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E. EC: Museum Visit

For this Museum visit, the two art pieces that appealed most to me were the Bust of Winter by Paul Heerman and Minerva by Joseph Nollekens.

Between these two sculpts, other than being made around the 1700s, there are many similarities. Minerva was very large in size due to it being a full-body sculpt while Bust of Winter was relatively small as it was just a head bust. Both sculpts were both made in Marble and kept their true color. Due to being made in Marble, the sculpts had an incredibly smooth texture throughout the whole sculpt. They both seemed to be made with a hyper-realistic style with proper body and facial proportions and visually realistic clothes. Even the flow of the hair looked very realistic.

             Both artists had the intent of making a visual personification of something. For Paul Hermann, it was Winter and for Joseph, it was the Goddess of war and wisdom. The Bust of Winter was made to give the audience the feeling of the cold season. In this sculpt we see an old mysterious man with a serious face in a heavy hooded cloak. With his eyebrows pressed down, wrinkles on his forehead and his beard rustled around, the tone brought out the cold season. His old age is also a representation of the lateness of winter within the year. For Joseph’s sculpted, Minerva stands proudly as she gestures her helmet lift. This sculpt resembles many column designs in Greek art. On her side, she carries a shield with Medusa’s face on it, which is also used in Greek mythology as a symbol ward off enemies. Minerva stands majestically lifting the end of her clothes. This combined with her shield and helmet creates an interesting silhouette from all angles. From viewing this tall sculpt upfront, the audience can definitely feel the presence of the Goddess of war and wisdom.

-Joseph Burgos

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E. Art and(my) Life

Burgos Joseph

Professor Zucman

Art 110-02

08 December 2019

 Art is experienced in many ways, whether it be through looking at paintings on canvas, lines through a book, music through a pop artist, or a mixture of these experiences. Art is deeply connected to my life currently and I expect it to stay in my life for the rest of my future that lies ahead. Throughout this course, I learned many ideas within art. This semester I would meet many different artists, create numerous art projects with a variety of styles, and I would see how art will continue into my life and career.

This semester, I met numerous artists with unique art styles.  These styles included traditional painting, digital painting, ceramics, drawings, and many combinations of these styles. Some of the artists that I talked to wanted to create things with their special skills of the form, while others explored a new style of media and enjoyed it more. Either choice resulted in the art student being happy with their creation and display. Their enthusiasm through conversation and thought process of their creation showed a lot of passion without saying. For example, when talking to Althea Fultz, she was explaining how she was trying new styles of silhouette design and color from being inspired from movies she has watched, which was one of her favorite things to do. I was able to see her turn her passing time hobby to visual art for other people to be inspired. Not only did all these artists have their own choice of media, but they also varied in individual form as well. I have seen artists use ceramics for cultural exploration, while others use their passion for videogames to create a digital portfolio of vibrant environments and characters. Isis Hung did an amazing job creating expressive characters that created their own mood. This combination of color, facial expression and design breathed life into the character. As an artist, conversations with these artists made me feel very relatable to them. These relations included exploration of ideas, through media, form, and styles. I can also appreciate the amount of time and passion they put for their gallery, as they seem accomplished to talk about.

Secondly, I created numerous art projects with a variety of styles. Although I work on my own personal projects for my portfolio, this class pushed me to try a new style of media.  My personal portfolio only consists of digital 3D art for both 3D modeling, texturing, and sculpting. I explore some different types of color and silhouette designs, but only in a digital 3D environment. For some projects in this class, I integrated my 3D art skills with the art projects we were told to make. However, many of the other projects made me step out of my comfort zone. For the first project on making the hand mold, It was my first time creating a non-digital 3D mold object. Although the mold did not come out as I intended, the process of making it was a fun experience. Even with my Zine project where I made a small flipbook of the style of my choice, I had fun with friends to create the result. Many of the projects involved me stepping out of my comfort zone but made me had a lot more fun throughout the process. This experience made me understand more that finishing the project isn’t what makes a feeling of project fun, but how you spend the time making it. 3D may be my passion, but the most fun came out of stepping out of my comfort zone.

Finally, I can see how art can still integrate into my life and career. This class has taught me that art is integrated into the society we live in, the world around us, and our own everyday life. Living in Long Beach, I already see art murals painted across many different buildings on my way and back from school. In between school, I would scrub through art websites to explore new ideas as well. Even when undergoing military Bootcamp and school training, the instructors would utilize my art skills to create designs for the class I was in. Art seems to follow me throughout any choice I make. Whether I decide to choose a career in my current major of Computer Science, keep tutoring video editing, continue my passion in 3D, or even stay in the military, I life figures out a way to have me explore and implement ideas in art.

Although art was mostly created digitally from me the past year, this semester I was able to create art with new media and approaches. Throughout this course, I was able to explore many different ideas and appreciate more art for its process of creation. This semester I would meet many different artists, create numerous art projects with a variety of styles, and I would see how art will continue into my life and career. With art being around me every day regardless of my career choices, I know for sure art will always be a part of my life.

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D7 - Remix Culture

To be able to look up different artists and their different art styles was very fun. Internet culture on concept art is very off. Many people want to have their work tied to their name, yet many people exploit their art. Many ways concept art is exploited is when other companies would put their art on t-shirts without permission and to sell them. As part of this project, it feels very enthusiastic to look at people’s portfolios and art pieces to see their amazing work, yet I see how it can be a large issue for people who want to steal art.

             Copyright issues are a trending problem. At this point, people try to copyright anything in order to earn money. There were many copyright claims on dance moves when a trending videogame called “Fortnite” would use dance moves or gestures of popular artists and actors. Another issue is artist getting their artwork being taken and used for selling without permission. There are people who exploit copyright laws by finding loopholes and others who try to strengthen what we already have in order to stop these loopholes. Personally, I think Copyright regulations are strict as they are. If they become stricter, people will still find loopholes.

             The license I chose for this artwork is Attribution-NonCommerial. This basically allows others to remix, adapt and build upon this work non-commercially. The reason I chose this is because the original works of my remix are not allowed to be used commercially. For creativity, learning, or even fun, my final creation’s only intent is to inspire people. I do not intend to use an artist’s piece for someone else’s profit. Due for the safety of another artist’s work, this image is under Attribution-NonCommercial.

             My remix art piece was very fun to explore. As a 3D artist, it is very fun to create someone’s 2D idea into a 3D interactive object. To do this remix, I got 3 artists and combined their artwork and style to create a new concept image in Photoshop. My Intent was to use the body of the gargoyle, the face of the mask, and the burnt fire style of the final image.

3 artist images:

2D Remix Result:

After the concept image, I immediately started sculpting in Zbrush. Since this picture wasn’t very detailed, I had to make up portions as I sculpt. For the Sculpting process, it was very challenging to sculpt the details of the face and mouth area.

Here is the quick sculpting process:

After the sculpt, prepped it for textures and pushed it into Substance Painter. With Substance Painter, I was able to fully texture this model with a variety of different texturing tools. Due to parts of this model being a crystal-like texture, it was very difficult trying to create a rough crystal-like material. Another difficult area was the burnt feel of the body and the rough feel of the horns.

Here is the result in texturing within Substance Painter:

Finally, when texturing was complete, I used Marmoset Toolbag to create a finalized render. In this program, I imported the 3D model and Materials to a scene where I set up a 3 point lighting system with various colors to create dynamic renders.

Here are the links to the three artists

https://www.artstation.com/huidao

https://www.artstation.com/henrikrosenborg

https://www.artstation.com/kaouruart

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E. Feedback EC

1. This class was structured very well in terms of the projects and when they are due. The projects of the class increased in creativity and made it more fun to explore. It is very helpful to see the examples on the i2va website. The website overall made it easier to see where the class is if any confusion.

2. The art gallery was fun to make, and I appreciate the usage of website generators like Wix. Personally, i believe there should at least be a “minimum time” so we can practice as a team on how long we should at least be and have a goal on time.

3. Before this class, I never even knew about the SOA Art Galleries, so I really enjoyed visiting and might still continue to go there after this semester. It felt more smooth to rotate between art galleries and the SOA art galleries.

4. Although I have been very busy juggling school and work, the Weekly art ideas were very interesting to approach. I felt like I could express a lot of thought into each idea and explore any way if i wanted to add more to it. They were fun and it made me think about how I can implement these activities in my own life.

5. The Seven Art ideas is an interesting concept to approach visual arts and seem very structural. All these ideas felt conceptual open many more as we dive into them throughout the semester. I had no problems following the structure of the 7 Art ideas as presented this semester.

6. Although I only used my Tumblr to blog about assignments for this class, I could see how artists can constantly blog about updates and experiences. Tumblr’s accessibility to upload photos, videos, text, or links in a quick blog fashion gives any artist in the class constantly updates about projects and their process.

7. Using Wix made the art gallery creation VERY much easier and fluid. With the presets it provided, everyone was still able to make a unique virtual art gallery. I can’t think of any other Wix alternatives, but Wix works perfectly.

8. The class website felt more convenient than beachboard. By skipping the login process and navigation to the class, this website is very neatly organized and every individual page was rich in detail to avoid confusion. It was more convenient to use the class website than beachboard for this class.

9. I think no test is an interesting approach. Without worrying about tests, I can keep applying the 7 ideas with the weekly projects. For this class about learning art ideas and idea applications, I agree with no test but constant weekly art activities.

10. I enjoy having class conversations and allowing the whole class to challenge ideas. I'm not sure if I missed it, but I wish we went over Free Speech is more important than free beer as a class.

-Joseph

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D7 Artist Conversation

Artist:  Josh Kawahata

Exhibition:  Kalopsia

Media: Digital Art

Gallery: Max L. Gatov Gallery west

Instagram: @rarejawsh

Email: Joshkawa@gmail.com

This week I explored the artist Josh Kawahata and his art exhibit. Josh is pursuing a B.F.A in drawing and painting in California State University Long Beach. His art gallery includes his many interests, such as video games and social media. Josh expresses his fun mostly through his paintings, where you can see his process on social media.

Josh Kawahata mostly utilizes acrylic paint because of the quick drying time and the accessibility of that type of paint. Usually after adding paint, Josh adds stencils, freehand drawings, and projections on top to add more layers to the canvas. He also uses flat/loose type paints to create different textures. Within one of Josh’s paintings, he uses comic style Halftone Dots to create a classic comic impression. This painting was also very vibrant, as it was a bright halftone green and black background. The other two pieces of art include a variety of pin arts and modern logos of name brands and internet images. These images seemed to be made from stencil or free drawn with pen or paint. The coloring of these two art pieces did not pop out in color like the previous, as they were green and orange with less saturation. However they definitely popped out in clusters of images.

The three art pieces presented by Josh definitely had inspiration from modern pop culture. Ranging from an inspired large comic book image, to a collage of modern brands and jokes such as Iphone Emojis, Looney Toons drawings, Calvin and Hobbs, Air Jordans and many more. Josh wanted to get the current culture of all these ideas and excitement and capture the, into paintings. These art pieces create a collage of culture smashed into paintings that creates a new story every detail you look through. Through Josh’s artwork, he is able to explore the ideas of our modern culture while combining his ideas of passion.

I had a delightful experience looking through Josh’s artwork, especially the halftone dot painting. All of his paintings and art pieces popped out to me due to its style and how much it popped out. The art piece of the collage of cultural references kept me standing in front of the painting, trying to catch every detail. The amount of references and jokes really made me think of how my generation has an encapsulated humor and overall culture that will change over the years. 

-Joseph Burgos

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Art Conversation VI

Artist:  Isis Huang

Exhibition:  Kalopsia

Media: Digital Art

Gallery: Max L. Gatov Gallery East

Instagram/Twitter: @chawcawts

Tumblr: @charcarts

This week I explored the artistIsis Huang and her art exhibit within the Kalopsia. Isis has a BFA in Illustration from California State University Long Beach. From the art exhibit, she has explored many ideas through digital concept illustrations. This includes characters, props and environments. A lot of her artwork included references from video games or her own character creation. With each character there were numerous different expressions to that character showing how she practices character development.

Many of Isis artwork had varying different colors to fit different moods. For example, the environment artwork with a fantasy style woods had a lot of bright blue and green. Many of these digital paintings explored a variety of colors, shapes, and line sizes. Depending on the mood of each character or picture, the line sizes or colors would vary. To showcase these paintings, Isis displayed some of her artwork on the wall and provided a portfolio booklet to showcase and allow people to observe the pages.

Isis Huang has many inspirations from entertainment industry development. For example, when creating many of her characters, they all had their own page of emotion sheet. It was interesting seeing many of the concepts that had individual characters that were brought to life. In some of the pages, the characters would interact and show more emotion and life per character.

As a game developer, seeing these art pieces got me very excited. Although I am a 3d Artist, looking through Isis’ art work easily  let me imagine how each character would look if it came to life, or how every environment would look in a 3d space. Not only does each image have it’s own life, but the colors really make each art piece feel different. With environments of different colors and lighting, they created different feelings of how the world around it is built. These art pieces definitely made me think more of world building within game development and how color can change the feeling of a world.

-Joseph Burgos

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Architecture & Urban Planning – The Wedge

The USU Wedge

Whether students know the of USU Wedge by name or experience, it is definitely an issue for students. This wedge is where many students save a couple seconds of their lives to cut through a small space, only to add back to that time by bumping into oncoming student traffic. As shown in the duplicate design, there is only space for one lane of students to walk through, despite two lanes trying to go back and forth.

As seen above, at least one of the students would have to stop or step out the way in order to let the other pass. Thus, adding back to the time they were trying to save.

The solution to solve this problem is removing the large black stone that students do not even use to lean on. Beside the large slab lies two benches. Although commonly used, there are more benches around the area, therefore removing one bench next to “The wedge” would help this traffic issue. By removing only two objects, there is a large gap that allows students to easily access the time they would like to save.

Before removal:

After Removal:

Although some might think this action might remove a spot for students to sit, it saves more time for other students that walk by every morning on their commute to their classes. The path does not limit students either. The new path created makes way for crowds of students to pass by if needed. Also, by removing only one bench, it still leaves the others in case students would like to sit and wait for their ride or bus.

The USU Wedge has a weird place in many students’ mind. Due to this wedge being at the grand entrance of the school, a great amount of students take and experience this wedge. By executing this redesign, it will impact students in an odd way. Although this redesign will help thousands of future students commute seconds faster, it will also make a warm memory of awkward moments that many past students will cherish.

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Artist Conversation IV

Artist:  Diana Alvarado

Exhibition:  Magic Touch

Media:Ceramics, Clay, paint, wood, metal

Gallery: Max L. Gatov Gallery East

This week I explored the artist Diana Alvarado and her art exhibit Magic Touch. Diana Alvarado has a BFA in Ceramics from California State University Long Beach. This exhibit was created to be dedicated to the act of Love. This exhibit mirrors Diana's experiences and embodied moments, landscapes and knowledge of the working class within Los Angeles. Magic Touch utilizes these emotions and experiences with earthly materials to create this offering growth and love. This creates what she believes to be its own universe of constant learning and nurturing.

Many of the artwork in the Magic Touch were medium sized ceramic pottery and sculptures. Each piece was placed on decorative bars or concrete blocks to form an aesthetic. Many of the pottery were free form type shapes that did not seem very refined. Either they were colored in a default brown clay or they were painted to neutral pastel colors. Each set of pottery was not perfectly symmetrical and had form shooting in many directions. It made an interesting silhouette when having to view the pottery in different angles. Other sculptures of animals were very small and painted as well. They required you to walk up and analyze what it was. Just like the pots, they were a bit clumpy and did not seem to look polished.

Diana Alvarado states that “Magic Touch invites playfulness and mixes natural with industrial,” and explains how these pieces exists from the ideas of the working class neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Each piece of sculptures seem to represent different households of a family. When small sculptures appear next to a metal fence, it feels like your looking into a decorated window of a family in Los Angeles. With the variety of shape and different representations of pastel colors, every sculpt feels like a different piece but belongs well together.

Walking through this art gallery really struck me on a personal level. The style and design of the sculptures reminded me of my very own childhood and how my family decored. Looking at the Iron bars with 3 small sculptures made me feel like I was looking into a working families window that treats the little time together special. It definitely made me think of how art can impact many individuals yet be open enough for people to interpret differently.

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Consistency is Key I chose to create this piece using the media of digital animation due to the amount people who access their phones everyday. This file can easily be loaded on any platform with little connection due to it’s small size.

 A simple 2 second gif of the consistent American values as of recent. Although the message isn’t very clear at first, it is very simple and up to interpretation to how the audience may view it. The lack of text or audio is intended to make the audience piece it together within their minds.

I portrayed this as America consistently valuing education as being important but also valuing war on other countries just as high in priority.

-Joseph

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Artist Conversation III

Artist:  Charlie Roses

Exhibition:  Dead Man’s Party

Media: Ink, Colored Pencil, Photography, pencil, paint, clay

Gallery: Max L. Gatov Gallery East

Instagram: @charlieroses

This week I explored the artist Charlie Roses and his art exhibit Dead Man’s Party. Charlie Roses is on his final semester in Sculpting from California State University Long Beach. Charlie utilized many of his friends artwork enable to create Dead Man’s Party. Charlie Roses really enjoys the spirit of Halloween, as he watches scary movies whenever he has free time. The Dead Man’s Party was made to be the gallery that encapsulated the spirit oh Halloween.  With many different artworks came many different mediums as well. This includes ceramics, graphic design, illustrations, and photography.

Charlie Rose's friends had many different sizes and variants of art. Some included very precise paintings that were precise, detailed, and had great color exploration. There were also very detailed ink illustrations of different Halloween ideas. Many drawings differed from the pages of a sketchbook to small note card sized illustrations. There were also sculptures or random body parts in unusual places, making the Halloween aesthetic really come out. One of the exhibits included Charlie Roses dressing as a ghost and telling “spooky stories.” This gallery did not feel like it was meant to cause horror to the audience, yet made to just exemplify the fun and creative experience Halloween can have among a person and their friends. 

Although Charlie Roses’ artwork in this gallery were done in ink, he likes to explore different mediums as well. In the very beginning, he tried other sorts of media such as water color, sculpting, oil and graphite. The inspiration of this gallery was clearly driven by Charlie’s passion of horror. He also explained how most of his friends did not even enjoy Halloween as much as he did. They did it to help, however Charlie utilized everything that he got for this exhibit. The wall of many different illustrations of horror showed the many different ideas people can have while they think of Halloween, while the tv of a Halloween special tv show can convey the spirit of Halloween even to the household. Bringing the spirit of Halloween in Dead Man’s Party really brought this exhibit to life and attracted the majority of people.

The spirit that Dead Man’s Party intended to give off definitely showed well to me. Although many not be a great fan of Halloween, this exhibit can definitely bring joy to this holiday. Charlie Roses clearly shows how he had fun putting together the piece and portrays this exhibit very well. This exhibit definitely shows me how many different can see Halloween and the genre of horror in general. After experiencing this gallery, my views of Halloween has definitely brightened up.

-Joseph Burgos

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(F)ucking (F)un (F)arts

My goal when creating this zine was to create illustrations of the first thing on my mind when I’m currently busy with something I don’t want to do. By drawing out the first thing in my mind, it brings out the first raw thoughts out of my head in a crude rough sketch. Although I might not be having fun in my current situation, these quick sketches helped me bring out the first things that are actually in my mind. For the sake of quickly jotting down my thoughts and refine everytime I needed to, I did this in pencil sketch and ink refinement.

Next time I would put more time into each drawing. For this zine I tried to resist putting more work and detail into each drawing, but next time I’d allow more work and details to exaggerate each drawing more.

In future zines I would try new media and size of the Zine. Such as photo bashing instead of making hand drawings. I would also try to explorer more ways to express identity within the Zine.

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Artist Conversation II

Artist:  Briana Miyoko Stanley Lane

Exhibition:  AOTEAROA ”The Long White Cloud”

Media: Arches Watercolor Paper, gasso, ink charcoal, oil, acrylic, gouache, embroidery thread, tea, and steal

Gallery: Max L. Gatov Gallery East

The artist that I explored this week was Briana Miyoko Stanley Lane and her art exhibit  AOTEAROA ”The Long White Cloud.” Briana Lane has an MFA in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach. Through this art gallery, Briana Lane has utilized many different forms and media to showcase her final result.

Briana Lane’s utilization of various media created an amazing final result. The size of the Aoteraoa was very large, which made people have to walk around the piece to absorb the piece as a whole. The Aotearoa also twisted and turned in various ways giving it a dynamic shape. This Dynamic shape also created an interesting silhouette when having to walk around in numerous angles. The lighting seemed to serve the purpose of filling the whole artwork softly and to keep every angle fully lit. Although this large Aotearoa scaled the whole room, the colors were very mute and cool. This created a great contrast of large scale but no harshly colored piece.

In this art piece, Briana Lane did an amazing job of understanding the history of Aotearoa and bringing it to a sizable art piece for people who haven't heard of it to see. By understanding the history and mythology of Aotearoa, she used the stories to help articulate how to execute and get the final result of this art piece. By creating a largely scaled art piece with simple and muted colors, it really showed how this Long White Cloud was supposed to be massive yet non-aggressive. It takes more than moments to grasp the whole art piece, but it doesn’t feel like too much information. Briana Lane embedded a great amount of qualities through stories by matching them with her form and media.

When looking at Briana Lane’s artwork, it took me some time to actually absorb the whole piece. I constantly walked around to make sure i get an entire feel, and it still amazes me to see this whole piece float in the air. I really enjoyed who gentle this artwork felt despite being massive in size. With its colors and free forming shape, the artwork felt part of nature itself. The construction of this piece also amazed me. From seeing wires hold it up, to smaller threads holding other areas together. Briana Lane’s artwork definitely made me think out of the box on how large scale does not always mean intimidating. Her artwork makes me think more of how simple colors can really make different objects feel completely calm.

-Joseph Burgos

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Artist Conversation

Artist:  Althea Fultz 

Exhibition:  “Hungry As an Archway Media: Ceramics Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Gatov Gallery West Instagram: a.f.fultz_ceramics

The artist that I explored was Althea Fultz and her art exhibit “Hungry As an Archway.” Althea Fultz is an Undergraduate student part of California State University Long Beach’s Ceramics Program. Other than ceramics her interests are philosophy and playing string instruments. Although practicing her ceramics skills, she enjoys trying new ways to express her art work by exploring new techniques, such as lighting, form and color.

Althea Fultz explored many visual styles within her art gallery. Although she kept consistent with creating ceramic objects, she wanted to dip her feet into many other styles in addition to ceramic sculpts. While using Ceramics, she would overlay different colors in order to get different feelings of each individual sculpt.  Some sculpts were smooth and contained mute colored materials while others held a more rough, dark metallic texture. Even when Althea made more large wheel like shapes, she seemed to be exploring the use of negative space from different perspectives. Ultimately, the many sculpts of the exhibit held more detail than first glance. Each made me feel interested at first glance, and more pondering as I got closer and explored the detail and texture of each individual piece.

This art gallery was able to get many places that Althea Fultz experienced and put them into an exploration of sculpt and creativity. She gathered the large monumental places that she explored and created small, detailed, and color varied interpretations. She created most with mute colors, but then explored with different materials to get a different feel of each small world. One portion of the sculpts were more geometric and complex, while the other portion felt more organic and exotic. For the first portion I felt large structural maps while in the other I felt a more organic tree emerging from the ceramic planes. Other than color, the shapes that her taller sculpts felt more like an exploration of negative space. They maneuvered through each other,  intertwined, and had large holes within them. This gave these forms an interesting silhouette from any angle by the use of negative space.

Overall, this art exhibition packed more than I expected. Each individual piece felt different yet they felt like the belonged with each other. Each piece had immense detail. For a couple minutes it would make me just sit and examine everything it had to offer me as a viewer. The exploration of color and form within each sculpt made me walk around and stay in the art exhibit longer. Each exploration that Althea Fultz wanted to explore, whether it be Form, Color, or lighting, made me think of the way I look at my own methods of creativity.

-Joseph Burgos

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Can’t do WW2 propaganda Art Gallery without this iconic image! @art-110

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week 3 😈 @art-110

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Well I added WAY too much water to my mold (attempt)! What was intended to be a hand only came out to a palm, but it’s is a glorious palm to me.

This is my first time doing a 3D Mold, where my 3D work is mostly done in digital. I can see this being done to create different molds of different limbs to make a multi-limb art piece.

Honestly next time I would add MUCH less water in hopes for a better mold.