RAWR!

You know that feeling when you see someone's art and you're totally in love with it? I think I've been bombarded with art in the last two weeks. Between a visit to the AGO, falling in love with Alexander Calder's work after not looking at any of it in a couple of years, critiques at school, and watching "Where the Wild Things Are" (which was fantastic!), I feel like I'm buzzing inside. I'm afraid I'm going to attack my new canvas that I built (with a lot of help from the school technician) with something totally obscure and random. We'll see where it goes.
I think all creative people are total slackers. It must be a part of being creative. Almost everyone I know who is creative slacks off and procrastinates. Okay, maybe not EVERYONE, but close to it. I must be like creative person of the year because I'm too laid back sometimes. LOL! I carried a 3x 4 foot canvas from Toronto to Brampton on foot, a train, and two buses and did I work on it at all yet. NO. Why? I don't know, I must be all kinds of awesome....
Buuutttt listening to Matt Good is keeping me in a good mood right now :)

Lambs, lambs, lambs

So I absolutely LOVE lambs, no idea why. I just think they are adorable I guess. Well I use them in a lot of my work. So I think I'm going to post some of the work that I've done with the sheep as the subject matter. :D
The first image a sketch I did in my second year of that stuffed lamb (Lullaby). I was just doing it to practice a more architectural way of drawing, seperating the subject matter into different planes. It was mostly a study to help me with my figure drawing.

The second image is another project for school where we had to do a collage and paint from that collage on a large wooden panel that we had to make ourselves. Basically I took some scrap fabric and made them into three simplified lambs. The first white lamb in the painting has a funny right eye because water got on the original collage and made the ink run. I like this piece just because I wasn't really used to painting this realistically before. Obviously the subject matter isn't realistic, but I wanted to make the paint look like the fabric I was drawing from. It's not exact, but I like being able to interpret things in different ways.

And finally the third is is a painting I did for my second year abstract class where we had to abstract from observation. So I used my stuffed lamb, Lullaby, as the source. You can see the outline of the shape of the source. I found this to be pretty challenging actually just because of the ground colour I was working with- bright yellow. It was hard to balance all of the other shapes and colours around it. Actually, I was working in the open studio at my school and someone in their fourth year I guess gave me the idea of placing flat shapes on top which I think worked out well because it gave the painting some depth.
I think I have some photographs I took of my lamb for a photography class in highschool. If I find it, I'll post it up here. Anyways, Happy Thanksgiving!

New Work, Old Source

Hello!

So for my figure drawing class, we had to choose two master drawings and copy/ interpret them. So I chose a painting from Grueze called "The Broken Jug", 1785 and a Drawing from Leonardo daVinci titled "Virgin and Saint Anne with the Christ Child and the Young John the Baptist", c. 1500. I just finished these today, I'm not really sure if I like them all that much. I think they're interesting, but it's always frustrating when you're working from a source and you can't get it just right. Well I learned a lot about drapery in these drawings LOL.

It's really late for me, I'm usually in bed by 12. So goodnight computer!

Blast from the past

So I'm going to post a few things from a little while ago. I really enjoy doodling and making comical stick figures and such, and last year I came up with the presenting the archetype of a beggar using a similar stick figure style. The whole idea of the beggar is that they are constantly dependent on something, so I illustrated two beggars dependent on each other. (The two alien- like figures with the fused arms). Later I showed their separation and faulty communication in a simple drawing. And then I used a similar figure in a diptych with a girl and her lamb and the separation of the two. I guess I've always been interested in the interaction between people and the development and decay of relationships. I'm not exactly showing my best work here, just some ideas I've had in my head that I think are interesting. I'll post some more stuff later, and hopefully something a little more current, LOL!

- natasha