Monday, March 04, 2002
I've been doing most of my infrequent Blogging at Killoggs lately.. So I haven't posted anything here at the studioblog for a bit.
updates:
I finished that woodcut a week or so ago. It's pretty cool, I guess. I'll try and get a picture of it to put up here when I can.. It's not perfect by any means, but it's definitely gotten me excited about doing more relief in general and woodcuts in particular. And working BIG! I'm gonna make more big woodcuts!
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I spent more money than it's worth getting that image and two smaller silkscreens (here's the image for one) ready for the "Student Art Show" here. What a joke.. The student show here is always horrible. Every moron and their cousin submits every half assed piece of shit they did in the last year (I'm no exception) , from art structure assignments to first semester paintings (ie the first painting someone ever does!). To make matters even more sad, they have now gotten it to the point where there is a "pre-juried" show where you can see everything submitted, so as to keep anyone from feeling less than worthy. So, if things are like last year, you go and see a bunch of crappy art with some decent stuff, and when you go to the show you (meaning I) get angry at the "jurors" when they somehow manage to leave out the coolest stuff (not mine, other people's.. my prints are not a factor in this rant since I always seem to get something in.. this is not an ego thing..) and have plenty of the absolute worst kitchy artwork up instead, making the "real" show only slightly better than the pre-juried one. Actually, almost worse, since some of the best stuff is missing at that point..
Whatever. This years show looks to be no exception, although the pre-juried show revealed even less semi-decent artwork than last time. There's barely enough good/decent stuff there to make a small show, so hopefully with the narrowed field, there's less outright crap in the finished product. HAAAAA ha. It's a losing proposition to even care about that show, so I have no idea why I just spent those minutes writing about it.
in other news, my current to do list includes:
getting the next Studygroup12 ready.
getting another piece of wood ready for the knife.
making a deck of silkscreened playing cards.
figuring out how exactly to make a 3D comic.
and passing my academics that I pay too little attention to.
¶ 11:57 AM
updates:
I finished that woodcut a week or so ago. It's pretty cool, I guess. I'll try and get a picture of it to put up here when I can.. It's not perfect by any means, but it's definitely gotten me excited about doing more relief in general and woodcuts in particular. And working BIG! I'm gonna make more big woodcuts!
*****
I spent more money than it's worth getting that image and two smaller silkscreens (here's the image for one) ready for the "Student Art Show" here. What a joke.. The student show here is always horrible. Every moron and their cousin submits every half assed piece of shit they did in the last year (I'm no exception) , from art structure assignments to first semester paintings (ie the first painting someone ever does!). To make matters even more sad, they have now gotten it to the point where there is a "pre-juried" show where you can see everything submitted, so as to keep anyone from feeling less than worthy. So, if things are like last year, you go and see a bunch of crappy art with some decent stuff, and when you go to the show you (meaning I) get angry at the "jurors" when they somehow manage to leave out the coolest stuff (not mine, other people's.. my prints are not a factor in this rant since I always seem to get something in.. this is not an ego thing..) and have plenty of the absolute worst kitchy artwork up instead, making the "real" show only slightly better than the pre-juried one. Actually, almost worse, since some of the best stuff is missing at that point..
Whatever. This years show looks to be no exception, although the pre-juried show revealed even less semi-decent artwork than last time. There's barely enough good/decent stuff there to make a small show, so hopefully with the narrowed field, there's less outright crap in the finished product. HAAAAA ha. It's a losing proposition to even care about that show, so I have no idea why I just spent those minutes writing about it.
in other news, my current to do list includes:
getting the next Studygroup12 ready.
getting another piece of wood ready for the knife.
making a deck of silkscreened playing cards.
figuring out how exactly to make a 3D comic.
and passing my academics that I pay too little attention to.
¶ 11:57 AM
