This video is the perfect representation of how my last two weeks of classes are going to be. Beginning with jewelry my plans run thus:
Here are 13 blanks for trillium shawl pins just annealed that need to be chased and have the copper leaves soldered to them. After that its clean up, sawing forming, patina and lacquer, plus the creation of the pin stem too.
For those leaves I have been making these sheets of copper very holey. Other products for the student sale include ye olde interlocking triangle, link a dink, pins. I have 17 of those mostly together and am currently cranking out some extras to bring it up to an even 20. The planned d-pad pins I think will have to wait until next years student sale, where they will at least fit with the theme I preemptively chose, so consider this a hint as to what it will be.
I'm hoping to be done with the production stuff by Monday so I can focus on the actual last project for jewelry: a large flower necklace with lots of texture.
The run down for the other studio classes looks like this:
Weaving! A scarf! Fibers! It's much more fun (despite loom threading mishaps) and makes more sense to my 3D oriented mind than dyeing or screen printing. for my 60 inches of scarf I'm just going to repeat the brown-red-orange-yellow-blue section 15 times and go all out for a striped scarf.
There's no picture for 2D Design since that project hasn't really been started, and is a retread of things I learned in 6th grade, namely one and two point perspective. This time I have to draw up a city and paint it in black and white acrylic. Couple with the other studios and my lecture classes requiring last minute papers these next two weeks are doomed to be spent in absentia from my blog until finals week when I can breathe and unveil my grandiose plans for next semester.
In the past few weeks I have been something of an art machine cranking out piece after piece and being largely unsatisfied with it.
My fibers screen printing project here I thought looked very good but it was practically destroyed in a very schizophrenic critique. It was further evidence that whenever I like a piece everyone else hates it and when I hate it everyone else loves it. Case in point, jewelry:
These shawl pins based on trillium I wasn't really feeling. Plus I didn't think they were up to snuff for the student sale since I know every little problem with them. But, the class loved them backwards and forwards literally as they liked both sides of the piece. Still not sure as to whether to put these into the sale.
For 2D design we began by drawing an egg for homework after practicing shading spheres with no reference in class...
Then we had to draw junk from the professor's basement and our own objects separately, then cut them out and arrange them in an 11x14 rectangle...
Then we had to arrange the objects physically the way we did with the drawings...
then redraw it again and mat it for the final piece. No, I have no idea what this is suppsosed to teach me. All I know is that the only reason I can sort of draw is because of taking Drawing I my spohomore year with the difficult professor. Once again no clue and I'm bored in class working on it.
As a bonus here is my last project for 2D, a transition from a gun like object to a penguin which I some how got an A- on. I choose to believe that this qualifies me as half a Rembrandt. Now to gear up for the student sale, the texture project, and see how big a pain in the ass weaving supposedly is.
While going around campus for pictures of most of our bad sculpture, I annoyed a red tail hawk eating dinner. Such is the college ecosystem, consisting of squirrels, pigeons, and the occasional hawk.
Plus a bonus sculpture I completely forgot about because I walk past it daily.
