Andy Goldsworthy

I have just become a big fan of Andy Goldsworthy. The things that he does with nature is amazing!! The type of art that he does is called ephemeral art. This pretty much means that what you create is made with materials that don't last. Andy uses things from ice to sand to flowers and leaves. Because his art does not last we as viewers don't generally see his artwork in person, but through photographs. Although that fact is unfortunate, it is still very impressive to see it through photography. I think that I admire his work mostly because he is so creative in the materials he uses and how he gets them to stay together. He doesn't use glue, which is like my best friend. I really admire what he is doing and how creative he is.

ansel Adams

Ok, so here is the thing about Ansel Adams...I LOVE his work!! I first encountered him at the Boise Art Museum like 3 semesters ago. I was in a humaities class and we were suppossed to go to the museum and pick something to write about. I didn't end up writing about Ansel because we had to pick a sculpture, but his photographs really rang true to me. Ansel does a lot of the kind of photography that I enjoy doing. I love taking pictures of nature. What I also think is cool is that Ansel Adams never had a formal photography teacher. He was just naturally gifted and the rest he learned through watching others and trial and error. I had a hard time just picking a few pictures to post, but at the bottom of this post is a web site that has a lot of his photographs and a Bio on his life if you are interested in more. http://www.anseladams.com/ansel_art/faves.html

skeleton/ skin sketches

These first three sketches are of what inspired me for this assignment. I wanted to create something that echoed the swirls and curves of seashells.

These next two sketches are what my first ideas were. I was going for a sort of "surprise" effect and feeling. I wanted it to be organic and unpredictable.This sketch is actually sideways...I couldn't figure out how to flip it. I sketched this one trying to explore a different approach...but I didn't like it much.This is my finally sketch. I decided to curve the outside and to have the caotic mass of swirls exploding out of the center.

This is just a sketch of how I might attach the swirls to the rest of the piece.

These last sketchs are actually the first sketchs that I did for the paper excersise. These are just random pieces of scrunched paper that we had to draw to help us get the feel of how 3-D can work and also to help give us ideas. The first two sketchs are actually what gave me the idea to put the skin around everything except the front.

Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

All of these pictures are of the Guggenheim Museum in Spain. The middle one is a sketch for this building. To me it just looks like a three year old got a hold of a pencil and had at it. It is amazing that that is what Gehry began with and then he created this magnificent building!! In my humanities class a couple of semesters ago we discussed this building and how organic it seems. If you see it on a sunny day and then go back on a cloudy day it is as if you are looking at a completely different building. I love it. Frank Gerhy's architecture always seems to be fluid and moving, it is such an interesting idea. We are all so used to these sound, straight, geometric, symmetrical buildings that it makes sense that Gehry's buildings are so controversial.

Linda Threadgill

Linda Threadgill is a metal-smith. I found some of her work in a magazine and I couldn't stop staring at it. These particular piece are from a group of pieces that she did called Conceptualizing Ornamentation. She takes objects of ornamentation and creates them to be non-functional. I love her stuff, I am taking beginning metal-smith this semester and I am amazed at the possibilities of metal!