Reference, The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (c. 1670) by Jacob van Ruisdael Since one of my goals is composition with this project, I think I want to try and interesting perspective and layout with the satellite. Right now, I'm thinking doing a sort of golden ratio with the dish's center at the end of the spiral, with the tree line forming the rest of the curve on the left. To get a sense of scale, I'm also experimenting with how much I can sort of tilt the perspective poin

I have chosen Anne Desmet as my awareness artist, who is a living contemporary wood engraver and printmaker based in London, UK. Her primary gallery representation is Eames Fine Art, and her work is also shown at Bankside Gallery in London and Kevis House Gallery in Salisbury. Website: https://annedesmet.com/ She is a Royal Academician, elected in 2011; only the third wood engraver ever elected to the Royal Academy in its 256-year history. She was also the editor for the maga

So far, I've decided on my composition. I want to try a sort of golden ratio composition with inspiration from Hokusai's wave painting, but with trash and rubble. I think the biggest difficulties I am approaching are for the part where the rubble will actually start curving upwards, because it might get messy and hard to determine the structure of the wave, considering it's all made of small pieces of rubble. I'm also still deciding if and how I should fill the background spa

I have chosen Ian Chamberlain as my awareness artist, who is a living contemporary etching artist based in Bristol, UK. His primary gallery representations are the Rabley Gallery in the UK, and the Anise Gallery in London. He is currently a senior lecturer and M.A. at multi-disciplinary printmaking and drawing at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. He has earned a variety of awards, including: 2024: Flourish Award Winner (Printmaking in Excellence) 2022:

This project, my goals are to attempt lasercutting as a process of etching, and attempt replicas. I have decided that I will use my old crane drawing from last year, but etched using the lasercutting. First, before doing any of that, to ensure the process even worked we attempted to etch a small thumbnail sketch for one of my earlier projects this year. It turned out okay, but it's possible that either the lasers are cutting too deep, or I'm not dampening my paper enough to t

Gail Brodholt RE is an artist born in South London, England, where she currently lives and works. She has a BA in Fine Art with a specialization in painting from Kingston University, but is also a leading contemporary linocut printmaker specializing in urban and industrial landscapes. She particularly focuses on London's transport infrastructure, which appealed to me because of my work's central themes of infrastructure. I was also drawn to her very strong black and white pri

For this in class project, I am focusing on composition as my student goal, and 'dirtier' as my teacher goal. For my summer project, I think I did some interesting experimentation with getting more dirtier and messy with black around the composition, and so I think it will be interesting to explore that more. However, the copper etching I did for my summer project is quite different from the plexiglass etching I do in place, and it will be difficult to get the same kind of sp

1 hour charcoal subtractive, 1 minute thumbnail, 1 minute thumbnail Since my work usually doesn't pertain to drawing figures, practicing figure drawing again this year was incredibly valuable as it allowed me to explore the subject, something I wouldn't usually deal with in my own work. I also think that the ideas of gesture, form, structure, etc. are really important to any type of art, regardless if it is figure drawing. I thought I was able to really improve this time, esp

I have gotten a good bit of progress on my 2nd Semester Home Project. Since I don't have a press to do more fine point etching, I want to...

This week I worked on figuring out what I am going to do, as well as setting up my plate for etching. After deciding that I want to make...

Deadpan Comedy / 2013 / Graphite and Ink 18' by 5' I decided to look into Samuel Gomez, a contemporary artist. His subject matter,...

As someone who read a lot of comics as a child, I really found listening to his narrative, ideamaking, and process very interesting. I...

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I have decided to pivot from making something using acrylic paints to instead focusing on mastering an energetic mark in a series of...

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IN CLASS PROJECT I got a solid amount of progress on my oil iridescence work. I've figured out which colored pencils I'm going to use,...

IN-CLASS PROJECT I decided that I am going to try and replicate the effect of oil iridescence with pen and ink and colored pencil, as it...

Learning about figure drawing with Tommy Van Auken was really informative and helped me understand how to set the foundations for making good figure drawings. Before I learned a lot from this experience, I think I tended to try to make figures in a backwards fashion, aiming for detail without the necessary structure. After learning how to do proportion correctly, I always noticed there was something off with the figures. They never felt alive, and their poses were always weir

During my time this year in Art III at Maggie Walker, I feel like I have learned to appreciate a lot more mediums. In this year, I think...