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Colorspaces

art diva — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:52:21 +0000

quite possibly one of the most challenging drawings I’ve ever done. The drawing bit itself is only about 4" x 4", but the unanticipated intricacies took about 6 months of various re-dos and psyching myself up that I could finish it.

colored pencil on wood

finished May 2010

relying on scans and Photobooth lately since I don’t have funds to purchase a new digital camera yet.

Colorcube

Quite possibly one of the most challenging drawings I’ve ever done. The drawing bit itself is only about 4″ x 4″ but the unanticipated intricacies took about 6 months of various re-dos and psyching myself up that I could finish it.

Colored pencil on wood
Finished May 2010

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Lite Brite RGB Colorspace [original gif]
Colored pencil on wood
Finished May 2010

Both part of the Staring at Screens series. Can’t believe it was exactly one year ago I first started this set!

*Relying on scans and Photobooth lately since I don’t have funds to purchase a new digital camera yet.

Mechanically inclined: Cloth Studies

art diva — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:34:23 +0000

Ink, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper
April 2010

Many times I feel a need to take apart someone else’s art to figure out how it works (but not put it back together), just to satisfy my curiosity. These cloth studies were inspired by Pattie Lee Becker’s Ropes exhibit I saw at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art earlier this month. Her drawings brought me back several years ago to the memory of this dude who lived two apartments down from an ex-bf. His 300 sq. ft. efficiency was covered top to bottom in massive drawings and paintings of loops, knots and intertwined strings. The paintings weren’t really that great, I don’t think he’d ever shown any of his work, he just seemed like a normal guy who was obsessed with these shapes. This obsession perplexes me. Cloth studies aren’t anything new, but besides just a drawing exercise, I was also trying to get inside the mind of someone captivated by producing the same object over and over, seemingly indifferent to the evocative repercussions of repetition. While my work has themes, I feel like I’m trying to show different sides of the same thing in various ways. I suppose I tinker because in the future I may need to draw upon the lessons learned, kinesthetically figured out. For me, there’s really no better way to learn than to attempt and apply it to myself. I’m also fascinated by The Other: obsessive and compulsive artists who must be constantly active, people for whom drawing is an end in itself. The drawing I’ve done lately is a means to something else.

More Mouthpieces

art diva — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:58:19 +0000

Pencil, ink, acrylic, collage
March 2010

My scanner really sucks at picking up pencil drawings! This quality is terrible, but a scanner’s all I have at the moment as my digital camera broke a couple of months ago.

Mouthpieces

art diva — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:34:43 +0000

Pencil, ink, acrylic
January-February 2010

Lately I’ve been doodling a lot, trying to regain a sense of design. It’s funny, because although I’m a full-time graphic designer (and production artist and customer service rep and project manager and copywriter and…), I feel I’ve lost a sense of visual design, of creating and arranging elements within a space. Or maybe I’m just now seeing the differences between the two, because I don’t have any creative blockage when it comes to arranging information (text and images), but in composing an image that’s not an accident, or taken from life, I’m at a loss.

Colorspace 2

art diva — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:04:37 +0000

Colored pencil and acrylic on wood
May 2009
part of the Staring at Screens series

Colorspace

art diva — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:18:40 +0000

Colored pencil on wood
May 2009
part of the Staring at Screens series

in researching this project the word “colorspace” popped into my head. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this term before in my cluster of thoughts. since I work for a digital printing company full time as a graphic designer, “colorspace” enters my vocabulary all the time in discussing CMYK, RGB and Pantone colors. Each has totally different quirks and foibles in what we see on screen vs what the design software reads (e.g. Adobe) vs what the print driver reads vs what the printer itself reads vs what we see produced. This is about how that image we see on screen, the digital eye of the machine (interpreter [screen]/producer[printer], and what we see physically, is altered in that process, particularly through digital photography: translation of images seen by the human eye into pixels, 1s and 0s, and that mutation of form and message through television, movies, and internet presences such as personal websites, image/video sharing and social networking sites. It begins and ends with The Eye. Consciousness of the Self and how it is reproduced in these media, as well as ubiquitous Unseen Eyes, digital and human, viewing, interpreting, reproducing the Self, infinitely, obscurely. In drawing and painting images produced by machines, I am attempting to reclaim natural vision. Let us take our understanding of “The Work Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” a step further, or in another direction (whatever your preference), and look at our present circumstances in “The Self in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”

Amor Prohibido

art diva — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:00:45 +0000

Finally got around to doing this, it’s an idea I’ve had since last summer. Inspired by Charanga 76′s Spanish cover of “My Forbidden Lover” by Chic. The lettering style I came up with in high school when I wrote out all the lyrics of “Stairway to Heaven” one time in study hall.

Sharpie on wood
May 2009

milagros

art diva — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:06:56 +0000

The word “milagros” has been stuck in my head the last few days since I saw Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo last week. For some reason, the first time I saw “Miracles” – the neighborhood community center in the movie, I read it as “Milagros” – which sounded much cooler to me. My next project is to find the right t-shirts to paint it on in a couple of different styles. Oh, and the t-shirts will be shredded, of course.

Ink on paper

August 10, 2008