New year, new work!

Rainy day= new blog! I wanted to post some stuff before I get super busy again. As of right now, I'm taking intermediate printmaking, bookmaking/paper making, and wheel throwing! My latest works, however, are for my gallery show coming up...at 1010 Gallery in March....YES! I'm doing a show with my ape works, including embroidery and printmaking. Here is a couple works below!

Also, the UT school of art held the annual Charette this past Friday. Our theme was "2", so my class chose to do "The Exquisite Gun Show"! We printed gun designs with the Collagraphs, and mixed them up as well. Here are a few pics. I'm also including my bookmaking project, which is called "Roses and Thorns"...enjoy!

Yay for a FUN weekend!

These past two days I had a lot of free time to work on my projects! I created a lithographic plate as well as those collages from exchanging prints. The plate drawing shows a baby with ape hands. This reveals the wonders of evolution, mutations, and the emotive what-ifs. Thus questions the what-if of the ape hands staying put through the evolution of our bodies. Can you imagine what it would be like to live your life with these hairy, huge hands and the rest of your body of normal human?

AND I finally explored my Diana Mini camera, a 35 mm lomography camera! It is AMAZING. I actually got it as a gift a while ago, but I had no clue how to use it! My first film roll turned out...interesting. Let's just call it experimentation! But I will post the actual pics soon! Here is the round up of what I have processed so far.

And two new books today :) I just love art books. They never NEVER get old to me.

Sick today, reason to add one more post! Don't judge :)

Lately, I have been thinking about relationships and what we get out of them. I went through some situations myself this year, and now watching my roommate go through the same stuff I did, makes me look at my choices from a different perspective.  As I was thinking about relationships, I looked back onto my art in high school.  Love was the motivation for me to create art.  The idea of love, thinking about "what is love?" I often observed others relationships' in high school, even my own parents'.  Taylor Swift's "Love Story" was a song I based my senior year concentration on, creating pieces that ponder love between animal species.  What if animals had their own secret love lives? Here are some paintings I did in high school, and the lines quoted from the song included in them.  I feel like now, looking back into my past relationships, I can still relate to these paintings. The mystery of love ( always wondering if I will meet "the one" or is there even "the one" when people get divorced,etc?) really keeps me going.

A few days later...

So, last post I mentioned that I was working on a project regarding my own version on Mr. Potato Head! It's finally done, but not quite. Now, the class exchanges prints to collage our prints using pieces and bits of each others'! The theme is assemble to disassemble, so everyone's print deals with that. For example, one did a toilet. Another printed a virus. Excited to see how it goes!

I attached my prints that were cut out for examples to show the others. I printed several parts of an ape's body as well as a human body. However, you could put them together any way you wanted! Also, I printed with unnatural colors, but used lots of transparency. Neon colors rock!

As for my own project, I'm working on an aluminum plate lithograph. The sketch is shown in the first photo. Continuing my concentration of evolution, yet returning back to the print method of lithograph! I love the texture I can create with lithographic crayons. OBSESSED. Can you see how it will relate to evolution?? :)

Screen print Project 1

Next project--watch out for a new Mr. Potato Head! My version will be a screen print consisting of human and ape components. This project plays with the idea of mistakes or interruptions in evolution of humans. It elaborates on the question of what if a body part of the human accidentally didn't evolve with the rest of the body? Or what if a genetic mutation occurred that caused an ape body part to show up again surprisingly or misplace a human body part?

Assemble to Disassemble

 "Assemble to Disassemble", Monotype and Screenprint, 11 in. x 15 in.

Finally, my work has been documented! The artworks from this particular post are my most recent works from the year of 2011, meaning they mostly reflect my thought process on the idea of evolution.  Much research has been put into this process, and I will continue to explore many variations of evolution.  As of right now, screenprinting and lithography are my focus, along with fiber drawing.  In many of my works, I will add a final fiber element to them as a way to explore how fibers can change a composition or affect a piece of work.

Untitled, Screenprint and Digital Collage, 11 in. x 5.75 in.

Untitled, Monotype and Screenprint in Digital Collage

"Hoo-Hoo, Ha-Ha", Lithograph, 11.5 in. x 14.5 in.

Untitled, Screenprint, 10 in. x 10 in.

Untitled, Lithograph, Graphite, and Fiber Drawing, 11.5 in. x 14.5 in.

That is all the pictures I will post for now, more coming soon. This is just an idea of what my blog is about. It ponders the idea of evolution. Do you believe in evolution, or just the idea of it? If there is strong scientific evidence out there, what about all the stories that have been passed down orally or maintained in written records to describe the beliefs of how humans were created? Does evolution evidence just eliminate the stories or beliefs?  This blog does not reveal my beliefs or my religion, nor is it meant to offend anyone.  I am simply exploring the idea of evolution and researching into it to find what makes it so interesting to me. If you would like to let me know what you think, please email me!

New Puppy!

       Meet Coco! Coco is my new (and very first!) puppy.  She is a teacup Maltese, and the new love of my life.  I would do ANYTHING for this angel.  I look forward to making new memories with my new companion, and I am very excited that she brings me joy every day when I come home!