Thursday, May 8, 2008
R.I.P. Margarita!
Ive always wanted a hamster ever since I was in kindergarden but my parents never would let me get one. So the day I turned 18 I went out and got one. I named her Margarita and everyone loved her. I made my parents feel bad that they never let me get one before that because they would hold her as well. She died on St. Patrick's day in her food bowl...the sad thing is our family is all about the Irish pride and I have a four leaf clover tattoo on my ankle. I have this horrid thing to remind me of her now all the time. isn't it ironic?Girls Weekend at the Beach!
A couple weekends ago Lauren and I went to Wilmington for the weekend and it was GORGEOUS! It was the perfect weekend that we needed to get away! I did manage to sketch a little bit while I was laying out.
Habitable Wall.
Our final project we were assigned was to design a Habitable Wall. It was broken down into a few couple assignments. We were first assigned into groups to research and produce a book about a particular artist. My group was assigned to research Frieda Kahlo. She was a Mexican artist suffering through a tragic life. She was diagnosed with Polio as a young child and then was in a awful bus accident leaving a pole shattering her reproductive organs. We were then assigned to design a habitable wall for our client. Here are some sketch models I started to work with. My theme I wanted to work with is the "brokeness" of her life.
First sketch model with broken ideas applied.
First sketch model to scale.
We went through a week called "color week" and learned about color. We were then asked to add color into our models. It took a while for me to figure out how I wanted to go about the color because I didn't want to just add color on a bench because I had to. I then decided I wanted to add color on the broken column and make it into a "beautiful" piece like Frieda did with her paintings and life. Here is my first model with color.
I enjoyed this one but I felt like I needed to work on the right wall that is attached to the studio so I combined two sketch model ideas into one and worked with that. I then decided I wanted to go with more rectilinear shapes in my model to add a more contemporary feel and added off white furniture to pull away from "living inside a cardboard box" feel. There was actually a lot of controversy over me using the cardboard for my final model. I got feedback that I should cover it so it looked like I didn't use it just to use it. So I thought about covering it with a different brown paper and I decided it wouldn't achieve the same texture and brown that I wanted. Ideally I wanted it to actually be made of cardboard but wasn't sure if it was possible. After researching cardboard rooms I decided that that would be final material.
Final Presentation board and renderings.
First sketch model with broken ideas applied.
First sketch model to scale.
We went through a week called "color week" and learned about color. We were then asked to add color into our models. It took a while for me to figure out how I wanted to go about the color because I didn't want to just add color on a bench because I had to. I then decided I wanted to add color on the broken column and make it into a "beautiful" piece like Frieda did with her paintings and life. Here is my first model with color.
I enjoyed this one but I felt like I needed to work on the right wall that is attached to the studio so I combined two sketch model ideas into one and worked with that. I then decided I wanted to go with more rectilinear shapes in my model to add a more contemporary feel and added off white furniture to pull away from "living inside a cardboard box" feel. There was actually a lot of controversy over me using the cardboard for my final model. I got feedback that I should cover it so it looked like I didn't use it just to use it. So I thought about covering it with a different brown paper and I decided it wouldn't achieve the same texture and brown that I wanted. Ideally I wanted it to actually be made of cardboard but wasn't sure if it was possible. After researching cardboard rooms I decided that that would be final material.
Final Presentation board and renderings.
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative.
A couple weeks ago my drawing class and I went downtown to Elsewhere Museum. It isn't your ordinary museum that you are not allowed to touch anything and everything is showcased on a pedestal or glass. It is a three story old boarding house full of stuff. Stuff is EVERYWHERE! The owners refuse to throw away, sell, or donate anything. They invite artists from all over the world to come stay with them and work on a piece using the stuff that is already there. There was this really creepy room that was done with babydoll heads hanging by rope and a sheet attached at the head draping down. There then was a light with all these random baby doll parts and rocks and such. It reminded me of the Sixth Sense/horror movie. We were asked to put our name and iarc on five stickey notes throughout the first floor of objects we wanted to draw or enjoyed. Then we were told we were going to make a map of the first floor so everyone taped off their own section of the museum to illustrate. I remember the first day I was very overwhelmed with it all and was afraid to touch anything. Yesterday, probably my sixth time going back, it sorta felt like home. haha. Here are some drawings I produced throughout the weeks. Hope you enjoy!
I have two more drawings I thought were scanned in but are not on my flash drive, so they will be added tomorrow when I receive my sketchbook back. Lauren and I went back yesterday to finish up some drawings and take some pictures of the museum for you to see how clustered and overwhelming it really is. This is the left side right when you walk into the museum.
this is the path you walk through to get to the back of the place...anyone with clasterphobia or OCD haha wouldn't do too well.
One of the artist's desks. Artists come in and stay usually for about a month and pay rent to stay and work.
This is the "zone" I chose to illustrate for the mapping of the first floor. I'll be adding the outcome of it after drawing soon. It was a lot more overwhelming that I imagined when I first started drawing. And the angle I had chosen wasn't as easy as it seemed.
Overall I really loved this assignment and experience. It was very enjoyable to go into such a space and NEVER run out of things to draw!
I have two more drawings I thought were scanned in but are not on my flash drive, so they will be added tomorrow when I receive my sketchbook back. Lauren and I went back yesterday to finish up some drawings and take some pictures of the museum for you to see how clustered and overwhelming it really is. This is the left side right when you walk into the museum.
this is the path you walk through to get to the back of the place...anyone with clasterphobia or OCD haha wouldn't do too well.
One of the artist's desks. Artists come in and stay usually for about a month and pay rent to stay and work.
This is the "zone" I chose to illustrate for the mapping of the first floor. I'll be adding the outcome of it after drawing soon. It was a lot more overwhelming that I imagined when I first started drawing. And the angle I had chosen wasn't as easy as it seemed.
Overall I really loved this assignment and experience. It was very enjoyable to go into such a space and NEVER run out of things to draw!
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