - Doesn't have an official page but I do have images of some of his work, he is a graffiti artist I have seen him do an art show back this summer at a secret wars competition between NY and London



3. Jimi Crayon and artist I met at another Graffiti art war that attended, he does a little of everything, graffiti makes videos that are pretty interesting (about art work and what not) and yeah check it out (he's on our blogger wooo) http://seymourdoomore.blogspot.com/

Sketches

*The first two sketches are two different ideas that I had for ballroom gowns or maybe red carpet gowns (I'm dreaming and I was watching the vma's when I drew these) I wanted something fancy and big. For the first one I was thinking of a light blue, with a grey feeling to it, and a black material as well. I would want there to be some kind of intrigued design but I have yet to think of it yet. For the second dress I Picture it red a bright, or may be a dark deep red but something that stands out, I want the dress to have the senese of being "Puffy" but I want the person to move in it, now I merely drew these but thats I how I see it functioning once I get someone to make this one day.

For the last Sketch is part of a few sketches I made of a black and white kind of collection I was fooling around with some ideas of short dresses. Things I would wear and things I wouldn't. I think this is something different, I'm still playing around with adding color, or if I want to keep the black and white theme.

artists

Jeremy Fish

Alex Pardee

Chris Sandlin

TIM WAS HERE

This first sketch is of my original idea for our Raquette Lake project. The idea was to build a bridge that broke through a wall and this would be related to overcoming barriers - which would fit well with the Cortland intellectual theme (or whatever it is) of walls/barriers/etc.

This sketch was so I could get a basic understanding of what I wanted to build for Sculpture. Our assignment was to find a wooden chair, take it apart and build a bridge that would span 6 feet and would be able to hold Vaughn. I sketched about half of it to understand how I was going to put the pieces together and I made notes about what I wanted to focus on

This last sketch is an idea I have for a future project. It's simply an idea right now and I haven't taken much time in developing this idea right now. If I make it into the BFA program next semester, I may try and bring this project to life. There aren't many notes or details with it because I already know what I want it to be and what I want to accomplish with it, so adding notes would just be pointless.

Basically, I want to line up 4 tvs or monitors or whatever, so that it forms a box. I want to make 4 of the same animation, but from different angles so that when it's played on the monitors, it's a 3D experience for the viewers. I have a couple other ideas for this, but I don't really want to say much until I begin to flesh this idea out.

One artist I'm looking at is Banksy. I like what he does with stencils because it's quick and easy, yet still accomplishes a job successfully. I'm slowly doing more and more research about him because I really enjoy what he does with mixed media.

Another artist I'm looking at is... I forgot his name. I'll find the link I saved when I get home and then I'll edit this post later.

Most of what I sketch is either to practice areas that I feel I need work in, or early stages of a piece that later comes to a more-whole fruition. For line quality and value change, I've been looking at Taylor White. Her use of subtle line is amazing, and certainlysomething to make note of. I'm always looking at Esao Andrews, for his attention to detail. I've been looking at John Malloy for his use of color, as I've been trying to develop a more sophisticated color pallet. For more surrealist refference, I've been looking at Jaroslaw Kukowski. For content and color, I've been looking at Yuta Onoda.

This page was part of a series of sketches I did work on facial expressions. I was also trying to work out a way to successfully convey hair, that was more life-like than I've done in the past, but still stylized. I think a slight Yuta Onoda reference can be seen here. It's definitely an aesthetic that I'm going to keep pursuing, because I think he embodies a much more refined representation of the lines and shape that I've been drawn to for some time.

This page was part of a concept work-out for Fibers I, based on the idea of the Republican party always having a short-sighted, ill thought out response to current social issues. The first response is often "no," rather than a concise, cogent one. In general, it seems like a group of people that are unable to be reasoned with, because they are entirely impervious to reason.

This page shows the early sketch for the near full-sized Japanese Hannya mask that I eventually made out of plasticine. I've since made a rubber mold, and several wax castings, with the intention of eventually casting them in iron. I've also used the rubber mold to press mold clay for my final ceramics I project. I always fine that preliminary sketches like this one help to identify areas of possible embellishment from the source material, and allows me to put the object into my terms, even if the final media is different.