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Photoshoped

            So I used to photoshop a lot because I was in year book and newspaper so I did lots of photoshopping. I had to learn by trail and error, mainly from online tutorials and the like. One of the first things I got really good at was using the pen tool, I did all the Cut Out Backgrounds for the yearbook. The issue with the pen tool is that it dosent work for certain things, things like hair or fuzziness it cant deal with, its also kinda slow. So this was an experiment with layer masks and some new tools, my hair was still a pain to cut out but it at least turned out pretty well. The tattoo was a later addition in support of the equality thing.

            The next post will be about class, I guarantee.  

Inspiration a day to late...

         I was lying in bed the night after the project trying to figure out what I could have done differently for the chair project. And after a while I realized that the whole issue was what the chair was based off of, I needed a different relationship. Then it came to me I should have done my high school mentor Joe Glotzbach, pictured above. Mr. G was my high school's drama teacher and one of my boyscout troop leaders. He passed away several years ago due to cancer but he left behind so many memories. Some of my fondest memories of him are when Tim (the person I did the original essay over) and I had forensics duet practice. We would perform for him and when we were done we would say that we were good for the day, Mr G would then just give us this look that was like you know very that your not done, you can do so much better, you and I both know it. And then would say that we would go practice again and then perform for him again and then he would give us that look again and then we would practice until we had it perfect. 

        I also have many fond memories of Mr. G from boyscouts and it is in no small parts thanks to him that I got my Eagle Scout. He was meticulous in his attention to detail and his faith in people, he was one of the best teachers I ever had even though I never took one of his class's. 

        The chair would have been small as his lifestyle was simple and he was content with his lot in life. I would have perhaps been a stool or a simple seat, where the chair would have stood out would have been in the detail around the base of it. I would have used a knife to cut away the top and middle layers of cardboard to create a series of images that would have represented my memories of him.

        Well that was a lot of rambling but the idea was driving me crazy and I had to get it out. It seems that inspiration came to me just a little to late on this project hopefully it wont happen again.

Kendal Buster

 Kendal Buster

Kendal Buster’s works are a mixture of science and art. Everyone draws inspiration from somewhere, I tend to draw inspiration from everyday life or whatever catches my fancy. The great thing about Kendal Buster’s work is that it is all inspired by her science background making most of her pieces coherent, unlike my work which is nonsensical and random at best. When you hear the name Kendal Buster you immediately know what type of art you will be looking at.
Kendal Buster’s art is fascinating in its large billowing manner. Most of Buster’s works are frames with some type of material draped or placed within it. Her work, because it is inspired by her scientific biology background, seems as if it is almost undulating or living and breathing in its own regard.  

Martin Puryear

Martin Puryear

Martin Puryear’s work is fascinating, his pieces are very abstract in context. His work as he states in the intro to his site is non representational, yet at the same time they allude to objects in real life. Giving his work this odd mix of non representational allusion. I think that his art is interesting, he strips it down to such a point that you get to looking at the shape or the form as opposed to minute details. I ended up looking at the direction of the piece and it’s movement as opposed to what it possibly meant. I also looked at the material and was interested in how he manipulated wood in several different instances. It was also intriguing the combination and form that he put in some objects and how he placed certain works so that they trailed into the distance.

Another fascinating concept about Martin Puryear’s works was how some of them were incredibly simple in nature and how other were not. He had many pieces that are a single object or a single piece that loops back on itself or maybe a wooden form lying on the ground. While others had intricate weaving or were woven into a fascinating form and some had odd wooden angles while more had several compounded features. Giving a fascinating contradiction to his work.

Mini Chairs

These are some models of potential cardboard chairs. The most difficult part of making my chair so far are the supports. The supports are tightly rolled cylinders, the issue though is that it is incredibly difficult to tightly roll cylinders by hand. My next attempt will be to construct or find some small metal pipe that I can roll it around.