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.

Spring break crunch

It's been a very busy spring break. I have been putting in many hours getting everything gallery ready for the show. I still have a few things left but I am getting closer.

I have five of the melting photos from Underneath mounted on 20" x 30" mounts I made for them.

I also finished my miniature melting cow heads which is called Faux Bovinae. It features a series of five wax cow heads mounted to wood and melted in progression. One non melted and on the other end one very melted. I plan to hang them rather high up so that they are looking down/the viewer is looking up at them.

Mounting boards in progress

Wood mounts cut, routed, primed, and painted

One of the cow heads before melting

Cow heads arranged so you can see them all at once. Top one is not melted, bottom right is most melted.

from least melted to most melted

Test hung on wall to make sure everything is sturdy, The closest cow is the most melted.

Momentum OKC

 

Momentum was very fun. It was held at the Oklahoma City Farmers Market. There were several artists there that I knew from OSU. There was live music, food trucks, and lots of interesting people and art. My piece ended up selling which was very nice. I also got to attend an artist tax workshop.

my cow at Momentum OKC 2014

 
I went right from Momentum back to finishing up working on pieces for my senior Capstone Exhibition at OSU.

This is the postcard for the OSU senior capstone show. It features images from all 9 of
the artists in the show.

Here is the back of the postcard for my show it features a close up of my more recent cow painting as well as the date and time of the reception.

The Show is Thursday March 27th from 5-7pm at the Gardiner Art Gallery at Oklahoma State University. The work will be up until April 4th so go check it out if you are in the area. :)

Momentum

Momentum is this weekend!

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

oil progress

I took a picture with my webcam while I was painting today. Thought I would share an update of how my oil painting is going. The body is giving me some troubles.. Going to finish this one up this week I am hoping and get started on some other work.

Taking photos of my progress kind of helps me to step back and see what I still need to fix. Fixing the body and also fixing the muzzle along the nose for sure. Adding some grass that he is eating also.

Photo dump (Underneath) Melting Wax Head

I added a few of the photos from my melting wax head project that I did.  It is a beeswax cast of a head I sculpted over a shiny aluminum head shape that I cast.  The process took around four hours. I documented with photo and video. I may do another melting of this one this semester.


 Check out more of the photos on this page:

http://mehusculpture.blogspot.com/p/meltting-wax-face.html