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 :'(...

(I'm trying to put an image but it does not WORKKK AGAAAAINN)

Cirque Du Soleil: Amaluna

Amaluna is the name of an intervention that was installed until yesterday, since the 24th of may in the Aviation Square, Santiago of Chile.
It was made by Canada Dry, a supported of the Cirque du Soleil that is going to make a show in 31th of may. So this intervention is an introduction for this show, that is going to be in Empresarial City.
And now, I have to tell you that I went there the day before yesterday with my friend Simon, and we saw the show of the moon with its proyections and colors.
Simon told me that the show started at 7 pm and ended at 12 am. During that time, they make a show of one hour that was put over and over, so the people wont lost the show, and could see it many times if they wanted to.
The show of Amaluna consisted in a ball of ten metres of diameter, made of white material (rubber I think), and in it's surface they put some proyections of colors, textures, etc... Each of them lasted about five minutes I think. Added to this, some music was played... But it wasn't music, it was like... Sounds of the space? Or something like that.

The place was full of people taking selfies with their cellphones!

In my opinion the intervention was a good idea, but most of the time it turned monotonous and boring. I know my friend Simon thinks the same, and surely a lot of people that was there kept bored... Well, not all of them, actually we saw a lot of smiles and happiness. 
I think it would had been better if they made an story and proyected it... It's also more interesting for the children.
But, anyway... The show was not bad, a lot of people went, and it fulfilled its goal.

This is the intervention

Thanks fo reading!
Bye.

"My favorite piece of tecnology"

 I got it after the last one fell into the W.C. It was last year, while I pulled the chain, it scaped from my pocket :(. I tried to dry it, but it didn't work...
 I use it during the day, practically every day of my life, to look over the mail, to send messages in Whatsapp and Msn, to talk back when my mother calls me (it is always the same conversation about what am I doing, and if I had luch). And... To look for some interesting artists, and expositions.  
I think I don't like it, and don't like to have to watch it everyday, and have to go everywhere with it, but it is actually really useful in my life. Or that's what it wants to make me think... Who knows?
When I was at school, I never had one. I always though it was a kind of... Slavery. But my mum wanted me to have one, because she could call me and know if I was find. And sooner than later she gave me one... But I just kept it at the bottom of my bag, and forgot it was there...
I think a life without my cellphone would be the same life. Probably I would lost some conversations, some meetings with people I know... Mmm.. Not really, it would happen anyway, because the destiny is already wrote!
I think it would be a little delayed, because information would arrive to me slower. But surely it would be a pacific and free life.

 

Thank you so much for reading!

"Why did you choose this career/study programme?"

I had always loved drawing, since I was a little girl. I was drawing most of the time. I didn't like playing with dolls, neither rinding a bycicle ( this explains why I don't know how to use a bycicle correctly)... My mind was shouting "draw!, draw... DRAW!".

Someday, my parents took me to the museum, and I saw for the first time the "Starry night" of Van Gogh... Obviously it was only a print of the painting. And in that moment I knew I had to be a painter, or something like that.

So, when I was five years old, I made me the promise of being a painter in the future.

Later, when the moment of choosing a career came, I thought I could study design, architecture, music maybe... But painting was stuck into my brain, and studying arts was the way of the future, the ilumination!.

That's why I'm here in Plastic Arts, and... The road is always filled with obstacles. Sometimes it seems very easy, but in a second everything turns black.

Last year, during august, I was thinking about leaving the career, and keep learning another things, having more time for me and my personal proyects... But, some people told me that I was making a mistake, that it was only the feeling of stress... And I thought a lot about that decision...

Finally I found that they were right. And know I'm here, writing that this is the best semester of my career.  

                                 This is how my career keeps filling my life

I think that in the future I will be making proyects, as selling t-shirts with my own pieces of art printed with silkscreen. But actually, I don't know what the future has for me.

Greetings!

"My autobiography"

Hi everyone!

I got something to tell you.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful kingdom stalked by a horrible dragon and... Ok, I'm here to tell you my autobiography. 

I was named as Romina Valenzuela, one first of July in 1996, when I started to breathe.

And... Five years later I went to a kindergarden called "Las Araucarias". It was near home, so it took only about... Eight minutes I think, to get there. It was a funny walk with my mum. But... Early in the morning, so I was a little sleepy. Maybe dreaming while walking. 

Then, when I was seven years old, I came to a religious school. It's name is "Colegio Franciscano Maria Reina", and it was founded by the Tertiary missionary franciscan sisters, that loved Madre Tránsito and Saint Alberto Hurtado.

                                         This woman is Madre Tránsito 

I studied there for twelve years, it was my elementary and high school.

I finished my studies there in 2014... And I was really tired. So I took the 2015 as vacations and freedom. Even if actually, it was a horrible year because my mother got ungry with me as I was apparently a slack. But... Wait a minute! I was studying for the PSU, and investigating about careers that I thought as interesting posibilities.

I survived that little war, and signed up to Artes Plásticas in the University of Chile. 

Since 2016 I'm studying that career in the Faculty of Arts, the place where I'm writting now. I've learnt a lot here. It's full of surprises. 

Talking about my family... I live with my parents, Carmen and Jorge, and my brother Jorge. And Cenizo, my cat :)

To finish this, I have to tell you that basically, I like to paint, playing instruments, listen to music, singing, sleeping...

Well, hope you enjoyed this entry ;) Comment and share please <3

See you!