Where To Begin

With news about my thesis show coming sooner than expected, I took the very little free time I had in jumping into my 6ft painting! I built the canvas with some basic wood from home depot and stretched it with a canvas dropcloth rather than a professional grade canvas. What I liked about the dropcloth was the imperfect texture and the obvious seam from where two layers were sewed together.



I'm painting a pinup girl inspired from Gil Elvgren's work. I enjoyed the absurdity of the situations his girls would get into in the images and wanted to play off that content in favor of discussing consequences of the American dream. I'm also freaking out because I need to stay in track in order to accomplish all the work I need to do by my show in November!


(Gil Elvgren's work)

In news pertaining to my Seminar class, I think I have a concept for my internal modernism assignment. I saw a documentary a while ago, depicting French slaughterhouses in the 1940s. I enjoy working with charcoal and would like to explore the context slaughterhouses play in a capitalist society and how we feed into a commercialized system. Progress is due Thursday, so I'll see what I come up with!


(Le Sang des betes)