"how to"

How to make a Silicone Mold 

Step 1: Fill a bucket with warm soapy water, squeeze your silicone into the bucket. It will cling together in a ball.

Step 2: Cover your hands with dish soap and pull the silicone form the bucket of soapy water. The soap will act as a lubricant between your hands and the sitcky silicone.

Step 3: Apply the silicone to your object you wish to mold, making sure to press the silicone down into negative spaces, and set to dry on a surface coated with vaseline.

Step 4: Carefully remove your object from the silicone mold. Use an exacto knife to make strategic cuts in order to safely remove your object without ruining your mold.

Step 5: Set your molds upright on a suface, i use duct tape to keep them closed.

Step 6: Pour your plaster into your molds, tapping them gently to get rid of air bubbles. let them set over night.

Step 7: Referring to step 4, carefully remove your newly cast object from your mold.

Inclass Speaker

The inclass speaker that i responded the most to was Cedric Michael Cox. Its not so much the visual qualities of his art that appealed to me, but rather the way he built a marketable brand of work from a subject that was relevant to him.

A quote i pulled from one of his pamphlets;

"My work is a spiritual testimony to my experience living in the inner city, and the music and cityscape that subconsciously arouse my senses as I walk down the street to my studio, eager to create the visual rythms that are in my stride."

- Cedric Michael Cox

Influential Artist

A friend of the Family, Clayton Wolf, is an incredible source of inspiration for me. i have witnessed his work evolve ever since i was young, and he never ceases to amaze me with the work he creates. his subject matter generally revolves around aspects of rural farm life and its mortality, dipped in bouts of depression. a few of his most recent pieces have been incredible wood carvings of dogs and fish. here are some in progress pics i snapped while in his studio....

 the details are lost in these pictures, but the little thing like ruby eyes, metal tongues, and ivory teeth and claws are their best features.

Influential Artist

 Nick Cave is awesome. Everything from his aesthetic, material usage, and subject matter is inspiring to me. He is a master of summing up his culture and displaying it through a piece of art.

Field Trip Respnse

For a class field trip i payed a visit to Visionaries and Voices, a local organization that offers studio space and a gallery front for mentally challenged artists. i arrived a few minutes late, just in time for a tour of the artists' studio space. i met a few of the artists and was immediately blown away by the quality and potency of the work being produced here. this group of artists seemed to have a unique ability to sincerely recreate pure emotion, free from outside societal pollution. the work lacked 'filler' information, and got straight to the point, quite genuinely. my only regret was not bringing cash to purchase a few of the pieces i was so fond of...

Non Technical Research Post #3

i spend alot of time exploring the city. there is much to be seen where nobody looks. using found objects is a huge part of my artistic process and everything that i find is found on random escapades throughout abandoned buildings, houses, and back alleys....

 ...Domestic Bunkers...

"HOOD PU$$Y"

Non Technical Research Post #2

This may seem to be a far reach in relation to 'non technical research', but i believe walks with my dog have inspired some of my most fond pieces of work. these moments where i am alone with my best friend can be isolating. i am able to zone out everything that is clouding up my life and focus on enjoying the moment; harnessing the pure energy that is released and using it to clearly explore my mind in search of inspiration...

Buck Litho Print Progress...

Making progress on this Litho Print... here are progress shots of each layer as i printed it...

 Not happy with it AT ALL.... having issues with registration, and my black layer masked my bright colors, making the candles and fire basically invisible.
....will be reworking....

In Progress Mono Prints

Working on a series of Mono prints in my 2d Special Studio. Discussing the issues of Racist Cartoons....

Artist Statement (full)

"We grew up tough, we grew up quick. We thought we knew the ones we grew up with. Not all is to be trusted, no one acts how they feel. I remember a time when everything was as it seemed. Amongst foul mouths and hungry stomachs new ideas were planted. Through a strange mixture of compassion and disgust these ideas were nurtured. They fed off of negative energy, misfortune, and scornful behavior. Eventually these ideas became much too powerful to contain. As they spill, I catch them with my canvas."

Finished two tone Woodcut

Finished my first color Woodcut Print, pretty pleased with how it turned out.

I find Comfort in My City

Woodcut in Progress

Working on a new Woodcut, introducing some color for the first time.... this will be a night scene of a figure pulling the city over his back like a blanket.

Finished Woodcut Prints

Pics of two Woodcuts i completed earlier this month.. as well as progress shots of the carving/printing process.

Top: Queen Got your Horn?...

Bottom: Big Shouts to Me

Lithogrpahy progress

Exposed some litho plates for my Buck print...

pow.

Litho in progress

Working on a Lithograph Print for my Special 2d Studio class. the image is of a Buck, retreating back into the woods, carrying a chandelier of antlers...

 

....Sketches....

Non Technical Research Post

Field Research

Fiber Mice in progress

Working on another repetitive process piece for my Fiber Studio. This one's titled Baited, and discusses topics of individualism vs conformity, societal structures, observing the trap, etc....

started by cutting out basic body form, using a template to trace on the fabric to ensure each mouse would be the same size.

sewed the body together and stuffed with stuffing i pulled from my deteriorating couch. sewed on individual legs and tail.

 

coated plaster heads with a layer of black spray paint and followed with a high gloss clear coat.

 final display arrangement, check this piece out in the "Loose Threads" show in the 840 Gallery.

Finished Fiber Piece

Put the finishing touches on a piece for my Fiber Studio course, titled Shoulder Chips. i added a few more figures clutching 'memory notes', and pieced together an abstract face that looms overhead. Check it out in the "Loose Threads" show in the 840 Gallery.

 

Works in Progress

Working on an Abstract memory Rucksack for Fiber Class...

                Primitive Sketches...                   Progress Shot...

Inspiration

Nathalie Djurberg

Djurberg is best known for producing claymation short films that are faux-naïve, but graphically violent and erotic.Their main characters, as described by The New York Times, "are girls or young women engaged in various kinds of vileness: from mild deception, friendly torture and oddly benign bestiality to murder and mayhem."

http://www.zachfeuer.com/artists/nathalie-djurberg/