Lists are great, and www.brainpickings.org has a lot of really good lists.
Here's two nice lists:
Two lists worth working on adding to my check-off list.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Alter Ego
Reminds me of one of my unit lessons about creating an alter ego. Alter egos are always an interesting path to explore!
If only they'd GET IT!
"What ails us is that we treat student work as only assignments that are due for a grade and not as the one-of-a-kind human accomplishments they are - worthy of celebrating, sharing, and enriching our community." -Dad
It's Done.
My unit is done.
As well as a lot of other things. I just had my last Advanced Painting crit ever on Monday. Basically, that means, my last painting crit ever. My last undergrad painting course EVER is done. And now, after a semester of working, and trying, and experimenting, I'm supposed to stop? I'm supposed to go student teach? I'm supposed to not focus on my growth as an artist? Because, all very suddenly, I feel it. I'm not done here, I've only just begun. I'm good, I've got room to be great. I want to lead that artistic life. I want more classes, more late nights in the studio. I want a studio of my own, dirty and grungy and always prepared for me. My space. My work. I've been inspired, I know which direction I want to take. I finally have favorite artists and things that I know I love and things I know I want to do. Yes, of course I still want to teach. I've always wanted to. It's my dream. But right now, I'm not done with learning about myself as a painter, as a drawer, as a maker, as an artist. I'm not really feeling it. It being student teaching. It being graduating. It being, what, go back home for a year and try to make money in a town stark of inspiration? It being then go try to start a life, start grad school, start a job. No, I want to be here and continue what I'm doing. I watched my friends and peers work and set up BFA shows and I want that, I want to be there. I want to have shows, I want to make more work, to have to time to allow myself to focus on it. To not be distracted by other things, other classes.
Alright, I'm done.
As well as a lot of other things. I just had my last Advanced Painting crit ever on Monday. Basically, that means, my last painting crit ever. My last undergrad painting course EVER is done. And now, after a semester of working, and trying, and experimenting, I'm supposed to stop? I'm supposed to go student teach? I'm supposed to not focus on my growth as an artist? Because, all very suddenly, I feel it. I'm not done here, I've only just begun. I'm good, I've got room to be great. I want to lead that artistic life. I want more classes, more late nights in the studio. I want a studio of my own, dirty and grungy and always prepared for me. My space. My work. I've been inspired, I know which direction I want to take. I finally have favorite artists and things that I know I love and things I know I want to do. Yes, of course I still want to teach. I've always wanted to. It's my dream. But right now, I'm not done with learning about myself as a painter, as a drawer, as a maker, as an artist. I'm not really feeling it. It being student teaching. It being graduating. It being, what, go back home for a year and try to make money in a town stark of inspiration? It being then go try to start a life, start grad school, start a job. No, I want to be here and continue what I'm doing. I watched my friends and peers work and set up BFA shows and I want that, I want to be there. I want to have shows, I want to make more work, to have to time to allow myself to focus on it. To not be distracted by other things, other classes.
Alright, I'm done.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
A List
I know now. I have a list of favorites.
Egon Schiele
Herakut
Alice Neel
Nathan Oliveira
Wayne Thiebaud
and Manet, Monet, Derain
It's so hard to limit yourself. I could totally continue. And with more than just painters. But, damn, painters totally do it for me though.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
One more.
So I have one more lesson to write for my unit to be complete. Granted, I still have to do a teacher example for one of my completed lessons, but still, one more! Two lessons I have are done on paper, 2-D. The bridge lesson is obviously 3-D. And large. And a group project. So I've been hesitating to start the next because I want to be able to bridge them together. ...briiiiddggee... hahahaha I didn't mean to do that!
Matt and Rachel B.'s lesson today got me to thinking about toothpicks, since that's what my group was working with. I remember seeing an artist who used toothpicks on my favorite, ever faithful blog, Sweet Station. Steven J. Backman was the artist's name, and he makes itty bitty building models made of tooth picks, and huge undulating sculptures made of thousands of toothpicks and everything in between including contour "drawings" of toothpicks. His website? www.toothpickart.com. Wha-bam. So I'm thinking this will be my long lesson! Bridge lesson is one day, paper construction is 2 days, written portrait is 2 to 3 days. I'm thinking, this should be a good 5-dayer.
Matt and Rachel B.'s lesson today got me to thinking about toothpicks, since that's what my group was working with. I remember seeing an artist who used toothpicks on my favorite, ever faithful blog, Sweet Station. Steven J. Backman was the artist's name, and he makes itty bitty building models made of tooth picks, and huge undulating sculptures made of thousands of toothpicks and everything in between including contour "drawings" of toothpicks. His website? www.toothpickart.com. Wha-bam. So I'm thinking this will be my long lesson! Bridge lesson is one day, paper construction is 2 days, written portrait is 2 to 3 days. I'm thinking, this should be a good 5-dayer.
7/8" 2,330 toothpicks 88 toothpicks.
The White house, made of one toothpick! 17.5" in height The Man of la Mancha himself!
(Don Quixote)
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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