Learning Oil Painting

These are couple of my preliminary oil paintings from my painting class. Right now we are just focusing on painting from direct observation in still life objects.

Art in Nature

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist from Scotland that makes art entirely out of what he finds in nature. He simply goes out, unknowing of what he will find and creates amazing pieces, never using man made materials.

Last week in my 4D design class we were assigned to go out into nature and "pull an Andy Goldsworthy". So, Christine Fuchs and I (whom i am sure will post her pictures on her blog soon) went out to Weir Canyon and spent our morning in nature, creating art.

Interestingly enough, as i was searching around for material to work with, i found a dead bird. Yes, a freshly deceased, unscathed bird. (i think it got electrocuted from the power lines above) I simply HAD to use it in my project.

Day 5: No Hands

Day 4: Paralyzed

Day 3: Mute

Day 2: Deaf

For this day i basically shoved earplugs as far into my ears as possible, but even that did not cancel out all the noise. unfortunately it was the best i could do. If i had an endless budget i would have bought noise canceling headphones or something. But i basically just went through the whole day asking people to repeat things a little louder and clearer. So i was really only partially deaf, but I still tried to write my journal entry from the perspective of someone who has jsut recently fully lost their hearing.

Day 1: Blind

These are the glasses that I wore the whole day. I only took them off to drive, but other than that I stayed faithful to my task. The inside of the lenses are covered in black cloth and i made sure that the edges were blocked off too so that no light was let in.

4D Project

ok. it is the beginning of my sophomore fall at Biola and I am in 2 new art classes: 4D design and Painting 1. For my 4D design class our first assignment is to alter something about our normal daily lives for 5 days. I have decided to take on 5 different disabilities for the 5 different days.

The 5 different disabilities I have chosen are the following:

Day1: Blind
Day2: Deaf
Day3: Mute
Day4: Paralyzed
Day5: Loss of dominant arm

Today I am on day 4 and it has been a wild ride. I am required to document these life alterations in a creative way and so I am journaling and photo documenting at the end of every day. In addition I am making a short film that will put the viewer into the perspectives of each indavidual disability. Today I wheeled around in the cafeteria, camera in hand, amongs the crowds of people as they all walked by some staring down and some trying not to look. It was definitely interesting.

So i will be posting the journal entries, photos, and the video during the next few days. Should be a good time.