Finished!

I have finally finished my self portrait painting and I have also finished my sculpture in ceramics! Now I am off to making new pieces of work and have many ideas. I hope we start out concentration soon! The two pieces I have just finished will match up well with my concentration and I already can't wait to start on my next piece. I'm so excited, and I am so satisfied with the fact that I have created new work and there is more to be done.
ps can't get photos of my work on here through this computer right now, but it will be up soon,

Ashley

I have been in LA for the last five days and visited Laguna College of Art and Design. I was given a tour of the campus, which was very small, and I had a portfolio review. I like the campus, having a 15:1 ratio students to teacher and being 1.5 miles from the beach. It was full of nature, something seemingly odd for the area. The school seemed to have a good painting, drawing, and sculpting department that focused on the human form. After my succesful review, I was told that I would be accepted to the college. Tuition is 22,000 a year, 10,000 less than every other art school I have looked at. I am keeping it in consideration and am happy with the feed back I recieved on my work.

Self Portrait Half-Way There

I'm still working and have painted a good part of the opaque oil painting. I would like to work alot more on this though, especially on the eyes and hair and skin tones. I have found it difficult to make the paint bright enough on the area of the light source, especially in my hair. I don't know how to do that or how to make it clear that there is clay in my hair. I really need to play with texture and light and make sure I stay true to the colors and skin tones. Feed-back would be nice. Thanks

Self Portrait First Steps

This is after about two hours of work, drawing and painting with burnt sienna oil paint. I used liquin and gamsol as solvents and mediums. This is the grisay painting. I am planning on cover over it with opaque color in oil. I do these first steps, though, to get the image on the canvas, cover the white, and determine the values so that color can be the main concern at hand. I am painting on a 24X36 canvas. The purpose of this piece is to show my two passions, sculpture and painting. I portray this by having clay in my hair and paint all over my body.