So I realized that I didn't have quite enough for my mom for Christmas and bc she is OBSESSED with our dog, a chiweenie that goes by the name of Vinny, I decided to paint a picture of him. So because I did this from 12-3 am morning of, I didn't have a whole lot of process to comment on. I decided to do a grid to make it as proportional as possible, and then I just kinda painted until I thought it looked ok. I struggled a bit with the background bc I didn't like what it was in the background of the pic, but I also didn't want to just do a plain color so I kinda did this brown, abstract, thingy. Aside from the paint being a bit too transparent, I think it turned out good enough for the project that this was.
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Today was this year's first Lunchtime Lecture! We heard from the perspectives of six students who already graduated from Maggie Walker, and some even from college, and who are majoring in art or the general art field. We had one student from MICA, four from VCU Arts, and one from UVA Architecture and I found it really interesting to hear their take on the experiences they've had. I found it funny how while some people went directly into art, others kinda wandered their way into the field such as Bailey, who had intended on pursuing politics, and Alex, who originally went to two community colleges before deciding to go to art school.
A common lesson that I heard that could be applied to not just the art world was that something that they all found most annoying was complaining from other people that was referred to at one point as "studio culture". Unfortunately, I think I would fall into this category of people as I have a tendency to express discontent with assignments and grades among other things. They stressed the importance of being grateful for what you have available to you as well as working hard instead of sitting back and making excuses for why something didn't turn out and I liked that attitude and approach to being faced with less-than-ideal circumstances. For example, instead of complaining about a grade a teacher gave you, avenging yourself by doing super well on the next assignment. Something else that stood out was that art stretched and challenged them in different ways and how that may have shifted their views on art in general. They shared frustrations with prompts as well as with classes and peers and how that has impacted their art and what they are able to make. I found it disappointing how about half of them mentioned that they felt restricted in such an institutionalized setting and I think that while the purpose of the school is to push you and force you to interact with thinks and people you might not normally, it shouldn't put you in a situation where you are so frustrated that you are no longer excited by art, as seems to be the case with Eli, who talked about how he was upset with the structure of the classes available. I was most interested by Bailey's experience at UVA Architecture for a few reasons: 1) I will be attending UVA next year, 2) my best friend is also going and will be doing UVA Architecture, and 3) he talked about how he like the creative outlet but how there were rules and guidelines that he had to cater towards. This appealed to me because the concept of art is so expansive that it can cover anything from a banana duct taped to a wall, to a massive monument installation that uses the history of the city in order to contribute to it's content and it seems almost overwhelming when being let loose to make and define whatever you want as art. I like the idea of having a form of creative expression but also having some foundation or footing of which to go off. I might consider this when going in the general direction of business. I had been thinking about being an advertising and marketing manager for a while but I think I would maybe want to be on the more analytical side? Actually, I'm not sure I kinda have a negative disposition towards math so not sure that would work out very well but I guess I would have to see the options available when studying at UVA and see the job market and pay as well as if I would enjoy doing it. Overall, I really liked this lecture as it gave different experiences from people who all essentially began in the same program I am currently in and it is just interesting to see where everyone ends up in life. Here are a couple links to art sites of a couple of the students who talked to us today: https://scaparo.weebly.com/ www.instagram.com/its_prettybent/ 12/12/19- Finally done! This took a lot longer than I had thought it would. I took some of my practice prints and collaged them into one piece with newspaper. I also asked my classmates what composition I should display them all as and this was the final consensus. i might mess with it a lil bit once they are all matted but for th emost part, I am happy with how it looks.
12/2/19- At this point, I am getting a little frustrated as I had imagined that at this point I would be printing and I am still arranging the stencils on the screen. I'm a little stressed because the project is to be finished for the next week and I technically still don't have a product to show for the amount of work I have been putting into this. The process itself is also not going great as the contact paper was stored as a roll and so it's shape makes it difficult to work with. I also put the contact paper on the wrong side of the screen at first so that the design would have read as backwards. This took a little time to correct and was not super fun to have to redo. I hope that I will actually get to printing next class!! 11/13/19- I received my laser-cut stencils from Coach today but unfortunately, the laser wasn't able to cut through all of the layers so I had to use an exact-o knife and manually cut through the outlines. I was hoping to start printing today so this was a little bit of a disappointment but there is at least a physical something that I can work with. 11/11/19- Today was spent planning more specific designs and different patterns I am hoping to try out by layering different stencils and different colors. 11/1/19- The start of a new project! Coach and Mr. Carter wanted me to start trying out other materials, one of which being screen printing. I'm going to essentially be doing the poor-man's version of this by using contact paper stencils instead of doing the whole emulsion and burning process that uses more expensive machinery. Here is my planning page of things that fit my general theme of hypocrisy. I think I'm leaning towards doing the Chick-fil-A logo because it is a more common statement I've heard recently and is kinda something I've been paying more attention to in general. |
AuthorNatalie Kim is a senior at MLWGS who likes to do art, take pics, and pet puppers. Archives
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