Looking for the big picture.

In working in the graduating art class this semester, we have to keep thinking about how we want to present our pieces. This is something that I, in particular, have to think about. These aren't just paintings that you put up on the wall. Some of them are, but then there's the question of the sculptures themselves, the photographs, the drawings. What would I choose, and how would I exhibit them together? How would they interact with one another?

I think that the best option for me would be to leave the original sculptures out of it. They of course are invaluable to the entire process, but that's just the thing: they are part of the process, not the final product.

I love them to pieces, but this is about vaulting them into new dimensions, and figuring out how they can be shown at their best. As sculptures, in person, they just don't have the same impact.

Case in point:

BAM. See? Impact.

Let me know what you think!

Oh hi there.

Eye candy time! ...the sculptures, not the model... I LIKE CLAY, OKAY.

Which do you like?

Men made of yellow mud.

It's Life Drawing Wednesday! I finally got to play around with my new clay, and boy was it awesome! The texture was so smooth and easy to work with, and I just love the colour. And then there's the anticipation of how it will look fired. So exciting!

I was really in the zone tonight, and even though I haven't done any sculptures since November, I noticed that I'd improved on a couple things. One was time-management, but the other was technical. I was paying really close attention to the heads. If you remember last semester, I thought they were looking too cartoony, so I mostly steered clear. This time though, I was trying to be conscious of proportion, and features, and all that. I kept remembering a video clip I watched on Ceramic Arts Daily about the proportions of the head. The video I watched was here, but here's a nice condensed version that's pretty similar. Pretty much just the first minute or so.

Here's a photo I got around the halfway point of the evening...

ONLY TWO PHOTOS?!? you ask... well, I swear I'm not being coy. My camera died! There will be more to come very soon, I promise!

In the meantime, moment of the night, while getting a brief shoulder massage from Courtenay:
Me: "Do you feel the knots?"
Courtenay: "I don't know... what I'm touching."

Also great: listening to Graceland.