For this project week my main focus has been creating portraits of different people.  I asked them to make a face that expressed themselves, and then I drew them as realistically as possible.  No wire yet, so this has been my plan of action, this week I finished 2 highly rendered portraits, and 2 were trashed because I did not like them.  Overall, feeling good about the drawings, and excited to make some more!  Group agreed e would enlarge the portraits and put them on the wall behind the sculpture.

Our project elements wound up being a combination of both mine and Morgan’s; her idea was to work with the figure and use yarn or string as a three-dimensional element to branch off into space, whereas mine was to use messy rooms or personal spaces as a highly-detailed still life on frosted mylar. From this, we developed a method of each of the six of us–Morgan, Ari, Rachel, Rebecca, Mollie, and myself–to include 1) a figure (or implied figure), 2) a bedroom or personal space, 3) ink and grease crayon on a frosted mylar surface, and 4) the use of yarn embroidery in the image that is meant to extend outward somehow.

My work in progress based on the initial thumbnail.

While the concept is a work in progress that we are continuing to develop, we consistently come back to the idea of a personal space/safe haven extending and branching outward into public space, done via a transition from two-dimensional media to three-dimensional. Each of the works is cohesive in our aforementioned “rules”, but remains reflections of the each of us and how we approach creating an artwork.

I finally felt as if I had filed my mylar with a good amount of litho creation and began to embroider just after this photo was taken. I have made a few alterations to it as well, coloring the bed frame with black ink to help balance it, as well as a few other darker spots. All the animals are done in satin and all three figures are outlined in thread.

This past week has been mostly trying to finalize the drawing with litho-crayon portion. I chose a more realistic and linear style, since it reflects myself my general art style. I think it also reflects how I am as a person with characteristics of control and awareness.

I’ve also been working on sewing yarn and string into the Mylar. I’ve been mostly following lines and using the medium to embellish the piece. 

Photo taken in home studio of progress so far.

Coda is hard to impress.

The installation project for us is going well. We were somewhat confused at the beginning because we had never created an installation out of nothing before. As we developed the idea of personal space the pieces fell into place to get started. We chose to work on sheets of Mylar paper because of their versatility. We are making the base drawing out of litho crayons and then adding fiber materials for texture. Some of the images will be realistic while others will be abstract. Mine will be abstract with objects floating in space rather than having a solid floor. Once we finish our individual pieces, they will be combined by attaching yarns. Where on the drawings they will be connected is still in discussion.

For the cardboard assignments I created two icosahedrons. This is my favorite geometric shape because of its simplicity. To make it I made an equilateral triangle and traced it onto sheets of cardboard. I used regular masking tape to assemble them. I see a lot of potential for this construction later in the class. These can be easily painted and assembled into something really interesting. Many more shapes can obviously be made with the equilateral triangles. If I were to paint them a glossy white they could be mantle decorations. I could also make a mold of them and cast beeswax into them, creating candles. I think the most over the top design would be making soap bars out of this pointy sphere.