Michael

So, I have still yet to finish my human head sculpture, but I'm going to do a few things to it so it's anatomically correct-- because I got a B on it. And that won't be had.
Anyway, here are a couple of things I've been working on lately.

The assignment here was to make an abstracted relief of a model we had at the moment. Loehle loved it. I only did it in thirty minutes, but I guess it's something that "came naturally" to me. I just made her angular, not really abstracted. Anyway, drum roll!


This is Michael. I'm so proud. He is "A work" according to Loehle, which I'm glad about because I worked really hard on him to make sure that he was absolutely correct. I even took the time to make ears for him. Yeah, I may have been a little obsessive. I had a lot of fun with it, though. It's by far my favorite piece.

I'm pretty fond of this sculpting bit, I think.

Update!

Unfortunately from what I think to be not packing the clay hard enough, it split from the eyes down... so the rest of the face is... way too low. I didn't have time to fix it all the way, though, so I'm probably just going to let it be for a while 'til it gets a little more dry. I guess it looks more like the model, I don't know. I didn't make the hair big enough haha

Skull

So I was going to wait to post anything 'til I had more than just my skull to post, but I got really excited about it after we started to add the skin. Doesn't it look awesome!? I mean, I'm not one to toot my own horn, but I thought this was great. Probably because we were actually building up using the basics of a skeleton. Now, I realize that I put the orbitals way too close together, and the left cheek is underdeveloped compared to the right, but I thought that it overall looked very similar to the model. Of course, there's a large possibility that if I ever wished to fire it, it would explode because I didn't pack the clay into the orbitals as well as I probably could have, but I figure when we go to scoop out the innards, I'll have a chance to puncture some of the air pockets. I'll be able to glaze it then too! Maybe my calling is portraiture. I enjoyed this much more than I enjoyed the reclining figure.

Sculpting

This is my first sculpture! (Notice the break at the knee that can be blamed on my jerk of a roommate.) I know, she's a little weird looking, her shoulder is sticking out unbelievably far and her right leg is ridiculously long. I'm still trying to decide if I want to take the time to fix her legs. I may start to go back through and see how well I can shave down the awkward parts of her body to see if it's worth fixing.

This is what we're working on right now! A human skull. I'm pretty proud of this one, simply because what took the rest of the class to do in two days, I did in one! (all of this) It's life-size, and soon we're going to start covering it to resemble a female model that's coming in this Tuesday. I actually took this photo about an hour before class finished, so it looks very different right now. All of the awkward parts that don't look anatomically correct have been fixed-- or so I hope. Oh yeah, you may notice there are no teeth. Since we're going to be covering it, the professor told us they were unnecessary. I still kind of wanted to do them.

Past Paintings

I felt that some sort of background would be necessary in order to see where I started with my art and how it has matured and progressed into something completely different. I realize that some of these may seem "deep" but I assure you, I didn't put much thought or feeling into any of these. I also am far too lazy to look any actual information up on these, so I'll leave the dimensions up to your imagination. :)
Acrylic
It looks like something that should've been spray painted. I like how loud the colors are, but I must admit, it is cliche. And pretty boring. I'm willing to admit this isn't very good. There's no importance behind it anyway.

Acrylic and Charcoal
An abstraction of my best friend Katie, with a somewhat accurate sketch to contrast next to it. I like it. I built up a heavy piece of watercolor paper with pieces of foamboard and cardstock. It was lots of fun.

Acrylic, charcoal, and oil pastels
This is simply a depiction of physical torture. I don't know what I was getting at. I'm still kind of fond of it, though.

Charcoal and acrylic
I attempted to depict that even when removing the blindfold-- whether literal or not-- from our eyes, we are still blind to what we choose not to be able to see. Ignorance is a choice, in my opinion.

Mixed media
A piece against animal cruelty. It's elementary and not very good, but it holds a place in my heart. I like it.

Oils
These panels are actually not in my possession. I left them at highschool after someone offered to buy them. I don't know why I reacted that way, but I don't regret leaving it. I know I could do much better now if I chose to. This is my very first time messing with oils. Sometimes life has a hold on you, and you can't do anything about it. You're a puppet on strings no matter how much you delude yourself with thoughts of freedom and choice.

Charcoal and pigment sticks
I don't know where I was going with this. I think it may have been because I was feeling suffocated or smothered at the time. It's just a doodle on a wrinkled piece of brown paper I got in a package from someone. Resourceful, right?

Oils
My latest painting, a portrait of two of my mother's friends. I feel like I could probably have done better if I devoted the proper amount of time to something as delicate. (They loved it, she cried.) While portraiture is boring, I think I enjoy it to a degree.