Cape Cod Trip

Monday was our trip to Cape Cod! My 3D teacher, the awesome Eddie Oates, took us to his house -- which is also a museum of his own work over the last thirty or so years. It was inspiring to see the variety and originality in his pieces. Also interesting was a series of around one hundred sketchbooks containing self portraits. Eddie has drawn a self portrait once a day for thirty years.


Jay grabs a nap on the hour-long ride


Eddie Shows us around the place


Interesting piece from a larger series


My favorite piece from Eddie's museum

Anyway, once our tour of his museum was over we rode over to the beach. It was very cold and windy, but the wave action was fantastic and more than made up for any discomfort.





Intense waves...


It was so cold!


An adorable and friendly dog came to say hi!


But soon ran back to her owner :(


Section eleven and Eddie!

I finally took some pictures from my work in 2D class. So far it's mostly just exercises in tone and colour. Here is a series of 8x8 gouache paintings for this purpose:


Some of my black and white compositions


Recent colour compositions (second is a study for the third)

Time for a nap after all this blogging...RISD rocks.

First Polyhedra Drawing

My Saturday...so many words to describe it. But I think it is best represented by the word "toil." I worked from 2pm to 9:30pm (with an hour break) in the studio on a drawing of seven or so of the polyhedra made for Drawing class. Craving excitement, I went to Thayer with some friends to grab a bite at an awesome place called Nice Slice. Perhaps the best pizza place ever. Imagine a flavor of pizza, and they will have it out for you. Every time I visit I get a different type. I'm really reppin' this place because it is fantastic.


Some delicious Reed's Spiced Apple Ginger Beer.
This stuff is fantastic!


Robbie enjoys a slice...


Ceiling art

After that brief break I returned to the workroom and drew for three more hours. After another hour of work in the morning what resulted was this charcoal drawing on illustration board. It's pretty large - 30"x40" and a pain to lug around. I really wish I'd rendered the guy better, but after 10+ hours I didn't really care to make it exact.

The boy (Jay) is actually a bit larger but I made him smaller to make it more of a dramatic contrast between organic and artificial shapes.

Today we wanted to go to a hockey game, but it was unfortunately canceled. I wish we'd known that before we walked all the way there in the 35 degree rainy weather. On the bright side, on our way back we stopped at this awesome Indian store and I got a fuzzy warm hat and a free peacock feather!


Finally I'm not freezing!

Tomorrow I'm visiting Cape Cod during my 3D class, more on that later!

Mad Busy Week

So much to do! The past week (or two? lost track) have been comprised of late nights and cups of coffee. Despite all the work I've been doing, it doesn't seem like I have that many pieces to show for it. I'm probably just being impatient, but it's hard to shake the feeling. Anyway, we made our last two furniture drawings for class! We were all glad to be done with the project after three weeks of the same homework. I wasn't too happy with my pieces this time, probably because they were quite rushed; I had a lot of other work to do.
Here are the most recent:






I also finished a different assignment for drawing, this one was to make a polyhedron (many-sided solid). Mine is the eighth stellation of the icosahedron. A stellation occurs when you extend all the planes on the object in every direction in order to make a new shape where the planes intersect. So the icosahedron has twenty sides, each of which are equilateral triangles. Stellate eight times, and you'll get the shape I created. It is cut from six pieces of illustration board and stuck together with hot glue. Building it was very much like solving a puzzle -- until I understood the 3D pattern each piece adhered to, I couldn't fit together the pieces. Because of this, I probably wasted 3-5 hours putting it together the wrong way. Fortunately, I fiddled with it long enough to have a breakthrough, and the rest came easily.




Here is the finished product, hanging in my room to dry after painting.



Another view!


On a side note, Providence has beautiful sunsets! The end of my hall faces west, so we get a great view.




I'll try to get some pictures up from something BESIDES drawing class soon!

Week Deux, etc.

This isn't exactly chronological, but here's some stuff that happened recently.

I've done four of the furniture drawings so far, and I have two more to go. I kind of wish we could draw something besides tables and chairs for once...



First Drawing



Second Drawing

We had a shaving cream fight on Saturday. If you've never participated in such an event, it's exactly what it sounds like. Pics taken from Mary's facebook.



Preparation


Post-Fight


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I tried my hand at making a violin from one piece of cardboard for 3D class. It takes about 6 hours to draw out the plan, cut it out, then fold up the violin.


Tape is just temporary

I'm trying to do a series of self portraits, because my 3D teacher said that he's done a self-portrait every day for 30 years. Better start now...


9/27


9/29


10/1 (today!)

Maybe sometime I'll get the other pictures of the drawing assignments