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.

so the one that looks like a maze to me is like sending hidden messages. After watching some shows with all these people with tattoo's it shows hidden messages or just sending messages out to people who see them. But this one just has my name and my birthday date in it. The second 1 is a doodle of happy rugged bold guy that wants to be cool but really is not. His stance is leaning on a wall and just handing out this could be loaded up and made to look more cartoonist. The bird was just for fun and the colors don't make sense at all but it helps me with layering color or color and shading. When working on photoshop layers on layers is also helpful very different from layering pastel but kind of the same concept.

sketches n such

These three sketches from my sketch book are the original scafolding (I dont think thats not spelled right) for three paintings I am currently working through in Lori's painting II class. The series is based on a monstrous creature (who is very naughty) a knightly-type (who is also naughty in his own violent way) and a clash of the two characters. The knight can be seen with a boar-head helm whereas the monster can be seen with a bald head and a naked distorted body. I drew inspiration for this theme from the story of beawulf (or wolf?) and the novel based on beowulf called "Grendel". Two artists I looked into were Goya (Saturno) and Munch (Puberty and Madonna). I would be happy to put up links to these pieces but I am on an un-familiar computer and I cant seem to make my link-things work. If I have left any questions unanswered feel free to ask and feel free to check out the progress of the paintings! Thanks all! PS everyones stuff looks awesome. -Chimbo

These are some sketches related to some poems that I am currently working on. Recently I have been concentrating on the interpreted meaning of words and how they relate to each other. By combining the imagery related to the words and the developed story I have been trying to depict this mood into imagery to develop the intended message.

These are some artists that I have been recently interested in while their work relates to fibers and not poetry I have been trying to draw inspiration from their instillations. Johanna Scheizer creates figures which are woven into creature like depictions of the human form. While Gerda Steiner and Joer Lenzling create large romantic whimsical instillation. I am particularly fascinated by their work because they work together to on large exhibits. This is such a challenge but in the end they are able to create such magical scenes. .http://fiberartsmixedmedia.ning.com/profile/JOHANNASCHWEIZER
http://www.steinerlenzlinger.ch/

sketchbook drawings

I chose to create this sketch in colored soft pastels. In my life drawing class we had worked with color and the figure but it was always a challenge for me to really grasp it so I wanted to take the chance to work on that with this sketchbook. The inspiration for this was a watercolor image I found on istockphoto.com. It was created by Isabelle Z.-Finet, a German artist born in 1974. You can see some of her work at www.meine-art.com, but unfortunately it is all in French and German.
This is a charcoal sketch...unfinished. I chose to do a lot of my sketch book in charcoal drawings. When doing art work that is outside of the computer my favorite medium is charcoal. I took a life drawing class at Fredonia a year ago and fell in love with it. In a lot of my work I typically use a grayscale color palette and I think that is why I am also attracted to the look of charcoal drawings.
This ink drawing was inspired by a French artist named Lotie. I discovered her work in a UK magazine called Computer Art. She uses a lot of simple line draws but adds a lot of small detail. A lot of her work involves these types of drawings mixed with computer art that have beautiful color gradations. I wanted to try to use this artist as an influence on my work to help push the organic an simplistic feel for art. You can see Lotie's awesome work at www.lotie.com