James Jean Sketch

Posted by: Jerry

sketchbook 2002 B,

James Jean

this sketch is just breathtakingly beautiful.

my friend is the the artist in the top right (meaning the your other right) corner!

( look to the top left corner, thanks ann for the heads up!)

The Invisible Man

where's liu?

Check it: Liu Bolin

Paper boats!

posted by : JERRY!

so teaching drawing this semester, i had a group of great students who wanted to work with color. and as enthusiastic as they are, i offered the challenge of working with wet media. actually, i told them they would work with water color.

as I've grown quite fond of gouache, i thought not only can i practice my color theory in the classroom setting, but also i would improve in my used of the gouache.

I started the class with a Color Inventory in which i handed each student a different piece of decorative paper. They had to inventory each color they saw and paint the amount of each color...(i'll post an example tomorrow) and then create a flat color composition using those colors, then finally folding a piece of paper either into origami or an abstract 3-D object.

Using the colors they identified and mixed from the their inventory they had to paint the paper structure.

So i was surprised that none of them made the most basic paper boat fold. Even more surprised, when i asked about it and they had no clue what i was talking about. I even made one and they still had no idea what i was talking about. *I felt very distant from their generation... and now i feel really old*

any who, i make it a point to do the assignments i give my students, with them. So I completed an inventory, a flat color composition, and the 3D paper structure painting. It was a lot of fun and so i started thinking about the paper boat.

I remembered the photograph that adrienne had given me for helping frame her show. and I was hit in the face with the perfect metaphor and image for my work! The paper boat!

A boat is a mode of transportation that allows people, objects, animals and other stuff to traverse over open water. But the paper boat may be representation of a real boat but it can not complete the voyage of it's sturdier cousins.

I remembered when i was little i really did think that if i made a bunch of paper boats i could float across the ocean.. and then BAM! NEW work!!!!

paper boat portrait 01, 2009

gouache

Tyler is a tall guy and I asked him to sit down next to my painting for size comparison.

LOOK! It's me working after a 24 hour painting and mezzoting rocking night in the second floor gallery space!

Here's a in progress photo of the painting! it's huge!

it's taped to the wall outside of printmaking, and i started to add sunken paper boats. hopefully it will become a site of multiple shrip wrecks.

It's sad to think that for myself that the paper boat isn't capable of taking me Palau, but i also associate it with the many Palauans that leave the Islands in search of making a new life in America or else where but never seem to be able to make back home. I'm just like them...making many paper boats in hopes of returning, only to have them sink part way across the ocean.

NEW THINGS!

BY: ADRIENNE

I realize I haven't posted on here in a

ges. Jerry is being a great example and getting things done and actually using our blog.

I have been showing quite a bit around Nashville this year. They have been smaller group shows with some friends but it has been very nice to have deadlines again. Other than that I have been looking forward to graduate school, trying to make future decisions, have a full time job and make artwork.

Heres a photo of my bulletin board in my studio. The two animals in the top right corner are what I have been working on this morning. I am planning on cutting these sort of animal puppets out in LARGE multiples and hanging them all together in a group with framed artwork possibly? They are really just something I had been thinking about how to construct alot lately and figured it was time to try it out.

Been thinking about bears alot lately too. Not sure why.

woop bastard

woop bastard

gouache

2009

zoidberg and bender do not belong to me....but i still like them.

some sketching in a book

posted by: jerry

paper boat

parsley...what's it for?

stegosaurus... every one wants one

when in doubt, draw flowers

bunny

i'm no O'Keefe

sometimes i get tired of drawing fish

kaw kaw

google "animals" leads to images like this

drawing pond scenes bore me

my foot as it looked like at starbucks

and the cheese stands alone...

It Seems i'm the only one updating this...hahaha. I'm determined to keep this going! WHOOOO!

movies on the computer...

posted by: jerry

so i was told to watch "bedtime stories" and i must admit it was entertaining, even though adam sandler most reverted to the same character from previous films.

anyway there was a cowboy segment and i snapped this picture with my new canon powershot.

i really like it.

latest gouache

posted by: jerry

look! i'm creating environments now!

and "THE SHINN" and "THE JERRYFISH" run through the gallery!

I typed myself.

posted: jerry

i typed myself at work today, taking down a show in the department gallery!

i actually liked walking around with the letters on my pants.

i thought it was interesing.

gouachie gouache

Posted By: Jerry

so i've dived back into working with gouache and started inserting hand drawn organisms. i thought i would share some sample of what i've been up to.

detail

Gouache and ink

2009

pomegranate and friend

gouache/prismacolor

2009

zucchini and pomegranate

gouache/prismacolor

2009

apricot and ol'bluey

gouache/prismacolor

2009

Clam Shell Chowder

Posted by: Jerry

one of the two clam shell cases i made, the other one is still locked in a glass display case at school for the past two years... i want my books from that display case back dammit!

oh so many

posted by: Jerry

Book, Books, Booking, Booker, Bookable...Book Nook?

posted by: jerry

So the books from the previous post are finished.. they look really nice.

Movie!

If you're looking for a movie that is amazing and visually stunning, check out "The Fall"

Book, Books, Booking, Booker, Bookable...

Posted by: Jerry

i've become a book machine....

Claudia Dishon - 09-10 A.I.R

Posted by: JERRY

Murray State Alum - Claudia Dishon is currently an artist in residence at Hub-Bub.com. Ann has let the world know about the happenings of our friend and I thought I would do the same!

Claudia is an amazing artist and she's still making some beautiful work. Follow her adventures and misadventures as she continues to make art and li

ve life.

check it out here: Claudia Dishon

New Studio!

Posted: JERRY
New Studio space and layout!! Pictures are not the best quality, my camera batteries are dead, and all i had was my cell phone.

but it gives off the impression of the space right?

New Work! Finally!

BY: ADRIENNE

Hey everybody. I realize that none of us have posted on here in ages and ages, but here are some new images of things I have been working on. Give me feedback if you'd like. I am just trying to still figure out what I want to do and say with all these.