Final art project

Okay, so recently I've had major surgery on my ankle. I wanted to put all of my pain, hurt, and frustration into a project. After talking to my art teacher, I got the idea to make my bones out of clay, and to make a gurney out of wire. This is what my research has turned up. I'm using the gurneys to get an idea of what mine will look like, and the xrays to to help me build and shape my bones.

Woodcarving

These woodcarvings are by Bruce Alexander. He hand carves these for people who want them. He has some really nice work, and I love that he does this for a living. he makes a lot of personal requests. He specializes in outdoor scenes and wildlife.

http://www.customwoodcarving.com/index.html

CD Artwork.

 This one is obvious, it's the Avenged Sevenfold Clown Of Evil album. I read that the lead singer has a HORRIBLE clown phobia, and most of the songs in this album follows the lines of this.


Do you ever just browse the CD shelves at Target, or Best Buy, or even walmart, looking for some really cool covers? I do. Alllll the time. Some are really interesting, and fun to look at. I've  done some research on these here   covers, to find out what they're about.

 This one here is about the Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown. This entire album is essentially about how the modern world is so screwed up that there isn't much good left in the world, except the love between Christian and Gloria, the two characters on the Album.

"I wanted the art work to look really different. I wanted it to represent the East Bay and where we come from, because there's a lot of artists in the East Bay scene that are just as important as the music. So we talked to Richie Bucher. He did a 7-inch cover for this band called Raooul that I really liked. He's also been playing in bands in the East Bay for years. There's pieces of us buried on the album cover. There's one guy with his camera up in the air taking a picture with a beard. He took pictures of bands every weekend at Gilmans. The robed character that looks like the Mona Lisa is the woman on the cover of the first Black Sabbath ALbum. Angus Young is in there somewhere too. The graffiti reading "Twisted Dog Sisters" refers to these two girls from Berkeley. I think the guy saying "The fritter, fat boy" was a reference to a local cop." -Billie Joe Armstrong. 

The single's cover artwork, by Marvel Zombies artist Arthur Soydum, is based on the band's "Crimson Ghost" skull logo. Both the cover art and the single's two songs, "Land of the Dead" and "Twilight of the Dead", are a homage to the Living Dead series. "Land of the Dead" is named after Romero's 2005 film of the same name,  for which Twilight of the Dead was a working title. "Land of the Dead" and "Twilight of the Dead" are the third and fourth Misfits songs to be titled after Romero's Living Deadfilms: Previous Misfits lineups had recorded "Night of the Living Dead" (1979).

This album is called "Reinventing Axl Rose, by Against Me!. The artwork is kind of obvious, it's the singer Axl Rose, lead singer and guitarist in Guns N' Roses. 

Thanksgiving!

Happy thanksgiving everyone!! I hope you guys have a good Thanksgiving. Today I've decided to have a thanksgivingy blog. Anyways, I've been doing some thanks related research, and I've come to the conclusion that the most fun thing to do for thanksgiving is make paper turkeys!!! It's really a lot of fun! All you really need is some fall colored construction paper, and some creativity! Children love to do this, and parents can really get into it also!

Personal Interest

Well, it took me forever to figure out what to blog about this time. I sat and sat...and I thought to myself, what am I actually interested in artistically? I couldn't think of a single thing. And, then my friend was like, "Well, what do you consider art? Does it have to be visual? I mean, we all know how interested you are in music. I consider music an art form." That comment here really made me think. Yes. Music is DEFINITELY an art form. So. I found my blog content[: Music. Well. Guitars in particular. I love, love, love guitars. They are so beautiful, in every way possible. I would love to play. I do...kind of. Haha. I don't even know how to explain why I love them so much. I have many dream guitars...like Fenders, and Gibsons....Strats. 

Both of these guitars are from Billie Joe Armstrong, my hero from the band Green Day. Billie Joe writes almost all of his own music, and what he doesn't write, he writes with his other band members. I am so inspired by his writing. In my artwork, and my writing. Just the guitar going through my head, and the beautiful voice of Billie Joe, with the bass pounding in the background, drums beating with my heart, and al the while images are flashing through my mind, and words going through my head, and I just have to have a pen or pencil, and my sketchbook, or a lined piece of paper, and let it all out.    

A school I would NOT like to go to.

"Nossi College of Art is a small, private, professional college with a friendly atmosphere. We are dedicated to developing students into working professionals in the vast and exciting business of visual communications. Nossi College of Art is special because we train students in a unique combination of methods."

While this sounds promising, and happy, I'm not sure I would much enjoy this school. I've looked at the website and, even though it seems like an interesting enough school, I don't think I'd like it because it is a very small school with fewer than 1200 graduating students per year. I want to go to a large school, with many people. I don't know why. Maybe just because that's how I feel college should be. Maybe something else. Who knows?  Haha.  It is also a very private college, and you have to make really good grades to get into it, and to stay in there. My grades aren't nearly good enough, and I don't think I would be able to keep up with the curriculum that they have. Also, I'm honestly not all that interested in an art college. I mean, I love doing art and stuff, but I don't want a career in it. I really want to be a cop, so I don't think getting any kind of degree from this school would help me in traveling down that path. The school has many programs that you can get; such as graphic design, photography (Which I actually WOULD like to look further into), Illustration, and Photography and Video. It is located in Nashville Tennessee. I do not like it's location because I would not like to go to school in Tennessee. I'm not horrible fond of the state. I want to go to school in a different state. Perhaps Florida, or Alaska, maybe  even Illinois. I don't know, but where ever I DO go to school, I can tell you that it will definitely NOT be here. 


http://nossi.edu/