Well, these are not riddles, but I do have a few questions to ask. This will be the first time to get input from everyone that visits this page, but it’ll help me greatly if you submit your opinion in these polls. I don’t have much time left before school starts and I want to use what little I’ll have for last minute fixes on this site.

Without further ado…

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and this one as well:

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This will be most helpful! I’m going to change the Intro page (fraunie.xepher.net) to link to both the blog and the art section, so if anything, answering that first one would be really important to me.
Thanks guys for any input!

-Megan

I mentioned in my last post that I visited the local museum. So here’s a few of my favorites:

I’ll spare this post from becoming one long photo spam. If anyone wants to see more, just hop on over to my flickr page.

-Megan

Sorry about the lack of posting, I’ve been adjusting to the move, getting situated and all that comes with it. School starts on the 25th, so hopefully when a routine is set up, I’ll get into the rhythm of posting again. I’m aiming during the school year to post at least once a week, like on Sundays. Basically something that won’t kill me to keep myself obligated to while also not letting the website suffer.

Anyway…

I’m starting on a small project. This will have more color to it than the last few. Some reds and greens. Also, there will be flowers and some sort of gate design added to the composition, but I haven’t sketched it up yet. It’s a little close to school to just be working on “small” ideas, but I need to have something going before school starts and this is usually my best method. I haven’t gotten my studio yet, so my workspace is almost exactly as it was before:

Looks much the same. Once the studio is set up, there will be more space and, uh, a chair and desk. In preparation for the semester, I’ve been visiting the museum (which I’ll make a post following this one) and the school library to get inspired. It’s pretty laughable whenever I hear of artists just waiting around for inspiration to hit, I always think they add to that horrible myth that people believe that art just comes out of thin air. Sure, that sounds very majestic, but that doesn’t really give much ground for the degree that’s earned the the multitude of hours spent on research and studio work. If it’s not research in the book-sense, then it’s research of the observational sort: gathering references and/or sketching from life studies.

Most of what I do is gather a nice database of images/artwork/photos I see from online, in books, or walking around. I compile them on my computer or sketchbook and make meticulous notes on what I like and might try to experiment with base on what inspired me from the image. I’m not as great with observational sketching as I’d like to be. I think that’s what I might try to push myself to do in the next few years.

As far as other methods and means of creating artwork goes on my end, I’ve been slowly writing up a comprehensive, compact post on the matter. It might be up next week and will be split into two parts (possibly).

I would suggest because of the erratic posting of late, to jump onto the RSS feed. I’ve only just recently taken advantage of that feature, but I find it extremely handy for keeping tabs on blogs I check once in awhile.

-Megan

Oi! The product of backbreaking labor and organization.

Things have been crazy the past few weeks. Nothing worth noting here, just me packing/unpacking/repacking. As a side note, love my mom’s decorating? I’m pretty sure my mom’s one of the few that still go nuts for the country floral. Don’t worry, I’m working on her. The other rooms’ interior design are far superior than this one.

Getting back on subject, this picture doesn’t really detail just how much crap I had to sift through. This one was more adequate:

See? I had a lot to do in my off time...

This was when my belongings swell to the point that it had to move to another room. Thoughts such as, “Where did I accumulate so much stuff? How did I get to the point of needing so much crap?” come to mind. More than likely, a bit of paring down will occur between now and the next move out.

As for art, I have none to provide. I’ve been enjoying sitting on my butt, watching all my shameful VH1 shows and eating four Snickers Ice Cream bars a day. Also the family shaved my sister’s little pigdog to have a “mohawk”:

Razorback!

Yup, living the dream…or something like that. When I move, that’ll be a different story. It’ll be an art boot camp of sketching, writing, and trips to the library and museum until school commences. And picking a mentor. And being really poor. Called the school today to fix the fact that they tried to charge me for a laptop I don’t need. Apparently it was a computer error. Now the refund won’t come back until September. Go figure.

I have been surfing the ‘net a lot, viewing a plethora of art and art blogs. I might put together a list of the stuff I’ve been geeking out over. Speaking of “geeking out,” I will finally write the part two of that post. Blogging these past few weeks was something I’ve been avoiding (Like how I wrote this all in a text file and it sat on my laptop for 2-3 days). It felt like another task amongst the many that had to be done and my motivation was long gone for it. However, I’m very ready to kick-start the writing. So no more dust gathering, blog, you can rest assure of that.

As for the website, I will be tinkering with it. It’s long due for an update.

With promises of returning soon,

Megan

I was at the bookstore the other day and came across this book at the cashier line:

At first, I thought it was some book that promoted white elitism, but actually it’s a satire of the middle class, white, twenty-something hipsters.  The book’s back cover description can be read here and it was based off of a wordpress blog.

I haven’t explored it much, but this one hits close to home. Ouch.

Off topic: I will be returning to art posts soon, I’m contemplating a small, quick series of ink drawings/paintings. More on that later.

Megan

Edit: Reading more into the blog comments, I’m surprised/amused at how many people don’t get satire. If you do read the blog, glance over the comments as well. They’re just as entertaining to read.

Also on sale:

* 2 “new” artworks: it’s technically older work, but work that’s not published on this site.

* 1 handmade sketchpad from the “Bend and Snap” post. I used/gave away the others as gifts. I need to get around making more with a new box cutter so the edges are cleaner.

This post reminded me to look into the reproduction prints I was going to make of the newer paintings. I think that will be my objective next week

-Megan