some art from last semester...

These are a couple of ink drawings and sculptures from this last semester. The drawings were a challenge for me cause they all had to be done from love without a whole lot of time or sketching. I'd only done one ink drawing before (at bottom of post) and it was from a picture so it was definitely a growing experience learning to put 3-D objects I'm looking at onto a 2D piece of paper. But here are some of the ones that I liked.

I really like this one i did it from the Winnie the pooh blanket Chris & Belle gave us for the crib and a little sleeper outfit mom gave us for our baby.


This one was really fun cause it didn't have too much detail (: It's just a drawing of a picture I painted, a fake sunflower, my wooden paint palette and a paintbrush. I enjoyed it alot cause I played around with dry brush (dipping a dry brush in indian ink and blotting it out , then trying to draw with it-a fun technique but prone to cause disaster) for the first time (on the flower painting part) and it actually worked ok! It was really fun.

In my sculpture class one of my projects was to sculpt a family crest out of clay so I could make a mold of it. Here's the clay before I made the mold from it, it's shiny cause I sprayed it with mold release. I don't have a picture of the painted mold I made cause I accidentally left it in my sculpture room. We'll see if it's still there when I get back to Idaho...:(

Another assignment was to sculpt a piece of fruit and make it into something useful. I decided to attempt a pineapple cookie jar. It took SO much longer than I thought it would to do all the detail, cause I made it about 16" tall. Next time i'll make it a mini cookie jar. (: This is a picture of it before it was fired and painted. Again I accidentally left all my sculptures in my locker at class so we'll see if there still there when I get back and maybe I'll post a picture of all my completed projects.

Again another ink drawing. The requirements for the class were to use things from around the house and arrange them, then draw them from life on a 2' x 3' piece of paper. The hardest part of each assignment was actually finding the stupid objects that would look good together!!! I hate being a perfectionist about things! It about drove Jason insane because every time he would come home I would have to tell him not to sit on the couch or touch stuff in the kitchen cause I was drawing what actually looked like a pile of junk.

With this one I was going for the "I cook for you because I love you" idea. Thus the apron, cook books, apple, and cooking board. You can't tell very much of the detail from the picture but I learned I really enjoy drawing wood texture on the cutting board. I never thought I liked drawing with pen cause it was so permanent, but I actually learned to love it finally after having to do like 9 large assignments in it.


Those are a few of the things I had on my camera and probably more than you wanted to see, but just an idea of some of the things I've been doing and learning my first semester as an Art major.
Like I mentioned above this was the first Ink drawing I'd ever done, and I got to do it with an old fashioned ink pen and ink well. It was pretty fun cause I could get really detailed with it. And it was a bit easier than the others cause I just did it from pictures of animals, instead of the real things. (: