Reflection

For my last blog post, I believe it would be suiting to blog about computers class itself.  Overall, I really enjoyed it.  Illustrator really irritated me at first because I had never used it before, photoshop seemed to come right back to me after a little bit of time with it.  My absolute favorite was the silkscreen project, even though it wasn't really computers. 
After I scheduled my courses for next year, I found out the print making class I wanted was full.  I emailed the head of the printmaking at Tyler to see if there were any extra spots, he informed me the teacher who regularly teaches it (my wonderful computers teacher)  is leaving Tyler this year so he doesn't know who the teacher will be.  I was very upset!  My computers teacher is very nice and I wanted to take more classes with her.  I always hear that I am very lucky to have had her as a teacher.  I completely agree.  Overall, computers class was a wonderful experience and I will take a lot away from it.

Revamped Scanner Face

For my scanner face, I decided that I did not like the colors I had used in it before.  I also fixed up the hand because it didn't look like it was touching my face before.

Environment

For my environment I decided to mimic what I do everday in Philly, go for a bike ride.  I took a picture of a bike from my favorite Cinelli magazine then gave it a background out of some photos I have taken.

Silkscreen

For our silkscreen project we first had to design an image on the computer.  It was somehow supposed to relate to repetition or speed in some way.  I designed an image of Glenn Danzig in photoshop and originally had the text "I want your skull" underneath.  This is because I listen to the song "skulls" everyday, and often actually will put it on repeat.  I am happy with the result even though the text had to be removed.  I especially liked the one where I layered it ontop of itself with different inks- that gave it an almost 3-D effect.  I enjoyed the result of using hot pink ink to depict a scary looking skeleton man.  Overall, it made me want to sign up for a print making class next semester.

Retrogression

Due to the fact that I have no completed anything lately that I find to be very interesting/ lectures have repeatedly been about registration, I will post about my first completed 3-D project.  The project was to make an inflatable (a closed sculpture out of sheet plastic that is inflated by a constant stream of air).  Our inflatable has to convey collision.  Me and my friend Bonnie made a frankenduck.  Innocence meets violence.  She had previous knowledge or ironing plastic so after we both cut out the pieces she started ironing them together.  I was in charge of duct tape decals.  First was the basics, make it look like a rubber duck.  Wings, check; one big adorable eye, check;bubbles, check.  This is where the project became specialized.  Half of the duck was to be made satanic.  Bleeding upsidedowncross eye, check; pentagram on wing, check; severed head, check; fang, check.  We inflated our evil ducky and well satanic or not, it couldn't have been more adorable.

Punk Rawk

For my 2-D project I had to make a collage that mimicked a pattern of behavior.  When I get stressed, I go to concerts and go into mosh pits.  The project is 4ft by 5ft, the background is a large ink drawing of a concert I attended.  I printed other photos of concerts I went to onto transparent paper then laid them down in a radiating pattern.  The second part of the assignment was to take a photo of it in the environment it belonged to, aka a concert.  First I went to my friends  house show and attempted to take a picture, this ended with a collage torn all around the edges.  The show was too small and too rough for the assignment.  I duct taped a black boarder around to make up for the damage and brought it to another concert, which was much more spacious.  This proved to be a much more fitting venue for the assignment, despite the poor lighting and very dark images produced.

Future

Today was a lecture about advising and next year and FINALLY being able to pick classes.  When I had my portfolio review the lady told me I would be a painting major, possibly printmaking.  Not to be argumentative or disagreeable but my major interest has always been glass.  I absolutely love everything about being in a glass studio so I have decided I want to get into a glass, sculpture and metal class, the exact opposite of my predicted future.  Besides glass, I have never worked with 3-D before, but that has been the only foundations class I found interesting.