For this quarter's awareness post I looked at the works of Okuda San Miguel. Okuda was born on November 19, 1980, in Santander, Spain. He...

Today I saw the guest lecturer Dan Kanach. I thought that the business and practical aspects of his artwork were really interesting,...

This week I kept working on my second studio project for the quarter! I actually plan on making two projects for this critique, but I've...

The career that I chose to focus on this quarter was a botanical artist, also called a botanical illustrator. Botanical artists reference...

This week I saw the textile artist Noelani Jones's artist talk. One thing about her art that was really interesting to me was how long it...

The career I chose to focus on for this post was an art restorer. Art restorers assess the condition of antiques and artwork. They then...

So I'm still mid-good start on my Home Project. I'm doing portfolio building by drawing from observation, so I have a still life set up....

So far on my in-class project I've been putting in the first layer of the lamps and the shelving. I honestly am not sure how I feel about...

A couple weeks ago we finished up our figure drawing unit for the quarter. This year I learned about how to shade figure drawings with...

This past year has been really good for me, artistically speaking! (I think so, anyway.) I feel like I have a lot more coming out of this...

I just recently started my first layers of color glaze on my oil painting. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it yet. On the one hand...

I started the beginning stages of my installation project this week. Normally I would put a picture in a progress post, but this time I...

This week I started finishing my woodcarving project! I finally am (for now) finished with defining forms via carving. I worked on...

So I've now been working on this woodcarving project for a few weeks. In this past week, I started trying to define edges and create...

So upon further reflection I definitely did the last Awareness Post wrong, but I also stand by point that Progress (The Advance of...

This piece is called Progress (The Advance of Civilization), by Asher B. Durand, and it was painted in 1853. I go to find this painting...

A few weeks ago, I started this woodcarving project, although today was I think the first full, entire day that I've worked on it....

This week I worked for an hour on my Self-Portrait Project. On this project, I'm trying to use the marks that I studied from Raphael's...

This week I started to work in earnest on my Artist Copy Project. I'm working to copy the mark of Raphael's Study for the Phrygian Sibyl....

Learning about figure drawing with Tommy was a super interesting experience. One of the things that I learned over the course of his...