March 10

Today I finished up the piece I started the other day. It's hanging on the door now.

March 9

I've been coming in and working during X blocks and lunches and this morning. So far I've started another piece in a similar style to the piece from last week. We'll see how it evolves.

Reading Response: Twyla Tharp

1. You have to have the right "structure". If an artist gets stuck on a certain material or media then they can get stuck very easily.
2. You have to have the right "pieces". If you want to build a piece around a certain thing but can't ind anything else to relate it to, it could get messy.
3. Luck is everything. You have to leave some things to luck/accident, paint spills and random overlap create cool pieces.

About her ideas about "scratching" I find that I do some of the same sort of things, but she says to always scratch from the masters and always scratch in different places. I know that personally I scratch from all sorts of people, either amateurs or masters, and will scratch n one place until it's exhausted, whether that's once or thirty times.

March 5

Didn't do too much work that could be continued yesterday. I did a drawing exercise where you draw a house, a person, and a tree and hung my piece from the past two days on the door to my studio space.

March 4

Finished up my piece I started yesterday. Now on to thinking of new ideas. Worked during lunch and X-Block as well.

March 3

Today I started work in a style I have been hoping to try for a while. I was inspired by a drawing in a similar style and a photograph I found online. I plan to work on this one piece for a couple days, maybe until next week. When I hope to do aother in the same series.

Studio Spaces

Make a list of the types of things you see in most of the studios you look at.

• obviously the art materials
• work by the artists
• books
• MUSIC lots and lots of music, I love music
• Doodads and trinkets
• inspiration and sketchbooks
• food, I know I need it
• Light, both natural and artificial
  

Why do you think these things show up more than once?
Because we're artists, and we all need similar things, our materials and a well lit space to do our work obviously. Books and doodads and sketchbooks for inspiration. Food, duh, we all get hungry when we're working at two in the morning. Music, to keep us going, to keep the energy up, or for some of us inspiration. Our work ends up in our spaces cause that's where it gets made.

How do artists develop spaces and methods for making their most authentic work as part of a daily artistic practice?
They do it instinctively, they know what they like/want/need to do work and the do it. Methods do change though, and the space is adapted to the new methods. If splatter painting is a new method, but you wanna save your walls, you put up a tarp, or thirteen garbage bags taped together....

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Yeah, this is just a first post saying that this is my blog for my Senior Studio class. What's up world?