Tue-Fee's Update: a Holiday Special

BAM! UPDATE! CLICK IT!

(It's not really holiday related apart from being posted on Christmas eve. But I assure you it will give you equally warm and fuzzy feelings as any Christmas song/movie/cookie could)

lovely...

http://www.ted.com/talks/marian_bantjes_intricate_beauty_by_design.html

INSERT COIN HERE

From the makers of 8-Bit Trip comes this insane stop motion animation using only coins. (They reveal their process at the end)

Painting Final

One of the final works from my painting class. 4ft x 4ft Oil on canvas.

Tue-Fee's Update

I've posted three studies from this semester. Check them out. Tell me what you think!

sarah xoxo

Painting Critique - Film Head Diptych

So here's the painting from my crit (Friday's class).

I'm not too sure it went over very well. I feel a bit defeated to be honest.

But hey... here it is. I like it, that's what counts sometimes.

Each panel is 4ftx3ft - Acrylic on Canvas

 

 

Fuck Yeah!

http://fuckyeahryangosling.tumblr.com/

Drawing Final

Ways of Seeing- The Female Nude

My prof Christine Major sent me this video for my reference, as I am painting a scene from A Clockwork Orange featuring nude female statues as furniture. It talks about the use of the female form in the mostly male arena of pre-modernist painting.

Warning: very 80s









sarah xoxo

WIP update

I almost forgot I had this other blog

Noticed these stickers around Ottawa?
Well, city of Ottawa has this guy's stuff framed under that underpass thing at Rideau and Sussex.

shit's going down in Korea...

Have you heard?

Here's some examples from The Boston Globe's interesting photo journalism piece about North Korea's attack on South Korea that happened on Tuesday.

Some gorgeous work by Myrtille Henrion Picco

http://myrtille-henrion-picco.blogspot.com/

The Evolution of Beauty

A TED talk on the origins of our ideas of beauty, beyond our specific cultural sensibilities, that have developed in the human species through evolutionary processes.

Very comprehensive and interesting as usual with TED.

blurry approach

I'm working with the idea of landscapes, here's a small 4X6 test strip- big painting started, will post when there is more done. Also, google Franz Kline; his black lines on white are excellence.

*fullview plz*

Influence me

INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

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Random experiments by me; original photos from National Geographic.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2010/10/2010101113656323582.html

Haven't been on here in a while (work has picked up a bit), so here's something hefty, or at least an hour and a half of entertainment. Very immersive, not a normal documentary and not informative in a traditional sense, but you get massive value out of it. Follows work in 4 instances

Nigeria slaughter-yard
Indonesian Sulphur harvest
Ukranian miners in exhausted coal fields
Pakistani ship breaking

excellent stuff.

sketch of Peter...

That's gonna turn into a painting!

Then next week we were going to do lifedrawing set up as a murder crime scene.. but some people (3) had an issue with that... so now it's a girl with headphones and laptop and bag of chips?

I was looking forward to the crime scene... with fake blood... and caution tape... and perhaps Horatio's glasses.

Well.. here is the sketch I made today.. of Peter while he was trying to sketch me.
I don't know how to draw facial hair...

amerrrrika, AMERIKA

hi everyone, i don't know why i spelled the country's name just like jerry rubin, but i did.

so there.  YUPPIES.

i don't even think i have anything to link to right now, or even a pretty picture to put up.  sorry.

however, i just spent a week in arizona (at least i think it was a week) and within that time frame i saw approximately 2, 301 saguaros, told maybe 18 lies, wrote some music, ate four gourmet cookies (delish), and had one sweet sweet lucid dream (finally again).

now i am packing and leaving and getting on a plane in the morning, just in time for a party back in homelandottawa (sincerely one word)

no more smear campaigns haunting my television!  because i don't have a television back home!  yaaaaay!

OK i lied (#~19), here's a picture, it's my new guitar.  i bought it in a sketchy county, through an intreenet ad, hooray!

my sleep cycle is gonna be silly back in the ex-colony.  no more underage beers&tequila in barz :-(

First art related thing that I've posted.

Bam!

I can be cool too!

Real non-billboard in Washington State

The story that goes with it: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/a-spot-of-art-while-we-check-your-passport/article1778078/

Painting WIP

I promised my GM I'd paint him that Projector painting.. so I finally go going on it...

I just need to finish up the lenses.

Samplings

Here are some samplings of what I've been working on for the past 3 weeks; I've been focused on fractions and abstraction. The themes are caves, and presence. All WIP except the first one.

Actually these are all the really abstract ones... but number 2 and 3 especially are very new will turn into landscapes.

We'll all die alone someday

So yeah . . . according to this article most of our TV is about how we're alone and work obsessed. Wicked Good Times! But seriosuly, The Atlantic, awesome magazine/website

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/10/what-sitcoms-really-tell-us-about-human-behavior/65107/

nom nom nom

I thought I'd share this with you here.. because it is just so darn adorable!

I'm a Real Artist

Doing research for my Art After Modernism essay. This is the last page of "Late Modern: The Visual Arts since 1945." I found it interesting. The beginning of the first paragraph reads:

"'Pure' conceptual art - an art of statements only, or an art in which the audience is asked to find its satisfaction by following the creator step by step in his thought processes, without asking that these should take a form more concrete than words..."


My feelings towards Conceptual art are mixed. It's safe to say i feel "weird" about the subject. On one hand it's fascinating to study the ideas in a university course setting. On the other it alienates people in an odd way that produces hostile attitudes towards art in general. And then there's the whole mess about to what extent a concept can be considered art if its main form is cognitive instead of physical/emotional.

bahh it makes my head hurt.

Any thoughts?
sarah xoxo

Music Video Thursday

Fresh & Onlys - Waterfall from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo.

Nice.

Directed by Andreas Trolf

sarah xoxo

klaus pichler

http://blog.kpic.at/ & http://www.kpic.at/

This one is about jumping in bushes

Also found a hand written card on the ground that said, "To Liz Love Jack. [heart on the front of the card]. [on the inside] I wish you the very best of luck during your courageous foray into the depth of the [ilegible]-vasse"

take that! caring about other peope! psh!

TAO LIN

So if you don't already know who Tao Lin is, you do now. He's know mainly for his strange literary publications, including such titles as "Shoplifting from American Apparel" and "Richard Yates". But it seems recently he has been branching out to the visual arts.

I loled. Hard. This guy's a genius.

Tao Lin: How to Draw a Hamster from Graham Kolbeins on Vimeo.

Alma

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Creepy but cool.

Redacted Studies

for a drawing project on raw canvas with cheap acrylic paint stains and image transfers using clear gesso which may or may not include text *inhale*

the project is supposed to be about mapping...

sarah xoxo

90s Fridays

Not really 90s as it was released in 2000, but whatever it was 10 years ago. It's old enough.

Enjoy!

sarah xoxo

Victor Hugo and Troy Brauntuch

The guy who wrote Les Mis, and Notre-Dame; when he was bored between writing iconic French literature made some of themost fantastic ink drawings I've ever seen.










The internet is seriously lacking in his work; the Drawing Center has a book called "Shadows of the Hand" that is phenomenal and should be looked at if the opportunity ever arises, it has alot more of his abstract works (if you consider google image search it looks like he only ever drew Gothic castles).

I also really like this NY artist Troy Brauntuch; a teacher complained that he was cool, but now he's been doing the same thing for years and it's a little too slick... (i.e. he makes boatloads selling really classy looking, very clean stuff to rich people). Conte on black canvas, cool no?

Not exactly art related...

This is a webcomic I LOOOOOVE. (I wonder why?)

These are some of my faves:

And a little bit of INCEPTION for you.

FOR REALS.

Check out http://multiplexcomic.com/

There's approximately a MILLION ones to go over before you're up to date.. but it's awesome!


xo

Paula

Hung Liu

Artist: Hung Liu - painting over archival photographs, she blurs and runs the paint to subvert the Chinese propaganda tradition she was originally trained in.
http://www.kelliu.com/

Banksy + The Simpsons

Banksy does the Simpsons from Transfer.TV on Vimeo.

I'm surprised this even got to air. It's pretty funny though, especially the animal exploitation bit.

This went viral a few days ago but I wasn't able to see it because it got taken off Youtube pretty quickly by Twentieth Century Fox. But now it's on Vimeo, where apparently the word copyright has no meaning, at least for now.


*EDIT*
well apparently it's private now. BUT now there's another one on youtube :P


sarah xoxo

Conrad Ruiz

After viewing Conrad Ruiz’s epic paintings, I feel like I got hit in the face with a cat covered in cayenne pepper. (note: I'm allergic to cats. Not cayenne pepper though. But I'm sensitive to spicy foods.. anyway, getting it in the eyes or nose would suck.)

Anyway... here's an interview with him talking about how he got into art after losing fights in the park and his insecurity fueled goal to make the worlds biggest watercolour.

Conrad Ruiz: The World's Largest Watercolor from Graham Kolbeins on Vimeo.

herro

yo, hi hi

i am gearing up for a showing, and i have to have a self-portrait.  i am simultaneously working on a portrait of my friend sarah.

this is my self-portrait...from a little polaroid that sandra took when i left last year.

shots. (19th birthday)

and, well, that's all.  i'm going back to watching south park now...

byeeee