Homeless/poor

So I've started to work on a piece that is of a homeless guy, and I wanted it to represent being "trapped" in the cycle of homelessness. Then... I remembered that I already did one on being trapped in Poverty. Are these two too similar? I don't want to look repetative :/ Let me know what you think!!!

April

pleeeeaaasseee help me come up with ideas for "trapped".... i am all out :( which means april will be a struggle.

Spring Break

I was working on my second piece over spring break with my family at the beach.. and my sister decided she wanted to do art with me. It was the first time she has ever done anyyything artsy, and it was fun to watch her pick up a paintbrush and have absolutely no idea where to begin. then again, i feel like that's how i am every time i begin an art project too.. but oh well.

February pieces

This month my two pieces are of rain boots and cigarettes. I started doing the boots in encaustics because I like the way that bright colors look in encaustics.. but I'm not really happy with how it turned out. Also.. still trying to come up with a way that I can say the rain boots are trapped.

Royal Robertson

I'm not sure if we have to make another blog post for this week, or if it is just the online critique... But I seem to forget a lot so I'm just going to do one anyways. But anyways, I went to a concert a while ago and the artist (sufjan stevens) performed music from his new album that was inspired by this artist named Royal Robertson. He had 11 kids, was a paranoid schizophrenic, and claimed to have a futuristic vision of a space ship with God as driver, when he was fourteen. Pretty interesting guy... here's his art

http://www.webbartgallery.com/artist/royal/royal.html

2 pieces

The first one is a comment about being trapped in religion (encaustic), and the second one is supposed to be how you can be trapped in culture/tradition (water color).

meth

I read this book called "Methland" a few days ago because I had to write an essay about meth for some scholarship.. I thought that it was interesting... but now all I can think about is meth (I told that to my mom and she got mad) Seriously though it;s all i've been thinking about lately.. and I think I want to do a piece about how people are "trapped" by their drug addictions... but i dunno, do you think that's too much of a stretch? I also don't think I can represent it in a way that isn't cheesy/doens't look like I'm addicted to drugs.. sketch. so, I'm open to ideas

here it is

update

So I'm beginning to like the idea of "Trapped" wayyy more than water... I keep having ideas that I want to do over the course of the year and I'm really excited to get to work on them.

I took a few pictures at the HP7 premier too! I was going for the "pictures of groups" catagorie.. but the satanic bridgeport employees kept ruining my fun... oh well, there will be time for more pictures this thanksgiving!

also: if anybody ever needs a robe/cloak... our seamstriss Claire McKinney did an excellent job with mine! Thanks again Claire :)

TRAPPED

soo I decided water was kind of boring.. and somehow transitioned to thinking that it would be fun to explore the elements and principals of art through the concept of being "trapped".  Not in just a "trapped in a cage" kind of way... more like exploring the different things that can act as a trap.

H2O

Okay.. I've decided that water is the way to go. I'm especially drawn to the eerie, drippy look of acrylic and water colors of weird deep sea stuff... which sounds a little weird. I was inspired by another lakeridge artist in a concentration a few years ago. soo that's what I'm leaning towards for my concentration.

Is this necessary?

I don't really know if I need to do a blog post... but I guess it's better to be safe than sorry!

I've thought about concentrations a lot lately, and I keep coming back to water. What about water? I have no idea. But I guess it's a step in the right direction. If anybody has any concentration ideas/variations on "water" that would be fun... please let me know :)

arrrrrrghhhh!

I'm excited for our picture tomorrow-- it's been a very pirate-y week, and i'm excited we have this to top it off. It makes me wanna give a shout out to my bud Patchy.. who actually kind of sucks in every episode.. but is deserving none the less.

post numero dos

I still don't really have an adequate concept for my self-portrait. I keep changing my mind-- surprise. If anybody has any ideas about how they see me, let's here em!

summah art

Me Allie and Sarah went to Andrea's art studio and messed around with wax and fire for 6 hours.. it was way different from any art I've ever done, but I liked it a lot. I wasn't crazy about the peices I made--one was a fly in a venus fly trap, another one of a bird, and the third a fish surrounded by hooks-- but I liked the experience on the whole. I'm glad Andrea was there, there's something about the way she talks and explains her inspiration behind the crazy encaustic peices that is really entertaining.. she's really open with her thought process. Other than that, I drew a little bit on nights when I couldn't sleep, painted one piece on three small canvases... and me and dani painted a bedroom if that counts? I'm ready to get back into the swing of things, and although i'm not really even in class with you guys.. i'm excited to see how the year turns out!