Category Archives: Works in Progress

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This week was a really tough week for me, both personally and at work. I’ve been feeling especially depressed recently and overwhelmed and I feel like it really affected me in my art-making as well. I ended up also re-visiting one of the collages I did last week, putting in the cutout from it on the top of it and I’m not really sure how I feel about it. This time next week I will be in Japan, and that thought really has been what is getting me through the week (as such it really controlled the imagery I used this week). If I can before I leave, I want to try revisiting the third picture- the concept of the torii gate in the hall I like, but the execution of it was poorly done.

I also found some cutouts from a picture and some paper that has drips of paint and ink on it and just thought the visuals on it were pretty interesting to look at.

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Although I’ve been really overwhelmed with HREB stuff and getting all of my paper work done for my field trip I still really enjoyed doing this first layer. It was really time consuming, but totally worth it. I was checking out all of the different pine cones on our property and thought that making a large cropped version of one would be a little different than the landscapes that I had been doing. This is done entirely with ball point pens. One and a half of them to be exact.

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This is one of my favorite memories. Alex and I went on vacation to Disney World after graduation. While we were there, I got an email that at 5pm I would receive my score report for one of my certification exams. I was worrying about it for hours. He made me an ice cream sundae while I worried and then I found out I passed! We decided we should celebrate, but it started raining! So we made the best of it and danced to our favorite songs all night!

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As I worked on these collages this week, I wanted to try different approaches, whether it was directly layer image son top of each other or putting them side by side. I also found that the imagery I wanted to use changed slightly as a result of my upcoming trip to Japan. While I have been utilizing imagery from my last vacation to Colorado, I have found that I have been thinking more and more about Japan and decided to incorporate imagery from there form my previous trips I have taken there. Everyday I have been thinking non-stop about it and remembering all of the places I have been to before, and knowing that I will soon have the chance to go back there has honestly been what’s getting me through the week. In the final two images here, I used photos from a hike I took in Kyoto the last time I was there.

 

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So I’ve started to explore the possibilities of using ball-point pen in my work. I was inspired by Emil Ferris, who is also my second mentor artist. A little out of the ordinary, in fine art, but I love how the pen layers with the inks. 

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This week I ended up focusing primarily on collaging images together and I’m really liking how they’re turning out. I’ve been finding with my painted photos that they can feel redundant and nothing new is really happening with it. To get out of that, I thought I might expand my methods in how I am making the images. The images I am collaging come from my everyday work life and Colorado. The images from Colorado are also further edited, seeming almost surreal/unreal, similar to how my own memory is perceiving that trip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My work continues. The Pan Pastels are the slowest part of the process. This current piece is of a coffee shop on South Avenue in Rochester. It is about five minutes down the street from my school. I thought I would start with this coffee shop because one of my students comes here every Saturday to draw with her father. She is currently in third grade, and this is the first year I have not had her since I have started working. Every time I get coffee here I think of her and her father. She is an amazing artist for a third grader. I think it says a lot about practicing your art form. As I continue my work I will add a contour drawing of graffiti that is across the street from the coffee shop.