note: future project.

i only have two weeks left of work. after that, i still have a whole month left before i'm back to school. therefore, i am going to force myself to do some art.

today, while cleaning the third floor of the gallery where i work, i found a bag that contained some fabric. i wanted some fabric to cover my sketchbook with, so i looked through it and noticed some that was white, with very faint traces of where there used to be small purple flowers. i thought it was a bedsheet, but it turned out to be a dress. with several holes in it.

i want to collect a bunch of old clothes in an extreme state of disrepair: dresses where the fabric is thinned and falling apart, jeans with holes everywhere, moth-eaten sweaters. and repair them. patch the holes, maybe embroider the faded prints.

finding the old clothes is the hard part.

summer photos.

several of them. some of them got cropped on the edges, click for full view.

i have no idea why this is underlined, but it won't go away.

oils.

i made an oil painting. you may know that i'm not much of a painter, generally. i think i prefer oils to acrylics, because the colours look nicer and they don't dry before even touching the painting surface like acrylics do. my favourite part is the actual visible brushstrokes that i've tried so hard to get with acrylics, and failed miserably. though that part didn't scan well.

self-portrait, obviously. i liked it better before i added the glasses. i might be risky and try to take them off.

i return!

i kind of forgot about having a blog again.

i've decided, this year, to start applying to the national theatre school's costume and set design program (or rather, my mother has decided for me). i'm starting now because they accept a grand total of eight people each year, so maybe they'll eventually notice me if i start early. applications aren't until next february, but i'm starting to work on my fashion sketching skills.

















(they're small because there's so many, click to go to flickr to see what's going on!)

i went out and bought a fountain pen and tubes of watercolours and a huge-ass black spiral-bound sketchbook, which i'm going to paste these into. it makes me feel like a real fashion designer. it seems like they would carry huge-ass black spiral-bound sketchbooks. maybe.

life drawings. warning: naked.

these are from drawing class second semester, which was mostly drawing from nude models. if you don't like the naked, look away now.

as always, click for full view, which is way better.

we were supposed to convey an emotion, sad and moody.

a blind contour with proportions gone wrong. his stance just begged for the caption, no?

and this was, obviously, not drawn from life. 'tis my little sister, and perhaps one of my favourite drawings i've done, ever.

look, some art.

i have not yet posted anything from semester number two at mount allison. so, here are some paintings. i only have a couple, because i am no painter and i threw most of them out.

click for full-size. i recommend it.

a still life. i didn't completely hate this.


a "narrative" painting, based on the song "a day in the graveyard II" by, of course, sunset rubdown.
i chose it because i feel like if i were to make a movie about my life, this song would be in the trailer. i don't know why, that was just my reaction from the first time i heard it.

this is the song, ignore the video, which is just some guy filming veteran memorials. unless you like it, then that's cool too.


and that's all i have for paintings right now.

art post: some older things.

here are some paintings and drawings from the year 2008, in reverse chronological order.
(if you click on them, you can see them much better.)

this was my final project for elements of art class last semester. pen, watercolour, acrylic, pencil and thread on paper.

my first painting at mta. i don't really like it. acrylic on paper.

an assignment to focus on the negative space. watercolour on newspaper on pencil on paper.

one painting i don't actually hate. from the end of grade twelve, painted from observation during a school "river festival". i got frustrated with the whole landscape and came up with this. acrylic on canvas.

a quick blind contour sketch of myself that i liked. pen, watercolour, embroidery on paper.

i have lots of newer stuff i want to post, but i don't have photos of it, and i forgot my camera at home after my trip to new york a few weeks ago. so lots more is coming in two or three weeks when i get it back.

new project.

here's my latest project: "set design for an autobiographical play: act III scene 4 (finale)"

(click for bigger)

it's for a project for elements of art class. we had to made a miniature scene and photograph it for publication in a booklet. i immediately remembered my mom making miniature mock-ups of set designs for high school plays, which i loved to help her with as a child, so theatre came to mind. i did this around an idea i've been working with, production designs for a (fictional) autobiographical play. this shows the final scene, my death scene. had i more time, i would have made a miniature myself, who has gotten tangled up in yarn and falls onto knitting needles, piercing the heart. that's how i see myself dying.

les photos.

someone likes to procrastinate instead of studying for her midterm.

here is some photography.

35mm:

120mm (holga)







taken with a pinhole camera made of a purse:

all shot on film (with the exception of the pinhole in which the paper was exposed directly), developed, and printed in the darkroom, the old-fashioned way. my digital camera has been seeing a lot less of me lately.

and in case anyone's wondering, the holga photos were shot at animaland, a park that my grandparents own. it has a bunch of animal sculptures that were made by an old family friend, who passed on the park to the family when he died. it used to be a huge tourist attraction, but the highway got moved and people stopped coming, so it's been closed for a few years. now, they're building a huge new mine in the area, some of which you can see in the background.