not forgotten!

this hasn't been forgotten! i promise!

Paper Sculpture - Heidi Hove Peterson

Moving Paper Boat Sculpture

brilliant..although it's a lot of littering.

Heidi Hove Pederson

WOW! A GREAT FIND!

A Paper Boat

Mark German

http://www.redbubble.com/people/deckham/writing/1798093-a-paper-boat

I want to build a paper boat
to float away on the gushing waters
of the city streets and urban lanes

Setting sail against splashing wheels
I’ll deftly skip over debris rapids
Navigating swirls of brimming rain

I want to feel the paper light
Illuminate my tiny cabin
Casting textual newspaper shadows

I will make me a paper hat
Just like a real sailor
And man the helm shouting ‘ahoy!’

Perhaps on my journeys
I’ll meet other boats
And see sailors like me

Maybe there will be the occasional bump
Our boats may entangle
And we’ll heave to for repairs

And maybe we’ll chat a while
Talk about the weather
And have a cuppa tea

And then we’ll set sail
Like we are supposed to
And travel the gutters again

who dat be?

Posted by: JERRY

no title at the moment still in the process of being created

2009- to current

mixed media

calligraphy ink, gouache, stamping, prismacolor pencil, graphite, and acrylic

here's a side project i'm working on the side.

This is a collaboration in which i'm teaming up with Heather Brammeier, professor of painting at Bradley.

the visual resources are the same pool of imagery we both dip from from, but the approach we take is completely diferent.

just some info on the project

Contributing Artist:
Jerry Phillips - Bradley University Graduate Student - Printmaking

Heather Brammeier - Bradley University Professor of Painting



title: *currently incomplete so no title at the momenet"
size: 22"x 30"
Paper: Rives BFK White
media: Mixed (brown and green calligraphy ink, gouache, prismacolor pencils, acrylic, and graphite)


Conceptual Content:

The Painting Professor at Bradley University, Heather Brammeier, has often worked on collaborations with her graduates students who wither take a drawing and/or painting course with her.

Since I've taken painting, drawing, and color theory with her, she thought collaborating with me would be a great idea!

When compared to each other, our work appear to be on the opposite sides of the visual spectrum. Her work is abstract color compositions focusing more on creating an illusion of depth based on color interactions. Although the flat curvilinear forms she draws and paints come off as geometric initially, they actually base the beginnings in the movements of plant life and ocean life as they waft effortlessly in the currents and the waves.

Where as the my work is a more literal depiction of oceanic and other aquatic critter, I still look to how those organism exist in their water environment. The conceptual idea for why My obsession with the dark values of Mezzotint can't set my work farther apart form Heather's colorful paintings then is possible. But i've grown to appreciate color (no i love color) and even my adventures into color fall on a very different plane.

Some how, the origins that birthed these ideas have come merged and created this amalgamation of two different artists.



How We Do:

the basis of this collaboration is to be completely reactive to what you see on the paper. You manipulate the image due to your instincts and gut feelings while keeping in line with your own style/imagery.

above all else, WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO OBSESS OVER IT!




History of the piece:

This started as an ink wash drawing i had started back last semester. after agreeing to collaborate, I passed the piece on to Heather who worked a little before giving it back. I work on it and passed it back...and so on and so forth.

The best part about the collaboration is the history of marks and images layered on there has helped build and created a sophisitcated world/environment that reflects the aquatic qualities Heather and I are visually attracted to.

I cannot wait to see just how much this invented environment evolves and changes before we both decided the piece is gone.

The possibility of continuous growth within the image is exciting and quite breathtaking, due to the fact that it could continue to change and develop for another day or even years to come.

Hear ye, hear ye!

By: Adrienne

If anyone is going to be in the Philly area during these dates should definitely go see our show at the Infantree Gallery. Its gonna be pretty great.

Post Valentine Prose

some words worth of shakespeare:

"Look how much I love you

I hope you like Valentine GOO because

There is no one just like you,

Will you be my valentine?

Please be my valentine.

If you don't I'll go to the valentine MOAT."

-Caitlyn McCracken

3rd Grade

"Roses are Red, Violets are Blue,

Yes they are beautiful,

But not as beautiful as you,

Though sometimes you make me cry,

and when I see your face I flee,

But soon this Valentine's Day,

I'll ask you to be my Valentine Today."

- Bethany Arline Hardy

6th Grade

I love how completely honest this words of prose are.

:D

master of the mezzotint

stalling, 2010

jerry b. phillips

mezzotint

i'm cranking out work like no tomorrow! two big editions under my belt within the first week and a half of school!

and i just finalized the third mezzotint tonight!

here's a video of me printing stalling...

Print-macking with the Jerryfish!

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!