Design is a Process

Its taken me two days to come up with a composition for my 2D design class project. Part of this is because I am not very good designing at two dimensional works, partly because the professor hasn't explained anything about composition other than what the elements and principles of design are. Thus going on my spotty knowledge of proper composition (rule of thirds) and my four years of art history analysis I present you with an essay in pictures and haiku.

Drawing all class
The professor likes these lines
Due next Tuesday!

Broke down and sketched
So much for intuition
Naming it "Cellular Strands"

Too many lines, Not enough!

Trying to be Jean Arp.

If all else fails,

Make it look like a plant.

Perhaps it's scale!
Let's redraw all these lines.
Committed to dots and circles.

Does it look good or bad!?

Text an artist friend

"It's too detailed, they like minimal"

Reject pile's gotten huge

I think I'm on to some thing here...

What if I did this?

Dots ARE too complex,

Give up, go to plan B

Scribbly not-arabic.

Flip it around front to back,
Add this, subtract that,
Artist friend approves.

Oh God I like it horizontal,
She likes it vertical,
Either way it's "Butterfly" now.

Four people approve,
Only one majors in art.
Pretty pretty presentation,
It's done!

June Roundup

So despite the time sink that is an unpaid internship I have actually been working on some art, but sadly none of it is jewelry related. Still, have some drive by pictures of half finished projects like you're reading tumblr:

Firstly, I've been carving a golf ball into the shap of a swan. The rubber in side a modern golf ball is quite fun to carve, but I am terrible at detail carving and smoothing it out so I have been picking away at this off and on for weeks.

I have an old book called Album of Cats that didn't sell at a garage sale. This collage is a siamese from the book and some old SAIC college ads back from when I was in high school. I've titled it Alarm and have to glue down the cat, fill in the white strips at the bottom and test whether painting matte medium over it is a good or bad idea.

And since I'm using cat pictures for collages I also have the obligatory lolcats one that's titled Young Astro Cat Sees Forever for the First Time combining not one but two memes! This is a painting of space on canvas (that needs one more yellow spot welling up in the lower left) to which the cat on the piano keys in front of it will be glued on. To make stars I will be cutting out pictures of Pandora charms from one of their old catalog booklets.

And finally, succulents!