Semester Theme

In class today we presented our themes for the semester. The class really latched on to my proposal of using water as a reference. Tara suggested I take my own photos of water which I am excited to go do. I really like the idea of water as my reference but I'm not completely sure on a theme yet. Can water be the theme? Not super sold on that yet. ....We'll see

Design Ideas- Peacock

So i've been thinking about what exactly i want to do for this project. I started with the reference of a peacock and was thinking about having the organic body evolve into more geometric tail feathers. I don't usually like to do figurative work, I'm much more interested in the abstract. So i've been extracting the idea of the peacock into other drawings but I'm not crazy about any one of them yet.

What is chasing and repousee?

So i've been exploring what this technique is since until class the other day i had never heard these words before. For your reading pleasure here is wikipedia's definition: Chasing and Repousee is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. I got a book from the library by Nancy Corwin which is proving to be fairly interesting. I seem to always forget you-tube as a good informational tool so I'm definitely going to check it out. I feel like I really need to understand the technique before I can design with it. I've been working on my tools and so far I'm kind of addicted to making them. I think I'm really going to enjoy this project.