To New Heights of Passions

     This is the start of the beginning of my artistic journey. This piece represents myself, items, and people who are of importance to me. I only can take myself to newer heights and let it consume me. I chosen to use some of my favorite items and images my children have created-- crayons and colored pencils to  tattoo machines and water colored images. I photographed and digitally manipulated these images very carefully-- precisely placing them, in fact.  I know I can observe this piece and remember, at any time, what path I should choose to go down on this adventurous journey of self, art, and passion.

Final Assignment In Progress

This is the start of my final project I don't want to give away everything I'm going to be trying with this! ;)
I can say it will be going with the first skull assignment I did. It will have similar items in this as seen in the first :) It will need to be all printed out to get the overall effect. The overall feel will go along with the first project ...a more me "mood".  I will be printing this and other pieces multiple sizes but proportional to the first piece...mainly the skull. I feel like this piece is one I could just keep adding or do a series with...I am serious about doing more in the future. I've have so much fun!! Any feed back would be nice...mainly anything I could improve on or things I could have done better technically. Thanks all! :)

Final Assignment

Despite last week's issues I will be still completing a final project. I have many ideas floating in my head. One is adding more to my skull themed first project. I'm still tossing around ideas about it. Not sure if I just want to completely create something new or not. I completed an awesomely fun skull tattoo yesterday so leaning more towards the skull idea. With this in mind I will be photographing my own items to use again. I had quite a bit of fun last time so I know I will again.  I can't decide weather it will be a series or just more canvases add to the first idea. Still thinking away....We will see!

Assignment #3 Final

I changed my original idea and when with something a little more simple and straight forward. These are my babies... my machines I worked very hard and long to have. It was a long road to get them but I finally achieved my goal of advancing forward. I "mapped" my current machines! Like I said, its pretty straight forward and right there placed in a square alternated by color of machines.

I really left the mood up to the viewer, like what most tattoos that are done with these machines and many others, leave interpretation up to the observer. I convey this by the simple design and the mix between color and black & grey checked through this piece. 

This piece started off in a certain direction and ended with completely new and simple design.

Assignment 3

    I want to use tattoo machines from the beginning of "tattoo machines" to create a mosaic type picture in the shape of one of my machines! I'm hoping to collect enough images so that up close you can see details of each machine but from a distance you can only see the one machine.  I'm thinking that all the pictures combined in this way will be conformative enough to satisfy the copyright issue. Penelope Umbrico inspired me for this endeavor. :)

Visual Complexity Blog response

visualcomplexity.com | Mirror_SPACE

I enjoyed Mirror_Space the best. Its funny how it brings new means to seeing someone's mood. It a different way of viewing that in this technologically savvy environment we are in. Besides the concept of it, the visualization is quite remarkable and brilliantly displayed. Beautiful!

Copyright

Copyrights are used to protect artist's rights. The specifics for copyright laws are always changing. However, fair use is a gray area but it allows people to use certain parts of copyrighted material as long as it follows certain guidelines such as but not limited to :
1. use for educational purposes
2. non profit profit
3. its transformative enough
4. critique

With the gray area there is no specific guidelines so one must be careful using copyrighted material.

Assignment 2

I've juggled ideas for this one and decided on this. I still feel as thought I could have done more but I'm not sure what. The ideas I had didn't look right after actually doing them so I decided to leave those out.  I choose this photo and changed the over all message. Basically showing how people idolize this idea..this image of super thin models but most are unhealthy and sometimes certain sizes are even banned in some countries.  The original message of the picture before was more like,look at these pretty clothes on these pretty models. Yes the clothes are pretty and the model are pretty but its more of a look at where this industry has taken these ideas to message. This is supposed to portray a more realistic and shocking feel. I want to get your attention. Hopefully having the women morph into the final skeletal model will help to portray that message. Thank :)

Okay so I have to say this assignment is really putting up a fight. haha Coming from an industry not controlled by copyrights as much or hardly at all...its pretty intimidating. I have finally come up a few ideas...but I would not be surprised if it they change again. I am debating between the issue on how model sizes have dramatically gotten smaller to grotesque proportions or issues concerning physicians giving prescriptions for pills (etc) like candy or something tattoo wise like stereotyping. I'm leaning more toward the model subject though. There are multiple reasons why I am interested in this matter. One reason would be what image this puts in young teens/women's mind and not wanting to see them go overboard and blindly follow this trend. There has been a recent event where a model pushed too far diet wise and dropped dead on the runway. I want to convey this message possibly with a runway scene and as the models are getting closer to the camera having them morph into skeletons... all with blindfolds.  I'm still unsure how to borrow these images...I kinda wanted to use big name brands but I'm not sure if that is pushing it too far...but its kinda the point in a way. I've been struggling with this and I need to talk to Kate  about it more. I was most influence by an article with a plus size model and a supermodel posing nude together in a plus size magazine. It stated facts about how models used to be only 8% less than average women and now they weight at least 23% less than the average woman. Either way I'll figure out what I will really stick with after talking to Kate! :) Thanks.

Assignment 1

    This is my final version of this...I would have had an "in progress" version but I was so undecided for the overall piece and had changed my mind many times. I started about three or more ideas but settled with this one that I'm pretty happy with. Its funny because before I knew it I was done and didn't even stop to get that "in progress" snapshot. I do apologize for that!
   Like I stated before I started off with many ideas and I feel as though it evolved into what you see above. I thought to myself...what are things that are important to me...things that have shaped or influenced my life? My children/family...art/materials/books...many other things are in there but have more hidden meanings behind them. With black and pink being my favorite colors I threw them into this piece. Making my background black was not just because its my favorite color, I think it also helps to bring your focus to what's going on. I was hoping to go with a more motivational "let things fall where they may" piece...and you can only go up from where you are. That idea shows that I am trying to improve where I am now.

Darker with the Day ~ George Rush

I attended George Rush's Darker with the Day exhibition. Upon entering into this area I noticed a medium sized "canvas" with a view into a room(no detail of room) through a window with curtains. This canvas was mounted on a wall like "canvas" in itself with what looks like a tree-like pattern. It seemed as a way to invite you into his space and world. As I rounded the corner I saw there was another painting of the window but it showed the viewer looking out rather than in, still showing you the the shadows casted from the window onto the curtains. As I turned towards the other three paintings I noticed they were arranged as though they close you into this room -- still looking outside. Each canvas containing precise smoothly painted items such as a table and chairs and, of course, the window. Among these few items items such as  a jug, paper carton, tape recorder, a can, and a candle(shown in varying heights) on a candlestick holder showed up in some and not always in others. There seemed to be a couple of different angles of the light source. There are shapes of the trees outside reflected down onto the window. The area in which these pieces were displayed was very open and well lit with windows of its own leading you to get a more outdoorsy feel. The tones of the pieces were very much on the black, grey and white side. To most, black and grey scale art pieces may suggest depression or a sadden state of being, but I've learned that it can also bring great meaning and/or feeling. With that being said I don't necessarily get the feeling of being depressed but a sense that he is trying to get across more that just "being" in a room. So its not necessarily even about the room but its something linking the room to outside. Hints the "window". This window and experience can be interpreted many ways in my mind.

I just want to say...

Happy Birthday to Eadweard Muybridge!

Optimism/Pessimism

 This assignment was out of my norm but it was a experience none the less!

Christiane Paul Digital Art

     While reading "Christiane Paul Digital Art Chapter 1" I investigated all the artist and the three that stood out the most are as follows.
1. Patricia Piccinini
       She seems to bring a sense of reality to what isn't the norm. Some of the things she has done are weird and I must apparently be attracted to weird  or out of the ordinary ideas.
2. Joseph Scheer
       He just really brings to attention to the small details and for me implying there is way more this small and most of the time insignificant creature. He allows you to view these little creatures in a very vibrant way; something that you normal just pass off or never really get to enjoy everyday.
3. Carl Fudge
       I would say this an interesting way to really have you observe what is really there. I think at times we miss out on what's going on, in many different aspects of life, and to me it makes me stop and really look. I want to know what this or that is. Also, in a silly childish way, enjoy the shapes and colors and the mirrored quality they are shown all put together to form an image. There is definitely more going on than what appears.
   There are many talented artist in this chapter but there are just a few that caught my eye. Thanks for reading! :)

Ash Lee

Hi all!! I feel like this is a picture that could definitely show my dorky side...originally this picture was taken with my 13 yr old sister but for this blog I'd like to keep her hidden! She is mine not yours! ;)