Art lessons

I found it interesting that Haynes is telling us about he own experience as an artist. Where she started as a college student and than move threw whole career up until present. It make her seem more down on my level. She is never preachy. She tells us what she did. She does tell us that we have to work hard and be self disaplined, but it is more of a pep talk.
I would have to disagree with in that the word artist is a five dollar word. the word artist is just a word, what matters is what you do. I also thought that the poet she mentioned, Carl Sandburg is a real high on himself. Saying that the word artist is a word of praise reserved for only select class in the community and only they can deside weather you are good enough to be called an artist. I believe that Joseph Beuys has correct answer, that anyone the be an artist and art is a arena open to all. Now some may have an easier time and more advanced skills in different aspects of art, but as long as you are creating and think about the meaning of your work you are an artist.
I learned that you don't have to go through traditional art education to have a long and successful career as an artist. The art Howard Finster is one of these self tuaght individuals. I also learned that every once in a while, before moving forward, remind yourself why you chose to become an artist. Write down your thought about what you think. This will help you learn abou what you really think.
I relate to this book because I beleive that you don't always have to go to college to get a good education. That there are other ways, such as learing on the job, tech schools, aprenticeships, and working around other people with the same interense as you. That a lot of your education comes from out side the classroom. I think that is true. My parent tought me how to drive a car, operate farm equipment, my brother tought me how to fish, my dad showed me how to shoot. But you also have to take the rains and teach yourself, because you will not be in school for ever with professors telling you what to do.

Current Events

So last semester I was working with a minimalism. I found out that minimalism is very hard. The everything has to be perfect. The smallest flaw can ruin a project. I also found that not having a studio space for these kind of works really sucks. Many of my materials the had to be build at home because I did not have the tools or more importantly the space for some of my larger works. I also learned that in order for some of these works to have an impact, they need to be large. You must adaptable as an artist because school will soon be gone and you will need to provide yourself with your own space, tools, and transportation.

Taylor Fraser

Fraser installation was huge and ran the whole length of the gallery. I consecrated on the end parts that were on the end of the installation. It was this big piece of ply wood at leased 4 ft by 4ft. I was painted back and had old piece of smaller woo and metal attached in a circle on top of it. It looked as if something big had once been mounted on it but now had decayed away. It looked as if it once was in a factory but since it was not being used anymore was painted over and forgotten about. I am not sure what it is suppose to mean. Maybe my classmates have the answer.

Cal Lane-The Pug and the Proposition

These works had a dirty humor to them with a little pug staring at all these legs us wondering what he is going to do to them. The Pug has so many legs to choose from. Using the plasma cutter to draw or carve out the shape in the old rusted metal gave a very organic feeling to a man made thing. I reminded me of old grates over heater vent in old Victorian houses with the patterns going around the end of the oil can and the shape of the pug and legs in the middle. This work turned out to be a fun spin on a old found object.

Amanda Hughen-Abundant of Consequence

In her statement she said that she used abstracted forms biology, geology, and astronomy and physics to make the shapes in her work. Each one of the works could be viewed as critical mass, cell growth, explosion, and or land scape depending on how you view it. The work of hers that I looked at was called Abundant Consequence. In it, I saw mountains or layers of ice sitting on a metal structure made of to my eyes looked like huge safety pins. The metal pins seemed to be getting crushed by all the weight on top of it. The blue color of the forms are what made them seem like glaciers. The greenish intersecting elongated ovols shape made them look like safety pins. And the tan egg shapes looked like clouds.

Science and Art

The work that I did last spring semester in Drawing 3 was my Universe series. I must have make 30 or 40 drawing it that series. Some were of the just variations of the same subject matter and I would used different pictures or mediums. My favorite mediums to work with were oil pastels and water color. However, I also used, chalk, colored pencil, paint, charcoal, and salt for texture. During my painting 3 class during the Fall of 08, I used material form my life experiences growing up on a Dairy Farm. I used the interior and exterior of the buildings and close ups of farm equipment. I believe there is a science to farming so I want to used subject matter that has to do with the farm. I could be the mechanical workings of the equipment or the how a cows body makes grass into milk. Even how a farmer chooses what field to plant a certain kind of crop, how he or she rotates the crops. This will be a good project for me to work on since I am already an official on the matter of farming and I can used other farmers that I know as sources.

Science and Art