Woot! Finally, a non-school related art piece!

Not only is this the first art piece having nothing to do with school that I have been able to do in a very long time, it is the infamous fake-fake boob piece that I was chattering about on facebook about five or six months ago! After many, many experimental materials issues and coming to peace with the fact that I was just not going to be able to incorporate everything that I wanted to, I am finally finished with the two piece series called “Monster Factory (models # G597329 and B597329)”.

The concept of these pieces is fairly self-evident so I don’t feel that I need to do a lot of explaining here but will say that I started these pieces during a time that I was feeling rather venomous anger regarding the arbitrary standards of beauty that are set for women. In other words, I was feeling fat and not pretty and pissed off that fat is so often considered not pretty. That is when the more macabre side of my brain took over for the sensitive, poetic side of my brain and what you see below is the result.

You will have to excuse the photos as the last working light bulb in my studio blew out a few hours before my friend showed up with her superior photography skills and fancy camera.  I now have new light bulbs and have plans for her to come over and take new photos for me (my skills behind the camera are sadly lacking).  I did get some good closeups of most details…

This one is a bit blurry due to the lack of light in the room and desire to capture the “boob lights” in the pieces. Again, I promise to take more formal and better quality photos very soon and repost! The center of this piece is real chalkboard created using chalkboard paint and the scribbles formulas are from the “golden ratio”; if you are unfamiliar with this do look it up, it is very interesting stuff. The tags on each lady skeleton read as follows: (left side) ” Model # G597329; fiery redhead; willful and given to anger but worth it if you like a challenge” and (right side)” Model # B597329; Submissive blond; sweet but prone to crying jags; can be rewarded with shoes”.

The next few photos are close up details… I hope you all enjoy! I am currently working on a series about an imaginary little dude named “Forgotten Henry”. I will post updates as I finish these shadowbox pieces.

Learning to Draw

Things have been pretty busy lately and I just haven’t found the time keep up with posting on here! I am in the process of producing my own podcast and that has been eating up a lot of my free time (I will keep you all posted on that as I get closer being ready). I recently finished a drawing class and am pretty excited by the outcome. I really learned a lot about “drawing what I see” and although I am not ready for the world to see my work in portraiture (ack! my self-portrait ended up looking like Carrot Top!), I do have a couple of drawings that I am not too embarrassed about.

This was my first attempt at a still-life and although I didn’t get the perspective quite right in a couple of parts, the outlining is a little heavy, and the skull doesn’t look exactly like the one that I used as a model, it isn’t half bad (and yes, I do have things like nearly life-sized plastic resin skulls just hanging about my house).

This second drawing was from an exercise in draped fabric and using a full value scale. It is done in vine charcoal… oh and the above drawing is graphite pencil.

This was my final drawing and I do have plans to rework the fabric in it because I am not at all happy with the way that it came out (and please ignore the scissors, I couldn’t get them right). I prefer graphite pencil over charcoal so I chose to use it for my final piece. Hope you all enjoy!