another Goblin doodle and we had a guest!

We had a guest in portfolio class today, a fellow by the name of Chris Ryniak.  His gallery work inspired some doodling:

I need to do some cartoon drawing too, he works for American Greetings and I know they recruit here in the spring.  Otherwise, here is another goblin:

Love and Coffee,

~Anne

better with lines

                       

Love and Coffee,

~Anne

Sketch book and Gobos

Sometimes I take on a project that makes me feel terrible about myself.  I think that I will be able to find the time for the project and then I cannot.  This is one of those projects.  I still want to do it but when I finally went back to work on it I no longer liked the design.  So I started over a bit:

Also a drawing from my sketchbook:

Love and coffee,
Anne

What do I want to cast in bronze? Also, welding.

Deciding what to do for bronze casting was driving me crazy over the summer, whatever I did was going to stick around for awhile so I had to do a real piece with some serious concept behind it.  And that was terrifying.  So I thought about it and I worried about it and I went to the class still without any idea what I was going to do and then I let it go.  Once I let it go I was actually able to think about the sorts of ideas that need to be explored and then it slowly came to me:

I know that some people are going to roll their eyes and declare that this is just one of those "shock-value" works and that's their right.  I know the image is simple but I hope some people will stop and think about what it means.  It already has a title: "The 13 to 31 Demographic: Portrait of MJ".  The piece will be in the round and wall-mounted.

We were supposed to come in with three pieces to do over the course of the semester, I have a feeling this piece is going to take most of my time.  That said I still need to finish "I-Ra-Ra-Ran" and I want to do some larger welding after that.  I am thinking of making a fourth piece in the I-Ran set.  This one would be taller and a little more organic, almost tree-like: 

If the set of three is meant to bring to mind a field of oil derricks, this one should bring to mind something similar but something that is twisting and growing.  It should be a lot of fun to work on.

All for now!  Love and coffee,

~Anne

Preservations from my sketchbook

Sketchbooks decay. There is no real way to prevent this and as they decay they take all the things within them and rub away their vitality, leaving them in a half-way state where their quality is apparent, but also lost. This is not, in itself, a bad thing, but here are a couple images I wanted to preserve:

All for now! Love and coffee,
Anne

Almost finished...

As it turns out the image had to be vertical so here is the revised thumbnail:
and the almost final:

Love and coffee,
~Anne