new series

another

Here is another image that I am working on for this final set, I don't think it is finished yet but I do feel as though I am at a stopping point so I may begin the third and final image. To me this just needs more development in color and the middle just seems so flat compared to the outer edges. Sooooooo....okay, bye.

start of series 3

Here is the first image of the third series. This series is tying in more inspirations from other artists that I can apply to my thesis. The main direction that I am going is in cubism, though still making it my own by using the textural qualities and images that I use. So this one is finished, time to move on to the next one. Chow!

Revision

Here is series 2 revised. The images are getting ready to print, so now it is on to the next step...take more photos and do another series.

pantala naga pampa

Here is the second series that I am working on, the bottom 2 images were in the previous blog, but in even earlier stages. There has been progress among them, as well as the introduction to the third of the series. They all still need work, I have built up their textures, now it is time to take some of it away.

refreshing

I say refreshing because I learned how to use my camera finally. So now I have clear images to work with, no more blurry, pixelated looking images due to blurry, pixelated photos. The top one hasn't even really been started yet, I just wanted to show the clarity of the photos I am working with now, go ahead, breathe it in, what you ask....the awesomeness, not to be self indulgent, just the fact that the photos look decent.

floppity floppity

I feel as though the bottom image is dawning on completion, so I will go ahead and say "Last call for input." I may just see what I think of it in a week or so and determine whether or not I would like to revise it any more, but as for now, I think it may be done. The one on the top on the other hand is still in progress, but progressing well in my opinion. Still not totally satisfied but it is getting there, which means it is time to take some more photos and start a new one while I work on it in the background.

freaky styley

the bottom image is a compilation of a few photos, and I kinda like it at that point so i decided to throw it in the post. The image on the top is the later version of it, where I went through the process of addition and reduction. Needs to be refined and cleaned up quite a bit more so that will be in the mix of things to work on as i go.

steady as i go

so after some feedback on the previous blog I agreed that I should develop the version without the extra bricks, so I have done so. Still not finished most likely but I feel that it has progressed in the right direction. I've added a few more elements to it, and also reduced some of the bright splotchy sections to help calm it down a bit.

sunshine superman

here is a second image, well technically its a second and third but they are the same, just have some small differences. The one on the top includes a small brick overlay in it which could help it tie into the image in the previous post, but if it doesn't look as good then i can accept that so I included another version without the small bricks to figure out which could stand better on it's own. Most definitely not finished with this, seeing as how I am at an indecisive point with it, but just throwing it out there. But for now onward and upward.

new

Well, here is one thing that i have been working on so far. I went around the school to take some photos of different textures and patterns, after a few i went ahead and threw some of them together, messed around with them a lot, so far this is where I am at. I may just leave this one alone until i take some more photos then work back into it later. So in the meantime I will be starting up some others and just work on them all as i go.

more

here is reincarnation, and a haunting. In the meantime I am working more on the others, thank you for your input so far, it is a big help when i hit a spot and don't know what to do to improve it more. So it helps me to constantly work on each one, without hanging around one image for too long without any progress.

updates

i have updated the past images, based on the previous feedback. If there are still hints of improvement then I will do all that I can to apply those comments while i work on the last 2. I will post the other 2 as i go so in order to get as much feedback as possible in the time remaining.

o heck

here is a third image representing different views of death and what happens to us, such as the lake of fire, the place where naughty people skinny dip. This is a collaboration of images from around the yard, such as my chain link fence, shed, some chopped wood next to the shed, and a few others I'm sure. Just not sure about how I feel about finding hell in my back yard...maybe I'll search for heaven in the front.

the aftermath

so here are some images that I was working on, it started out as a side project for my own thoughts rather than working with existing thoughts that I don't feel a direct connection with, since they aren't mine, they are other philosophers. Well I've decided that I care more about my own thoughts and would like to keep it that way, even if they have been thought of before, I'm the one bringing them up to myself voluntarily, not forcing myself to interpret others. So these images are based on different views of the afterlife, not saying that I believe all of them, just that I am aware and think about them. I feel a much better connection with these, and also get more satisfaction out of them, disregarding what Mick Jagger says. Perhaps a new artist statement is in line...

here is another image, based on Locke's concept of an eye for an eye, the man with a fork is missing an eye, the man being held down is a collector, frankly i'm just hitting a constant wall, I don't see any change happening with what I'm doing, so I have been doing stuff on the side, and so far it is showing more development than this project. Posting of said images will occur in a matter of minutes.

time to move on

I have applied shadows and such to the image to help refine it a bit, I'm sure it still needs some work, especially the void on the right. No matter what though, I will be moving on to other images, the last thing I need is to sit on this one for another week and not worry about all the work I still have to do. So I am hoping to have the rest of the sketches for this series posted in my next blog post and just work on multiple ones at a time, I need something to help keep me going rather that taking time on just one.

here it is so far, I still want to apply shadows and give some more depth. I added the ants to the mound in the foreground, along with textures throughout the image to help balance the image and move the eye more smoothly. Still have some work to do with it but there is progress.

this is a sketch

okay, so here is the sketch that i am working on, based on the Marxist theory. I will also be setting a mood, which the first three images that I posted had lacked. I will be using the moods to represent my opinion on the views I show. There have been other versions of this but I did not like where they were going. I am also moving away from showing all the animals as just animals and putting them in a more human situation, at least some of the animals. I will also go ahead and apologize to Laura, just so you know I'm not trying to replicate your prints and am sorry if it seems that way, but this is the best way I can think to show these views. I plan on showing the ants in the foreground crawling over a mound of dead ants, I just have a small group in the sketch but I will add more as I work on it.

sorry for the wait

There was a power outage at my house and it wrecked our modem so I went without internet all week so I apologize for the gap between posts, I have been developing ideas on the views of Epictetus and Marx. Marx, the communist will be shown with the ants, representing society, marching along, giving the food they collect to the communist pig, representing the wealthy industry owners/government in a communist society. I am thinking about also approaching it in a political cartoon way. Epictetus was a slave Rome, around 100 A.D. who developed the concept of stoicism, where people accept the fact that they are not in control of anything and start to lack emotion, for example, if a loved one dies they would feel like it was out of their hands and would pretty much just shrug it off with no mourning. Or if they got punched in the face they would feel like they must have deserved it and could not have done anything to avoid it and would not retaliate. So this could relate the communist society where the people accept their situation and deal with it, no matter how bad their living gets. This idea is not completely resolved but it may be shown in with some ants dying while the rest go on with their business, not going over to mourn over the loss of fellow citizens in the society.