A film I saw few days ago...

Hi again.

As there is a strike happening, I'm most of the time in my house, doing nothing because I'm a little bit tired... As I was drawing and painting a lot during the last weeks, I spent most of the time working a lot. Now is time to take a breath, at least one week man...
I've been searching in google things to do, new posibilities for my ocupations, to clear my mind from those accelerated days.
And I found a really interesting film called "Pi, faith in chaos".
This film is about a man who gets some... Developed intelligence when he saw the sun too much at the age of six. He thought he would got blind, but instead of that he got a facilitiy to solve mathematics problems. And so goes his life, his mathematic life.
Then when he grew up as an adult, he was looking for a pattern inside the serial numbers inside pi, that is 3,14... Because his teacher couldn't find it, and he wanted to continue his searching.
I won't tell you the full story, you have to see it. It's really nice, I think you'll like it. As I do.

A Subject you've enjoyed studying this semester

The subject I most enjoyed this semester is silkscreen.

In classes we made our own projects basing in the type of silkscreen that we are going to learn how to do. The teacher and his assintant help us a lot to make real good works, they give us ideas about materials, mounting, and in general to develop the principal idea.

We have made only one work since we are in classes because of the feminist strike. This work was about making photo silkscreen. We used printed images that were transfered to the frame using an emulsion that is light-sensitive. So if you covered some areas with a black film, you could set the image as a mold, and then printed it everytime you wanted to!

 Now the next work is using a four-color technique, but we are waiting for the fulfilment of the feminist request to restart the classes. I hope it happens soon...

I've really enjoyed this subject, because of the techniques, and the teachers, they are really helpful and committed with their labour. It's been a nice semester :)

See you soon!

Here is a photo of my work :). Hope it was a video... 

Post 2: "Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?"

Well, this is a painter I like a lot, and her name is Erin Hanson. 
Here she is:

I knew her in Facebook I think, seeing pages of art. 
At the beginning I thought she was a boy, because I had never knew the name Erin. Bloopers everywhere...
She was born in 1981, in Portland, but know she lives in Los Angeles, USA.
Since she was a young girl, she was really interested in drawing and painting, and she managed very well in this areas. When she grew up and had to go to College, she studied a degree in Bioengineering, but obviously his vocation was to be a painter.
She named her style as “Open-Impressionism”, that  has a lot of influences of the Van Gogh paintings (another artist I like a lot).
Here are some of her painting:

I like them because they are colorful, and had a lot of little shapes inside, that seems like big portions of color. It has texture, and the lights and shadows are really good too. It also has some movement that gives life to the landscapes.

Thank you so much for reading.

Post 1: "Write about a career-related website that you enjoy visiting"

Hi again.

I'm not usually visiting a website of art that I like the most. It's often any website that I find by searching images of art like paintings, drawings, installations, etc. So it's like: I find one I'm interested in, I click and go to the page of the artist or... It could be a page of art selling maybe, or it could be Pinterest and I go searching and searching images until I found very interesting things, that give me ideas for doing my works. They call it "inspiration" :P

In any case, some time ago I took a course in the Complementary 1 section of my career, that is called Silkscreen, and the teacher is Carlos Gómez.
So... He has a website, here is the link: https://www.gomezvision.cl/

I like a lot his works, they are really colorful and with a lot of details. And he makes not only engraving (his specialty), also he did paintings mixed with silkscreen, installations, etc.
And that's why I like his website, because I can see his works.
I get there when I remember it and choose a section of his works to see. There is a lot of material.
The website has a black background with his name in a corner in white letters, I don't know if it is his signature. At the left-side you can see the categories of his work, and in the center of the page you see a photo of the work you choose to see.
It is great :) Hope you like it. 

A reflection on any aspect of the career

Hi again...

Now, we are talking about Plastic Arts, the career that I'm studying.
 Mmm... Most of the time I'm in the painting classroom, because is the specialty that I chose when we passed to the second year. And... I think I'm there more time than my classmates. I have more time, because I took only five subjects for this semester, and they are only practical classes, not theoretical classes. The only one that could be of theory is English III. But you need to practice all the time, sooo... I have no theoretical subjects. 

Why?
Because the last semester, I took seven subjects, and so, I had no time to keep calm and relax. I thought it would be easy, but I was wrong. It was the worst semester!
At the beginning it was OK. Everything was in the right order, but then I kept stressed, it saturated my capabilities...

And, because of my experience, now I can tell you something that I thought a lot in those times. I thought that the theoretical subjects are bad done... Well, they are not bad done, is just... Maybe is the curricular mesh that is too tight to give you time for understand every subject properly. Yes, that's the point.
The only solution I've found for this, was to take less subjects and keep belated for one more semester, or maybe an entire year. But it's ok! Now I'm all right with everything. 
Maybe this career should last more than four years. I mean... If you're here is because you want to learn about this, not only to keep running for a piece of cardboard that says you are a professional... I think it's a detail, but... It doesn't says that you know a lot about it, it's up to you...

What do you think about this?

"Share a photograph with us and write about its story"

 

Hi again!
Today I'm not feeling so creative. My mind is all a white space filled with... Nothing. But, I'm going to apply myself now. Gonna try my best.

Today the teacher is asking us to talk about a picture of which we are owners.
So, I've decided to talk about this painting.
This painting is one that I made my own, some years ago, when I started to paint. I think it was in 2013. But before this, I took a course of oil painting, because I didn't know how to use oil, the materials I needed to use it, etc. In that time I had only made some works for the subject of art in school, with tempera.
Now, let's get to the point.
What about the picture?
This painting is an oil on canvas, it's size is 50x60 cm.
I based it in a character that I always draw (well, not always, but regularly). This one is a fish with big eyes, two ears of a mammal, and a red hair that rocks a lot lml. He has a body full of color, because I wanted to use all the colors of my oil tubes. He also has a black tail, like a cat tail... And at the end of this, there is a key moored, and it has a shape of heart in the center.
The key is the reason he looks so sad, and desperate.
This is the key of his heart, the only one that opens the door of the truth he does not know yet, and that he can't see because he's tail is so dark that he can't see what's there... Perhaps he neither know he has a tail.

And so goes his life, tormenting every second himself...
He's looking for something and he doesn't know what is this thing.

Would he ever notice what is it?

I made this paint without thinking so much, just did it for fun. Now I think it was me at that moment. I was feeling like this fish. I was this fish...

                         Do you think you look like "The fish"?

"Write about a postgraduate course that you would consider taking in the future"

When you ask me about taking a postgraduate course in the future... I'm not really sure if I will take one, neither I have an idea of which course I would like to take, because I'm living the present now and enjoying it. That's the only thing I'm focused on: Learning a lot about the material this career is bringing me, and passing all the subjects I have to pass.
Anyway, I searched in the internet a couple of seconds ago, and the University of Chile offers many postgraduate courses that are very interesting in my opinion. And there are two courses that I found very interesting, this two are:

- Therapy of art
- Restoration of Furniture Cultural Heritage

As I have to talk only about one of them, I choose Theraphy of art, because the present is so overwhelming, and the people needs to be healthy...

Art is the medicine!!!

This course is carried out in the dependencies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile (the same place I'm studying) and so... The program has face-to-face classes, and it lasts two years, with semestral organization.

And obviously I will investigate in internet or libraries to deepen in the subjects. 
The subjects are in general about:

- What is the Art Therapy about.
- Art Therapy in relation with Psicologhy.
- Ways that you can make the therapies (methods and techniques).
- Psychopathology and medicine in relation with Art Theraphy.
- Ways to do investigations in relation with the course.

Hey! It looks so interesting, I was not thinking about taking a course after my actual career. Now my mind has change... Think about the posibilities... 

That's all folks, see you at the next entry!

Please comment, please :'(...

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