Monday, March 29, 2010

09. Megan Estes. Self Portrait.


(For full image, click above or http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/littlefishy2oo8/selfportraitfinalsmall.jpg)

I explained in class the ideas behind this, but I'll briefly reiterate. It was hard for me to come up with an idea for a self-portrait because I think it's nearly impossible to fully communicate yourself to other people. They will always read into the things you do, or write different personalities and interpretations onto you. You can try to combat these, or to clarify who you are against or alongside these impressions, but they will never truly go away.

In the bottom row of photos, I've smeared the writing on my arms and chest, and off of most of my face. But it's still there.

I tried to not implicate the writings as good or bad, and not to demonize or praise them. But I think it's important to be aware of them as existing, whether good or bad or both or neither. They just are.

08. Stop Motion.

Megan Estes, Leah Cogan, Jeanine Chiu.

Folding Chair.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Wayy back when... lucy's imitation




I don't think i ever posted my imitation. sooo here it is. for my imitation I chose a modigliani painting. I was just very compelled by the composition. Her neck. her elegance. her expression. the way she was at once very young, beautiful and sensuous but also slightly austere. I made two main versions. I really wanted to emphasize her elegance through her neck.

Lucy B-C




For my self portrait I knew I wanted to draw because I wanted to challenge myself to work more with a medium that makes me slightly uncomfortable. I also knew that I didn't want to draw myself straight-faced because I am so rarely straightfaced. I chose this photograph for a few reasons. First, and most importantly, I think my expression captures something about myself and the way i move through this world. I like the fact that even in the real photograph it is almost unclear whether i am smiling and laughing or crying. I like the thought that all intense emotions run together. I also wanted the added challenge of drawing a difficult expression. I am not sure if i captured it at all, but it was very interesting to watch my face change in my drawings and try to pinpoint exactly what creates the perception of a particular emotion.

Michael, Katie and Olivia's stop motion

The Scilight Zone is now up on YouTube. The link is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfP5Z3_2I4w&feature=youtube_gdata

Leah Cogan - Self Portrait



I wanted to play with textures so I began by embroidering the face. When I realized the time it would take to also do the hair, I decided to pull out new textures and use material. My plan is to continue with this and add more embroidery on the hair.

This second self portrait was just for fun! Photo booth fun times!

self portrait(s)

this is me, as all of the different people I can be, I could have gone on and on and on and on with these. But basically, we can be anyone we want to be. Just be comfortable in your own skin and explore who you are and try things on. Be someone who makes you happy and discard what you don't like, you dig?

Lucy's portraits





Wednesday, March 24, 2010

olivia jf self portrait 2


Lucy Schult- self portrait

I was really indecisive about what to do for my self portrait, so I just did three little ones...
First, I just sketched my face in the mirror. Then, I took two photographs. I liked the idea of playing with depth of field, but I don't think I executed my plan quite as well as I wanted to. My pictures won't upload to blogger though, so I'll just them in.

olivia jf self portrait




I'm very much grounded in my own body, so rather then capture my face i decided to capture my physical body. I think a lot of the ways that we recognize each other is based on impressions. I wanted to translate the idea of impression in a more tangible sense, by making a physical impression of my body using black acrylic on white paper and using my body as a stamp. Also my favorite piece of art is a series of modern paintings by Franz Kline, who wanted to capture his friend who was a dancer. He observed his friend dancing, and then recorded the gesture os his movement using black acrylic on a white background. They're awesome and took some inspiration from him.

8 Dan Cary. Self Portrait




I was inspired by a self portrait I saw where an artist set his camera to have an incredibly long exposure setting and then moved around the shot. He stayed mainly in 3 places and he appeared somewhat like a ghost in each of those. I tried to go for something similar, yet make it my own. Mine's actually a composite of 4 pictures with some touch ups for contrast and opacity done in photoshop

Jeanine Chiu - Self-Portrait


These are the things that I think about in a 24-hour period, in rough proportion. As you can see, extensive thought is given to food. >_>

7. Daniel Ton - Self Portrait

Candice Low Self Portrait

A big part of my life revolves around rhythm--feeling, creating, expressing it in all that I do, be it dance footwork or piano footwork or the rhythmic stirring of a pot of stew. I decided to depict my feet in my self-portrait cos its my primary way of sensing rhythm. Besides, our poor feet obligingly run us around all day and we hardly examine them as much as we do our faces. In dance and music, one of the most important concepts is knowing how to feel your weight into the ground, and then learning how to transfer or shift that weight through other channels in your body. I tried to convey this sense of rhythm through the lines in my drawings, and then did some smudging and shading that didn't really show up on the camera. Conveying rhythm in music and dance is also about conveying a sense of direction, which I guess is a concept that could easily apply to real life--a little bit of rhythm never hurt anybody

7. Dan Cary, Josh Moses, Scout LaRue

It's too bad that youtube is such bad quality. Our film is about Thursday mornings after Fish CO

The Scilight Zone : Olivia, Michael and Katie's stop motion animation

OK so I've been trying to load this thing for an hour (no jokes) so here is the youtube thing.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scilight+zone&search_type=&aq=f

Katie Sola Self Portrait

For this project, I decided to hold a camera to my head, right at eye level, and film myself going about my daily business. The idea was to invert the traditional self portrait dynamic of looking into a person from the outside. I figured that this method would actually provide a far more accurate view into the experience of being myself than an artistic construct.

The results are attached. It shows me coming out of the SciLi, walking back to my room in home sweet Keeney and then eating some berries and reading Vanity Fair. I would have liked to do it in a continuous shot but the silly memory card would only do a few minutes of video at a time, hence the jumpiness. It's excruciatingly boring. I had meant for it to be longer, but after reviewing the footage I realised I didn't want to inflict any more of this on you.

However, the video does reveal something interesting about self-portraiture. This video is a 100% accurate depiction of myself, I didn't edit it, add music or stage anything. It shows exactly what I see, the angle of my head and the rhythm of my steps. However, it totally fails to communicate anything about who I am.

This goes back to the question of "what is art?" Some people say art represents life. I learned from this project that art which absolutely imitates life is not art at all. Paradoxically, the unrealistic construct of an oil painting portrays the reality of a person far more effectively than a straight-up duplication of their life.

Stop Motion Animation - Jonah, Kat, and Elsa

Chris, Allison, Lucy S, and Lucy BC- Stop Motion - Peeps are People, too!



I think that is just about self explanatory.

Allison Barker- Self



So yea... this is me... sort of. It actually looks more like my mom, but I kind of look like my mom. Anyway, this is my first official dabble in watercolors.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

8. Rachel Borders: My Self.




So this may seem a little weird to people, but when thinking about they project I realized that its really the people I have met and grown up with that have really made me who I am (and a little bit of craziness). I collected facial features of myself, my family, my friends, and people that have had an impact on my life and brought them together to create one face. Then I added some craziness to represent the parts that are distinctly me. It may not look like me on the outside, but it sure is me on the inside.

Rachel Borders, Candice Low, Daniel Ton - Balloon Date (Stop Motion)





P.S. I made a youtube account username:springfoundations and the same password as for the blog if you want to use it to upload your videos.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Jeanine - a poor excuse for the late posting?

While I was forgetting to post my banner on this site, I was, in my defense, doing something artistic >_>. Brown Gendo Taiko (which had its performance last weekend!) builds and repairs their own drums, and this semesters, we made two small chudaikos.

One side of the drum, skinned, stretched and tacked! The body is made out of a wine cask, with the holes filled and bonded, sanded, then finished. The metal carrying handles (kan) were designed, made and cut by Miles Endo, a team member and Industrial Design student at RISD. The drumheads are made out of cowhide.

The other drum, with its skin being stretched with rope, later to be tightened with sticks (bachi).

Jeanine - Emulation




This is my emulation of El Greco... I took a couple liberties (okay maybe more than couple) due to the sheer complexity of this piece. In conclusion: master painter I am not. (but yoda I am)

Jeanine - Banner


I completely forgot to post this though I completed it last week! Anyways, yes, class blog banner.

Leah Cogan - Header...much delayed


My header. Not remarkably original. Has springs in it! Tries to focus the eye using linear direction. Hope you like it!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

8 - Jonah Kagan: Pelf Sortrait

What do you call a wildcat with ADD?

Hyperlynx!

Anyway, here's the lynx:

http://sites.google.com/site/jonahkagan/selfportrait

Don't be shy now...

not stop motion but ....

I found this on the webbb and its amazingggggggg
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/hyperrealistic-acrylic-body

Monday, March 15, 2010

7. Rachel Borders: Stop-Motion

I have no idea how they did this.
BUT ITS REALLY COOL!


I'm feeling fat. And sassy.


Love,
Chris

Daniel Ton - Notte Sento

My favorite stop-motion, Notte Sento:




Edit: it's cut off on the right side, better just watch it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsAhqEDFhb4

Leah Cogan - Actual stop motion! - Tony vs. Paul

Wait! Check this one out! I love stop motions with real human bodies. You can transcend all physical boundaries with stopmotion, assuming you don't have the Matrix technology available to you! This is a pretty epic battle!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY

P.S. Technology + me = epic battle, hence why I can't seem to upload the videos I want. I'm sorry!

Leah Cogan - ...not stop motion...but cool!

So "Her Morning Elegance" is definitely my favorite stop motion video I've seen (I haven't seen many). But Allison was quick to snatch that one! But while questing to find another, I found this sand art video which is mind-blowingly beautiful! Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=XFloPzc95-s&feature=related

5. Michael Yanagisawa - Stop Motion



Friday, March 12, 2010

Allison - Stop Motion

So this is by far my favorite stop motion:



And these are some recently ones I discovered:







ohhh and there's also some really cool ones by PES

7. Kat. Stop Motion Animation

Delicious from Shruti Parekh on Vimeo.






by Three Artists

-Kat

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Josh Moses- Header?


Ok, I know its not really a header but I was thinking about what this class particularly makes me think about when I was sketching in the library late at night and I realized that this class makes me think about doing just that. So, I quickly gathered my resources used my kneaded eraser to sculpt some of the letters and boom, here we are.


6. Kat Yang. Header.


Images are from www.celynbrazier.com

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

07. Megan Estes. Header.

This is what a silly header on a limited time budget looks like. Hurrah!

Megan

06 - Chris Tyler: HEADER


Do you know what image this is?

6.- Dan Cary- Header



I went with something a bit grungier. But really I like Elsa's alot better than these.

6. Daniel Ton - Header


7-Elsa Obus-Header!



I think our header should showcase what we've done so far :) So here is "Spring Foundations 2010!" written in pieces of artwork that people in our class have done. Honestly, I think we're pretty impressive! Yay us!

Lucy Schultz's Header


I tried to make the header to incorporate some of the projects we have already done, but I still wanted to keep it simple.

Katie Sola Header


So I know this looks nothing like "Spring Foundations 2010". However, that's exactly what it says. I used one of those wacky fonts that are actually a kind of modern hieroglyphic system, like Wingdings. This particular font is called, appropriately, "Zapf Dingbats".
I quite like it because the meaning is visually encoded in there but hidden from the viewer. You need to know the visual language to figure out what the writer is trying to say. Which is a lot like what we're trying to do in this course.
Also, the symbols happen to allude to our course. There are the cubes and squares which make us of perspective, and the pencils and pen nibs.

Allison Barker - Header


Yup so this is it... I like green and blue hence the colors...

Olivia Fagon: Heading


I chose to incorporate more images into my heading. Because this is an introduction course, i decided to visualize our growth and development throughout the course. In the heading the hand begins by drawing a simple gestural figure, which transitions to a more complicated sketch, to a famous drawing by Picasso, to an even more well known drawing by DaVinci. I think it translates the overall aim of the course, as we gain techincal skill, and knowledge of art history, but hopefully maintain our own personal artistic eye.

6. Rachel Borders: Heading.

My heading.
I used to cut up magazines a lot as a kid. So I thought I would make a preteen blog header.

Leah Cogan - 3


I'm very late with this but I've finally scanned my rendition of Nicoletta Ceccoli's 'Tower'. What I found most intriguing about this image is the geometrical perspective which, at the time, we were looking at in class (drawing all our neat little cubes!). The contrast of light and dark proved very difficult when only using a black and white palette. Perhaps the project would have been easier now! I was attracted originally to children's illustration and found myself drawn to the active but flat slivers of story given to us by the Caldecotts and Beatrix Potters of early child books; the simplicity of the defined line and soft watercolors, in a rather Toulouse Lautrec style (with whom I have always been obsessed). Relationship was important to me. These images convey story. But I also felt it necessary to play with dimension. Ceccoli's illustrations have an incredible depth and roundness, something I wanted to play with and see if I could accomplish. Illustrations these days resort to this deep, dimensional, almost computerized feel, often using clay models first or digital refinements. For example Shaun Tan's work (check him out!) What Ceccoli maintains is this kind of 'Precious Moments' heightened proportions of the child to really tug at the sympathy of the viewer. Check more of her stuff out.