Andy Goldsworthy Inspired Sculpture Series - Come Sit With Me

The Stone Chairs is a series of sculptures my fellow artist, Vinnie Gravanda, and I are making this summer.   This is the first of the many installments of the sculptures.  It is made of rock and some mud.   They are inspired by Andy Goldsworthy's giant stone eggs as well as some other artists that I have mentioned before in my blog.

We accidently made it on someone's property instead of university property and the owner came up to us on a four-wheeler to warn us about her rottwieler.  Also to tell us to get off her land but she was being subtle.

We also saw this adorable, little toad too!

Ebb and Flow

This installation piece is a continuation of the Muslin piece I did earlier on last semester.  With this installation I wanted to take the criticism I got from my muslin piece and change it up.  I wanted to show the flow of the material while also creating color combinations that keep your eyes moving around the piece.

 

 

My Life.

My life just got severely less crazy...thank God!  And I will be able to post a lot more often.  I plan to be making work this summer!  Tons of it.  I have already started making some collages so just you wait!

Anyways, I thought I would post some of the paintings that I have made this past semester in my Mixing Materials painting class.  I am really happy with them.  They break down the boundaries of painting has to be, at least to me, and moves away from my old work well still maintaining the same themes, subject matter, and color pallet.

I already showed off my muslin piece so here are my wax paintings, my object with painting, and my FINAL (which is my culmination of the semester).

This one is Rubber Bands encased in wax.

Close Up

This is dripped wax that had Oil Paint mixed with it.

This one is sheets of wax with Oil Paint added to it.  I then carved into it with a woodcutting tool.

My object for my painting with object was a dollar store rug that I cut apart.

And some Close Ups.

Last but not least, my final painting was almost 400 mini canvases that I made with 3" x 3" pieces of plywood and dyed muslin squares.  I placed them next to each other randomly by pulling them out of a black garbage bag.  The piece ended up being 6' x 3.25'.

I am enjoying the formalism of my latest painting work and how I am advancing the way I use my squares.