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New Concentration Ideas

So for my next concentration piece I was thinking of things that would apply to the idea behind my concentration and the latest idea that I came up with was to have a little boy wearing a bulletproof vest, representing how young childrens minds are influenced by not only games about shooting and killing, but also all of the shooting and killling that is always all over the news. If anyone has any ideas to expand off of that or to for my concentration feel free to give me feedback its always helpful.
I also just heard back from CCA and they said they would give me 7000 a year in merit scholarships, not too much for an art school but it would still be extremely nice and helpful if I end up goingthere.

Concentration and CCA

So ive been having a really hard time coming up with a concentration idea that I really like and I've already gone through a few but they seem like they would be really hard to develop a whole concentration out of it. I came up with a new idea today that I actually really like though. My new idea is Corruption of the body and mind. For the body i could do portraits of people that are neglecting or destroying their body or people that are semi deformed. For the Corruption of the mind I could do people doing things that would be corrupt to them as a child with a gun or a business executive shooting up heroin or something haha. As for the CCA Admit on the Spot event, I got accepted! I'm pretty excited about it, CCA seems like an awesome really fun school and im highly considering going there. But Im going to still apply to a few more schools to keep my options open. Im also considering MICA, RISD, OTIS, PNCA and maybe PRATT. It also depends on which schools I can get scholarships or financial aid for because they are all so expensive!

Artists

I found this collaborative project between this guy and this girl. They went by Her and Akut but they combined that and call themselves herakut. They are two street artists from germany. I found their pieces inspirational you might as well. ill just put a link that you go to to see thier artwork. http://www.cgunit.net/2008/11/herakut.html

Sunday Morning #2

I wanted to put a few pictures from the field trip up. On a sidenote I have figured out that when it comes to helping me with art projects....such as a family photo my family is very stubborn and unwilling to help but im making it work.

Feel free to give me feedback on my photos.
Camera: Canon D60

Sunday Morning

So there are a few blog posts that I would like to make. Because im bored and there are a few things that I would like to put up here. First here are a few photos that I took over the summer and in San Francisco and I wanted to know what people thought of them.


Camera: Holga 35mm

This is a double exposure of some plants at the head of the sacramento river and a big pink flower

I'm not really sure whether I like this photo or not. Its kinda creepy, intense and looks like it was taken on an old camera, or then again it could just be a crappy photo.

I really like this double exposure. I found this line of cones and the last one was the only one knocked over, and for some reason this compelled me to take a picture of it. The other part of the double exposure was a picture of some graffiti wheatpasting in chinatown.

Im not the biggest fan of this photo but other people have told me they like it.

Colorado Art Pictures

So I found the disc with my pictures of my art from colorado so here are a few of them..

STUFF...

This summer I went one of the summer seminars hosted by the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. The program really hard but it was really helpful and it got me more motivated to start working on art afterwards. When i was there each day we would wake up and go to breakfast at 7. Then we would go to a three hour drawing class. Usually during this class we would be expected to produce a few pieces of artwork. Sometimes we got models and we would do some sketches and then create a drawing with a certain media that they gave us. One thing that I found difficult with the drawing class was that we usually werent allowed to use small pieces of paper to work on, we were given huge pieces of paper and we had to use that one piece of paper to create a portrait for example. I wasnt used to working this large while drawing. Another thing that was difficult about the drawing class was that it took place underground in a theatre room that was painted black with no windows, so we would have to sit underground in this depressing room for three hours.

Occasionally the drawing class was held outside. Which I liked much more since the scenery all around you was always amazing.

After the drawing class we would take a half hour break to go and eat lunch and then we would be sent to a painting class that took place in another nicer, more well lit building. The artist that taught the painting class was a landscape painter so most of the time we were painting outdoors during painting class. I found painting landscapes extremely difficult since i really had not had much experience in painting with just acrylics and a had had no experience with painting landscapes. So it was really difficult at first and then it started to get a little bit easier towards the end.

I wish I could post more pictures of my artwork but I have to find the disk that they sent me after the end of the seminar with pictures of some of my work. If i can find the disk then I will try to upload the pictures to the blog.