leap day....

Happy Leap Day peeps! What a magnificent day for a leap day! It started snowing today in good ole Rexburg, but not just any snow. Wait, when does it normally just snow in Rexburg?! It was literally a white out today folks. Nope, you could not look out the Spori windows and see the street. 

Anyway, our next assignment in sculpture, assemblage. So we've been collecting all sorts of junk and we are to put them together to create an abstracted face of some sort. Here's how it went....

 Kinda discouraged.

Trashy trash.

Geddes getting his golf on.

This is what I so far. Whadda ya think? 

in martha's footsteps...

Hey folks, did you know I'm a baker? We'll I'm taking a baking class, so I guess technically I'm still in training. So aside from my BFA and three other art classes, I'm also learning how to bake. Yeah, I know I'm crazy. And to add onto that craziness, I baked four pies this week! The one pie I made in Baking, two for my BFA class and one for my Readings class. Check it...

This was my first pie, a delicious pumpkin pie! I made the crust and e'rythang! Yum.

We had a party in our Readings class. Tons of sweets early in the morning, one of which was my yummy pie. Griffin was so overwhelmed by all the food.

All we do in art class is party.

I made a coconut cream pie just for Cassie. What joy. 

more mess, more fun...

Sculpture just gets more interesting and tons more fun. And with more fun, it gets messier. We're now working out our carving sculpture which is made out of vermiculite and plaster. First, we make the mold. Once it's dried, we start hacking, cutting, and carving. Oh, did I mention this is a nonobjective piece, and did I mention I suck at nonobjective art. Yup, fun.

 

Mixing vermiculite and plaster. It's thick like oatmeal. Yum.

 Getting down and dirty!  Giddy!

with plaster covered hands....

This is our next project in sculpture! Plaster of paris molds! Such a messy messy process, but what fun!

 We sculpture an animal using a fine grain clay, really simplifying the shape of the animal. We then covered it in purple silicon, then in plaster, making this lovely mold. The purpose of the mold is to be able to easily reproduce the sculpture.

Now we are cracking the mold in half.

cracking...

Voila! It has been released! Yup, that's my bunny.

This is Cassi's Canadian Lynx. After we removed the plaster, we are now cutting the sculpture out of the silicon by cutting it down the center.

This is Geddes's raccoon. When the silicon is remove, the sculpture is safe inside! Remove the sculpture and the negative space is where you pour the plaster in reproduce the same exact sculpture.

Now to make the plaster sculpture! 

This is yummy yummy plaster!

In the foreground is the silicon/plaster mold wrapped with giant rubber bands to secure it in place.

Place the mold where it is secure upside down. Pour the plaster in and let set for about an hour.

Voila! You have a lovely plaster sculpture! 

               

revamp...

Hello peeps! So truly sorry for not keeping up with my blog! I have had so much art assignments going on that when I have down time, I have no energy to blog. Again, I send my apologies.

So good news! I think it's about time I spiced this blog up. It's time to revamp!! Hope you all like the changes, if you have any feed back about the new look, let me know. I need to start being all profesh.

Still illustrating and always printing,

Victoria

bfa in process...

Hey hey hey! I'm starting my first BFA piece. Oh, by the way, did you know I got accepted into the BFA Illustration program? Yeah, no biggie. So I'm doing fashion illustration for my BFA and I'm pretty excited about it simply because this has never been done before AND I'm doing it in printmaking! Oh and some in watercolor and maybe do some oil paintings...I'm getting ahead of myself. Anyway, check out my first piece and the printmaking process. Oh, you won't actually get to see the finished piece just because I'm saving that for July 2012. Patience peeps.

This is my giant copper plate. In fact, this is my first time ever printing a giant plate! Impressive eh?

 

After the plate is cleaned and degrease, it is covered in lovely blue floor wax. Yum.

Once the yummy blue floor wax is dried, I transfered my image onto the plate!

Like so.

I then start "drawing" my image in with a needle. The exposed areas will be etched at. If any mistakes are made just cover it up with red rosin. That's a lot of mistakes!

Now it's time to etch! 

Once I've etched my plate long enough, I'll remove all the blue and red gunk.

Just one more detail. Adding in some dry point!

Now to ink up!

 Now here comes a very fun printing technique! Chine col'e. 

Trace and cut out the area that is to be covered in the lovely colored paper.

Then spray with water and adhesive spray.

Time to place it CAREFULLY onto the plate.

Then place the paper carefully on top!

Rolling the press. I want one of these suckers!

So that's it. Pretty easy huh? Stay tune on more BFA process post! Peace out.

hands on...

This semester I'm taking a sculpture class. It's my first 3 dimensional experience since high school and since then I swore I would never do sculpture because I suck tremendously! So what do I discover on my first day in sculpture? I actually like this and I'm not so bad! Our first assignment was just learning the basics, Each week we had a different head to sculpt. Total heads: 4. Check 'em.

Just starting out and the finished product.

Not an exactness, but it's pretty good for my first head!

This is my final sculpture, now to add a patina. I'm just in love with Voltaire. Oh Voltaire! So proud.

So yeah, sculpting, not too shabby. Moral of the story, just say you hate something when you've never really tried it. Peace out.