Drawing Concepts

1) We had to choose a painting with 2+ figures from a list of painters that our teacher gave us.  I picked The Crucifixion of St. Peter by Caravaggio.  We then had to abstract it with white and black collage.  I loved this assignment but I still want to work on mine a bit more.

2)-4) Some different details of my abstraction

5) Painting done from a collage I did.  My teacher stole mine or else I would have photographed it and posted it.

6)-8) Out of class assignment : night studies

9)-18)  In class works.  Some of these were done by collage and some are just straight up acrylic paint.

MORE TEETH!?

Molar parade!  Ok, lemme break it down.  So we had two class periods (6 hours) to make a clay positive of anything we wanted.  Naturally, I made another molar since I have a weird obsession with teeth as of late.  We made a plaster waste mold from this clay positive, and then made a rubber mold from the plaster positive.  Basically, this means I can pop these babies out like crazy.  Just pour some hydrocal into the mold and you have an identical cast about 30 minutes later.  These will be used in an installation piece that I am not going to try to explain on the interwebz.

phase 4: toof

This baby is finished for the most part.  I need to do a little touching up/more sand-screening but the bulk of the work is over.  It probably weighs more than I do so this thing might never make it out of Boston.  Maybe I'll throw it in the Charles River...what could it all mean??

phase 3: toof

1) aluminum piping down each root, 2) slowly making progress...

phase 2: TOOF

recent painting

1)-3) a few weeks ago each student was assigned a medium in which to do 10 drawings with.  basically, we tried to come up with ways to push each other out of our comfort zones.  I was told to do 10 drawings with a large brush and ink/watercolor.  I was not allowed to use more than 50 brush strokes in each drawing.  We were then asked to do 3 paintings based off of 3 of our 10 drawings.

4) studies...and some drawings of my tooth that my sculpture (will post updated picture soon) is based off of.  

phase 1: TOOF

For my sculpture 2 class we have to do a project outside of class on the theme of "death."  Although my professor advised against making our ideas personal, it's near impossible to spend so much time on something that doesn't really mean anything to you, personally.  I decided to make an EXTREMELY large maxillary molar that would look pristine, smooth and shiny from all angles except for one, where it would be decaying with cavities.  I went to the BU dental campus last week and met with a man named Ari who was incredibly helpful.  He gave me model casts of molars as well as the department's old software! So cool. 

I made an armature out of chicken wire, foam, wire, and burlap strips covered in plaster.  It doesn't look like anything yet, but it's just an idea of the scale and such.