work in progress, bronze.

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glass project. "brain landscape"

stopmotion!

screenprinting!

This is my favorite screen print from class, it's printed on a piece of paper I found in the garbage room. I had a lot of fun screen printing hopefully I get the chance to take the class, I feel like that is something I'd be interested in doing... or even just a survey class.

Melinda Steffy

This weeks lecture was given by Melinda Steffy. She mostly talked to us about starting business online, and selling our artwork. I had already heard of Etsy, the shops online for handmade goods, and have looked into it a couple times. I really can't imagine starting to sell my work now, and I don't think I'm going to consider it for a while. It just seems a little out of reach for the time being, there are too many assignments not enough time to make half a dozen of pieces of jewelry or whatnot. Yea, I understand she wasn't telling us to just go out and start selling things now, but by the time I decide to start selling I think Etsy will be outdated anyway.. That's just the nature of technology and the internet, everything is eventually obsolete.

Melinda also showed us some of her work, the fine art stuff I didn't mind, but the things on Etsy that she showed us felt more like an advertisement than anything, it actually made me a little uncomfortable. I understand that she was trying to explain to us how the whole thing worked, but I think she could have showed us any old site, and I only say that because she didnt show us any inside workings. I would have liked her to explain more about how the owner works the site, then telling us about the design features. A tutorial or just showing us what you see when its your own site, would have been great.

Something new

I feel like no one in our class takes the time to share their work outside of computers. So, instead of blogging about the lecture i couldn't really understand. I decided I would post about what I really like to do... and that is make jewelry. I dont have many pictures of my newest jewelry, so this is some of my older things which are mostly all functional jewelry. I started making jewelry when I was in the tenth grade, and I have been doing it ever since. Lately though I have not had time to make anything new, my newest things are from first semester of college, (which I will post another time) but I am excited to say that I got into a real jewelry class next semester and I am pretty pumped. I think that the reason I never stopped making jewelry is because its the kind of art that you can actually use, and that it's not just something that hangs on the wall collecting dust.

Doug Bucci

This weeks lecture was about CAD printing and jewelry. It was really nice to hear that he was unfamiliar with the program, because I unwillingly am taking the CAD Jewelry class next semester. I was really interested in the jewelry that he made using his blood glucose monitors, when he said that I was just so confused about the fact that numbers could make jewelry and that there was no actual designing involved.


I also was really happy he said that The rejection pile is always bigger, because you never hear about an artists failure, especially accomplished ones.