Check out this link: http://www.denvergov.org/DenverOfficeofCulturalAffairs/PublicArt/PublicArtGuide/tabid/437255/Default.aspx
Denver has a really cool public art program... exploring their art district over spring break was awesome! My favorite was a big blue bear looking into the Colorado Convention Center, as well as two huge figures dancing near their performing arts center. Really cool!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Update
I actually completed a concentration piece on Thursday, which is really exciting because I'm really close on many of them, but having a final product makes me feel much more accomplished. I'm stoked to keep finishing them.
I am drowning in makeup work from two weeks of not being able to read because of a concussion and also from missing three days of school for State ski racing, which is adding some stress, but I finally had a free weekend day yesterday, and making strides with my art is helping to relieve that stress a little bit.
I also got some really good insight from a friend this weekend while the stress was freakin' me out. She helped me think about my priorities a little bit. Things like the earthquake/tsunami in Japan make me realize that homework is not the number one thing to worry about in life.
I am drowning in makeup work from two weeks of not being able to read because of a concussion and also from missing three days of school for State ski racing, which is adding some stress, but I finally had a free weekend day yesterday, and making strides with my art is helping to relieve that stress a little bit.
I also got some really good insight from a friend this weekend while the stress was freakin' me out. She helped me think about my priorities a little bit. Things like the earthquake/tsunami in Japan make me realize that homework is not the number one thing to worry about in life.
Monday, February 14, 2011
I'm excited to keep going with my layering for my concentration pieces. It seems to be working out semi-well. I'm going to attempt to incorporate photo transfer in that as well, but I don't want to cross the fine line between detailed, messy organization and making my pieces too busy. I will post pictures as I make more progress. Woooo!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Two concentration pieces
So these are my pieces that I've started most recently:
The first is supposed to represent technology... I'm going to layer tissue over the wing of the plane with a number-like pattern, but I'm having trouble deciding what the viewer should be looking at over the plane wing... some type of nature-y thing. Idea in progress/starting this was spur of the moment but I want to go with it and represent how technology and nature mesh.
The second is a watercolor. I'm working on drifting away from just using acrylic, and I want to drift towards my original idea of layering. I am going to use charcoal and pastels over this watercolor. I'm going to draw skyscrapers in charcoal to mirror the natural landscape. I was inspired by a photo in a magazine for this one. I'm also working on a similar piece right now, layering a bridge and a sunset.
Thoughts...?
The first is supposed to represent technology... I'm going to layer tissue over the wing of the plane with a number-like pattern, but I'm having trouble deciding what the viewer should be looking at over the plane wing... some type of nature-y thing. Idea in progress/starting this was spur of the moment but I want to go with it and represent how technology and nature mesh.
The second is a watercolor. I'm working on drifting away from just using acrylic, and I want to drift towards my original idea of layering. I am going to use charcoal and pastels over this watercolor. I'm going to draw skyscrapers in charcoal to mirror the natural landscape. I was inspired by a photo in a magazine for this one. I'm also working on a similar piece right now, layering a bridge and a sunset.
Thoughts...?
Monday, January 17, 2011
Happy birthday MLK!
So I was in Palm Springs playing lacrosse this weekend and I was incredibly inspired by my surroundings. Palm Springs is surrounded by mountains on all sides. I was also inspired by the view of the southern California sunset as we departed last night and all the views I saw out of the plane window, beautifully nature-y and metropolis-y.
I have also been thinking a lot today about MLK (Junior) and his message and how we can apply it today. Our world would be so different and so sad without the changes he created. There are still so many things that need our attention today and I think we can look to him and the way he changed people's lives for an example of how to most effectively address these things and make the positive changes our world needs now. "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."Good stuff.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
getting down to the he(art) of the matter
So my art life was on a downward course and spiraling rapidly out of control.... I was really disappointed with my WOA with letters/numbers (or lack thereof) because I feel like it was a prompt I could have thrived on because I love using words in my work.
But that aside, I have decided on my concentration, which feels really good and I am motivated to get back on track with this. After brainstorming lots of things I like and ideas for a concentration, I decided I would combine two things from my list: city images and outdoorsy images. It's a kind of urban vs. rural thing and I'm really excited about it because it also shows how contrasting my interests are. Shout out to Claire/McBride for helping me decide on that.
After a short period of overwhelming stress, I am getting back into an artist's mindset and it feels good to be back. I want to redeem myself for the past two months with the rest of my art this year. The schedule has been working out a lot better in the past two weeks and I'm going to make the whole two classes/one period thing work if it's the last thing I do! I'm excited to review my pictures tomorrow :)
But that aside, I have decided on my concentration, which feels really good and I am motivated to get back on track with this. After brainstorming lots of things I like and ideas for a concentration, I decided I would combine two things from my list: city images and outdoorsy images. It's a kind of urban vs. rural thing and I'm really excited about it because it also shows how contrasting my interests are. Shout out to Claire/McBride for helping me decide on that.
After a short period of overwhelming stress, I am getting back into an artist's mindset and it feels good to be back. I want to redeem myself for the past two months with the rest of my art this year. The schedule has been working out a lot better in the past two weeks and I'm going to make the whole two classes/one period thing work if it's the last thing I do! I'm excited to review my pictures tomorrow :)
Monday, November 1, 2010
October 31, 2010
I had a rather eventful day, and I decided that it was definitely blog-worthy. (Warning: this is a novel.)
I wish that I had had my camera with me so I could have salvaged some AP Art worthy photographs (because this day definitely could have yielded me a couple of those), or at least I could spice up this blog entry.
I played lacrosse with my club team in Seattle and was madly working on my APH Wizard of Oz paper (It's a parable of Populism, FYI) on the way to and from the tournament this weekend. A 3.5ish hour car ride there and back in the Euro-van allows for some time to hanker in and get work done while simultaneously rockin' out to some great tunes. Lacrosse trips like these always remind me about how much I love the sport, and about how much I love the people associated with the sport: my teammates and coaches. We had a really fun time and learned several life lessons along the way, including how to pump gas. We also beat the select team from Seattle who we lost to this summer... Revenge is sweet?
In this way, it was one of the best days I've had in a while.
In other ways, NOT so much.
So my history paper was due tonight at 10 p.m. It definitely got turned in at 10:51 p.m. but that's another story. What was cool was that it could have been at least 10:43 p.m. had I not been followed by the Lake Oswego Police from downtown LO to Dr. Hoppes' house. I was terrified because I had forgotten my wallet and I'm pretty sure that because I'm 18 it's some type of felony to drive without your license. Hopefully the LOPo never read this because I'm pretty sure that would constitute an inquiry at least. I expected the police to be busy dealing with hooligans on Halloween, but then I remembered that it's a Sunday. And then I remembered where we live...
When I got home I started thinking about how I hardly celebrated Halloween this year. Nerd glasses and a NASA shirt with physics equations on it don't exactly constitute a Halloween costume, but this is what I wore when not on the field. I didn't carve pumpkins for the first time in my life, I didn't watch scary movies, and I didn't go to a haunted house. I didn't even have time to help out at Halloween Night. Saddened by this, I started to check out some pumpking carving art online in order to get into the spirit (given it's now early morning of November 1st and not even Halloween).
This is what I discovered:
I feel like these would require lots of patience, but I think they are awesome!
(WOW Common App just logged me out automatically because I've been writing this blog and thus not on their website, and I thought I was being logged out of this and I was about to be REAL mad... but it's under control and my novel is still intact... Phew)
Hopefully I can redeem myself and have the opportunity to make an extravagant pumpkin like this come Halloween 2011. But something tells me that collegiate Halloween is a little different than the K-12 Halloween we know and love. Which is why I'm sad about the fact that I didn't celebrate. It makes me think a lot about what we sacrifice in the name of other obligations. At least I have extra energy for Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays? :/
To totally change gears: I'm still working on my concentration idea. I like the idea of collage that Mrs. McBridge suggested at the beginning of the year to me, but I feel like it possibly needs to be narrowed down a little further or else I will struggle with making them very similar. Just needs a little more thought.
I'm legitimately sorry to anyone who actually read this because it is basically a running thought process/large digression and probably incredibly uninteresting but it felt good to revisit my day! Can't wait to learn about the new Work of Art project!
I wish that I had had my camera with me so I could have salvaged some AP Art worthy photographs (because this day definitely could have yielded me a couple of those), or at least I could spice up this blog entry.
I played lacrosse with my club team in Seattle and was madly working on my APH Wizard of Oz paper (It's a parable of Populism, FYI) on the way to and from the tournament this weekend. A 3.5ish hour car ride there and back in the Euro-van allows for some time to hanker in and get work done while simultaneously rockin' out to some great tunes. Lacrosse trips like these always remind me about how much I love the sport, and about how much I love the people associated with the sport: my teammates and coaches. We had a really fun time and learned several life lessons along the way, including how to pump gas. We also beat the select team from Seattle who we lost to this summer... Revenge is sweet?
In this way, it was one of the best days I've had in a while.
In other ways, NOT so much.
So my history paper was due tonight at 10 p.m. It definitely got turned in at 10:51 p.m. but that's another story. What was cool was that it could have been at least 10:43 p.m. had I not been followed by the Lake Oswego Police from downtown LO to Dr. Hoppes' house. I was terrified because I had forgotten my wallet and I'm pretty sure that because I'm 18 it's some type of felony to drive without your license. Hopefully the LOPo never read this because I'm pretty sure that would constitute an inquiry at least. I expected the police to be busy dealing with hooligans on Halloween, but then I remembered that it's a Sunday. And then I remembered where we live...
When I got home I started thinking about how I hardly celebrated Halloween this year. Nerd glasses and a NASA shirt with physics equations on it don't exactly constitute a Halloween costume, but this is what I wore when not on the field. I didn't carve pumpkins for the first time in my life, I didn't watch scary movies, and I didn't go to a haunted house. I didn't even have time to help out at Halloween Night. Saddened by this, I started to check out some pumpking carving art online in order to get into the spirit (given it's now early morning of November 1st and not even Halloween).
This is what I discovered:
I feel like these would require lots of patience, but I think they are awesome!
(WOW Common App just logged me out automatically because I've been writing this blog and thus not on their website, and I thought I was being logged out of this and I was about to be REAL mad... but it's under control and my novel is still intact... Phew)
Hopefully I can redeem myself and have the opportunity to make an extravagant pumpkin like this come Halloween 2011. But something tells me that collegiate Halloween is a little different than the K-12 Halloween we know and love. Which is why I'm sad about the fact that I didn't celebrate. It makes me think a lot about what we sacrifice in the name of other obligations. At least I have extra energy for Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays? :/
To totally change gears: I'm still working on my concentration idea. I like the idea of collage that Mrs. McBridge suggested at the beginning of the year to me, but I feel like it possibly needs to be narrowed down a little further or else I will struggle with making them very similar. Just needs a little more thought.
I'm legitimately sorry to anyone who actually read this because it is basically a running thought process/large digression and probably incredibly uninteresting but it felt good to revisit my day! Can't wait to learn about the new Work of Art project!
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