Photography show

My favorite pieces of the show were those done by Casey Waters. I was very interested in the daguerreotypes, especially the process in which they were created. The first thing I thought was, "Wow, how did they do that??"

"Description: The daguerreotype image is formed directly on a silver plated copper plate which was made light sensitive with a surface coating of iodine vapors. It is a direct-positive process, made without a negative. It has a highly reflective surface that sometimes makes it difficult to see the image. (Source: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/589_daguerre.html)"

It was a really neat effect, and it makes me wish I had the materials to try it myself. The size was nice too, you had to get up close and personal, and stand at the right angle to see the image. Overall, those images sparked my interest the most. I thought they were presented very well.

More progress

Well I've made a lot of progress on the first piece that I showed in the last critique. I have the background done, as well as the"stencil" parts. Pretty much all I have to do is separate the layers into different files to print. Then I can cut them out and spray it. I've also started work on a new background for a second piece... And that's where I'm at thus far.

I was also wondering if I should change my color scheme up a bit. Instead of sticking to red black and white, should I try other colors too? Or do you think having them all the same color would help tie them together? Opinions?

Early Stages

As you know, I've shifted completely away from the globe idea that I worked with last year, and have moved onto the idea of stenciled political propaganda posters, meshed with some mixed media. For more info on that, check out some of my previous posts. Here is the progress of the one I've started:

The background thus far:

Part of one of the 2-layer stencils, (WIP):

Here is some of my inspiration:
OBEY - "Worldwide Propaganda Delivery"
http://obeygiant.com/archives

I even have some inspiration from Banksy:
http://www.banksy.co.uk/

His images are too large to link to, so check out his website and take a look at some of his stencils. There's some pretty funny stuff there.

This is where I'm at...

So I think I'm going to go along with the stencil idea that I mentioned in previous posts. What I plan to do is combine digital prints with mixed media.

I see a final piece looking something like this: A background designed in Photoshop, printed out, and then stenciled on. The stencil(s) would also be designed in Photoshop, printed out, and then cut out, and then spray-painted over... The plan is to have something that looks like an underground political propaganda poster (with that being the theme of each one.)

Well, at least, that's the plan for now...

I'm stuck.

Okay, I know what I want to do, but I'm not sure how I want to go about it... I want to do stencils (I just realized that that term sounds, er... elementary), but I'm not quite sure how I can incorporate the "computer art" aspect of it. Computer design is definitely involved, because that's where the stencils are made before they are cut out. But when I think of computer art, I think of digital prints... Since this IS a computer art class, I need to figure out how I can mesh the two together... maybe mixed media? Stencils on top of a digital print? Any ideas?

You never know...

You never know where some of your artwork will end up...
Last semester in my 3D class, I made a life size replica of me, running over a hurdle, completely out of coat hangers. It was a final project, and far too big and bulky for me to take with me at the end of the year. So I just left it for anyone to do what they want with it. I expected it to go in the trash, but it turns out, a former AU graduate and now art teacher at Edison Elementary School, took the piece, and now has it on display there. Or so I heard, he took half of it.

He took the wire replica of me, and left the hurdle, and I guess it's hanging on a wall somewhere sitting in a La-Z-boy recliner. I (and when I say I, I'm referring to the life-size replica of me made out of coat hangers) went from being an agile athlete to being a bum in a recliner. And I thank that's awesome :)

First Post of the Semester

Hmm... all work ideas / inspirations for the semester...
Well I know I'm going to be going in the same direction I did last year. That means I'll be doing the whole "globe" thing.  If you're new to the class, you can take a look at my previous posts from last semester to get an pretty good idea of what I man. But now that I have the technical process down, I'll be able to do more of the urban grunge manipulation to them (This was my original goal for last year.)


Also, over the summer I really got into stencils. You know, the Banksy-style spray painted stencils... Over the summer I did a few and really enjoyed it. Too bad this is a computer art class, otherwise I'd be doing something like that instead :) 


Anyone have any ideas on how I could incorporate the two maybe? Street-art stencils and computer art? Just a thought...