I'm over here more often these days.

Encouragement

Had a pep talk with Will where he sent me this:




Fortune Cookie Fortune that I got today:

Still have some ink under my nails from the studio yesterday. haha. Impossible to get it out of all the crevices sometimes...

Good things will happen soon.

I'm on Fall Break! woo! No class Monday or Tuesday!

Gouged Ink

I intend to print some today and I find this awaiting me.
Who do these punk kids think they are? Gouging up all the community ink.
I swear.

This is the second can of ink I have thrown away in as many weeks.
I haven't even checked all of them.

I swear.

I printed another layer of my reductive linocut today, but it was terrible.
I'll probably post it sometime later, but... It is not good.

SUPER COOL NEWS

Doing this print exchange that I wanted to do.

http://littlestprintexchange.blogspot.com/

omg need to go make an edition of 50. omg omg omg. :D

Howdy

I have been kind of lazy in the studio as of late, I might have some in progress shots of my reductive lino soon... but as of now, it's mostly just blue, and who wants to see that?

So here is a placeholder, a little watercolor I did this summer. I like it, but also, eh.

"You Thought You Could Outrun Sorrow"

The New Girls

Spend a few hours in the studio today. Working on these girls.

This is the first one I did, she's still in progress (they all are) but without her the other girls would not exist.

This girl started out at my least favorite, but now I really am starting to dig her.

This is the one that i'm afraid to work on because I already feel too precious about it.

Which I realize is the death of possibilty.

There needs to be something done about her left hip's dark flatness....

K.P. suggested a cutout white circle to mimic the one around her face?

This might be what I do.

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I've been trying hard not to get precious about art stuff.

If you do, you're doing it wrong.

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So, are they drawings or paintings? ;)

It's ink, some acrylic paint, and cut paper on bristol board.

In Progress/Studio Shot

Just some in progress studio shots.



















I'm working on this collage/painting right now. Really like it.
Enough to be worried if I mess it up or not.
haha

<3

Little painting

Reserve.

Acrylic and collage on paper.














This little painting is around 11 x 14 and has been the only sucessful sort of painting I've done this semester.

If I never mentioned it earlier in my blog (and that was so long ago, who would remember?) I am getting my BFA in Painting and Printmaking at Eastern Kentucky University. I will graduate in May 2010. Hopefully on to bigger and better things after that (like grad school?)

I've been kind of stumped this semester as it is the first semester of my last year, and I've been kind of strapped for interia ever since my grandmother passed away last month.

So, there has been very little work coming out of me, much to my professor's chagrin. Another reason for the blog. Accountablity, I suppose. That is, if anyone reads it. haha.

Hello Again.

I'm going to recommit myself to posting in this blog again. (as well as being an actual contributor to Mostly Roses)
I need to try to keep myself artistically accountable.

It has been a long time since I have posted here, so I will give you an abbrevaited rundown of the better of the pieces I have done in the time since I posted here regularly. (OMG LIKE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO.)


Tracks and Shadows.
Print/Drawing.
Included in The ASA's art show for 2009



Reaching out with horns.
Drypoint intaglio print.



Snowstorms in April and Dictionary Pages
Linocut, Woodcut, found paper, watercolor.
Used for the central michigan print exchange.


Hold On Now
Drypoint Intaglio.


Untitled.
Drypoint Intaglio with watercolor, graphite and embrodiery thread.
In the 2009 International Small Engraving Salon
(If you would like to see my other pieces that got in that show, click the link then find Riley, Lindsay)

So. There is that.

Hello again!
I'll be back soon,
Lindsay

This is my favorite song.

Some Prints.

I'm posting some prints I made this semester.


<-- "We Were Trying Too Hard" Photo transfer and lino cut.













"Expect Changes In the Wallpaper"

Wood grain print under lino cut.















Adventures in Incelism


Wood grain Print under Lino cut.














Those Old Wise Silly Things

Lino cuts





"Taking Polaroids and Catching UFOS"

Wood grain and Lino cut.

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Sorry for such a long hiatus.
I've been busy?

I got that work study scholarship to Penland like I wanted.
I'm leaving this Friday afternoon.
I'm very excited.
It's about 'Exploring Bookness', we'll be making some book inspired objects. It'll be fun.

Linkage or something.

I'm addicted to creative blogs. or something.
Whatever the following blogs are, I'm addicted to them.
They're kind of what I wanted this blog to be.
I mean, I just found them recently, but it's nice to see others doing stuff that you dig. You know?

Check 'um out.

Wish Jar
Hula Seventy
Curious Bird

Somehow Podcasts segway into storytelling.

I love podcasts.
I would say it is because I love getting information, and I like the ease podcasts provide.
I can listen to This American Life for free every week, get movie reviews from Filmspotting, etc.
But I've been thinking about what I like so much about them.

When I was little my mom got me this tape with the best storytellers from some kind of oral storytelling festival, and I listened to it religiously.
And the best memories I have from my family and friends tends to be the stories that they tell/told. Or the stories we create together, I guess.

I've been writing in my paper journal lately, I'm trying to find out what I want my art to be about. I keep coming back to the same things, or at least simular ones.
Communication, Memory, Collective Memory, Storytelling, Myth...
or at least I'm interested in these things. I just still haven't figured out how to make my art meet up with what I'm interested in exploring.

The only one of those I believe I work with at all right now is Storytelling, any of the paintings I do that actually mean anything, instead of being a still life or something done stricktly for the grade, has always been somewhat about telling a story. In critiques on those paintings I'll talk about what the painting is about, and tend to get into some big long story about the painting.

So I want narrative, I want storytelling.
I'll figure it out. Just letting it out into the internet ether.

The Human Form.

I've been thinking about his lately.
I'm in figure painting now and I am painting (generally) nude models.
I had be really wanting to post my paintings and some of my drawings from this class, but really don't want someone to accidently stumble on nudity that they might not have wanted to see.

It's nothing terrible, it's just the nude human form, but I don't want to offend. Personally I don't think there is anything offensive about it, but I want to be polite. Even if this is the internet.

So I'm going to link into my nude drawings and paintings, I think that's the best solution.

First of all, to the left is my first painting from figure painting and she is obviously clothed. So, there you go.

The nude studies I wanted to post are here and here. It's frontal nudity, so there are breasts. If you don't want to see them, don't click.

The nude painting I wanted to post is here. It's from the back, so you see her butt and hips.

Bud Light Sausage Commercial

This commercial makes me too happy.
SAUSAGES!

My excuses are just babies of snow...

Happy Sunday everyone! 

The Carrot Revolution was kind enough to link to me the other day. Thanks again for the shout out and the nice words.

 

I sent out a  scholarship application to Penland School of Craft this week. I hope I get it. I want to do this summer program on lithography. (Well, the program also includes stuff on intaglio and relief, but I know those processes, so I hope that they'll let me focus more on the lithography, since I know nothing about it.)

But anyway, when I sent my scholarship application to Penland, I had to take pictures of some of my art. Those arts happened to be the paintings I've not yet posted here, so here we go. 

Okay, paintings. Uhm. This one is kind of dumb, but my painting teacher likes it. We had to do our paintings about something, and I kind of picked communication, or the lack of. 

Essentially, It's a wasteland. 

Okay, so this was my final for painting 2, I painted a painting for my roommate, because I owe her some money... No, just kidding, She wanted one of my paintings, so I made her one. She needs to quit smoking, but, smoke is compositionally really really wonderful. I like swirls. Her hair is really not that color. I made it much too blonde, but she says she doesn't mind... sketches of it here. 

This painting is really personal. It's the biggest painting I've ever done. It's about 4 x 5 feet. I'm happy with it. People tend to like it before they know it's about death, and then they're like, "oh, i see. uhmmm." Oh well. 

It's what I was talking about here. 

Anyway. It's snowing outside. It's the pretty big clumps of snow.... or at least it was. It's calmed down now. 

Anyway. There are about 12 things I should be doing that aren't blogging so... 

A Little Birdhouse

Happy Valentine's day.

...Remember to leave the night light on in the birdhouse in your soul...

It's a link!

I'm very busy.

Well, make that I should be very busy, right now I should be reading books and doing homework and writing essays for scholarships and many other things.

but I'm not because I've found this great little website.

TED.com

It has speeches by lots of interesting people about lots of interesting things.

Technology, Science, Creativity, etc.

It's a lovely little site and I've already spent a few hours just clicking around watching videos.

To be fair, I found it off of my class' Blackboard page, so I started all this while trying to do homework.

I would reccomend this one. about happiness.

and this one, about if schools kill creativity or not.

but seriously most of the talks are really neat. I'm going thru the site still. It's just great.

Anyway. Thought i'd share.

Owl Dreams

Lookit!

These are my owls, an etching I did based on a drawing I posted up here a few months ago.

It's from an intaglio series about dreams I'm doing right now in Printmaking. woo.

Pictar

For my Rachel,

Proof of my being at Vandy:

Yep.