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.