3 day weekend Day 3

Day 3. Casting,  Sanding, Painting

Today I spent using the dremel tool to fix all the mold defects from the cow that I cast last night. I also sanded the base part flat.

I then sprayed it down with a plastic primer and let it dry. After that I started painting. I did a dark layer first to get into all the cracks and details and then worked my way lighter. My first coat will be completely painted over when it dries in a couple of days this first layer was just to fill in color. The next layer will clean up and detail parts and finally I will go back in and finish minor details once everything is dry.

I also cast another cow but had some air bubbles due to pouring the resin in 2 parts instead of a single pour and I poured a little too fast. I am purchasing some apoxy sculpt to see if there is any way to save it.

First layer of dark paint to fill in details then wiped off.

First layer of paint. Still wet. Marked off kind of the colors I want and where. Will paint details when it dries.

Another angle. Needs a lot of touch ups once it dries

The three heads so far. Front: dry head. Left: Wet head with 1 layer of paint. Right: Newly cast head with Bubble defect in ear.

Overall I think it was a pretty productive 3 day weekend. :)

Updated photos

I took some new photos of two of my paintings. I also did a new layer of paint on the resin cow. I have been sick the last couple days so my progress has been slower than I like. My goal is to finish this resin piece tomorrow morning so that I can take final photographs.


Here's what I got out of today:

Painting my cow. Also Art Focus

I was mentioned in Art Focus September/October 2014. I thought I would post that here. :)

http://issuu.com/ovac/docs/artfocus-septoct14?e=1732622%2F9113598











Also I thought I might as well post progress shots of the resin cow head. I started painting it to see how it would turn out.

I first used a white spray primer.
Then I air brushed brown and black acrylic to get into the lines.
Then I started painting with oils. Not sure if you are supposed to paint on Resin with oil but I figured I primed it and painted with acrylic, it was worth a shot.

Here are some photographs of my first oil layer. I plan to do at least one more layer of paint if this layer ever dries.  If this piece turns out I may do a series of them... more plans to follow.
Regardless I plan to cast some wax cows tonight or this weekend.

Before paint

with first layer of oil

first layer of oil

First layer of oil

First layer of oil

Moo!

Cow then and now

Here is my final post of this painting for a couple months. Time to work on other stuff.

There is sunlight coming through on the left side window so the colors are a tiny bit off in this but it is close.

Progress

Summer Post 1

Graduation and summer have arrived. I graduated in May. I received the OVAC outstanding student award. You can read about it here.

It was a great honor to be chosen for the award and it made me very happy. I used some of the award money to purchase canvas, paints, an easel for my studio, and a black and decker matrix with router attachment.  It was a great way to end the school year.


I have been working on the small cow head. I will post in progress photographs of the mold making process soon. I thought today I would post some in progress photographs of my newest cow painting that I have been working on. It is still no where near completed as I took an extended break this June to move but now that my new studio is all set up I have begun work again on it.

  

So there are some various in progress shots of where I am and kind of my process this far. Most recently I had added green drool and worked on darkening the background a bit.

I will psot more Photos soon. Thanks for sticking with me through this absence! Glad to be back working. :)

Early April progress dump

Now that the show is finished I have been working on a few pieces to finish up the semester. I have two pieces going in sculpture right now. One is a life size dog that I am carving out of foam (photos to come later) and the other is a new miniature cow head to replace the cow heads in Faux Bovinae that I sold. The mold for that piece got ruined and so I decided to sculpt a new similar one out of clay and make a new mold. I also decided to make the piece a little bigger. This one is probably 150% to 200% as big.

I am still in the clay sculpting part.. smoothing lines and bumps getting the shapes how I want them.

I plan to finish sculpting them this week and make the mold as soon as my new silicone is delivered.

After a few mins (32"x34")

As for oil I have started working on another close up of a drooling cow. It is in very rough stages but I took photographs to kind of show my process for my underpainting.

It doesnt look like much now but after I spend a few hours on it and add some color layers it should start to look like a drooling cow nose. Haha

After about an hour (32"x34")

I also wanted to share that I got portions of a paper I wrote published on the Oklahoma State Museum of Arts blog. It isn't the entire paper but rather selections from it. I researched Pablo Picasso's Toros en Vallauris. Check it out here.

I also recently got written about by Her magazine for Oklahoma state as one of the campus celebrities. Which is kind of fun. Check that article out Here.
 



We also went to Kansas City as an art department a few weeks back. I would like to upload some photos from that trip on here later possibly. It was very fun. We visited a lot of museums and galleries in the area.

Thanks for reading. I plan to post more photographs of progress and the trip very soon.

More senior capstone photographs

Here are more photographs from the capstone show. These were taken during the day so there is some sunlight and reflection on a few. This is everyone in the shows work.

Jill Tovar

Jill Tovar

Jill Tovar

Lezley Deese

Lezley Deese

Michael Rahn

Stephanie Addison

Stephanie Addison

Stephanie Addison

Stephanie Addison and Will Mantor

Will Mantor

Randall Barnes

Randall Barnes

Paxton Cavin

Paxton Cavin

Lindsay Gerndardt

Lindsay Gernhardt

Lindsay Gernhardt

Lindsay Gernhardt

Megan Hughes

Megan Hughes

Megan Hughes

Megan Hughes

Megan Hughes

Megan Hughes