January 28

Today I tried to start my project off of my original design and it did not work out so well. I was not liking the way it was looking, and I was trying to use foil as my skin and it ended up just looking like foil and nothing else. So I knew I needed to change something. After watching the movie about Andy Goldsworthy he inspired me by what he did with the small twigs in the air. He connected them one by one making this spider-web looking design. This is him creating it. So I came up with my own idea using different lengths of wire and connecting them randomly just as the twigs were. I will have to use some kind of very thin wire to connect the pieces probably. Where the pieces form shapes I will fill in random ones with my skin. I haven't completely planned it out yet, i'm not sure what to use for the skin. I'm going to be using all metal, so I want a skin that will go along with that. I also don't want everything to be planned out perfectly because it's going to be a structure that I complete piece by piece and see how I like it and where things should go as I see it. I feel much better about this idea and am excited to get it going. I spent most of the day coming up with the idea, then cutting different lengths of wire and trying to straighten them the best I could. I also like how fast the idea came into my head. Because when I realized that my first idea wasn't working I was king of worried that it would take awhile to come up with something else. Looking around the room and seeing everyone else progressing on their project didn't help any either. I hope that this piece turns out the way I want to, but it might also be good if it doesn't.

So i'm also taking a drawing class, Art 109, and by Monday I have to finish a line drawing that we started in class (which was taking me forever!) and then choose a well known artist and replicate one of their line drawings as closely as possible. If my little line drawing of my watch is taking me so long I can't imagine doing this other drawing. I feel like i'm pretty good at copying something that I see, it just takes me a long time. Hopefully this class will help me with that. It is also going to get me to look at some artists, and maybe i'll have to write about whichever one I choose for this class.

This post is just a bunch of random thoughts. Today I was looking at this website Etsy,
which has a lot of cool things on it, but I was looking at the artwork and I found some paintings that I liked. They're done by Andrada, whom I have never heard of, but I like it.



I know some people would absolutely hate these, because that's just how it is with art, but i'm drawn to the colors and the style of painting. The third one is kind of creepy, the red reminds me of blood, and I pretty much hate anything to do with blood, but for some reason I like it! I've spent enough time here, so I think that this will be it for now. Adios!

January 26

Today in class we learned more about this first assignment. When we first got the assignment last week, I was a little intimidated by it (still am) because i'm not really sure how creative I am. My major is intimidating to me actually. I'm a graphic design major, which means I am getting a bachelors in Fine Arts. Honestly right now when I think Fine Arts, I think ughh. What am I doing in this major? I'm really not one of those really "artsy" kinds of people who go to art galleries for fun and make art pieces for fun. I really don't even know anything about graphic design, i've never taken a graphic design class. So why did I choose this? I've always kind of enjoyed drawing and I think i'm decently good at it, and I enjoyed film class in high school. I enjoyed the digital stuff, so I thought digital art. I originally planned on just trying it out, but I have the gem state scholarship and if I change my major, the scholarship goes with it. Anyways so that was some background info, now back to my original thought.

When we saw more examples of student's work I began thinking of different ideas for my own. Once we got into our lab section and I looked at my previous sketches from the paper exercise, I realized I liked my twisted paper look still. As of right now I decided on sticking with that idea and now am trying to figure little details out. I'm going to have a wire skeleton and have something like foil or plastic wrap as the skin. I don't want the skin to be translucent though because i'm going to have part of the skeleton showing anyways. The whole skeleton isn't going to be wrapped, but the skin will either have the look of falling off (because I want it hanging) or it will just gradually end with not everything covered. I'm kind of excited to get working on this to see how it's going to look. I may start this idea and it ends up not working out and I'll have to try something else, who knows! I love seeing the finished projects. That's one reason why I like drawing, or film, because you start with nothing and end up with something that you're usually proud of and really feel you accomplished something.

One last thing, I am also intimidated by the student work we saw, and students ideas from my class. It seems like everyone is doing these super abstract pieces that would be really cool to see and I feel mine is so simple. I like simple though, so I shouldn't be discouraged because of that, but still. I do.

Please Inspire Me

Because we have this assignment coming up, I thought I would go to this website flickr to search for some pictures that might inspire me. Flickr is a website where anyone can post pictures. I usually go to "The Last 7 Days" and it shows all pictures that people have taken around the world within the last 7 days. This time I clicked on architecture and building and it pulled up all pictures with that word tagged in them. Here are some that I liked.





Although I found a couple things that could get me going, I'm not sure if these will really help me with the assignment. I really liked the burnt building and could possibly see me going off of that...I guess we'll see!