project: house and home.

the semester is coming to a close and our major assignments are all due in. these works are three by four feet, and compose a series that isn't entirely finished. i have been working on many different surfaces with contrasting references in order to find a clearer stylistic direction i want to continue following. for now though, i'm looking forward only to finishing what's on my plate so that my schedule can take a drastic turn and bring me home.

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4-critique-week.

wash your hands before dinner.

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their bones packed into loaves of ivory and petunia.

watercolour and wax crayon on mylar. the full piece (both parts included) is 3 by 6 feet. click here and here to see the photos in higher resolution!

on to the next!

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perforations.

i must apologize for my absence! my schedule is absurd and i'm becoming delirious. here i've posted a work in process. the only guideline to the assignment was to 'draw with light in installation', and so i've decided to play with transparencies and diffused lighting. i'm using translucent coloured inks on mylar with references to photosynthesis. my entire semester is essentially due to hand in next week so you can expect mass postings from me soon.

cross your fingers for me that i get everything done in time!

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lie for a while with your ear against the earth.

"the painters who love their times from the bottom of their artistic minds and hearts.. they do not content themselves with ridiculous trompe l'oeuil; they interpret their era as men who feel it live between them, who are possessed by it... their works are alive because they have taken them from life and they have painted them with all the love that they feel for their modern subjects." (Zola)

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anything but.

my prof asked me to try anything that wasn't my usual. true to form, this is something i would never think of doing. i'm uneasy with it because i don't see my pen in it, but that's something i need to learn to be okay with. "be uncomfortable," he said, "it's visually exciting!"

click here to zoom in.

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"tell me what can i do,

my baby's in black and i'm feelin' blue,

and oh, what can i do?"

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artist's statement:

"but someday everything's gunna be different

when i paint my masterpiece."

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the pollock theory in practice:

process over product? this is a work in progress.

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exposed.

my older sister kaja has been in japan for a few weeks now, and has been maintaining an interesting photo-journal of her travels. click here to take a look, it's sweet and refreshing.. enjoy!

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mother goose.

my bed time stories are twenty minute watercolour drawings in bed. 

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i am still learning.

don't forget.

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first up.

expect to see many of my sketches in more developed works in the upcoming months as i indulge and expand on my rough ideas. above is a 4 by 5.5 foot surface worked with acrylic and india ink. i brought the figure and lines out from the painted surface by drawing with frisket on the canvas and blocking the acrylic and ink from invading the drawn areas. 

below is the proof for my first etched intaglio plate, ever! this is a process you'll see me play around with much more profoundly in the near future, as well. i want to make printmaking the newest addition to my art practice.  

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saturated.

with highly saturated primed canvases, today we were asked to create shapes out of objects we found in the prop room at school. i selected a seashell and a piece of coated chicken wire. i first adapted the shape of the seashell by using a variation of colours. i then integrated the second form into my composition by shaping it with red. 

it's also interesting to see how drastically the space changes when the canvas is rotated. 

the product is so set apart from the work i generally produce, and i'm actually satisfied to see such significantly visual change. and for once.. it's ALL paint! 

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eco-logical.

transparencies and rice paper. these are just thoughts. 

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(brief apology)

for slow posting.. i'm working on big surfaces/abstracted concepts/research papers and gallery reviews. i am the little engine that could.

choo, choo! 

-e.

dousee.

local montreal photographer yuli sato is putting together a magazine to be released this fall. in it she's featuring young artists, musicians, writers, illustrators and fellow photographers. she has an incredible eye so the project is definitely something worth keeping an eye on. check for updates and availability by clicking here and see further work by yuli by clicking here!

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imperfect 10.

I'm registered in a special topics painting class on the human body and its representation. Our first assignment is to draw 10 adjectives that we associate with our bodies and with those of others. The previous post was the adjective 'frail', and here I'm posting 'lean' and 'endearing'. Throw adjectives in the air! I'm interested to see what words you would use to describe the figure.. 

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cognitive.

ideas and themes falling into place. the only thing that worries me about this semester, dare i say it, is running out of juice. creatively, that is. 

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academia!

school starts in less than a week, and with four studio classes and no full-time job, you can expect an active blog again after my passively blogged summer.

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type face:

closed book, written in helvetica.

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support.

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75% of my inspiration

comes from this young lady: my best friend, robyn woytiuk.

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seeking:

"There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims. . ."

-Wilde.

bare-boned ideas

for full-bodied mediums.

i'm taking two painting courses this year so i'm preparing myself with a manila paper pad full of rough ideas. this is a ten minute sketch with ambitions of layers and washes!

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note: upon request, i posted the image that inspired the piece. i re-appropriate a lot of things i've done previously or photos i have taken.