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2 gridded color fields
























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On Tuesday I greatly edited my large painting and made slight edits to all of my other paintings. I completely redid the large painting pretty much. I hadn’t done much for it yet but was dissatisfied with what I did have, so I painted over it completely with shades of blue. The painting at this point was very muddled and chaotic, completely covered with unique shapes. So I kept flipping the canvas over and over again until I saw a potential painting amongst the random shapes. This is how I did most of my paintings this quarter. Especially with the toothbrush plate painting, where I loosely globbed gesso on it and came up with a painting based on a composition I saw in the random gesso shapes. The gesso shapes are still visible beneath the paint.
I finished “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” and started “No Exit.” I like them but don’t know if I will use them in my essay because the sources I’m already using fit the theme of the paper more explicitly.
I worked on 7 paintings simultaneously. I worked for 9 hours straight listening to the “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” audiobook on youtube. 1 of the paintings was just a surface I prepped and it didn’t dry in time. It was a folding plastic letter holder that looks like a small laptop, I don’t know what I will paint on it yet, forgot to take a picture of it.
forgot to update. ill update tomorrow!!!!
I covered a lot of project stuff in my Week 7 reflection, I’ll keep them seperate from now on.
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MONDAY – Project Presentation
The night before when I was doing the week 6 reflection is when I actually came up with a better idea for what I wanted to do with my project. I chose existentialism because it seemed like a fun topic to explore and paint about, although, I do think I’m being pretty generic. Shout out to Petra for loaning me these books and helping me figure out a direction to go for the written side. Do Androids Deam of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick) Existentialism is a Humanism, and No Exit (Sartre)


A fully packed week for me with Halloween + weekend events in addition to class/field trip. I’d say that I’ve fallen behind a bit in class this week with readings and project development.
THEORY
The figure/ground and form/facture/ “Post-Feminism”/the photographic/ abstraction and more creative copying
Reading: Painting Today: ch’s on Abstraction, Photographic, and Post-Feminism; PDF:Shutz-Sillman interview
Podcast/Video: TJ Clark on Rembrandt (for Thursday’s studio workshop) Continue reading
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