I started working on this panel board near the end of Spring term at PSU and have only since threatened it with light edits and subtle rearrangements in composition. It is the first piece that I have ever attempted to fashion a hand-made support structure (i.e., frame) that runs the perimeter of the backside to keep it from bowing. It should help with wall hanging, too. As of late, I have started applying paint to it and I shall post progress shots as soon as I can get a day off from my j-o-b. I'm stoked to see the end result of this piece :)
Just recently, I decided that I'm going to firmly implant myself into the social networking system by tapping into as many channels as I can, for better or for worse. Sure, it seems long overdue, but while the Twitters and Tumblrs have been developing momentum over last few years, I've had to bide my time with them whilst otherwise inundated with projects at school and merely a Facebook account at my disposal to which I might post about what goes into my cup of coffee in the morning (which, by the way, is NOTHING. I drink mine black).
Anymore, it seems that in order to expose one's elf as much as possible to the public without stripping down completely naked and running around the city, any artist, whether a painter, a graphic designer, or a musician for example, needs to be plugged in to this root system of information and updating incessantly about what's going in their neck of the woods. That said, my music can be found at http://soundcloud.com/august-son, twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/wwoot and a Tumblr account fired up at http://thebestestasbestos.tumblr.com/. Hopefully, they don't become too redundant, as I'm trying to tweak the connections between them all in order to update off of each other, one at a time. So follow, listen, and look at some thoughts, tunes, and art that might not have otherwise seen the light of day. Wow. Just, wow. This is an amazing short animation collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali. Unbeknowest to me (like a lot of things), this was released back in 2003 but only after unearthed again 58 years since it's inception in 1945. The entire film is a surge of imagination with every bit of barren surrealism that you'd expect from Salvador Dali, coupled with the wonderfully rendering of a Walt Disney's climactic animation (a la Fantasia). Not to mention the romantic musical backdrop by Armando Dominguez and vocals by Dora Luz. Enjoy! Well, I managed to slip up on the most recent bronze pour that our class conducted...a bitter reality to face, but for good reason. It wasn't out of neglect, no! I don't loaf, son!! Rather, I feel that my new sculpture is a bit more ambitious than my previous (the molar) so I didn't want to squeeze out an inferior piece of art just for the sake of satisfying a quickly-approaching deadline. Instead, I've been taking careful consideration into forming my wax model and, in one extreme, reconsidering the overall composition to the point that I had to dismantle and adjust the entire tentacle configuration of the octopus. That's right, I said octopus. I'm making an octopus...atop a human head :D I think my newer piece will ultimately make up for any shortcomings...what do you think? Here are the stills I snapped to accompany the video of a few fellow students prepping for and pouring molten bronze metal into our first set of plaster sculpture casts for class. I have to say that his is one of the more fascinating things I have witnessed. There are quite a few photos, so I set the slide show on auto with short intervals to help breeze through them all. Also! Our instructor tossed either a penny or a dime (can't remember which) onto one of the wells full of molten metal and then scraped it across the surface with a piece of rebar that created a chemical reaction and released this series of intensely white bursts of flame. The end product of this was somewhat of a sulfur-yellow glob from which there emanated a sort of wispy, white tuft of hair you can sort of make out in the last few photos (my instructor later said it this was the formation of ash that had collected rapidly as a result of the intense heat). What a phenomenon! Hmm...well, where to start? My name is Will and I don't have much of anything up front except that I love art, I listen to and produce mass amounts of music and am currently a Senior at Portland State University about to graduate with a Bachelor's degree of Fine Arts in June. The focus of my degree is in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking, but I dabble in virtually any medium that will accommodate my thoughts and concepts. This site/blog will continue to be updated with photos, photos of photos and photos of the art pieces I make as I take and make them...and I'm sure I will consciously or subconsciously reveal myself slowly over the unraveling of this blog (it's my first blog!) so stay tuned. That's about it for now.. Oh - I just recently witnessed the badassery of pouring molten metal (bronze) into plaster sculpture casts for my Metal Casting class this term at PSU. Check it: |