Ending and BeginningI had my final critique for my graduate course in Mixed Media and Collage this week. As good as it felt to complete the course, I know I am not done making art in this series. After the critique on Wednesday, I rephotographed Bagged (since I drew back into it after washing the color off), and already played with recreating it digitally. I plan to have it printed larger and draw into again, like I did with the first one.
I also transported a lot of my pieces to my father's house, where he will be matting and framing nearly the whole collection. I wasn't quite ready to have certain piece put behind glass, so I essentially gave him the ones I don't plan on touching. He already got Pumped matted and framed! Knowing the Perseverance series is going to end at some point, I have already figured out what I would like to play with next. I am going to try to photograph the various scars I have from previous surgeries, heavily manipulate the images in Photoshop, print them and draw and paint back into the prints. Other than calling it Scarred, I'm not entirely sure what I'm going for yet, and figure it will work itself out as I begin to play.
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Stretch & ExploreAs I near the end of my Mixed Media and Collage graduate course, I have more ideas for the Perseverance work, but I am also interested in trying new methods. My classmate had tried sanding a photograph and ever since I saw hers, it was something I wanted to experiment with. I just happened to have an old 16x20" sepia tone beach photo that I was never planning on displaying as art, so I jumped right into sanding it. I kind of wish I had a practice version, as I saw what happened when I attacked the sky in the image. I just went with it and roughed out "clouds," then started hitting highlights on other parts of the photograph. I had tried printing an image of Rescue on tracing paper, but my inkjet printer desperately needs ink, so the image did not print as I had envisioned. I tried placing the image over several surfaces with no success, then randomly added it to the sanded photo and am kind of pleased with how it looks. I don't see this as part of my Perseverance series, but when I lay it all out pre-critique, I may have it nearby to see how it looks with the body of work. Finishing Grad School WorkI spent most of my weekend laying out all the pieces in Perseverance and fixing them up. I added charcoal with a brush to both Healed versions, and on the gray version I also gessoed over the charcoal to seal it and soften it. I washed as much paint off of Bagged as I could and then went back into it, adding more contrast and detail. I also played with some pieces that probably won't be in the Perseverance series, but maybe in a sequel.
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SquareSpaceI spent quite a bit of time revamping my professional artist website, GatorheadOriginal.com, this week. Not only did I clean it up and change over to a new template, I also create a few new pieces (edited old photos and digital art projects).
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