Graduation Exhibition 2013

I'm only going to upload these ones of the grad show because this area was where my piece was displayed. The Gallery lit my piece rather nicely i thought, however I would of put it in another spot in the gallery instead of the little niche area by the staircase. I didn't get to attend the opening for the grad show, mostly because I forgot that the openings for this gallery are on Mondays and I forgot to book monday off. But at least I got to take some pictures of the work when I went to the show on Wednesday.  

At the moment I'm working on a series of paintings that all have a similar theme of disintegration. the first of these paintings was of a dog that was shrivelled up with the skeleton showing, this one I wanted it to be way more subtle and make it look as though the deer is sleeping( even though it is a painting of a dead deer). I called this painting "In Due Time" mostly because it take time for a body to decompose. These paintings are my response to memento mora, and the venitas symbols that are in art, by creating my own with these half drawn emerging flowers that have more of a suggestion to a rebirth of life and the moths caring for the spirit or soul of the creature that is present. 

I'll write more about it eventually, I'm hoping to have a gallery show of these paintings soon, so in a few months i'll see where i'm at and hopefully it happens. 

candy painting

so this is painting project that is (almost) finished, it is in fact, a candy still life. Which for me is ironic, because I hate candy haha. My intermediate painting class is going really well so far. and my teacher Andrew is an amazing teacher. I've learned so much more with him teaching me than I have with any other painting prof (aside from marla) haha.

my next painting is a still like as well. so thats fun.

Im also in this intro lithography class, and i've never done lithography before. I have done other forms of print making though so I kind of know what to expect. but so far I've levagated a stone, and drew on it with litho crayons, I'm going to etch my stone this thursday so that will be interesting. I just hope that my first litho print turns out.

DIY things

I've been doing a lot of DIY things with my stuff lately, like a while ago I made a post on my shoes that I painted, well I started painting my old back pack and im continuing with the "ghost level" mario theme, and so far I just have the blue base of the back ground done but i'll post some updates on that soon.

paint brush holder for school :] 

The latest thing that i've painted on was my paint brush holder case thing, its was a black canvas paint brush holder thing that had a zipper and an ugly logo on it that said art something or other.. I don't know, I just didn't like how it looked, and because it looked shitty I didn't use it. so I painted it a few times, once blue, then white. but now I painted a skull with a crow and some roses on it and it looks pretty cool. The roses on it were done in marker though, and because of that after I sealed it with MOD podge it sort of smeared everywhere, so I made it look more intentional. But since I painted on it, I like it a lot more, and I'll be keeping it in my studio at school.

I like doing DIY things like this. super fun :]


I'll be back in Uni in like 12 days :D im so excited to be back in school. And it will bring back the creative atmosphere that my summer has been lacking.

~jessy

true to colour

Sorry for all the shitty quality pictures, the lighting In my apartment is rather shit. So I figured that if I took this outside, it would show more of it's true colours. The video that I posted didn't have the true to life colour quality that I hoped for.. but you got the point of it right? kind of like a look at me painting kind of thing... haha well I hope that you enjoyed watching me work and that you enjoy looking at my artwork. More will come, I promise. 

xo
jessy

my first speed painting video

This is the painting style that we learned in intro painting. This is the typical "NSCAD" painting style. This style of paint application relies on the use of bigger brushes and blocking in with colours, I did some blocking in but normally you would start by blocking in with acrylic paint with a set of tones to work off of, but for this since I used a recycled canvas instead of starting completely fresh. I painted over a painting from my fall semester that I wasn't happy with, one that you see in my older blog posts of my final project( the string doll thing) yeah, I wasn't happy with that painting at all, and I really wanted to reuse that canvas. when you recycle a canvas, expecially one that was already painted with oil, you can't paint over it with gesso, or acrylic. Since those paints are water based it would simple crack and flake off. So to fix it, I painted over it with white oil paint, covering up the areas that needed it the most.

I've been drawing a lot of bird skulls lately, so I figured I would paint one on this canvas. The skull itself is placed on the left to suggest a sense of "more", if that makes sense.. It when an object is placed on the right, it generally suggest an end, we start by looking at the left, then are eyes come across to the object, and then it stops. When an object is on the left we start at this object, and then our eye is drawn to the right, and suggest endlessness.

Do you get what i'm saying? anyway.. time to draw something else.

Started painting on a recycled canvas. I'm also filming myself painting this for my youtube so hopefully it should work out nicely.

bird skull drawing/ and 4x4 painting thats not quite finished..

Do you remember that painting of those string voodoo dolls I painted last fall? well I decided to paint over them. I couldn't stand looking at it anymore. The other painting that went with it, thats still around, but this one just made me angry looking at it. It may have been how I painted it, or the fact that I felt that it was just a failed piece of work. But anyway, I've decided to paint over it, now since it was painted rather thickly... I had to cover it up in such a way that those ridges don't show, or at least don't show as much. So I invested in a painting squeegee.. haha so simple a fix huh. Not really.. I have to wait for the oil to dry.. and now that is driving me crazy.. all this waiting.. ugh I just want to paint. You're probably wondering why I didn't just use gesso or acrylic to paint over it.. well oil and water dont mix, and if I used gesso, or an acrylic to make a new base on an old painting, well it would just start to peal off and be rather gross.. though I have done paintings in the past that did look rather interesting with that "technique" but I would rather this painting look good. So at the moment, its drying.

My other painting, the one with the tree mushrooms? remember that one? well that one isn't finished yet. I'll eventually do the detail in the mushrooms and start to define the wood and add more things. I've been coming up with a concept for it. so it represents the deep unconscious. hence the forest feel to it. When I eventually finish it, I will make a more detailed discription/ analysis of the painting. 

xo

jessy