2009 SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival

So I participated in my very first SCAD Sidewalk Arts festival this weekend.



Students, Alumni, and potential students were all allowed to participate. You go to sign up, they assign you a square and give you a box of Prang chalk, and you go to town! I wasn't really planning on doing a square, and I was definitely overwhelmed by the thousands of people crammed in the park, walking up and down the sidewalk, watching people work. I felt shy, but a friend convinced me I should do one, so I went and signed up. I had no game plan, so I drew a cupcake, for no real reason at all.



I had a lot of fun, even though my square was the sunniest square in the damn park and I got a little dehydrated (this was mostly due to poor planning.) I'll definitely do it again next year, with an actual game plan. And people seemed to like what I did!
Here are some other fine works of art from the festival (most finer than mine):











Me, my cupcake, and my good friend Hattie:

Open for Biddness

I got my Etsy shop fired up! I only have a few things for sale, but I am massively excited. Check the side bar!

Only two things that money can't buy...

"...and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."

I can't believe it's already midterms. I guess it's because we are on the quarter system at SCAD, but man, the time just flies by. Before I realize it, I will have graduated and be trying to enter the professional world! Scary! But exciting.
I just got back my first assignment in Drawing III and thought I would post it here.



The assignment was to cut/tear a 22"X30' paper into two 11"X30" and make two drawings of the same subject matter, one vertically formated, one horizontal. I think the vertical one is much more successful. I used china marker, which was a new material to me. We could draw anything we wanted and I was very boring and drew my plants on my front porch.
Speaking of plants... this is maybe unrelated to art endeavors, but I have attempted to start a patio garden. I'm mostly growing herbs, and I have a tomato plant and two pepper plants. I didn't know how well the veggies would do in pots. I came back into town on sunday and to my great surprise...

I have some baby tomatoes! I can't believe I haven't killed it and it might actually produce fruit.
I know, my life is so exciting.
My peppers have been growing really slowly, and I haven't really expected much of them, but while I was admiring my teeny tiny tomato, I saw this lil' guy:

A bloom! So maybe I will have peppers. But maybe not.

I have more jewelry, and I think I'll be able to start selling this weekend! I'll post more about that later though, because I really need to do some homeworks.
Lots and lots of homeworks.
Hasta.

New Resin!

Well, the laboratory is up and running!

And I have hit a few problems, but resin is so much fun these problems have not discouraged my jewelry making plans! I'm not sure what's happening, but most of my new batches are not curing correctly. My mixing ratios are probably off; it would really help if I had a small digital scale to weigh out the resin when I mixed it instead of eyeballing it. I'll just keep on keeping on and see what happens.
Here are some successes! (And some adorable failures)
Most of these have completely cures, but a couple are still sticky.


The stuff I typically have made in the past...


I must credit Johnny for this idea...


Sprinkles!

I totally stole this idea while cruising Etsy.com to check out the competition. Most resin sellers make these, and they sell! So why not.



The objects you see embedded are little thingies I have made out of polymer clay. It's super easy to work with; I've been playing around with it since I was 11 or 12, and I have a whole bunch I have been lugging around with me. It acutally works amazingly well with the resin, and I am glad to have finally found a purpose for it!


This is a little polymer clay strawberry I embedded in a big heart, and it didn't cure correctly.

I am so bummed, because is that cute or what?

Oh well, try again!

Um

I haven't been very good about keeping up with this already! The reasons for this are
A.) I am a busy busy bee with school
B.) My camera is out of batteries
C.) I am a terrible person.

But! I am about to start making resin pieces again and I am so so excited! I ordered all the stuff I need online, and it even came today! But I was napping, and didn't answer the door in time. How sad.
I've got some great ideas for jewelry, and as soon as I have some stuff made, I will post it here for your viewing pleasure.

Hasta.

Some old things

I need to post my stuff from my last two quarters in school, so here are some pieces I did for my Drawing II class, my first quarter at SCAD:


I do love this one.

Still lifes are boring, but at least it's creepy

Dollybear?

We had to draw a tool, so I drew the tool I use most often

Dollyface!

First self portrait

I have a photographer friend and I think I might employ her to reach me how to photograph my work. I am lacking in these skills.
Also, I am not sure how to get these pictures to fit properly. When I view them in the blog, some have been cut off a little. Oh well.
Time for class!