A New Path

Having to switch some things around... again (haha)... I'm really having to reconsider things and try to focus more on what I'm actually being inspired by. Its apparently patterns; repetitious, random, natural and unnatural. I enjoy the patterns that seem to be growing from a single point, such as the top of an acorn or blooming flower. I've found a few artist that incorporate repetitious pattern.

One is Do-Ho Suh, an artist that I've posted on earlier.

The phenomenal Alex Grey is another, who bases his art on a deeper, spiritual, introspective level. I enjoy how he uses the patterns to radiate away from the subjects in his work, as well as add even more patterns to cause focus on other areas of the work.

Photos from http://www.alexgrey.com



So at the moment I'm deciding exactly what to do. Still wanting to use hands, mainly fingers at the moment, but really wanting the focus to be on the patterns for their visual stimulation, and the design they produce both macro and micro.

Looking for artists who use the form of the hand...

So I've been looking all semester for a or many artists who use the form of the hand to make their art. I've not had any luck thus far, finding a few artists that ended up doing only one hand or one piece of the hand. I'm looking for anyone from ceramic to multi-media, to even painting. If you know of anyone, please!!! Let me know!

Do-Ho Suh! (What?)

Lately, my eyes have been drawn towards art that has repetition and pattern. My professor introduced me to a brilliant artist named Do-Ho Suh (pronounced Doh, Hoh, Suh), who uses lots of repetition to create these amazing sculptures. His art often takes on the space that his pieces take up, dealing with the space between the viewer and the piece itself. A few examples are one of his best known sculptures, "Some/One". The sculpture itself, made of numerous dog tags, focuses on the personal space versus space of the piece alone, but what caught my eyes were the beauty of the repetition, the pattern created by the material, almost unwillingly.

Photo from flicker.com (username: karenturner)

Photo from designboom.com

Photo from designboom.com

Do-Ho Suh uses numerous types of materials to create his sculptures, I think that is another thing that captures my eye. I am constantly trying to find different materials so that I can try them in patterns and repetitious designs to see how they look. Here are some of the "other" material categories:

"Highschool Uniform"
Photo from daily-korean-stuff.com

Photo from artappreciationgs.wordpress

"Net-Work"

Photo from mymodernmet.com

"Cause & Effect"
Photo from blog.art21

Photo from sculptureresearch.wordpress

Photo from flickriver (username: sokref1)

"Floor"
Photo from meaghanclaricesartspot.blogspot

Photo from design-crisis.com

Photo from americancraftmag.com

Photo from flikr (username: douglas)

"Who Am We?"
Photo from greiviousbodilycharm.com

Photos from greiviousbodilycharm.com

"Screen"
Photos from greiviousbodilycharm.com

Photo from greiviousbodilycharm.com

So as you can see, this artist has made quite a few great pieces of work dealing with repetition, and its not even his main focus. Even better, this is only part of his full body of work, and they get even more enticing.

Check out http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/do-ho-suh/ to check out more on this artist.

Photos! From me! I know!

My wonderful friend, Christina, who decided to sacrifice some time to help me out.

Matt (my professor) and I preparing the materials

Mentally preparing Christina 

And thus, we began...

Taking a second to pose without her knowing what the hell is going on around her

Beginning the impregnated plaster gauze mother mold

Fin! 

 This is my first time to do this on another person. So it went a bit rough, but turned out really good. Thanks to Christina and Matt for all the help!

Andreas Moravec

Just another makeup artist that caught my eye. This guy is from Vienna, Austria. Very interesting work but what caught my eye were the processes that he documented. Just thought I'd share. No pictures today, mainly because I'm just going to post the link so I don't have to post so many pictures. Enjoy.


http://www.andreasmoravec.at

P.S.
Remember to click the English version. Unless you are amazingly (and near impossible in my opinion) fluent in German

Just Trying Things Out

So I unfortunately haven't done a hell of a lot in the past few weeks. Mainly just trying out the body double on different parts of the body (face and hand so far). Alginate seems to be the best solution for me as far as getting arms and legs done that I need. It creates a perfect mold, sets quickly, and has no need for all the release goo you have to put on before body double. Body double is perfect to get that face or detail, wherever you may need to take it from. I've discovered an artist who uses body double to create pretty awesome sculptures. Carole Feuerman makes sculptures by using the body double on an entire section of the body. I watched a video on Vimeo.com that showed her cast an entire torso of a man, minus the head. Here are some pictures, taken from Feuerman's website, http://www.carolefeuerman.com.

Brooke with Beachball

City Slicker

Miniature Serena

I myself have been attempting smaller pieces of realistic hands and faces. I'm not too sure exactly if I'm getting it perfect, but I'm learning and getting new ideas every day. Here is my attempt at making some art. Keep in mind, these are actually just testers that I ended up taking pictures of for a course I am taking. Nothing finally on these, but I did add titles for fun!

Getting a Grip of It

Breaking of the Mold

Close up of Breaking from the Mold

I know, nothing fancy, but hey, I'm trying. We'll see how things go later on in the year. I'll have behind the scenes photos of this and others later on.

PS
Photos by me

ZOMBIES!!!

Just a little section over my favorite monsters of all time, my number one fear: ZOMBIES!!!

Why zombies? Lets just say with all of the movies that have been made, zombies seem like the only monster that could actually happen. I know, some of you might be thinking "Yeah friggin right!" but really, it seems more possible for there to be a crazy virus that could turn us into zombies than a vampire or werewolf... or a creature from the black lagoon. So, in honor of Call of Duty: Black Ops zombie levels and Mr. George Romero, here are pics of my favorite zombie makeup