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I LOVE THIS PAINTING
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http://www.blackfish.com/images/photos/CB_InDv.jpg

aww yeah. more field trip photos later

Jeff Koons

when I'm looking around at art and making my bookmarks, I usually like to stick to my small name illustrators and very contemporary graphic artists. I think I'd heard the name Jeff Koons before because he's famous and all, but it didn't really mean anything to me until I decided to look it up today and I went to his website.

At first his work seems kind of flashy and silly...
and a little surreal but mostly silly. Then I realized that the paintings weren't collages or photoshop, they're oil paintings! they're also huge. The cake one is something like 12 feet tall and 9 feet wide.
also an oil painting.
I dont' understand his 3D work as much because, like i've already posted, I just don't really get 3D art, but someo f his work is really intriguing.
or just lewd
but some of it's interesting. He has a whole series of "prenew" and "the new" that is an arrangement of old and new household appliances and the evolution of technology, and then he has a bunch of inflatable toys....
his work is really strange, yet I think it has some value to think about. It reminds me a lot of pop art except that he's modern. some of his stuff is very Claes Oldenburg, like huge reproductions of kind of banal things, but then it's also very andy warhol with reproductions of commercial things like cigarettes and basketballs...the odd thing is that he started making work in about the late 70's, which is a decade after the pop artists, or at least on the tail end of their generation. I'd love to be able to see his work in a museum or something.
all images from www.jeffkoons.com!!

Yoskay Yamamoto

To be frank, I don't understand 3D art at all. I just don't get the why and how of things made out of clay and "found" things and things vaguely reminiscent of other things, and I am pretty much fine with that. But I was looking at this artist's work on her website and because I didn't like her paintings that much, I decided to take a glance at her sculpture, which is unusual for me because I normally just skip over it, and I found myself pleasantly surprised. I think if I did 3D work at all, it would look like hers.

I love this one in particular. floating fish...

natural habitat

IT'S SO NICE BEING BACK IN THE ART ROOM LATE LATE LATE AGAIN!!1

just me and free paint


I'm waiting for my painting to dry - i'm painting on wood, which I've actually NEVER done before! yay for trying new things. It's a painting on a cutting board of a fish on a cutting board. I found a discarded cutting board at Sam's house yesterday and they let me have it, so it's pretty much perfect.
ssssoooo much creative energy

hold on it's not your time yet

shit
i feel like i always have to put art on hold because of everything else
like ACT studying, SAT subject tests, college essays, college visits, ear infections, chinese school, club fairs, calculus, sleep...
i wish i didn't want to take 8 classes this year, especially when I have a portfolio to grow.
I miss summer when art came first!

summer business

Well I'm guessing we're supposed to make a post about what we did over the summer...and post pictures, but I haven't taken any pictures because my camera sucks and my art is all at school.

Anyway, I did the pre-college program at SFAI, the san francisco art institute, which is apparently one of the most conceptual art schools in the country, but I don't feel like I really got pushed in that area, because most of what I did was just traditional painting.
Umm, the experience was still valuable though because I got to be around art kids doing arty things and they were more inspiring than anything else. I actually made a post about it on my other blog.
I'm still really into illustration and water colors and my style didn't change, but that's ok, i'm ready for more.

I just got an NAHS donation from Palisade's market! go pacers!! yay for palisades market!!

this is much better than last year, when I went around to almost every business in downtown LO and they all said no...sad face. well, they don't get to be on our really cool poster. they lose.