rauschenber collage make me want to live forever
so here's the full (kinda) history of how a came to totally fall fucking head of heels (ass over tea kettle) for collage. mid december i had my freshman review. apparently my art is too smoothed over. that means look at books about rauschenber... and fall in love with his work. my 2d professor, jim flahaven, and i talked about him for just a few minutes several weeks ago. then i made a stupid collage about sex and music and candy and funny shit just to entertain myself. then in 2d yesterday jim was showing slides about transparency and art and he said, "and, sam, who is this artist of this piece?" and i said, "rauschenberg!" i was 1. really happy to see a rauschenberg and 2. really happy that he remembered that we talked about him before. it made me feel kinda important, ya know. anyway. our free study for homework that day was to make a collage experimenting with transparency. creme my jeans, kids! what i made was this: i covered a piece of cardboard with pictures of women in kind of demeaning or unnecessary or ridiculous cosmo magazine type situations, ect. example: wearing a naughty wedding dress/Frederick’s underwear stripper costume, removing mascara without losing eyelashes, hair dye instructional images, really uncomfortable shoes, and a few self-portrait sketches, because i too am part of the shenanigans that is being a woman. i also stayed with an almost entirely monochromatic white theme. then i fucking like scraped it all up with scissors and safety pins. then i sanded it. then i used mostly blue and occasional orange chromatic grays in acrylic paint to satisfy the transparency requirement of the assignment. i kind of just scribbled a lot for lack of a better explanation. then i let paint drip from the top or the page to the bottom like candle wax. i also used a tiny bit of gold glitter in one of the pigments. i think it's pretty impressive. i had a really great time making it and i really like it. i'll probably make more. it's too bad that i don't have a scanner, because i'd like to show my projects in my lj, because i don't think anyone really reads when i write about them.
anyway. dork. a also finished a metals project that i promised a good friend ages ago.
i'm also working on a sculpture in 3d that oh man. i've stayed up all night working on it 2 of the past 3 days. that's not even the only super unhealthy thing about the assignment. my piece cuts me, and i bleed on it a bunch. like, a bunch. my hands are all cut to shit and coved in band aids.
i also have so much drawing homework. oh but i don't think the drawing have to be too big, so it should be ok. it should only take me like... sunday. ehh procrastination is sooooo bad.
i'm writing so much about school today. it's because i was so sick the past few weeks that i couldn't really work that much. now that i'm better i'm totally making up for it and i'm so happy to be doing so. going a week without staying all night in studio sucks. that's why i don't want to transfer is that most school do not have 24 hour studio time, and i can't go on with out that. i seriously have dreams about having my own studio all the time. well not all the time, cuz i don't really sleep, but anyway.
i spend lot of time with my friend deanne lately. she's great! i'm kind of sad that her (ex?)boyfriend, who is also a good friend of mine, hates me. it's kinda really really sad.
god, i just called my mom to chat, and she like scheduled an appointment with me for bonding time. friggen silliness. she's probably busy, because my aunt is getting married tomorrow... poor woman.
man, crazy news. i have a playlist saved on my comp that's for listening when i'm doing lots of work so i don't have to change cds every like 45 mins and get all distracted. i just play like good working music on random. twice in a row i said to myself, "self, i hope such and such a song is next." and then that song played next. crazy!
oh yay. tomorrow i'm making books with toni. fun. i love books.
oh yeah. and i saw david, and i'm fuckin in love with that boy and i have been since my whole fucking life.
wow, crazy mixed up informative lj entry. wah-ever. peace. hehe
anyway. dork. a also finished a metals project that i promised a good friend ages ago.
i'm also working on a sculpture in 3d that oh man. i've stayed up all night working on it 2 of the past 3 days. that's not even the only super unhealthy thing about the assignment. my piece cuts me, and i bleed on it a bunch. like, a bunch. my hands are all cut to shit and coved in band aids.
i also have so much drawing homework. oh but i don't think the drawing have to be too big, so it should be ok. it should only take me like... sunday. ehh procrastination is sooooo bad.
i'm writing so much about school today. it's because i was so sick the past few weeks that i couldn't really work that much. now that i'm better i'm totally making up for it and i'm so happy to be doing so. going a week without staying all night in studio sucks. that's why i don't want to transfer is that most school do not have 24 hour studio time, and i can't go on with out that. i seriously have dreams about having my own studio all the time. well not all the time, cuz i don't really sleep, but anyway.
i spend lot of time with my friend deanne lately. she's great! i'm kind of sad that her (ex?)boyfriend, who is also a good friend of mine, hates me. it's kinda really really sad.
god, i just called my mom to chat, and she like scheduled an appointment with me for bonding time. friggen silliness. she's probably busy, because my aunt is getting married tomorrow... poor woman.
man, crazy news. i have a playlist saved on my comp that's for listening when i'm doing lots of work so i don't have to change cds every like 45 mins and get all distracted. i just play like good working music on random. twice in a row i said to myself, "self, i hope such and such a song is next." and then that song played next. crazy!
oh yay. tomorrow i'm making books with toni. fun. i love books.
oh yeah. and i saw david, and i'm fuckin in love with that boy and i have been since my whole fucking life.
wow, crazy mixed up informative lj entry. wah-ever. peace. hehe