I was thinking about my new project, and I wanted to make it edible, and possibly candy. I looked up other artists that use food, and I found this site that had various artists. They're all very different and interesante. I especially like the works by Tamas Balla.
This vid is amazinggggg. ARTSYYY I wanna do something like it.
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/BEATE-UHSE-CHILD-LOCK/418466
Phillip Gessert's style kind of reminds me of Amanda. It's fun, colorful, childlike and something I would put on the wall of my rooom. When I paint, I feel like I'm too structured so he is somewhat of a mentor to me becuase of his brush strokes and relaxed style.
http://phillipgessert.com/
Another mentor is Ludmila Gavendova. I came across some of her photos in her "Tribute to Cup of Tea" series. I thought they were really beautiful. The black and white pictures seem tranquil, and meditative.
Here are some of her photos...
I also really enjoy Daniela Carvahlo's artwork. One of her pieces really caught my eye. ha. ha. and it reminded me of our eye project. I like how it is unfinished but looks complete at the same time. Her other ones are great as well. Here's one of hers and a link.
http://www.behance.net/156centimetros
I was looking through an art website on which you can buy artwork, and found a lot by Ruth Palmer that I liked after entering in the criteria of what I was looking for. I found her website on google and it comes with a video that shows her process, and I thought it was something that I should share in case anyone else in the class liked her work also.
Here;s a link and an example of one of her paintings.
ANOTHER MENTOR!!!
Her Name : Danielle McCullough
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I just had the random thought that maybe there was some artist that shared my name. I was right. I find the light airy colors nice and young looking, if that's at all an accurate way to describe it. Her collages of mixed media are actually pretty impressive, and maybe it;s a sign that I should try something like it.
Here's a link, and a pic.
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Mentor: Jenny HolzerThe last time I was at the MFA in Boston, it took me over an hour to find out that the LED light screen I was looking at and reading was actually done by an artist. I read an hour's worth of her "Truisms"which were short phrases or statements that were about random subjects. I finally asked an employee what it was that I had been so mesmerized by. She told me to read the plaque right next to it on the wall, and so after I had read that it was done by Jenny Holzer, I went home and the first thing I did was research her online. Here is what I found...
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/holzer.html
You can read many of her Truisms at this link...
http://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html
Here's an example of one of her building projections...
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Mentor: Claire Morgan
Claire was born in Belfast and earned a degree in sculpture. She is now a visual artist, and throughout her life had developed a "strong interest in the organic, in natural processes, and in the bodily connotations of natural materials." This is clear in her contemporary sculpture and installation art. I personally admire her installations for their gravity-defying qualities that give her works a surreal, but imaginative sense to them. The link to her site is...
http://www.claire-morgan.co.uk/
Here's an example:
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Mentor: Helen Altman'
Helen has a really diverse collection of art. She works with a bunch of different materials, and some of the things she has done includes drawing trees, making plastic and epoxy casts of goldfish and arranging them, making torch drawings of animals on paper, making wire birds, and altering various household materials. She seems like kind of an eccentric person, and a lot of her artwork seems strange to me, but it's also very intriguing. I especially liked the skulls she has made out of various spices, vegetables, and grasses. There's a picture of two below.
Her site is: http://helenaltman.com/index.html
Skulls-
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Mentor: Cecily Brown
I like her paintings because of their color and texture. Her paintings range from being very basic to extremely complicated and with a bunch of layers and different things going on. On the site there's a slideshow of many of her works that I enjoyed looking at. It ranges from ink and wash on paper, to oil on linen. Here's the link: http://oneartworld.com/artists/C/Cecily+Brown.html
An example:
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MENTOR: Cindy Sherman
I recently read about Cindy Sherman in an article from the magazine Glamour. The article was about how male artists are payed much more on average for their work than woman are. It also commended Cindy for being a living female artist who was payed like 500,000 for her work. So, I looked her up via google to see some of her art. I then found out she is a photographer. She often uses herself in her photos. Often her work is commentary about the women's role or representation in society, the media, and the nature of the creation of art. Here's a pic!
Please write 350 - 500 words about your process, how you work, what you look at, and basically how you approach a new work of art - assigned or personally motivated.
When I am assigned a project in the art room, I usually write down some quick notes on what comes to mind. Then, I usually go straight to the internet. I might look at some past mentors, or just look around and see what I can find that relates to the topic. Recently, for the series of 3 project for example, I went to the collection of books in Mrs. Smith's office. One of the books I recently discovered is a biography of Alice Neal, complete with big pictures of many of her paintings over the years. My new project is based on her style, and this book has been extremely helpful thus far in discovering how she would work and what her process was in creating art. Since I'm going to be using oil and oil pastels, my series of 3 is similar in style to Alice Neal. It was helpful to find interviews of Alice and her subjects, who discussed their part in the process. They would model for her while she painted for a few hours a day for a few days. I think books on artists are something I'll use much more often now. On the internet, this information is not as readily available or as organized. How I approach a new assignment really varies, and depends on what the assignment is. One of our recent assignments required us to scribble on a piece of paper, find an image within the scribbles, and create a composition. I really enjoyed that project and also learned a new technique. In the future, I may use that same process again for a self-motivated/open-ended project since it went successfully for me. There is not a single way that I work, or a way in which I always approach a new project. I'm usually pretty scatterbrained and so any organization on my part is unlikely. I prefer to just go with whatever feels right. Sometimes I know right away what I want to accomplish, and sometimes I'll get stuck and will be indecisive for days. However, we have many resources in the art studio that I've been starting to learn to take advantage of.
