Chalk Mentor!

Since we did the chalk drawings earlier this week, I thought I'd look for some cool ones as inspiration.... this guy is incredible. It's mind numbing that someone could draw something like this on the ground in such a difficult perspective... so cool!

Project idea

I finallllly know what I'm going to do for my project. I've had a difficult time thinking of ideas that would inspire a full body of work, but luckily a friend came to my rescue. Roddy has been talking about this song "Black Heroes" by, Ratatat since the end of last year. For some reason it gives him a vividly specific visual picture when he listens to it, and he's been asking me to sketch him a drawing of it, since he can't relay his image from his mind to paper. I agreed to do the drawing for him during free time, but this is the perfect type of project to do in class for the rest of the year. I'm going to listen to some different songs that inspire me to make art responses. I'm not completely sure where this will take me and I don't plan on this being a very specific or constricting project, but more of a free, see what comes from it type of a thing. I'm realllllly excited to finally mix music and art and see how they fit together in my brain... hopefully it will inspire some good work!

symbolic still life

This chalk pastel drawing is a reaction to two of the four selected pieces of art work. I took the use of strong, dark outline and bright color from the painting of the woman and the profound use of symbolism from the Chagall piece. The day moon is something I've always been drawn towards in that it gives me a feeling of comfort and unity with those I'm not with; it's almost like a guardian. The window, the leaf bird, and the mountains also have meaning but I'll leave them to interpretation. This drawing isn't so much about the direct content of the still life, but more about the style and the symbolic meaning it has for me.

new blog!

yay i finally created my blog!... even though I'm really not a blogger type person, I've always preferred tangible books to journal in, rather than web pages...