Splatter Painting: The Result

I've created roughly 10 splatter paintings, possibly more and I finally decided what I want to do with them all. After examining my paintings, I noticed that they have a light vs dark theme. I also realized that two of my paintings had both light and dark themes. So, I decided to mount my paintings. I will keep the light paintings on one side, the dark paintings on the other and use the two paintings with both light and dark themes as transitions paintings. I decided to mount the paintings so it would mimic splatter paintings on a large scale. This is only the paintings in the set up I want them to. I am still in the process of mounting them. I am using mounting tissue which is essentially double sided tape. At the end, when my paintings are mounted on the board, I will frame the large painting.

Pollock at MOMA

On Friday, STAC went to MOMA and for the first time, I really enjoyed going to a museum. I usually find museums boring and dull. But since I found a new found joy in splatter/drip paintings, I had artwork to look for. I found myself near Jackson Pollock's work for the majority of the time. I would find myself staring at the enormous splatter paintings for over 20 minutes. I could not even begin to explain why I observed the painting for so long. I got lost in the painting and my mind was set loose to think about everything and anything. My only wish is that I could have had a closer look at the paintings so I could look at the brush strokes and the have a better perspective of the texture of the piece. I hope to add more texture to my splatter paintings as I continue experimenting with it.

Acting Discussions

Discussing the acting is more difficult than the acting itself. We have started analyzing scenes again in STAC and I once again realize talking about acting is challenging. Subconsciously, everyone has something they want when they are speaking but since it's subconscious, we don't really realize what it is we want. So, as I was analyzing a scene from The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nast, there were certain parts of the scene where identifying File's want was puzzling. Sometimes, people do not want others to realize what they want and they hide it. File, I feel, does this during the scene sometimes which makes it difficult to pinpoint what exactly he wants. One can't make up what he wants, but there also does not need to be a right or wrong. As long as the want fits the parameter of the moment, it's acceptable. What I will have to do is get better at analyzing wants and start to notice what I want when I speak so I can better analyze it in a script.

More Paintings!

I experimented using inks in my paintings and this is what turned out. I really like using ink because the color is much more rich and a lot thicker than water color. I can't really say if I am "improving" as I do more paintings but I do know I am truly enjoying it. It's a lot of fun and it's peaceful for me to do.

Fourth Quarter Project

I've been having a lot of trouble deciding what I want to do fourth quarter. I know it has something to do with acting. It needs to as I need begin training for college auditions next year and for professional acting. I have had many moments of acting naturally the past year but I need to make sure I do that all the time. Part of my problem is, I have no idea how to do that. The times I have done it, I have no idea what I was doing. So, for fourth quarter, I need to figure out what I was doing so I can do it each time I have to act.
For STAC Art, I know what I'm doing. I'm doing drip/splatter paintings. I am practicing on a smaller scale first and then I will purchase a large canvas and make the painting on a larger scale. I'm not sure what size I'd like yet but I still have sometime to figure it out.

Fourth Day of Charcoal Drawings

This day I was experimenting drawing my face with charcoal drawings. I got easily distracted and started drawing faces I felt were more interesting/entertaining to draw. I'd say my favorite one is the face in the middle row farthest to the left. Why you may ask? I don't know. That's the face my eyes are drawn to first. He doesn't look very amused and looks like death in a sense. This was probably one of my favorite days of charcoal drawings; drawing silly faces was quite entertaining.

Third Day of Charcoal Drawings

This day I only had time for one charcoal drawings but this is probably one of my favorites. Ever have that feeling where someone is watching you? I get that feeling all the time and this drawing represents that. Often times, you cannot tell who is watching you or from where so I decided to draw one giant eye that constantly has a vision of everyone all the time. There are certain areas to avoid this line of sight and others where you fall directing into "the trap."