26.9.11

My Year 12 Art stuff

Hello everyone! I am glad people bother to read this blog, ahaha :) 
Today I will be sharing photos of my finished works from my art folio which I've mentioned previously.
My theme for my folio was the seven deadly sins; I decided to create a sculpture for each one and I tried to include some kind of symbolism to make it relevant to today's society in a half-assed attempt to create a deeper meaning to them or some shit like that.
So here we go, get ready for some hardcore image spam.




These two sculptures symbolise Lust and Anger. For some reason I just have the one photo of each?
Oh well.
Next is  Greed.




This one is  Envy.




Next up,  Sloth.




And  Pride. 




I suspended mirrors in front of its face.




Last but not least,  Gluttony. 



This is me trying to put the signs in the belly.




I failed and had to start again.




I got Caf to help me ahaha.



All done! Here are some group images.


And to finish it all off, you can have a photo of my ugly face.
Well that's it, my whole years worth of work came down to these seven sculptures. If anyone's curious, they're actually made of paper clay, which is simply normal clay mixed with paper fibres to increase strength without having to fire it. I shaped this around a metal armature, and once dry gave it a coat of paint and drew on it with mostly pencil. Some parts were made of other sorts of clay too, such at the hands on Gluttony (above).
Oh yeah and a big thank you to caf and her pro camera for these photos. YAY.

25.9.11

Long week, long post

So, as many of you know, I've been very sleep deprived this week as I scrambled to get my folio done for 
                                ART.

And as such, from Sunday night until Friday night I had about 9 hours of sleep...
Allocated as such;

Sunday night - 1 hour
Monday night - 3 hours
Tuesday night - 2 hours
Wednesday night - 2 hours
Thursday night - 1 and a half hours

I wonder how on earth I managed to stay alive with so little sleep, for some reason I did not feel like I was dead all the time which is how I normally feel in general. I suppose I would put it down to the stress of having to complete everything, ehehe.

BUT YES, IT WAS ALL WORTH IT.
I can say that I've never felt so stressed nor so relieved in my entire life.
and I'll be posting photos later ;)

But one thing I've realised is just how much work you can get done if you really want to, and it kind of motivated me to become a harder working person and see how far I can push myself if I try. After all, my days will be kind of empty without my folio to work on anyways.

After reading some other people's blogs, I get the feeling that I don't really blog very much. I don't have a very good camera, and I don't go out much or eat out much, and do not have an interesting life, so I guess the only thing left for me to post is my artwork. But I will try to blog more often anyway.
Good thing I have a lot of projects in mind then, as they were all put on the back burner as I desperately tried to finish my folio.

But for now you can have some old photos; the images my good friend and owner of an awesome camera
                         cathlene (a.k.a  Burger Buns, click here to go to her awesome blog)
that she took of my folio work seem to have some trouble showing on my computer; it says they're corrupt files! What does that even mean. That they're evil? 
Ahaha I kid.


Some of you might recognise the first one; it was a portrait of some random dude I did in Year 10 Art class. The thing I like most about it isn't the exact-ness, per se, but the fact that as you walk around my room the eye follows you, which I find really cool and I wonder how I managed to make it do that.
The second one is a random drawing of Megatron I did in my friend Jess's diary, and the third is something I did for the sketchbook that Selina gave me for my 16th birthday. What I did was make myself a 30 day challenge where I had to draw/do something every day for 30 days, however that eventually turned into 1 and a half years (LOL) and in fact I have still not done #30 yet. This challenge involved making a paper doll with clothes and shit.

I read something interesting the other day, and it went something along the lines of;

Imagine that every day, without fail, $86, 400 would magically appear in your bank account.
Regardless of how much you use, the next day the balance would be topped up to $86, 400 again.
What would you do? Would you go out and use as much as possible, or would you let it sit there and go to waste?

Well, every day we're given 86, 400 seconds. Some people make the most of it, but like me, most people seem to let it rot away.

So yeah, that kind of motivated me to be a better person and use my life to do shit instead of letting the computer suck away my time and sleeping in a ridiculous amount on weekends. I think I find now that when I'm lying in bed, all comfy and not wanting to get out of it and start my day, instead of having the urge to go back to sleep I now think about what I could be achieving with that time and it pulls me out of bed.

So yes, that's all from me today. How nasty, I seem to have caught a rather bad case of verbal diarrhoea.

P.S. LOLOL guess what I found while looking through old photos;


This is a Scruffy that me and Caf made for Lozza in Year 10. It's cute, but so funny LOL. 

12.9.11

I think my lungs are half clay now

So, what has this particular Eddyward been up to for the past week instead of studying for his 4 SACs THIS WEEK?
I've been busy inhaling clay of course.




I somehow managed to use up my previous   10 kilograms  of clay so I joyfully went to purchase another huge packet to lug all the way home from Box Hill North to the little shack I call home in Oakleigh East. To finish the last sculpture.
The good news is I didn't drop it this time.


What was even better was that when I came home my sculptures had begun to crack most magnificently.





Don't worry, all you have to do is slop on  even MORE CLAY and hope for the best.
...


This is what 10kg of clay looks like, people.


Yes, it's darkened on purpose as this is all you'll be seeing of my folio work for Art until it's presented in the place wherever the heck it's gonna be presented ^__^ I'm gonna keep it a surprise.
SO WISH ME GOOD LUCK NYAHAHA.
I should probably get back to studying for my lovely spesh practise exam tomorrow, which I have procrastinated from studying for just to bring you these lovely photos of my unco clay skills.


Oh yeah, the other day it was really cloudy and I managed to somehow take this awesome picture with the crappy camera on my iPod.



...okay, yeah, so it's still pretty crap.

I should learn how to use Photoshop.