Update

Today, I went to Snobby Lobby and bought these really neat Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens that I saw Kyna and Shelby working with in the past. Shelby let me borrow hers and I used it on my last piece that looks like concept art and I really liked how it turned out, so lo and behold, I got them.

Since I liked them so much, I started touching up my other art crap, which means Sweney will have to retake the pictures for the 3rd time... I'm always going to be retouching things that I find, so we might have to retake everything just before portfolios are due or something. Oh yeah, for my concept art piece, I found this totally rad olive greenish frame in the scraps. I'm going to make it a little darker though. I don't know how I'll mount it though. I digress.

I'm developing ideas for my artist tribute piece. My artist is Grant Wood. I'm most definitely going to add a lot more scenery to this one... It's going to be different from my other stuff... We'll see how it turns out.

Weekend piece... I might fool around with these pens and create something. Get a little more acquainted with them...

New piece: Just... just get out of my life and come back when I have time for you.

Concept art piece. I probably wont put it up here because I can't get a good enough picture to where the details don't smudge together and create a hunk o' lard.

PHAPSA #3 and other art related crap

So, we went on a field trip to the Spencer Art Museum at Lawrence on the KU campus. I kind of forgot that we were taking pictures or that we were supposed to find an artist to create a tribute for. I kind of forgot I was even at this field trip. But I dug up a couple of pictures that I happened to take. The one above is where they take photo shoots, I guess. (My shoddy phone camera hates taking dark pictures)

Who is this beautiful man, you ask? Why, it's Denis Hotaj; rocking it out to some Beyonce.
Okay, so I originally chose Pieter Cornelisz, van Rijck from the Netherlands who painted Salome with Head of John the Baptist. I loved the expressions on the three subject's faces. And I really liked the story behind it after researching more about it.
I started a sketch of the tribute piece, but... I want to paint something a little more modern. So, I looked through the Spencer Art Museum website and found an artist that I really like: Grant Wood. His piece, Near Sundown, 1933, is really great. Sweney's been on my ass about adding backgrounds to my pieces (I get it, aite?) so I think Grant Wood's landscapes would be a good thing to study.
More on his work: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=62
So yeah, that's what I'll be working on. Well, that and the weekend piece.
Also, after not seeing my work for a couple of weeks, I'm finding things I want to change, so I'm going back and touching things up on my old paintings. There ya go.

Okay, so Alison and I went to the premiere of Whip It. I went in not knowing anything about this movie. I just went for the free t-shirt! After we got it, we were pretty disappointed. The shirts were white and had a basic graphic on the front. So over the weekend, we dyed our shirts and screenprinted names on the back. SO ARTSY, YA? Come to find out, a KCAI graduate designed the costumes for Whip It. Neato.

Blogtivity #2

Autumn in Bavaria
1908; Oil on cardboard, 33x45cm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Personally, I don't find very many of Kandinsky's works riveting or eye-catching. Actually, I find nearly all of them hard to look at. I feel like the color schemes hardly go together, the compositions are too busy, the subject matter is confusing to understand(it's abstract, I get it), and I also feel like his style is bland. The only one which "makes sense" is the one I posted, although, it still makes me go, "Eh..."
No offense to those who like his art. Maybe I'm naive and I'm just some 17-year-old with no artistic taste whatsoever, and I should slap myself with a foot-long mop paintbrush. But, Kandinsky... sorry bro, but I just don't dig your work...
So, my question to you is: What is so intriguing about his work? What art element does he master so well that makes his art... Art? Try to persuade this non-believer.
:-)