Megan Hughes Blog

Thursday, April 17, 2014

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.

http://osuma.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/picasso-toros-en-vallauris-1955.jpg

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.

Senior art exhibition at Gardiner Gallery on March 31, 2014

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.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

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

Lezley Deese

Michael Rahn

Stephanie Addison

Stephanie Addison and Will Mantor

Will Mantor

Randall Barnes

Paxton Cavin

Lindsay Gerndardt

Lindsay Gernhardt

Megan Hughes

Monday, March 31, 2014

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

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

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

Friday, March 21, 2014

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.