Part One & Twooo (MIAD)

This sculpture I saw looked so cool! The artist of this piece is Mark Horton. As i was looking at this sculpure, it appeared so strange to me, yet so cool. Instead of taking a picture of this from a front view, I decided to take a picture from a different perspective... I took it from the top! I love how the picture turned out, it has good quality and makes you think what it really is. I noticed in this piece there was obviously shape and a great use of texture. Even though i was not allowed to touch the pieces, you could tell the glossiness of this sculpure and the smoothness of it. The one least effective part of this piece is the lack of color, if there were other colors in here besides red, it would have more to say.

When my class and I entered this gallery, this piece blew my mind! Mark Horton, the artist of this piece is a realist. In his art he creates places that are not real. Only one of his pieces did he use a real place and mix it into his piece. You can see Unity here because of the buildings contrasting eachother and unity that its just one city together. You can also see movement in the cars on the road and it actually feels real, the cars are really moving in this piece. The thing i loved most was the detail of each individual building and the colors mark used. One thing that I disliked was the shadow of the orange building close to us, I think that couldve used some work but it still looks good!

With this piece in the MIAD hallway gallery, it appeared very strange to me. A old womens head in a baby carage? what? What I infered from this piece is a old women trapped in a young persons life. The women looks scared and trapped. It also reminds me of the movie, Benjamin Button. An old man is born at age 80 and has the traits of a baby but not the face, its old and wrinkly. The elements of design I saw in this piece is repetition, movement and line. The repetition of this piece is the way the artist repeated her design. There is line after line in this piece and you notice the repetition in each part of it. The hair of the women, the carrage, and the top of the carrage. Line is obviouslly used alot in this piece, every area has its own part where the lines are perfectly straight. I love that you can notice line in the wrinkles too, You see movement because I get the feel that the women is breathing but just barely, she looks as if shes stuck and needs to get some air.





In front of the Mark Horton Gallery, I shot a picture of this flower. I thought the quality of my point shoot camera did a fantastic job shooting this. What drew me to this flower was mainly the color and the light that was hitting it. I love how the woodchips on the bottom has a blur to it and it has the flower in focus. I've actually never seen a flower like this before but i've definetly seen a similar one. 

I shot this picture in the painting studio of MIAD. I love how old fashioned and crummy this place looks. The walls are loosing its paint and the ceiling looks rusty. This shot is interesting because of the design of the place. I love pictures from old times and things that look worn out.  I've never seen a place exactly like this nor at a college studio, but this makes this college unique. What this room reminds me of is a room in an actual house... like an attic. 






When I shot this photo we were walking to the galleries. This shot was interesting to me because of the perspective I shot it at (shooting up) and how the building and light post contrast each other. I think buildings like this around the MIAD campus is what makes this place so interesting. Usually campus's look "expensive" and super nice but this place is so chill and homelike. I love that there are so many alleys here and how interesting the work is around there. I've seen many places like this especially in Rexburg Idaho. I shot my senior pictures in alleys that looked very similar to the alleys on MIAD campus. 

AP Art

This past 2 weeks, i've really been getting into still lifes. I honestly love drawing them and putting the pieces into your own perspective. Such as making the certain object bigger, smaller, up close view and so fourth. I've always been decent at copying still lifes in Mrs. Bjorks class and turning them into my own perspective so this past week i made my own and they turned out to be really impressive. Im so excited for school to start so i can really get into new art and work with other types of utensils. This summer has gone by so fast and im sad its coming to an end but this year will be a good challenge for me and im really excited! Im trying to post all my photos to flickr right now :P

4Rt!

This summer has gone by so fast! its crazzzyyy! So as i've been looking at the art sites and really trying to figure out what portfolio i wanted to do, alot of online work has inspired me. I wish I had the media and all the utensils im sure my other classmates had but from what i've looked at and done, im gonna need lots and lots of practice!

Nauvoo Trip

About a week ago I got the opportunity to go to Nauvoo, IL to spend 5 days there to explore the town were the pinoneers once were. This was a church trip and it was just an amazing experience. They had many paintings in the building where we toured and lots of them inspired me. One picture I took really inspired me because of the stroke of the pen they used. Its a very detailed piece and the stroke marks are left there. The work ive been doing lately is furniture. There was lots of olden time furniture like fire places, beds, cabnets, old jails and so fourth in Nauvoo and I had some time to sketch what i saw and take pictures so I could go back to my work.

http://portalwisconsin.org/

As I was looking through the site, http://portalwisconsin.org/, there was many artists pieces that really appealed to me. The one artist that really stuck out to me was, Sherry Ackerman. This painting she did was with water color and she named it, My Iris' View of Irises. I learned that there can be so much depth with watercolor and paintings really do look phenomenal when using water color and thats one thing i've really been into this summer. Another thing I learned was from the gallery, I looked at the mixed media and this artist, Lori Chilefone made this crazy cool piece. I learned that you can combine so many ideas into a piece and make it look different and unique. Love this site!

AP Art Blog

Wow has it been a hecktic summer! I've already been to 3 camps this summer and my fourth this coming wensday! This past June I got to go to Idaho, we drove there and I felt like it was the longest time of my life! It was so beautiful going through Wyoming and seeing all the beautiful mountains. I took many many pictures and I also attemped to draw one of the Mormon temples out in Rexburg, ID. Its such a beautiful place there. Im still trying to figure out how to add photos and work this blog so bare with me!

Scholastic!

As i was looking throught this website, http://www.artandwriting.org/ArtWriteNow, there were many paintings that caught my eye. As i was going through the paintings, I noticed that kids from all ages put there work on this site for everyone to see. The one that really put me into amazement was, Robbie Billings. He is and won an American Visions Medal in 2010. The one thing I learned off this site was that teens from 7 through 12 grade from 45 states and 6 countries produced work in the national exhibition in 2010, showcased more than 600 visual and literary work! Another artist that caught my eye was Juyon Lee He is Age: 14 and in Grade: 8... His art inspired me so much becasue of how young of an age she is and how amazing she made her piece. There is so much going on that its almost destracting but also really creative. I love how she put photographers in this piece putting Mona Lisa as the center point and pointing out that she is the main focus of this piece.