old photos

Awhile ago I posted that I finally went out and took pictures around my parent's house how using my mom's old camera. Well I never posted back how my pictures turned out. I really liked a couple of my pictures but then others turned out really bad, mostly they were exposed too much or too little. For some of them I went back into them on my computer and here's how they turned out...

I really love this lighting and I was so excited that I caught it! I love how it adds that orange-red color to subjects that are dull in color. When I went back into the computer I tried to enhance this color. Hope you like them!

recent photography

Last weekend I went out around my parents house and took some pictures.. Enjoy!!

its been awhile!

I just realized that I haven't blogged in a really long time!! So I wanted to update everyone about some things I've been working on...

I'm taking a new studio, Advanced Drawing, which first freaked me out! It is a self-directed class that doesn't have any guidelines at all! The freedom is really nice, but also intimidating for me. Today I finally faced my fear and worked on a piece!

At first I started out with the idea of destruction of man. From my past projects, I saw a theme occurring throughout my work, I loved distressed things. Even from my screenprinting project (guns) shows a destruction of man theme so I thought it was perfect!!

But it wasn't perfect... Of course I was overthinking and stressing myself out about the idea. Today my teacher told me to play around and do anything! Just let myself go.. so I did and here's what happened....

 I just used the palette knife and lots of paint. My inspiration was of pealing paint. Here's a close up..

final paintings!

So the end has come. Painting is over. Finally!!

After I started over three times on my second self portrait I have finished it. I found an artist named Jerome Lagarrigue. I love his paintings! They are detailed in certain parts but them not in others. I really liked doing this painting. Here is his website..http://www.jeromelagarrigue.com/

This is an example of one of his paintings from his series Boxing 2007..

Then here are pictures of what I've done..

I might go back in and add some things but I am not sure yet..

I also finished my other painting: food! Here is my finished food painting and a detail of one of the dumplings.

findlay market

My first time going to findlay market was amazing! I loved all of the food, people, and stores. So I decided to take some pictures and I am going to share them all with you!!! So enjoy...

 

 

how to.... reuse magazines!!!

My family and I are all packrats. My aunt had a ton of magazines that she gave me. Magazines are good for collages but I don't make a lot of them. So now I have a ton of magazines and what in the world do I do with them!

So I researched what I could do with them and found a lot of different things, but I decided to make a picture frame.. Here I will show you how to make a sweet picture frame with old magazines!!

First start with a pile of magazines.. Rip out pages that you think are colorful all over or whatever. And then trim the ripped side.

Next cut the magazines into strips.. I cut mine into inch strips but you can do whatever depending on how thick you want the frame.

For the next part, you can do two things.. I cut the strips in half because I didn't want the rolls to be super thick (plus I was just experimenting). You could also just use the entire strip for a thicker roll. After you do either one, you roll the magazine really tight. Then tape the end.

After you have done a lot of these its time to put them together! I bet there is a more sturdy way but here's the way I did it.. I wanted a 5x7" rectangle so I added and inch on each side for the frame (7x9"). Then I cut that size out in mat board so the middle was 5x7" and the outside was 7x9".

After my mat board was cut I started gluing the rolled up magazines on to the mat board. I used Mod Podge. The problem with my method is that the frame was a little flimsy. But I really liked how it turned out.. Good luck making yours!!!