Amber: Nature Lab Drawings

Charlie--Nature Lab drawing

Carmen - Figure drawing, RISD museum, nature lab

Making a table

Hey guys,
Here are some photos of us building a table. This was the first time I built a piece of functional furniture!

Jane: Nature Lab

Jesse - Nature Lab

Berfu: Nature Lab

Lizette: Nature Lab

Monica - Nature Lab

Asya - Nature Lab

The first one is Jesse, and the second is a saw-whet owl! Saw whet owls are my favorite species of owl; they are one of the smallest in the world and are found in the forests of MA and along the NE coast.

Leah: Nature Lab

nature lab

Kim- Nature Lab

Kati: Gray-Cheeked Thrush

This is a gray-cheeked thrush, but you can't tell that from my picture because the whole bird is gray.

Abby--Nature Lab Drawing--Mouse Deer

The Mouse Deer which lives in Asia!

Madeleine: Nature Lab

Lucy: Nature Lab

figure drawing

Copy--Vintage Absinthe Poster--Abby

Amber - Global Street Art Project

If you guys have time this weekend you should check out this link. The video's about JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, who believes that art can change the world and takes huge photos of people and puts them all over. It reminded me a little of Exit Through the Gift Shop with the concept of street art, but it's very inspiring and shows you how powerful art can really be. 

http://www.hulu.com/watch/221157/tedtalks-jrs-ted-prize-wish-use-art-to-turn-the-world-inside-out

6 - Hadley: Copy Assignment

Charlie--Copied Image

I did a rendition of Roy Lichtenstein's "Reflections on the Prom." I made the decision not to include the dots on the woman's leg on the right side, and also not to include the stripes on the wall. 

corey - Lost in Translation

I chose my painting largely because of the context in which the assignment was given. I learned about this technique with Peter Paul Rubens. When I found that "Saturn Devouring his son" by Fransisco de Goya seemed to me an emulation of Peter Paul Rubens I had to create my own take. Goya's saturn is very different, completel;y changing the themes and impact associated with it. I just redid Ruben's painting in pencil and made it  modern, politically correct, kid friendly drawing.
I needed to make the picture mine in some way, so I cartoonized it. Saturn loses all of his scariness when he is just munching on some delicious sour patch kids. He just looks really hungry now. Essentially, I tried to completely change the tone of the picture while keeping the same dark serious style in which it's made. Now the dark features in Saturn's face and the primal pose he is in seem ironic.

Though this sounds far from an artists answer, I also didn't enjoy looking at a kid being eaten. I feel that all of the power comes from that vulgarity of it. In this sense my version can also be used as instrument pointing to the importance of something challenging in good art.