Digital Self Portrait Numero Dos!

I have to say this was definitely my favorite project so far! It was so much like regular watercolor painting! I love how you can actually make something like this on the computer I think it's amazing. This portrait is my final self portrait for the Digital course I am taking, we just completed a web page as well and are now on the last project of the semester. Which would happen to be video...can't say I feel completely confident about that one! But I guess as long as I can avoid filming MYSELF then it should all be good! I don't ever know what to do when I'm on camera so usually I revert to being an immense dork!

Anywhoodles I have reached the finals portion of the semester and final projects are being announced! I figured I should put them up here, seeing as this is my record of my art career and all. In my drawing course our final project is to do one last self portrait but this time full scale. He wants it to be near life size or larger, from head to toe, and with a background that is convincing as far as making the figure have a solid space behind it etc. As for 3D I have an assemblage project for my final which I already have a few ideas for, a research paper for my writing course and last but not least an exam in Art History. Then my semester is done!

I realize I had dissappeared off the face of the earth for a little while but I am going to be catching up the blog with my projects as of late, including one done with a calligraphy pen, and get back to writing at least once or twice a week =) I am a busy bee!

Anyways the next post will probably be about the sculpture I've been working on and the wonders of vermiculite, for now I have some writing to do. Until next time!

Partner in Crime

I've discovered in the past year or so that becoming an art major means so much more than just dedicating all of your time into honing your artistic talents. More so than any other major I think that becoming an art major means entering into a family of people just as crazy and outside the box as you are! My friend Kaitlin Dorsey is a perfect example of this. I have known Kaitlin for about a year now and she has become my closest friend in the art world, she is as I stated in the title of this post my partner in crime! We both went through a very similar transition, me from a biology major and her from nursing, into the art world and have been close friends ever since.

Her art process reveals a lot about who she is as an individual. When discussing this with her she said "My art process usually starts with whatever my mood is or whatever event is going on in my life. Whether it's a breakup or school or a certain interest I might have at the time. Whatever I'm feeling, my art usually reflects it." To simplify it even more, when she is feeling happy she tends to draw lighter images but when she is feeling upset or angry her drawings could gravitate anywhere from skulls and hearts to dislocated eyeballs! Her bubbly and eclectic personality practically     jumps out at you from her art work regardless, it doesn't matter if the mood is sad or happy or angry. She effectively carries across that mood to the audience in all of her artwork while at the same time giving it a little twist that is uniquely her own. 

While painting, with oil paints in particular, seems to be the bane of her existence she has an intense love of toned paper, texture, and color pencil. These three are combined frequently in her work. While paint is not very easily controlled in her opinion, she handles her colored pencil drawings masterfully. Lately she has been experimenting with illustration board by scoring it, with objects such as a staple remover, and then drawing on it with colored pencils and other materials. Her innovation, both in materials and purely in the ideas that she comes up with, is most definitely inspiring and I can't wait to see what she does as a graphic design major. 
She has most certainly hit the ground running!

A day in the life of MOI!

A day in the life of meee, Wednesday 7th 2012! My life is crazy and hectic and I love every minute, even those minutes where all I wanna do is curl up in a ball and avoid all my work and sleep! The assignment this time was to create a photo montage that follows one day in your life. This particular day was one of my busiest days of the week! I had Drawing Observation and Invention, Digital Tools and Concepts, a meeting with my 3D professor, Art History, and then a visit to the Baltimore Museum of Art! Throughout the day I took pictures of my friends and the things that I saw and ate and wrote in, and that is what this montage is all about.