D&Print

So last night I was working on some prints of my lino and everything was going great and I even got it to work on chip board but today in class I was using chip board and the lino and paint slid all over the place, even when I didn't have enough paint on the lino stamp to get a clear image. And to make matters slightly worse, the cracks run all the way through the sky on my lino and cracks are appearing going adjacent to the ones in the sky except they're in the waves. Today was one of the most frustrating days in there for me.

D&Paint

Today i worked on skin color...it took most of my class to get it right. why is skin color so hard to create?

D&Print- stamping

My 1st stamping went pretty well and only had to carve out a few more pieces of lino before it met my(teacher's) satisfaction (I was still in aw of the fact that lino is not a type of metal haha). So everything went great the 1st day and then trouble came on the 2nd day aka: innocent Tuesday. For some reason my lino started cracking and over the next couple days I had to be carful to get paiant in the cracks, otherwise you could see them when I made a print/stamp. The teach doesn't know why it's doing this and I have to say it freaked the living daylight out of me when she said I'd have to carve a new stamp if the cracks became unmanagable. They're very managable in my eyes :) does anyone know or have any idea as to what caused or why my lino cracked?

D&Paint

There isn't much to update on, I sketched out the person and started painting her. Brown is one of the colors I definitely struggle to make straight from the primaries because it's never really the shade I want it to be.

D&Print - Carving Lino.

Today I finished carving my linoleum (lino) slab and I was so happy I finished because I was getting some serious hand cramps! As I worked I realized a few things;1) you can cut yourself very easily and don't even realize it until something gets into the cut-for me it was lemon juice :/ . 2) lino carves easier when it's warmed up first. I didn't realize how cold it was until I held it on my leg and felt it through my jeans. I ended up warming it up by sitting on it for a few minutes. 3) If you just happen to poke a hole through, patch it up w/ clay and let the clay dry in there-it worked very well for me. Monday is a day I'm excited for because then I actually get to try my stamp out and see if it works, wish me luck!

D&Paint - figures

So my warm-up sketches have been the basic human figure in different poses; I lack in the whole figure drawings, I can draw faces, hands, and feet with some time, but I can't put it all together to look proportionally correct as a whole. I'm allowed to paint a final of just a face image so I'm going to draw/paint my friend's girl friend when she's wearing a finger mustache, it's a pretty funny picture. I'll admit that I'm kinda nervous about painting it; I'm only just getting comfortable with drawing people's faces and expressions so now painting it is a little nerve wracking. Hopefully it turns out just as good as my previous face drawings have.

D&Print- Linoleum

    In D&Print we've started on making linoleum stamps and the requirement is that the picture is our own original, so you can't make a stamp of spongebob. My picture is one of those old wooden ships sailing in the ocean during a lightning storm. I wanted something with the ocean bc its my favorite place to be, it's unpredictable and has..'mood swings';the ocean can be quiet and peaceful one hour and then the next winds can be picking up and the ocean is raging.The ocean also contains every color imaginable and can't fully be contaminated by humans since we do not have the power to reach it's deepest and darkest depths. I used a wooden ship from the old days because I think it's an amazing concept that something so heavy could still float; I also love them and have always wished I had lived back when they were the main transportation because I'd love to try and climb up the mast to loosen sails and sit way up high in the crows nest looking for land with the wind in my face- it was one of my childhood dreams. I wanted lightning because its so amazing-lights flashing throughout the sky, frying anything in its path. I love going out in thunder storms to watch the lightning shows, it's exhilarating to watch.
    Honestly whenever I thought of linoleum, I always pictured a type of metal. I'm not sure what spurred on that idea but it definitely shocked me when I got my slab of linoleum and realized that it was very similar to leather-dry stage of clay.I started carving the linoleum yesterday and it took a while to get the right amount of pressure to gouge out pieces of linoleum without slipping and leaving giant scratches but as I got the hang of it a began enjoying it as then fun, new experience that it was. Hopefully I won't mess it up :)

Drawing and Painting

    I've finished my 1st assignment which was to create a sketch and a painting from a still life. I chose the still life of a vase with grapes and peppers, 1) I love the markings on the vase-I think they have a wonderful antique and foreign look, 2) I have never liked the taste of green grapes but they provide wonderful shades that i don't get to use often, and 3) I absolutely love peppers, hot peppers in ethnic foods and the sweet ones -red, orange, yellow- for casual munching while reading or on facebook, and the green peppers for pizza and salads.

    Any advice or criticism is welcome!













Something New

Hey welcome to my blog! I'm kinda new at this but hopefully it will be a little entertaining . I am in an independent study course for drawing and painting and will be working on daily sketches in my sketchbook, 2 still life paintings with their prep drawings, 3 large (finished) drawings, and 2 figure paintings withe their prep drawings. I have to admit, I felt really silly a little bit ago when I was told I was doing figure paintings because I thought my teacher said finger painting and it took me back to a fun paint splattered memory. I will be painting with acrylic, oil, and watercolor while my sketches and drawings are obviously in pencil. My large drawings will most likely be created using the grid method i recently learned in drawing and printmaking- when I signed up for drawing and printmaking, I thought I was signing up for drawing and painting, and now I'm in both and am loving it! I'm very excited to be working on these projects because I know that I will be challenged by most of them because they are geared towards the areas I need to improve in and they will help me look at the world through the creative part of my mind, changing the way I view things.