Painting

My reworked assignments were the painting and current event. I choose the architecture design of a capital building with flowers. Th idea of the assignment was to make a painting in photoshop that is on multiple layers. With a foreground middle ground and background.

My current event was the present headlines about Tiger Woods and whether or not he actually got into a car accident or if it was because his wife hurt him because of his illustrious affairs. So I represented this with the two cars on top of each other in a "car accident" and then of course I needed to show Tiger Woods himself, in a bedroom.

Lecture #11

The last lecture was given by Sarah Zwerling, who bored me slightly, due to the fact that the art work that she was showing did not capture me or my friendly neighbors as something we had never seen before. Her installations were beautiful in video, but we lost alot of the effect because of it. It would have been much more intense to have been in the room where the installation was set up.

Her airport installation, was one that truly captivated my mind. I was not entertained by the idea, but the ultimate result was truly amazing. It took her eight months to complete one project. I could not imagine do and assignment like that for eight months. I would not want to cut out eat leave and branch. I feel that she better of been paid alot for her effort.

Screen Prints

In computers class we were required to design an image that would be made into a screen print. My design was that of a Sketlton of a Horse kissing a female figure. I then placed this screen print onto photos that I printed out from the tech center. The process of screen printing is quite fun. You take your exposed screen and you take your squiggy full of pigmented ink and you squish the ink through your exposed image onto the paper. I made about 15 prints.

Lecture #10

This weeks lecture was given by Melinda Steffy, but there was alot more than just a presentation going on during this lecture. Nichola (3d foundations professor) decided this would be a great time to show off her classes latest three d project which, was super hero costumes. Anywho, Melinda Steffy spoke about her online store, and Esty.com. She gave a long and tedious powerpoint presentation about how to run an online store on Esty. She also gave other online providers informations, to create an online store. In the end I learned that I must continuously refresh my sales, and my page, so that if and when i decide to open an online store I can do it properly.

Tank Man

I chose the aspect of commercial advertisement of political movements and how commercial advertisement creates a loss of importance to the original movement that the person or group create. To express this idea I scanned images from famous teen magazines, where they display fashion styles and new t-shirt brand designs in and used the lasso tool to get the forms of the tanks. Then I went into Illustrator and gave the tanks more detail and form.

7pm lecture

The eighth lecture of this school year, was given by a guy who focused on community. The lecture included him telling us about his life starting from when he was a child to the present. He stated that no one in his family had any artistic ability, so him going to college and studying biology seemed normal, but him focusing on the side doing spray paint art seemed strange.

He eventually finished college and went to the west coast and started to do political graffiti in neighborhood that were being effected by the political decisions of the government. He started to work with a friend of his who was an oil painter and they created a painting showing political issues and they hung it up around the "ghettos" of California. The first morning of display there would be a front page spread of the image and describing its meaning.

Now he works with communities with histories of racial change and dramatic racial issues. He tries to inform the neighborhood around the central area of historical, and present issues. He does so by using art. He tries to pull the community together to work on large drawings and paintings, where all the students are creating art work.

The lecture was excedingly long, and boring. And the guy repeated him self multiple times, and didn't answer the questions that people asked with an answer that would actually answer the question. He focused only on racial distinctions and seperations, he made it so that every white person in there was exceptionally uncomfortable.

Lecture #8

The eighth lecture was given by Doug Bucci, who an artist who got his graduate degree from Tyler. His voice reminded me of Jerry Seinfeld's voice (on a side note). He studied 3d cad-cam modeling. After graduate school he started acquiring all these opportunities that shoved him in the direction that his artistic life would take. He has diabetes which has inspired his most recent artistic CAD designs, he started examining the mitochondrial make and design of the human body, how they differ from the diabetic body. He started turning the forms into necklaces and broaches and earrings. He used the forms of the leads to his diabetic medicines in some of his pieces.

Recently he has learned how he can connect his insolent detector to the computer, so he can plug in his readings and start making objects from his own bodies numbers. He just finished for the most recent showing that opened monday.

Lecture #7

For lecture #7, the speaker was Eileen Neff who came to discuss her work. She acquired her BFA from Tyler. She originally was a painter but then she got the chance to take a free photography class, and has not painted another painting since that day. She collages by hand, her continuous theme is "the combining objects from inside and outside" (showing double meanings). She beliefs that the lack of formal photography educations has allowed to have more artistic freedom in doing her pieces. She started off her presentation with black and white photography (where color was added by hand), then here installation art work, and then the work that she started doing when she started using the computer.

Grit and Beauty

The Grit and Beauty assignment was given to the Computers class actually because it is a contest for all Temple students. In the contest we (the students) are supposed to show Philadelphia in a juxtaposition of the Beauty and the Grimy side:

So in my photoshop'd design I chose and image I took of the City Hall Subway stop and two people making out or as teenagers call it these days "hooking up." Now both images individually show things that could be both counted as Beautiful and Grimy. For instance, the Graffiti'd wall could look ugly to some, but others see the wall as a masterpiece of multiple artists working together/overlapping and destroying the others piece, to create and magnificent image as a whole. The image of the two teenagers kissing has been passed down from generation to generation as one of the most beautiful and yet most disgusting things. Beautiful because it symbolizes love and affection between two people, and genuine and mutual standing, two body entwined as one; yet it can also be "a disgusting public display of affection."

In the end I just wanted to show how much is in Philly, and how people can find city art, and city love in the strangest of places.

Lecture #6

On Tuesday October 20th, 2009. The speaker Sharon Louden talked about the field of multi-media. In her lecture she discussed her educational field, where she studied and how it helped her with her abstract art work. She got her masters degree at Yale, where she studied more formal ideas of what art work is. In installations she uses the principles that she learned in her art class in her bachelor and masters years to create these interesting three dimensional hanging installations. She uses a mixture of glass and fiber optic lights to create a permenant installation above a families dinner room table.
She also focused on glow in the dark materials used in installation form to create an installation that can be seen in the light and in the dark. She called the glow and the dark company and asked if they could specifically make her blue glow in the dark stuff.
I do have to say that her presentation was interesting, but i do believe that her animation presentation was't as interesting.

SELF PORTRAIT!!!!

The assignment was to scan our faces on the Epson scanners and then create an illustrator image that is made form layering layers of continuous color of the forms that repeat throughout the surfaces of our face. As we build we most think about how the colors that we pick up with the eye dropper will interact with the other colors. In the end there will be over a hundred layers that work together to create a cohesive image. The first self portrait is a of me with a braid in natural flesh tones, the second is of me with a blue-ish green tone that makes me seem like an underwater creature that lurks in the dark. What I did was I opened the Illustrator file into Photoshop where I changed the Hue/Saturation and moved my color marker to get a better value of color range.

Lecture #5

For lecture #5 for the tuesday lectures, Bradley Litwin, who lives in Philly, talked about kinetic sculptures and shared the importance of science and machines and how they relate to art. How technology was introduced and mixed with the multiple new methods that were invented to change the face of art. Bradley explained to us how he incorporated these new methods and forms of technology in his sculptures. He created some of the art works that are in the lobby that work on precise timing and move in multiple directions. Each sculpture is different from the next. You can see how mathematics, technology and art are working together to create such interesting pieces or art.

Mix and Match

This assignment was designed for us as an opener into the Photoshop application. We had to juxtapose the image that we had taken from around Philly with other images that we had gathered in Philly.

The first one is of a Steve Madden and Barnes and Nobles. I places these to images together because they both show linear perspective and they are contracting in both the literal and subliminal sense. For instance, the Steve Madden is in black and white, and it is also displaying people and shoes; while the Barnes and Nobles is clearly displaying books and is in Color.

The second is of a very famous architectural building in Philly (which i don't know the name of) and a Mannequin. I again juxtaposed color, but also mixing an organic shaped form with a more inorganic, geometric shaped form.

This is my final Mix and Match, where i chose a Fire Hydrant and a window display. Again differences in Black and white, but also the subliminal messaging of desirable and undesirable.

Warning Sign

This is my "Warning Sign" which is actually a crossing sign. I am actually a down home country girl at heart so I feel that I warn people about my country girl qualities. I created the form of the female, but taking the contour lines of the cowgirls form.

Lecture #4

Today for the Lecture Series presentations, Kate Cuffari, came to speak about art conservation, and the restoration of art. Kate Cuffari talked about art preservation and how art collectors are rarely buying pieces of art for large sums of money any more because of the fact that the piece of art work will most likely not survive very long. Its chance of survival is less when the ability of preserving the art work is so costly. I found the presentation interesting especially when Kate starting talking about who you are selling your art work too. I am hoping to own my own boutique store someday, and the ability to know who I am selling to will be a plus.

Letter Landscape

This is my "Letter Landscape" of the pin needle in Seattle, Washington. The background skyline is made up of H's and I's. The cloud is made from C's. And the pin needle itself is made of I's, V's, A's, O's, U's, C;s and H's. The letters in the pin needle are made to represent the actual silloette form of the pin needle it self. I distorted the H's of the skyline to show the differences in buildings and to make the viewer see multiple rows of buildings. I had great difficulty in creating this work because it was something that I had never tried, thus I was lost in the ability to create an actual landscape.

HW: Lecture #3

Todays Lecture session was about Art and Technology, "How it us used to make things" and the "Critical relationship between art and technology." The speaker discussed three different parts in his series, or at least he said he was going to talk about all of these topics, though I do not feel like he accomplished this. The parts were 1. Separation 2. History (pre/post war) 3. Now What

We apparently live in a global age, where we can communicate across the world. It has come to the opinion of researchers that "new technology" is fighting with art because it makes it easier to share art, so "art" is depreciated in value.

When he discussed history he mentioned that after the war, artists tried to make it so that the viewer experience someone else's point of view and allowing them to gather information that they would've never gathered in their own everyday life.

Once the photograph was created expression and impressionism grew into the post war world like a wild fire.

Art has changed from generation to generation thinking that the skill of making things by hand has ended and we no longer seems to be being done. Which means that the new generation is losing originality, leading to limited being in expansion of skills.

Walk/Ride/Bike

These are the pictures that I took on my adventure into the city of Philadelphia. I went with my roommate and her friend. We traveled to Rittenhouse off of Walnut, we took the subway from Temple University to Center City "Walnut-Locust" stop. We traveled like tourists on a Sunday morning, though all the shops were closed. I took pictures that deal with a lot of perspective and architecture and design. I ended up having lunch at a middle eastern dinning facility.

Lecture #2

The second lecture for our lecture class on Tuesday a "hot mess" (disheveled and repetitive). The basic points that the speaker tried to convey were that blogs and twitter and facebook are our friends and that they help connect us to other parts of the world. Skype seemed to be his number one online source that he kept repeating because Skype is the main company for speaking from person to person in free video chat. This allows you to talk to anyone in the world at anytime! But other than that, he was not helpful in informing us on anything new...

HW: Lecture Series #1

Lecture Series #1: Peter Hanly was quite exciting/enthralling. I learned a lot about internet publicizing. I am looking forward to the next lecture. Yippy!!