9/21

My ten pieces i created for our first project helped me progress with idea and concept development in my art. It forced me to come up with more perspectives on the same subject. All in all, the biggest challenge in this project was to simply get all the pieces finished within the time we were given. Having multiple pieces going at the same time helps to get everything done more efficiently, at least for me, because then when working on one certain piece becomes draining you can recharge by working on something else. It's a good thing. Because of my inclination towards stress, procrastination wasn't too bad of a problem for me.
I used all kinds of drawing media, including pencil, charcoal, chalk pastel, oil pastel and ink. I also explored more with collage, continuing from my experience in drawing 2. I realized that I want to have a large range of options for media for future work, so it helped me choose to lean towards the 2D design portfolio.

9/6

This weekend I went to Port Washington with Taylor and Joe for a nice little photoshoot, and discovered a new fisheye lens envy.
Fisheye effects on high and low horizon lines create such a cool globelike effect, and make everything look so much more vast than it is in reality.
Who needs complete realism in art anyway? :p

ps. I finally put my insomnia and extra blacklight lightbulbs to use, thank god.

9/5

Rather than going to one art gallery or art show, i ended up going all over the third ward looking for inspiration. The store Hot Pop had a small gallery in the back which i looked at, there were stores selling a lot of cool random things, and a lot of other cool places around milwaukee.