This past weekend Megan and I drove down to San Diego for Comic Con. Luckily my cousins live close to the Convention Center so they gave us a ride there and let us crash. Thanks again guys!
Originally showcasing comic books, science fiction/fantasy and film/television, and related popular arts, the convention has expanded over the years to include a larger range of pop culture elements, such as horror, anime, manga, animation, toys, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels.
Everyone made it out this year.
The Cast of Glee
Robin: “To the batcave?”
Batman: “And up the batpoles.”
Robin: “The batpoles?”
Batman: “Even crimefighters need their sleep, Robin.”
Fido.
…..My Cousin Danny had a booth this year, promoting his new comic Zombie Tramp 2.
http://toxiccandie.deviantart.com
Jonathan Wayshak was doing some live painting at his booth, pretty sweeeet.
Last month I was interviewed by LCAD Professor Greg Spalenka for his Artist as Brand website. Answering questions about what I am learning at LCAD and what is important to myself as an artist. ((((Interview))))
The paintings of Andreas Golder shift between figurative forms – some naturalistic, others expressive – and broadly worked abstract passages. This formal ambivalence is reflected in his subject matter, which is a mix of high and low culture, with sly references to the history of painting alongside visceral smears of paint and loose splashes of colour.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, Golder moved, along with his family, from the Soviet Union to Germany. His initial artistic training in Russia, at a school for specially gifted children, was grounded in academic realism, with emphasis on precision and classical representation. He eventually rejected the rigidity of this technique, adopting an approach which, in his own words, occupies an ‘area between the realistic and the abstract, the physical and the metaphysical.
The starting point for Golder’s work is often based in a combination of art history, pop culture and personal narratives. Puns, comic anecdotes and violent gestures converge in paintings that, as curator Christian Gether points out, ‘are not portraits but rather meta-types, commenting on the general state of culture in society today’
My goal this summer is make/save money, produce as much artwork as humanly possible, get to the shows happening,ride my bicycle and read more. While digging through my photos, I decided to compile some images of my quick paintings on the graffiti wall at LCAD.
For those unfamiliar with the Graffiti wall; LCAD has a large permanent wooden panel located on Main Campus for students to creatively express themselves in an outside environment at any time…….Basically we paint all over it when we are bored, and don’t have to worry about the Fuzz.
An Exquisite Corpse is when a group of images become assembled by each collaborating artist adding to the composition in sequence, the contributing artist can only see the end of what the previous artist has presented.
(Megan LeMaster, Diana Whiteley, Francisco Magana)
(Trace Mendoza, Jesse Fohrman, Bryce Elischer)
Exquisite Corpse from Wes Christensen’s Class (Nicole Williams, Trace Mendoza, Megan LeMaster, Jesse Fohrman)`
During my Fall 2009 Semester at LCAD, Wes Christensen assigned this project in his Watercolor class. We enjoyed this process so much that I compiled these images from the Spring 2010 semester which shows us sharing this collaborative idea with other students and artists. Each Exquisite Corpse was done in about 15-20 minutes.
The week started off pretty easy for me, sculpting is a relaxing class plus we had a BBQ hosted by Sculpture Professors Ray Persinger and Marianne O’barr. THANK YOU!
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Twice life size head i have been working on the last 5 weeks.
It was awesome to see all my semesters work finally come to a finish, I feel that in all my classes I’ve really walked away with a lot of knowledge that is going to push me in the right direction towards my Senior Capstone next spring. Senior Capstone was created for students to present their senior portfolio projects and articulate the direction, meaning, and aesthetic context of their work.
This semester two of my most influential classes have been Editorial Illustration, which focuses on discovering your own visual narrative. And story telling which introduced the history of stories, and the idea that we as humans use story as a time capsule to narrate our physical and emotional consciousness. I decided to construct a comic based on my own experiences working at a crappy restaurant with a little bit of fantasy to give the story a twist.
In Storytelling:Paint Pixels Pickles Pineapple class, for my final paper I decided to demonstrate my understandings of the Heroes Journey By Joseph Campbell through the construction of my comic.
My Major is Illustration with an emphasis in drawing and painting, so I’m taking a few more Fine arts classes than I would, if I were just Illustration. I decided to put an emphasis on drawing and painting because I feel that If you can draw and paint the figure well, you can draw and paint anything.
For Figure Painting two I got ambitious and went 30 in x48 inches in size for my final, a self portrait.
In Editorial Illustration my final project is a short comic followed with a painting that revolves around the main character “Trainee” and his adventures working at a fast food restaurant, fighting Monsters trying to make it through the day.. im going to post the final product soon.
Some thumbnail sketches:
Other projects I am working on is a self portrait in oil for Figure Painting 2, and in Figure Sculpture 2 a twice life size head. Im looking forward to finally finishing these projects for my portfolio.
first pass..
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This is an Avatar I recently had to come up with for my Story Telling class.
I constructed a character with Icons that represent me.
The Cast of Glee
Some of Jordu Schells work!
time to go home…
