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JIm Workshop day 2

Today we learned that you have to let go and words don't make the emotions but emotions make the words. Personally I learned that imagination is what makes things seem better or worse then they really are. he told us to imagine our favorite memory and keep thinking about it but I guess I just tried to fight the feeling and emotions it just left me tired. I guess being weak isn't that you let your emotions out but sometimes it's a instinct to hold it in.
Some people laughed at some of the serious times and makes you wonder maybe that is their way of not getting emotionally attached. I've learned a lot and it is just about embracing.

What a day....

Well today would have to be the most inspiring day of workshops. it really was life changing and glad to spend it with all of friends. "Everyone is a zombie just find the child inside of you and don't forget. You may have forgotten that little kid but now that's where you get your creativity." Just what got to me the most was that he was right and as usual I just tried to drown all of the problems out. After looking around you see all of your friends or not and know that they all have a story and have have found a core relationship with each activity. I knew for sure that I had someone that I was yelling at while he told us to yell. It was also where you see what people really have problems with. I can definitely say I let my guard down during this activity.  Sometimes I learn that emotions are what causes our drive to creativity and never resent them. Everyone has to break down one day, I guess today was the day.

Drawing to Paint

You know how people say that tracing is so easy? well, those people have no clue what they are talking about.
 Today in art workshops we had drawn in blocks ans shapes instead of drawing for drawing.
It may should complicated but once you find the shades and relation to each other you get the hang of things. The shapes that you draw with charcoal is really just making decisions and not focus on making it look like the features because it will just form into it. I definitely learned that being accurate takes the fun out of the distortion. 

Workshops are done and finished

Day 5! only one more day left........

There is only one more day of workshops!!! I will definitely miss Margaret a lot but I'm really excited to see what everyone has been doing in their workshops. We might not have been taking pictures for the Coo Febs but we might just steal pictures from the photo group. These past workshops have been so much fun it's hard to believe it's over. When everyone goes their separate ways to go to workshops it is like they all have a secret they can't wait to reveal. With only one more day I'm just wondering if we have time to finish our works. Friday is most definitely going to be a busy day.

Day 4: Workshops

Alright so the shared obsession was Dexter and such a coincidence!!On Friday  I had time to work on my paper mache puppet and working and being messy was a lot of fun. Some people hate the feeling but I feel like its a chance to really have fun with what your working with. And not recommend to high five other people if they hate the feeling. Not the best feeling in the world , found out by Mairead and Justin.

Day 3 of workshops!!!!

Today was the third day of workshops and seeing Margaret every time we always learn something new and or have something in common with her. today we found out the she had the same obsession with Molly and Caitlin! At first I thought that we had all the time in the world because we had six weeks of classes but I was way off. We only have six classes to pick the brains of these amazing teachers and every class will pass by so fast.   i hope that in these last classes I would get everything done and be able to loo back and see that  I can accomplish this.

Day 2: workshops

Today we started on our projects out of newspaper and masking tape. Making a puppet is not as easy as it seems. You have to make sure that everything is sturdy and strong so it will not collapse when you put on the paper mache. When you have newspaper it's hard to make the detailed shapes and make it look proportional and smooth. Margaret was amazing and make a simple figure in less then 20 minutes and with only a couple pieces of tape while I on the other hand just kept on wrapping and wrapping.  After three hours I finally got the head and body with legs but still have more to do.

Workshop day one

             Today the Coofebs got to meet Margaret DeLima. I at first I thought the she will be so intimidating and all business because her writing makes her sound so intelligent but she was inspiring and had so many great ideas. So the big project that we are doing is going to make an artwork of the seven sins and get to auction them off for a charity event. I've always been into charities and donating so I am looking forward to donating my piece and hope to finish it off. From the art works that she has shown us her work seems to come from childhood memories that seemed to be in her mind.  But one thing she said really stood out to me and is very true. The power of the art seems to dull well you look back. The fire that has you so motivated to make the art fades after a while when you look back at the artwork. Sometimes it is easier to explain the art after you let the fire die down but when you still have the anger or emotion inside your artwork the art seems to be strong and bold like it represents your feelings. 

           The idea I have its to make the sin of pride be represented through a puppet hanging. Animals can also represent some of the deadly sins. Like a snake for envy or a seagull for gluttony. So the animal for pride would be a peacock. With this puppet I will incorporate some of the peacock features so it will seem like puppet morphed with a peacock to represent pride. From that the meaning is the this sin can only be control by man and how this sin can not work alone.

Margaret DeLima

I am so excited to work with Margaret DeLima because it would show me or help me see what I may have to do during my internship. She is a visual artist and is trained in working with clay with happens to be a coincidence because I had thought of a new clay idea I had been meaning to do for a while but didn't know how to make it happen. She also knows how to work adobe photoshop and illustrator which I have recently learned how to use and would love to get a few pointers since I'm not that great on the computer. From the art works I have seen her made it seems that she enjoys working with material and incorporating mix media. The people she mold mainly seem to be self portraits which interest me to see how she sees herself through her work. What I would also like to do is just see what techniques she likes to use because it seems like we do different types or arts. Margaret seems to be more hands on and I would love to learn about how she makes her art works because not everything can always be drawn on paper.