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

Art Focus!

Here is another progress pic of my oil painting in progress... it's been slow and steady. I have been working on it here and there while getting some other work done this month. I added some detail to the water droplets on the cows nose today. :)

Previous Progress

New Progress

Water on the nose

ALSO! I had a photo of my work in Art Focus Magazine this month. You can see it Here

here is a photograph of it if the link doesn't work for anyone.

That made me pretty happy to see. :)

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. :)

Senior Capstone Show

The Oklahoma State University BFA Studio art Senior Capstone exhibit is now underway at the Gardiner Gallery in the Bartlet Center at OSU. The artist talks and reception were held this last Thursday March 27th, 2014. The show will be on display until April 4th, 2014 so make sure to go check it out!

I thought I wold come on here and post some photos from the show!
Some of these I did not take I am using some photos that other peoples friends and family took at the show. Others I took with my cell phone. I hope to use a nice camera and take a few more photographs before the show comes down.

Names of people in the Exhibition

On the Door of the Gallery

 

Outside

The Group

The Group

The Group

My artist talk

My Artist talk

Two of my photos behind Wills Sculpture.

The projector set up before it was projected on

Cow wall

By the elevator

Around back of the photos is what's left of the original piece

Underneath

Underneath

  The OSU Gardiner Gallery also posted the video of the exhibition.

Cows and melty things

It's been a while since I posted so I thought I would come on here and share what I am doing.
For sculpture I am working on two sculptures at once so that I am never waiting around for something. I have a foam dog which I will post about when it is a little farther along. I also have these miniature cow heads.

The cow heads were sculpted out of oil based clay. I then made a mold box out of some foam core board. I poured a rubber mold around the clay cow head and let it set up overnight. Now I am casting wax mini cow heads. The plan is to do five or so white ones and also try doing a few colored ones just to see how they turn out.  Whichever turns out better I will use those five for my show.

I will take the five cow heads and mount them to a pedestal and melt them to various stages so that there is a progression from not melted to almost fully melted. The pedestal plus the melted cows will then be shown together.

Clay Cow Head (5-6"?)

In the mold box

pouring the rubber

finished mold with hot wax inside

Three wax cow heads

 I am also doing some miniature paintings for the miniature art gallery I am helping curate for the Oklahoma State University Artists Society. I don't know if these will be in it or not but it is fun to paint this small. These paintings are only a few inches big. I am finding it kind of hard to paint that small with my current brushes. The paint globs on thicker and doesnt dry very fast so it is actually more challenging than I expected for something so small. I like working bigger much better I think.

Early on.. to show size and progress

This is probably bigger on your screen than in real life. This is after a couple

of hours

And last but not least my ceramic cow head got into Momentum :) Momentum will be in Oklahoma City March 7 and 8th 8pm to midnight. :)

http://www.ovac-ok.org/events/events_momentum.cfm

Ceramic Calf/Cow head- Got into Momentum OKC 2014