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Tischgesellschaft

Rat King, Katharina Fritsch

I feel so tired. I've been trying to connect myself to the artworld. I posted my artwork on Saatchi student artists, and made some new friends.I am getting into it, and I've been strengthening my support systems. This is a link to my page on saatchi art students http://saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/StudentArt/ast_id/88950/Molly%20+Bair

I found an artist I really like. Her name is Katharina Fritsch, she plays with realities that appear like an apparition but yet mimick feelings toward a mundane reality. In an everyday atmosphere there are undertone feelings. Whenever I feel very tired, everything feels like it has a gray undertone and is undulating slightly. She uses grids and repetition which is a common theme in nature.

Second Painting in the Senior Show

I titled this painting branch study. I'll edit the post when I measure the actual painting. The texture to this painting is very strong. A friend warned me about my impatience. This canvas has been gessoed over three times and textures show through. With my latest painting I've been working in shorter intervals, allowing time to break from the painting. My impatience is a result of my standstill, as I am working to pull through and create images that I truely want to see. I've been finding if I work in shorter intervals, I am more reflective and it allows more time for the watercolor paint to dry. This painting is water color and Magazine paper.

Midway Show

This is the gallery postcard for my senior class's Midway show opening... I am the kid playing chess against the turtle. It's really blurry because I tried to crop the image on my own computer. I am happy to say, I got the opportunity to make this image in Abode Illustrator. My class contributed by sending me images they would like to have represent themselves in the 1/2 way house. The opening was on Nov. 5 and the show is running to Dec. 4.

Shameless but that's ok

This is the start of my Laundry painting And this is the final product

Laundry mixed Media

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I've been reading articles and looking more at contemporary artists. Illustration combined with the ideas on what it is like living in today's world. There's a lot of metaphors and play with light characters with deeper meaning. I want to continue working with representational but I want to get into the gray area of representational/abstraction.

I want to study structure and continue building planes... but at the same time I want to reach a little bit beyond traditional study and have a slightly modern take. I've been using bright, transparent colors, and playing with layering and building.

I've been painting clothing, because I am getting close to abstraction but I am still grounded in the real world. Art is an illusion but some people will claim reality is an illusion. So right there is interest. I've been playing with clothing and bringing them to a level of an inbetween abstraction and representational painting. That is how my world appears when I am doing laudry at three o'clock in the morning.

I've found another gray area between personal and objective. I don't have an image that is a straight out my reflection, but when I throw a bra onto a laundry hook or pile of clothing, it appears personal yet removed from the artist. It's sad that I have a decent collection of bras by working at a bra store... but I like the feminine touch.

Sculpture and sketch

This is a heart I carved out of plaster in 2008. It is coated with red acrylic paint.

This a ten minute sketch of Derek. I was practicing for the Cedar Crest College talent show. My talent drawing a portrait in ten minutes. It almosted worked out, but Iam happy to be a part of the show.

Joe Page Installation

This is a picture of me sitting in front of Joe Page's installation Flow Chart at Cedar Crest College. I am very content because I helped to set up the installation and the final product is simply fantastic

More Art Pieces

This is a pelvis carved out of Plaster, I submitted the sculpture to the Vagina Monologues Gallery. This is a study of sticks I did. This is actually my second water color painting... I found a new love for the medias water color and india ink

This is a piece I submitted to the Merchantile Gallery in Easton, PA. The lion fish is a print there is ink, acrylic and pieces of magazines.