3/9/20- One month later and I am finally done!! I'm a lil upset that I forgot that I split the bottom two lines into three so there's a random gap in between lines and the bottom two are really smooshed but it's ok. This was a good learning opportunity for me- after my critique w Coach I realized I should have been a bit more intentional with the text in general, either by using stencils and making it all uniform or by intentionally making it more messy, and thus, harder to interpret. I am impressed that I was able to mix the same colors over and over agin and not have any noticeable difference between one day's paint and another's. I like the content I have settled on as well as how I've chosen to convey it through a juxtaposition of text and imagery. We are getting closer to senior showcase so I need to make a series of cohesive works now that could all work well together in a gallery setting.
3/4/20- I made some progress today by finishing most of the green and light blue text. I did some of the dark blue but I will probably need a couple more class periods to finish up. I am a little worried about fitting all of the text onto the canvas but I think I spaced it out enough that it should be ok. 3/2/20- Today I didn't accomplish as much as I would have liked to. I spent about half of class mixing my paints to match what I had already painted and so only painted about half of the green and blue letters. I also ran out of my paint about fifteen mins before the end of class which contributed to my lack of progress. Next class I have my solo critique which is definitely going to be a process critique! I have also randomly brainstormed an idea for a future piece? My idea is to have Bible verses displayed in some way to parts that very religious people use to justify anti-LGBTQ/abortion legislation paired with other verses that say things about unconditional love and other things that show the selective nature of the church to focus on only certain parts of the Bible. I'm not sure if this is 100% in line w my current content; it goes more with my content from last semester on hypocrisy, but the idea of belief and interpretation is also still very present. 2/26/20- I lightly sketched out the words with charcoal to generally space things out; however, I may have messed a lil up earlier and so some of the words might be a bit scrunched in there. I did the words that went over the red and yellow areas and I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. Next class I'm planning on doing the green and light blue and then I will likely be doing the dark blue over the weekend or finishing it up early next week depending on the time that I have. 2/24/20- So today I went in with the black and painted the state lines but they were a lil thick so I went in with another coat of green to clean them up a bit. Coach brought up the point that the black was such a contrast to the green that it could take attention away from the hurricane but that depended on what I wanted the viewer to focus on (note: this was before I made them thinner). I am going to keep the black because I think that they help bring the eye of the viewer to the text in the work and also a bit due to time constraints. I still need to go in with the text over everything else which is going to take a sec because I am going to have to remix all of the colors and try and sketch out the words to make sure everything will fit. 2/21/20- After looking back on my work from last class, I realized that I didn't really like it at all because it just looked more like a giant rainbow blob instead of a hurricane. Because of this, I spent the majority of the class going back and adding definition to each color and also added another coat of blue to the background to make it more opaque. I also began adding state lines which I plan on going back and refining by matching the color already down (gonna be a lil annoying but it's fine) and then going in with the light molding paste again to finish the words. 2/19/20- Today I spent my time going back over everything and blending the hurricane more as well as doing a second coat of blue. However, I think that I may have blended a lil too aggressively and kinda made it look more like a clump instead of more of a swirl. I still need to go in with black and paint the state lines, probably add another coat of blue, and then redraw the words and do those. I thought that I would be done soon but considering everything I still have to do, I might have to take it home for a weekend. 2/12/20- Sooo I think I may have messed up the order of my application a lil bit. I was originally thinking that I would paint like a base layer, then go in with the textured medium (light molding paste), and then paint over it all again, BUT I really like the texture of the words and I'm afraid that by painting over it, I might ruin the texture it has and I don't want that to happen. Because of this, I'm probably going to go ahead and paint the final coats of paint of the hurricane and the ocean, and maybe also the map, before finishing the Bible verse. Besides this rather egregious error, I am still content with both the progress I've made as well as with how it is turning out. 2/10/20- I have finished my base coat of paint. I am so far content with how it's turning out? Some of the hurricane needs to be blended out more but considering how I'm only about halfway done, I would say it is good enough. Next class I plan on going in with the medium and layering my text down. 2/5/20- I began painting today and I am content with the progress I have made thus far. I was going to use some Sory of plastic material to cut out words to place on top of the painting for the Bible verse but after consulting with Coach who said that it was probably going to be a pain in the butt, I decided to use a thicker medium to create a thicker surface to give it letters. I'm not sure how effective this will be but this piece is about experimentation for me so I'm gonna give it a whirl and see how it goes. I am going to finish doing a quick base coat of color before going over with my medium with the letter, and then painting over the letters and the underpainting for a more finished look. 2/3/20- Today we began our first Q3 project. After the last critique, I'm going to shift my content a bit from hypocrisy to the idea of fate and chance. My idea for this piece is to paint a hurricane (like on a weather map), and then have a bible verse incorporated in some way. I had an interesting discussion today when trying to figure out which verse I should use because originally, I was thinking of using verses that had to do with divine retribution and how natural disasters could be interpreted as acts from god. After talking with Eileen, who is more devoted to the Catholic faith than I am, and thus is more knowledgable, I found that the concepts that I was talking about aren't among the more widely believed ideas. Because of this, I dug a bit deeper and found that I what I was really trying to get down to was people's beliefs and how some believe in a pre-determined path for them in life, one made by God or maybe just generally that God has a plan, while others, more like myself, believe that stuff happens just to happen and that's just life. I want the viewer to take their beliefs and interpret the hurricane the way that they believe it is and so I am not painting per say people's reactions to a natural disaster, but the people are reacting in real time in response to my art and in concurrence with their belief system. As for the physical art, I still need to figure out the composition of the words, or even if I want words at all??? Nah I think I do want words bc without them, there would be no guidance for the viewer to reach the conclusion that I want to talk about the idea of fate or a path in life.
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