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TeleCity(E)Scape

Here's a secret, I have telephonophobia.
or, more accurately, a fear of speaking on the phone, not the concrete object itself.
(working as a receptionist one year when I was 16 caused me a lot of anxiety)

Watercolour (not a good idea) with mixed media on vellum. part of my 2009 drawing course.

the surburban landscape

final project for my drawing course this term. I never give myself enough time to complete my "vision"

really, I've seen worst messes.

The roof of my "doll house". This did not turn out the way I wanted, but I am keeping it. It looks rather juvenile, and not in the "quaint, nostalgic" good way either. Like it was made by a third-grader who doesn't give a crap.
Think I should've made the strips thinner.

faaack, I still have four other books to slice up.

Artists of Note

In our Critical Issues class, we often have "artist heroes" and working artists come in and speak to us, or we discuss their work.
I like that, to learn a little more about contemporary art.

Marie-Angue Guilleminot
Kevin Yates
Burckhardt (forgot his first name)
& any pre-1912 Piet Mondrian (sorry buddy, not a fan of grids)

A lot of my work that I've done so far is not really... my art work. It was more for school, so I don't know if I'm cool with showing it here. But I guess I will. I don't feel particularly that I put a lot of passion into them, just had to rush through them at 2am at night.

Oh, I've also started dabbling in oil paint, so beware, I might put up some tiny canvases soon.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Theo Jansen is mighty spectacular. You will be fucking blown away when you first see his work. Google him. Do it for the sake of all innovation.

Is it you or me?

Self-Portrait, 22X30 inches, acrylic ink applied via home-made stamping tool on paper

I'm not really a self-portrait kind of person. This was a requirement of my drawing course (which ironically enough works with more water and fluid media than dry, and we... spill more than draw) Plus we had to use grids, à la Chuck Close, except not quite, as you can see here, the grid is not visible at all and not integral to the piece. (Close works by aligning a grid of a billion squares onto a photo and then enlarging the image by painting abstract blotches of the colours in each box. Eventually what he gets is this glassy, pixelated effect that merges together to create the desired image when viewed from a distance, and just a bunch of squares with analogous colours when viewed up close)

I fucking hate grids.

Detail; work has this sketchy, cross-hatched look. Not really my intention. To be honest, I didn't give this project much thought. Finished it in a day; just sat down and stamped for 8/9 hours.

Though okay, I understand that the grid method helps the artist concentrate on representing work realistically, and it allows a heightened awareness of the position and proportion of forms and lines and etc. But humans don't see forms in grids. Computers do. Graphing calculators do. YRT bus transfer taped on to show scale of piece.

For some reason I have this perception that I look faintly like Mickey Mouse.

Academia

Édouard Manet, Un bar aux Folies-Bergère ca. 1882, oil on canvas, 37¾ X 51⅛

Hello masterpiece that I will be analyzing to death during the following 14 days.
I make a pretty flimsy essayist.

Yeah.

Comic for Winters Free Press, the new issue coming out in 2 weeks.

I love the ones I've seen on the internet when Kanye interrupts himself. It's the best.