Sculpture

This is from an anatomy sculpting class last quarter.  It met once a week during which we attempted to sculpt Sarah - cool lady.  The following is my 1st and only sculpture so far.  Turns out that if you know how to draw a person, sculpting them isn't too bad.  Basically i hit a wall of my anatomical knowledge.  I'll try this again when i have my anatomy more on lock.  Regardless, I'm super proud of how this turned out.  On a less fun note, the clay we used was only meant to be temporary so it cracked like hell when it dried.  My mother spackled it back together.  It worked but it color-wise, now it looks a tad silly.

random images

I took a bunch of pictures of stuff from the year.  Here's my favorites

 this was a study for the raccoon image from 1st quarter but i like it more than the final one

SHOWS!

In the essence of being a hugely successful artist about to take the world by storm, or maybe just actually sell something, I've got some shows coming up! 

COLLECTIVE WORK June 3 - June 27
Street Bean Espresso, 2702 3rd Avenue, Seattle
Reception Friday June 3 7:00pm-9:00pm

Something sometime in July at the 619 Building
I dont have any information on this one yet.

BEST OF GAGE
Gage Academy 1501 10th Ave. East, #101
Event Friday June 17 6:00pm-9:00pm
http://www.gageacademy.org/events/?page=current&type=16

Third Quarter

It's been awhile since my last update, so once again I'm not sure where to start.  I went into this quarter with grand ambitions of doing 3 more 8'x4' drawings and starting to focus on three tone charcoal drawings but back in the land of reality, that didn't really happen.  I hit a huge hitch in the beginning of the quarter in that i ran out of paper and boards for the big projects.  I proceeded to get jerked around by Utrech (promising deliveries and having what i needed, and then not) so by the time i actually got my act together, I lost a fair amount of my momentum.  Because of my delay, the three big projects got widdled down to one, and by the time i got my materials together i was so stressed about this that my three-tones didn't go anywhere.  That being said, the one big one became a little bit more ambitious because im including a background in it.  We have three weeks left in the quarter I'm aiming to be done with it by the end of this week.  This one is featuring CJ and Chancy.  Thanks guys.

Besides my big project, we've been doing a fair amount of anatomy studies.  These are incredibly helpful.  No pain, no gain.  I have a few more of these but i need to photograph them.  The paper is all rolly, but I'll put them up when im less busy.

This one is from last quarter, but it's in my camera so here it is.

Liferoom is continuing, and I im super proud of myself.  The big lesson i have to teach myself is patience.  Here are my two favorites of the quarter, one because its actually a finished drawing, and the other because im super proud of the likeness i got to the model, despite the proportion fail.

Ta Dah!

All done!

Liferoom

Liferoom is another huge part of what we do in the Atelier program (3 hours a day).  The same model will pose for us for the week.  Occasionally there will be two models, but that's pretty rare.  The models will either hold one pose for a whole week or divide the week in half with two poses.  They go for 20 minute intervals.  We start every liferoom session out with five 1-minute gestures, one 5-minute, and, one 10.  Recently we've been doing memory drawings where easels are in a different room then the model so we have to remember the pose, walk in the other room and then draw it.  It's helpful, but doesn't look as good.  Here's some of my more recent not-memory drawings...

 

At the moment I'm noticing a significant increase in the speed in which I'm able to crank these guys out.  While when I first joined the Atelier, it would take me a full week to do things not nearly as successful, these guys are taking me about 6 hours.

Events!

There's a few things going on right now and yours truly has some stuff up in all of them.  First off is the Fifth Annual Self-Portrait Competition at Gage.  This one's already up and comes down on April 15th.  Prizes have already been awarded.  2nd Place went to Stephan!

Coming soon is an Atelier show at the Phinney Neighborhood Association. April 8 - April 25
Artists' Reception: Friday, April 8, 7:00pm-9:00pm.  This one includes work from all the Gage Ateliers.

Also, there is the "From Pencil to Paint" show at Gage.  April 18 - May 13.  This one is just our Atelier.  I'm planning to enter the my two big pieces, and I'm working on finishing up the bird piece now. 

For all of you who aren't familiar with Gage, events tend to take place on the top floor.  There is a gallery at the end of the hall, but the walls tend to always be covered with month-long exhibits.  Also, our studios are here and as long as somebody is around you can check those out.  So if you're ever on Broadway and want to see art, you should drop by.