Show Season

Art shows are all about showing off your talent and work, so I guess that makes me kind of nervous. Like, if I don't get into any shows than it means I don't have talent? I think thats what makes me the most worried because if I don't succeed at doing something I was previously very confident about, then I just feel like crap afterwards. The thing I do like about show season is seeing artists' work from all over central Illinois. Seeing other students' art gets me really inspired. It's interesting to see new techniques and art forms created by other people.

If I had to choose my top pieces, I think they would be my Chiaroscuro, Word art picture, or my self portrait. I think they would do the best because they convey more emotion and meaning than some of my other work, but that's just my opinion of my own work. I'd want to hear what other people thought my best work was.

I don't believe any of my pieces are better or worse than anyone else's in class, because art is different for everyone. No one's art will ever look the exact same as another person's, so it's almost impossible to compare someone like a cartoonist and a watercolor painter and decide whose work is better. I just doesn't work.

I Don't know what to blog about

Sooo..I guess i'll just blog about nothin in particular. Probably about college.

I applied to Webster University in the summer, and got accepted into the school (yay). Now I just have to get accepted into the art program. I leave thursday afternoon with Bre for our reviews on friday morning. I've been working hard this year (kind of), but couldn't ever stick to one idea for a concentration or have a piece that I was fully happy with. And now, i'm super worried I won't get into the art program. Like REALLY worried to the point of irrational fear. It's kind of crazy, but I get really worked up over important things like this to the point of being terrified. And it shouldn't be a big deal that it's just another college, but i'm just weird like that and it's pretty much the only college I want to go to. If I don't get in, i'm stuck at ICC for a year, which I frankly don't want. I keep telling myself that it'll be fine, and that I have some good pieces but then I just start bugging out about things I should have maybe done like have less photographs, or more sketches, or more conceptual pieces.

I don't know how i'll do, and I know i'm being completely paranoid, but i'm hoping that I on't end up having terrible work annd not get in.

Soo ya.

Umm..Don't Be Stupid.

Am I just missing something?? I don't see these as controversial at all. I think they're just very innovative and creative. The Picasso piece and Gustave Klimt portrait don't seem controversial at all. They just look like ordinary pieces of art to me. We've all seen nude paintings before and so what if it doesn't look finished? No one said you HAD to like it. I just don't see what the big deal is.

I would definitely buy that shark piece, it's pretty freaking fantastic. People are just too sensitive and have to find things to complain about.

Althoughhhh...I do think that the last artist is a little awkward, but it's art, it's ok for it to be weird. And just because He mass prodces his art doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Salvador Dali mass produced his signature and sold it to people but no one really complains about him. Honestly people let's grow up.

New semester, Same Ol' Bloggin

1. I have 9 breadth pieces, and only 5 concentration pieces :(

2. I need to work managing my time and brainstorming project ideas. I'm terrible at those 2

3. My favorite time in portfolio was the beginning of the year, because I was caught up on everything and wasn't losing sleep and sanity yet.

4. I learned that I don't really have much of a concentration, because I don't like focusing on just one topic. I like to just do whatever I feel like doing, so I need to work a lot on my concentration this semester

5. I usually just have to be told enough times to do something o get me to do it. Also helping with ideas doesn't hurt. Probably a good idea not to be so lenient, because then I fall even further behind..

Last Blog? I Hope So.

Things I wish I would've done:

1. Not procrastinated
2. Slept more.
3. Worked on inspiring myself
4. Relaxed more. I don'w work well when i'm stressed out
5. Motivated myself
6. Opted for a new student teacher (she was no help and left me uninspired).

My Goals are pretty much to do all the things I wish I would've done this semester. And to make more time for myself.

I think the piece i'm most proud of is my self-portrait. It's not real interesting and doesn't have any real art aspects to it like value, depth, etc. It's my favorite because it means something to me. A lot of my art is based on subjects I like, but this one is more personal and meaningful to me. :)

Oh the Thinks you can Think!

Being in the fall Musical this year, i've been spending A LOT of time around show music and i've come to realize that I feel really inspired and creative when I hear show tunes. It's not just with art either; I feel inspired to express my ideas on dancing and acting and such within the musical. I think musicals are so unique and fun, especially this year's musical "Seussical" (which you should ALL come see). The music is so fun and crazy and makes no sense half the time, but I fell so inspired when I hear it. Any show tunes will inspire really. My favorites are "Newsies", "Rent, "Wicked" and "The Wizard of Oz". All of these are unique and inspiring in their own way and hearing them makes me want to go out and just photograph life around me or just sing my heart out. In short, I LOVE musicals.

Chris Berens

I reasearched artists from the (MOWA) Museum of Weird Art, a virtual museum for artists who have a passion for "weird art"

I Found an Artist named Chris Berens. His art was surreal and creepy, but i love the colors and subjects of his art