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?? :)