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Busyyyyy

  • 6 days ago
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I've been busy lately (and not taking many pictures), thus I've neglected this blog.  A few things have happened; among them, Halloween was most awesome.  I dyed my hair purple:

PURPLE
PURPLE
I've also been working a lot with color in my art.  For my midterm critique in printmaking, I took ten of the palettes I've been making through COLOURlovers and paired them up.  I then printed them at about 10" by 18" on fine art paper using the inkjet printer.  Here are the pairs I came up with (click to see them bigger):
Palette Set 01Palette Set 02Palette Set 03Palette Set 04Palette Set 05


1 comment Tags: me, link, printmaking, palette, colourlovers, meca

I Am Not A Photographer

  • Oct 18, 2009
  • 4 comments

...I just like taking pictures.  I recently had a critique in my photography class that really emphasized that I think more like a designer than like a photographer, whatever that means.  Here's the picture that people DID like (though apparently I misinterpreted the assignment somewhat, because the color wasn't vital to the photo):

Outside The Rabbit Barn
Outside The Rabbit Barn
Here are the images that were not as well-received:
Circles: Tractor Wheel
Circles: Tractor Wheel
Circles: Gears
Circles: Gears
Circles: Vents
Circles: Vents


4 comments Tags: photography, agriculture, random objects, common ground fair

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

  • Oct 15, 2009
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Blog Action Day 2009
Blog Action Day 2009


Today is Blog Action Day!  The theme for this year is climate change.  I don't have much to say about the subject that hasn't been said a zillion times before (including very thoroughly, concisely, and cheaply in this great little book), but it's always important to spread the word.

Here's another photo from my apple-picking trip (supporting local agriculture is just one of the many ways that individuals can help combat climate change):

Farm
Farm


1 comment Tags: link, activism, maine, agriculture, foliage, landscape, blog action day …

Picky Eaters

  • Oct 11, 2009
  • 2 comments

I went apple picking yesterday with some friends, and brought home nine pounds of Cortlands.  Here are a couple of shots from the trip:

Apple Bins
Apple Bins

Sheep In Autumn
Sheep In Autumn
Also, today is my 22nd birthday.   Go me!

2 comments Tags: animals, food, maine, agriculture, foliage, landscape, announcement …

Two Lights

  • Oct 3, 2009
  • 1 comment

Yesterday was the First Friday Art Walk, but before I sat around trying to sell stuff, my father and I spent a lovely part of the afternoon walking around Two Lights State Park in Cape Elizabeth and taking photos:

Maine Coast at Two Lights
Maine Coast at Two Lights
Monarch
Monarch
Autumnal Sumac
Autumnal Sumac
Sumac Leaves
Sumac Leaves
Picnic Scene
Picnic Scene






1 comment Tags: ocean, animals, maine, foliage, landscape, flowers and plants, two lights …

A Chance Encounter

  • Sep 29, 2009
  • 2 comments

I was walking down India Street on Saturday when a man appeared beside me.  "You want to take my picture," he stated.  I wasn't sure if it was an accusation or a demand, so I just shrugged.  "How do I pose?" he asked.  I mumbled something about lighting as he stared into my lens.  I snapped a picture:

Old Man & The Sea
Old Man & The Sea

"You have it," the man said, "for posterity?"  I answered in the affirmative, and he seemed pleased. I am pleased too, to have gotten such an expressive picture!

2 comments Tags: ocean, photography, people

Common Ground 2009

  • Sep 28, 2009
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I went to the Common Ground Fair yesterday and spent the morning walking around looking at crafts and animals and other lovely things.  I spent most of the afternoon volunteering, which in this case meant sifting through old dirt and separating from it things that had not composted properly.  This included a lot of old animal bones, which I am keeping for a future art project.

Here's a goat:

Goat
Goat

I have discovered two less-than-optimal things about my camera:  one is that the lens is long enough to block the flash when taking macro shots (which can be worked around), and the other is that the battery dies very suddenly (it spent the better part of two weeks reading at 100%, then dropped to nothing within an hour.  My replacement batteries entered the camera at 79% charge and fell just as fast).  This is the bigger problem.


2 comments Tags: photography, animals, maine, common ground fair

Drive By Press

  • Sep 26, 2009
  • 2 comments

We at MECA recently had a visit from a couple of printmakers calling themselves Drive By Press.  They gave talks about the history of printmaking and of Drive By Press itself, and showed some of their massive print collection, much of it gathered while on the road making prints.

They also set up a printmaking press on Oak Street and printed their woodcuts on tee-shirts for the MECA crowd and whoever else happened to come by.  Here are some photos of the operation:

The "Guitar Tree" Woodcut
The "Guitar Tree" Woodcut

Nick Inks A Block
Nick Inks A Block
The Inky Slab
The Inky Slab
Greg Pulls A Print
Greg Pulls A Print
Boomboxes (Detail)
Boomboxes (Detail)






2 comments Tags: link, people, art, clothing, printmaking, drive by press

Spoons and Flowers

  • Sep 18, 2009
  • 4 comments

I recently discovered a website called Spoonflower that lets its users create custom-printed fabric.  It's fairly expensive ($18-$32/yard), but I ordered a few $5 test swatches and the quality of them is really fantastic.  I'm thinking of making pillows and iPod cases from my designs.  Here's a before and after of one of my test swatches:

Pisces
Pisces


Pisces Fabric Swatch
Pisces Fabric Swatch


4 comments Tags: animals, link, art, spoonflower

Back In The Print Studio

  • Sep 15, 2009
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Rack Of Silkscreens
Rack Of Silkscreens
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Not much to say about this one, except that I love my new camera!  I'm still learning how to use it...
Post a comment Tags: printmaking, random objects, meca

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