Day 02 - Painting - 6th Hr of Class

Started experimenting with different paint applications while using the bottle, instead of just drawing lines.
On the portrait painting, I expanded the usage to dots and just loose application while layering.



The Hand painting is mostly finished, I'll probably work on a background next time.

The foot painting, I added another layer to it but I was losing the layer of red I liked by the toes :/...



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I'm going to bring in old, unfinished and dissatisfied paintings from the past few years.
The plan is to paint on top of them and use what was on canvas before as my under painting.

Marcy's going to help me pick which ones to keep and paint over to discard lol...
I'll only be keeping a photo copy of those works before I paint over them.

I've also made plans to possibly stretch some new canvases to give scale a little variety.

Originally, I had planned to paint in many different sizes and then put them together like a puzzle; I just don't know if everything will come together that way once I'm done painting them all. :: fingers crossed! :: lol

-- Besides that, I still want to experiment with some of my ideas and curiosities... hhmmm....

Let the fun begin!! muahahhaaa.... hehhee ^.^

Painting - Day 01 - 3hr class

Model and tubes... lol

Since I was sick all last week... I bought in ready made canvases from home.
One of'em being a portrait that I never finished last semester.
All three canvases were the same size and I took some raw canvas with me as well; since I have a tendency to work fast or too fast lol.

Lucky for me, none of my paints in the bottles dried during winter break. :)

I started finishing the portrait of VanNa, and started new paintings of her hand and feet.


I didn't do an under painting first this time, so I just started painting raw on the canvas. :)
It's a very liberating experience.

New Ideas...

I've been thinking since school started. My theme seem to be lines, so I thought maybe I should try it with strings? I did always love strings, and I did collect a certain amount when I found it in the school.

On the other hand, I did just establish a painting style using my bottle method... hhmmm.....

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I'm debating figural, or portrait... these seems to be my strong suit....

I can't wait till Marcy gets back so we can start our painting class. I need models!!

Selling artworks...

I've been researching sites to sell art work for the past couple of hours. One of them being Ugallery... which I was accepted by and then they changed their mind due to a pricing disagreement. (Not too professional in their approach.)

Anyways, I just created a account that Cass. found a while ago
> http://www.artbreak.com/ThisChineseArtist <

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Besides that would be the fact that I met the owner of Crossing Art Gallery about 6p.m. > Sunday (Located in Downtown Flushing) There was an internship complication due to someone at their end being unprofessional as well, after resigning from their position of duty.

This was the first time for me to see a crowd of mostly Asians in an art gallery dressed in formal attire, followed by jumbo shrimps and spring rolls on a platter, served by waiters and probably a catering staff in an Art Gallery. There were a few different types of beverages as well, and it was very well put together for this auction event.

Curiosities towards Senior Thesis

Every year the Fine Arts department holds their Senior Thesis show in the F.I.T. Great Hall of our D-Building. This is when all the seniors gets to exhibit their developed style and knowledge after the average of four years in this institution.

I'm wondering if they'll put everyone from both blocks into the show. (Only 1 block last year)

If yes, is the space enough? Will they limit us on size per person?
If no, how will this all work out? What's the criteria to be chosen?

If space is not a problem, what's the biggest scale allowed per person?

What is the dimension of our Great Hall? Or any other place that we'll be exhibiting in?

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Lastly, I'm wondering what are the size and scale of my comrades hehehhee, besides the stories behind their works.

Can't wait till May 2010....

If everything goes according to plan.... I'll be done with school May 24th, 2010 !~

From the looks of it right now, I currently got one set back on a history course and the online offer is already stolen in the registration process @_@.... :: fingers crossed for someone dropping it!! :::....hahahhaaa

This years Cluster Review on Monday was rather refreshing. It's something they've never done before, which is invite a variety of Professors into our sessions and have a few set of fresh eyes giving us their opinions. Instead of picking on where we lacked or saying what they liked.... I felt like they were more kin on giving us a sense of direction for our Senior Thesis.

I don't know the name of that Professor who asked me which pieces would represent me at best at the moment.... but she was right on the money with that question; It also hit the nail on the head for me. I think it is the right direction for me and I know just how to go about it. I don't feel lost, it expresses my anxiety with a sense of clarity and I don't struggle during the making process. (which means I'm not hindered by my inner turmoil), aka AWSOME! hahahhaha

I'm the bottle lady in my painting class, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Casting Stuffed Animals..."Experiments"

This semester, I might of been a little too ambitious after an introductory course last year. I had the idea to cast toys and of all things, stuffed animals to be exact. I Googled and didn't see any assistance online or even a helpful forum, nor on the smooth-on web site; it also felt wrong for me to bother my newly wed Professor on her break. So I "Experiemted" with the materials, casting methods and the stuffed victims from my childhood.

A>Then the other option of a 99cent store Christmas panda, that has arms and legs that extents like a stick figure.

I used alignate to make a mold of the Christmas panda, after I vaselined it.
The panda in the container started to float, after I poured in the alignate....= Epic Fail
Because this phenomenon caught me by surprise....I poured more material in to secure the cure time inorder to keep making the mold, while poking it down. Then I mixed plaster and poured, just to find out it broke after I removed the mold.

B>The conventional stuffed animal that's mostly round in shape with no real significant figural definition in it's form.

Because the last victim floated, I decided to ice this one after soaking it in water.
I left it in the freezer till it was completely solid, then I took it out a few times fixing the ears or other areas that got crushed in the container during icing. It was re-freezed a few times till I liked how it looked before my second attempt of mold making.
I used OoMoo30, this time.
To secure the teddy bear from floating.... I added about 1-2cm of water at the bottom of the container and iced it. Mixed the OoMoo and then poured it in. The ice started to melt and I noticed the teddy elevated in the container. I was hoping I'd be able to remove the Teddy safely during demolding so I put it back in the freezer to cure the OoMoo30.
I did however, poke the Teddy Bear down with a wooden stick till it's a little more stable from the liquidity form after pouring in the material.
BUT.... OoMoo typically needs to be cured at room temperature and not in the freezer.
So... it was rather interesting 12hrs later.... lol
The OoMoo itself was so rubbery, like chewed gum.... it was hard to cut and demold.
So it was left out in room temperature to cure, again.
The mold turned out hard and stiff, incomparsion to how it usually would of cured.
Where there was melted water drops, it made a little mold print of its own.
The Teddy was also trapped within the mold after the ice had melted into water again.

So Epic Fail #2


Now, for anyone interested in visuals of my bad casting experience...
Here's a link to my facebook photo album.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2112464&id=35406120&l=b4ca2b5ada