There’s a shocking amount of work that goes into everything we have. I chose this idea because it’s easy to forget just how much time and effort is put into every processed good. I wanted to show the difficult in creating even something simple like a wood carving, let alone something more complicated and usefulContinue reading “Week 6 – Art Experience – Shocking Art!”
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Week 5 – Art Experience – Storytelling
I chose to make a story on my ski day with my grandpa because family is the most important thing in my life, and it means alot to me that I can go out with my grandpa and bond with him over something we both enjoy. I think that I conveyed fairly well that I’mContinue reading “Week 5 – Art Experience – Storytelling”
Week 4 – Artist Conversation
Artist name : Kyunghee Valdez Exhibition : Faith In Light Media : Copper Gallery : CSULB School of Art, Gatov Gallery West Website : N/A Instagram : N/A Kyunghee Valdez is a student in the School of Art’s 3D Media program. Valdez moved to California from south korea to pursue her education in the unitedContinue reading “Week 4 – Artist Conversation”
Wk4 – Art Experience – Drinking and Drawing
Although art is wide and broad in its scope it’s undeniable to say that drawing serves as a cornerstone of artistic creativity. Drawing is nearly its own language in many cases it can convey thoughts and emotions better than words could ever get across, images in many cases are more powerful, visceral, and intimate thanContinue reading “Wk4 – Art Experience – Drinking and Drawing”
Wk3 – Art Experience – You Can Find Art Anywhere
Form, Aesthetic, and Content The form of this piece is a segment of a great big lumbering tree. A cut out of the entirety of the piece is focused and invites you to examine the details of one segment of the form of the tree before stepping back and appreciating the entirety of the tree.Continue reading “Wk3 – Art Experience – You Can Find Art Anywhere”
Wk2-Art Experience-Abstraction Is Freedom
One of my hobbies that I often engage in is wood carving, and the thing with carving is, it’s really easy to mess up and it’s really hard to fix. Find a knot? better work around that. Chip your piece? Better hope there’s still enough wood to work with. Did the wood split? Time toContinue reading “Wk2-Art Experience-Abstraction Is Freedom”
Wk1 – Art Experience – Maintenance Art
Cleaning “NOW” I didn’t feel particularly artistic cleaning the “Now” art piece but there’s something very gratifying about breathing new life into something that’s in desperate need of tending to. Its enjoyable to maintain and restore something that’s already had time put into it. I was showing my respect for the artist that created theContinue reading “Wk1 – Art Experience – Maintenance Art”