Holton Rower

I found this artist a pretty long time ago and just remembered him the other day. I first saw his work in a video on youtube.

Pretty cool righhtt? I looked into some of his other works too; turns out he has some.. interesting pieces. For example, he does mostly sculpture and very textured works including knitting human hair. Yeah, I thought that was a little weird but I think he pulls it off well. He also does some really cool things with random items like locks, hooks, pipes, etc.

Going over his work again I realized that I wasn't sure if I really understood it. Not that I don't think they were beautiful or interesting, I guess I couldn't really get the message he was trying to portray in his pieces. I wish I did though, oh well, the aesthetics are still really cool so it's worth checking out.

holtonrower.com

Project Dos.

Finished with my project! Finally, i definitely would have loved more time to add lots more details but what has to be done is done, and I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome, I definitely look forward to the critiques tomorrow (:


I also wanted to talk about a problem I had, and hopefully no one ran into this mistake because it can apparently really mess up the printing process.
Each time I tried to export my project I would review the jpeg it had pretty bad quality. I kept having flashbacks to my last project where I basically had to redo the entire thing because I did most of my project on a low dpi.
Weeellll, turns out that when you export your file illustrator's default raster conversion is 72 ppi. Really illustrator? At least they give you a warning I guess...

If you want to look up more about this you can look at the link that saved me from a nervous breakdown haha

See you all bright and early tomorrow morning (:

finished,,

I would like to quote Bruce Mau again today, "18. Stay up late.
Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world."

Last night I stayed up until 5am completing my assignment. Although most of my time was spent redoing most of my work because it was on a smaller format than would have been acceptable, I feel like I got a good work accomplished. I'm pretty happy with what i've done, putting it on foam was a bit of a challenge and there is a small imperfection in the middle which i really hope will be overlooked...
Also, I'm pretty happy with the quality I've gotten from ordering from Costco. It only took an hour(as opposed to a day at school? I dunno I was kinda convinced that students would be printing it and I really needed the assurance of having it done asap...) and it only cost me 3.50. Hopefully it's got a relatively good quality compared to the rest of everyone else's work!

anyways. here's what i'm sure all of you will see tomorrow!(ignore the flare from the camera)

Mollie Kellogg

I absolutely love this woman's work. Years ago I knew her as a regular customer at a greek restaurant I worked at (Dino's Gyros). It wasn't until I found a flyer for an art show of hers in the office did I realize she was a painter. I believe she went through a period in her life where she got cancer and has this whole epiphany about her work and just started painting. I've spent time trying to recreate her techniques which is actually quite difficult but she pulls it off amazingly. I'm really inspired by her use of color and metallics in her work. Take a look at her page she has a lot to look at!

http://www.molliekellogg.com/works/

Scott Saw

A couple years ago I attended Comic Con in San Diego and stumbled upon this really groovy artist. He had a little stall in the artists section and somehow I was drawn into his work. He had a lot of interesting paintings up on his wall for sale and curiously I asked him about his process. We chatted about it for a while, turns out he uses oil paints as a sort of stain on wood panels to get the graininess of the wood to show through. Followed him on facebook for a while and it's amazing to see the turns he is taking in his work. I have to say I've always been really impressed by him and feel very honored to have met him.
He also does some photography and is currently experimenting with a spraypainting and silkscreening. Watch the video on his page it's amazinggg!
Link to his website:: http://scottsaw.com/index.html

Hello Worl?d

Hola, trial post I suppose.