Urban Opera

When I think of art I think of these things:

Love

Peace

Happiness

Challenge

Frustration 

Joy

All are emotions I get while at work in my tiny art corner, which is an absolute hash right now. I was making ornaments for the jolly christmas season out of paper and wire and all sorts of messy materials that leave tiny scraps caught in my carpet. I have stepped on a needle or two from sewing stuff. It's CRAZY!!

But I love it!

A few months ago I was deep in the heat of applying for colleges. I have already shared part of my portfolio, I want to show another part.  

The University of Texas required a photo section of my portfolio but I rarely touch a camera, it is not in my instincts to grab one the moment I see a beautiful view or memorable moment. 

Anyway, for this project I used my sister's old thrift shop film camera. Then I took her, my best friend Mariel, and my sisters boyfriend, stuck them in weird costumes and took to the streets of my neighborhood to snap shots. 

They turned out so awesome!! Unexpectedly so because the sun went down so I thought they would turn out pitifully dark.  But here they are in all their glow-y beauty.

I give you, the Urban Opera!

The Curtain Rises

The Confused 

Visit to the Fortune Teller

Fortune Teller has Ulterior Motives

All is Revealed 

Standing Ovation

There you are. 

Thanks for looking!

All my creative enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

The Life of an Artist

It is frigid in my room. Probably because it has three windows facing north with no seals (sp?). Thats ok, though. Something about cool air on my skin makes me feel at home. Los Angeles has never fit my personality. That is what college is for. 
Amid these last weeks, all my frantic application writing and Nora Jones listening, I have produced from my hands and mind some fine art projects. I do not want to brag but I am marvelously proud of my late night plaster binges. 


Slowly over many of those binges a portfolio was produced. I sacrificed time and friend time for this portfolio. 

A Late Night of Tallis Davidson:

Me in my half awake slave to art state. Yuck. 

Sucker Punch is a great soundtrack to stay awake to. 

Modge-Podge and books. My saviors! 

Among my many creations there were my masks. Yes, I made masks. BE IN AWE!!!

This is the mask of the three fates of Greek Myth. 

This is the Mask of The Spirit of Light and Dance. I am so proud of the feathers, hehe!

This is King Crow: the Courier of the Dead. Morbid, I know, but I can't hide my dramatic side. This is probably my favorite of the three. It has carnage in it. What I mean is that I had to rip up my Romeo and Juliet book for this. IT'S BOOK CARNAGE!! I almost wept, I had never even thought of ripping up a book before. It was a sin, please forgive me. 

One Thousand Paper Cranes.

This is a tribute to 9/11. I know that is a bit cliche but I really do not care. 

When my family visited New York last year we stopped by the temporary 9/11 monument. It was a simple building beside the scene of the tragedy but inside it was an emotional exhibit of the incident. What struck me most was the thousands of paper cranes that Japan had sent over.  They were beautiful. 

So this sculpture is a collapsed building with paper cranes flying out of it, freed.  I hope you like it. 

 I hope you like my art, it is for you. 

Thank you. Here is my enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

Something Wrong With The Daylight

The computer is a curse. Well, not really. I just find that a lot of my time gets sucked into its shining screen. I am either doing school or looking for delicious goodies on Google. Not food 'goodie' but images. 
Everyone has a different way of learning and processing things in their life. I am hands down a visual everything. I learn visually by watching and doing it myself, I process visually by writing or drawing, I try to bless people visually too by giving gifts of art. I love reading and watching stories unfold in front of me; so when I find a picture or painting that inspires a story I get really really excited!

Brooke Shaden may have a simple name but her photography is anything but. Stories are rampant in her images. They all have an underlying creepiness and dramatic quality to them. 

                                      

Golly! Every one of her pictures makes me start brain storming about what they mean and how I could turn them into a story. 

I actually have a story for these photos. I will practice self restraint and not tell it to you because I want you to just take in the uniqueness of these images. Come up with your own story too!

All my weird enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

This is the World That We Live in.

There are days of perfection, like a few days ago when it rained, and there are days of stress, depression, and overwhelmed-ness(I made a word). I am currently living in the later type of days. All this week I have been subject to mellow feelings. Mellow can be good, I tend to like mellow, but not sad mellow feelings. Those are unhappy. 
So, to try and redirect my despondency to happier tendencies I decided to think of art. I have been having fun in my sketch book lately but have no pictures of it to show you at the moment. 
I love looking through sketch books to see the work method of other artists. Their ideas in raw form are more fascinating to me then the finished product. Sketches and rough drafts share about the person behind the art, and it is the people i love :) 
Art is the direct translation of your thoughts onto paper. Pictures you draw or paint are windows into your mind and personality. Emotions have little other output as profound as art, in my opinion. 

A sketch book is a world in which you can live forever. Things can be just as you want them to be, anything you want is yours, anyone you want to be you can be. You get the jist of what i am saying? Yes, of coarse you do. 

I weep at my own deficiency, these hands are beautiful!

So CUTE!!

Love the colors! 

 This is beautiful. Castles are so beautiful.

 Elephant!

Love. LOVE love love love LOVE this 

I love the creativity of the title of this one. The artist must be fun to talk to. 

I love art.


All my happier enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger.