Things Keep Getting Eaten Podcast

Here is a little treat for y'all: it's a podcast i made earlier on this year using garage band. It's not very long but i think it's a little funny/ironic. It's on how a lot of animals just seem to be getting eaten left and right all the time. Enjoy!

Funny Movie part2

And here is part two of my funny video Cats and Dogs. Enjoy more laughs and silly pet moments. :3

My Funny Video

Here is another video i made in i-movie only it's my long awaited funny video. I used clips of the cats and dogs my parents have, threw 'em together, added a little music, and made this. Oh and like my art autobio i had to cut the movie in half so i could upload it so here is part one! Enjoy! :3

My Art Autobio prt 2

More Pieces

Like i said i don't know how long ago, here are the newest pics i have of some pieces that i did both sophomore and senior year. They're all 3D work since i finally gathered them up to be photographed. So w/o further ado, here are more of my pieces. :3

Together (Sophomore Year)

Clay and Glaze

Yay an oldy...well not really, i did do this one back in sophomore year so it wasn't that long ago. Anywho, with this piece i think it was just a random assignment i can't really remember, but i wanted to do something on the essence of being "together" with the one you love. No they are not dinosaurs, i think i was just going for an abstract idea but in a way yeah they do kinda look like sauropods (long necked dinosaurs). And as for the color of them...that was one of my first times working with glaze so yeah they didn't turn out the exact color i was planning, but it still looks great. Oh and FYI, the darker one is supposed to be the "guy" or the leading one in the relationship and the lighter colored one is the "girl" or the one that gets spoiled 24/7. LOL. !!!SPOILER!!!: this piece appears in my autobio vid!

Baby T-rex

Clay and Glaze

Caballero

Clay and Glaze

Moonflower

Clay and Glaze

Hard-boiled Egg

Clay and Glaze

Snowfire

Clay and Glaze

Master Ball

Clay and Glaze

Jackalope

Material and Stuffing

Styracosaurus Head (Concentration Piece #4)

Toothpicks and Glue

Triceratops Defense Formation (Clay Version) (Concentration Piece #5)

Clay and Wood

My Art Autobio prt 1

Sorry it took so long to upload this video but i finally found out why it was taking so long before: it was too big! So i've cut my video into two parts so here's part one! Enjoy my craptastic camera skills and some of my artwork on video!

SNOWING!!!

Todays it's snowing up to 3 feet and rising outside! YAY!! No i don't have any new pics to post but i will by next week so there's that to look forward to. Till then here's a quick pic i made in photoshop to commemorate the falling snow outside! Enjoy! :3

"Snowfall" (Photoshop)

More Senior Pieces

Just like i said here are some more pics of some more pieces that i've done my senior year (this year). I am also working on a concentration series so i'll post the pieces from that when i get the pics. So they won't all be in one post, they'll be in whatever post i put them in (i will tell which is a concentration piece or not). Also the pics of my concentration pieces that are made of clay, i will have pics of them before and after they were glazed as an "in case" they blew up in the kiln. It's still kinda cool cause you'll get to see the before and after glazing/firing process.

Abstract Plaster Piece

Plaster

My original idea for this piece was different from what it came out looking like. What happened was my original idea was kinda hard to do in plaster so the piece kept falling apart and ended up looking like this. But on the positive side it still looks pretty good...even kinda looks like a Triceratops head almost.

Watusi (Original and Glazed) (Concentration Piece #1) 5" x 8" x 5 1/2"

Clay and Glaze (color: Dejan Brown)

Surprise, i have to do another concentration series this year but this one i think is much more fun than the last one. Only difference is this one is in 3D and i have more of a clue on what I'm doing this time around. So for my concentration series i have decided to do it on horned animals (alive, extinct, and "mythical") since i find them VERY interesting. So my first piece is of a bovine creature called a Watusi (yes it actually exists, you can google it). This one is made of clay but is actually hollow-- i did this by throwing (in ceramics class) a closed shape, which is a hollow ball which is VERY tricky to do, and then added the head, horns, and ears. The scary parts was firing it cause i had to poke a bunch of holes in it so while it fired all the air inside could escape, and hope it didn't explode--which as u can see it didn't. Then after i glazed it and fired it again, i was planning on getting a tan/brown color but where i put a thick coat of glaze it turned out kinda blue-ish; but that's ok. When u glaze it's like a surprise cause u don't know exactly how the glaze will turn out.

Gemsbok, Ibex, Ram Trio (Original) (Concentration Piece #2) 3 1/4" x 1 1/4" x 6 1/2"

Clay

These three pieces are about the size of your hand but i did that on purpose. Though they are small they are all one piece and the overall size isn't what u r supposed to be looking at. The point (no pun intended) of my series is the horns of the animals and what they look like and how they add to the appearance of the animals. With this piece, the horns going from the left to the right curve, going from straight in the gemsbok, to completely curved on the ram. The position of the head also adds to the look of the horns. This piece hasn't been glazed yet but i will add the pictures here when they are glazed.

Senior Pieces

Now that I have pics of them here of some of the pieces that I've done this year as a senior. These aren't all of them so there will be more later on. Oh and I needed to have two views of each piece so that's why u r kinda seeing double--don't worry u r not crazy. :3

Apple of Your Eye (Summer Assignment) 7 3/4" x 7 3/4" x 8 3/4"

Styrofoam, Paint, and a Toothpick

This was one of the assignments i had to do the summer of my senior year. One we could do whatever we wanted so long as it was 3D. So i took one of the examples my teacher gave which was to do a saying like "Pig in a blanket" and instead did "Apple of your eye". This piece was pretty easy to make, the trickiest part was carving up the apple shape and the groove in the iris cause the excess foam got all over everything. Ack!

Foil Christmas Tree (Summer Assignment)

Foil, Plastic Hangers, Green Spraypaint, and Duct Tape

Now this one i'd been playing around with the idea and finally decided to try it. At first i was planning for it to be able to stand on its own but the hangers weren't sturdy enough to hold the whole thing up so it's become a hanging piece (In the left pic of the tree i had to photoshop my hand out of the pic lol). My favorite part with working with this piece was spray painting it. Never got to work with spray paint before and it was alot of fun! hee hee :3

Giant Toothpick (Summer Assignment) 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" x 27 1/2"

Over 1600 toothpicks and glue

Actually the 1600 is a rough estimation cause i wasn't really counting how many i was using till my sister pointed out that i probably should. The boxes of toothpicks i had were 800 in each so this is a rough idea of how many toothpicks i used. The BFT (big friggin toothpick) is not hollow, it is solid toothpick, i had to work on this from the inside out--which wasn't really hard to do since the shape stays pretty much the same. i had to start cutting the toothpicks in half though when i started getting to the points. It was a very sticky business (no pun intended) lol.

Balance 10 1/8" x 7 3/4" x 8 1/2"

Wood and Paint

With this piece i had no idea what i was gonna do at first. I pretty much just gathered a bunch of little bits of spare wood at school and started playing around with them to see what i got. Finally i decided i wanted to do something that curves and moves but still balances thus the name. Then when it was all glued together i painted it blue because i thought the blue was a nice color and i wanted the piece to look real mellow and smooth. And cause i like blue.

My Artist Statement

I think I needed to put my artist statement on here too so here it is. :3

Artist Statement

Things that interest me create a sense of life in my work. In my direct observation pieces that sense is almost exact; I try to draw the subject as realistically as possible, almost like I’m trying to draw a photograph. In other drawings and ceramic work, that sense of life also exists but less realistically. The messages portrayed in my work differ with each piece. It’s in my direct observation pieces that the message is pretty straightforward. I drew what seemed interesting to me so that the audience could see the subject through my eyes. I want the viewer to wonder about the message, to guess the meaning of the piece.

I feel that art states an opinion or even tells a story by using images instead of words. In my work each piece tells a story, and sometimes states an opinion, using imagery.