Discovering Laie

For anyone who looks at this blog- which is probably only people I have regular contact with anyway- I recently was admitted into the BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) program here at BYU-Hawaii. I have been waiting on this for a while- and I'm really excited that I got it. I will still be majoring in 2 dimensional art (painting mostly) but the Fine Arts status is just a bit better than the Bachelor of Arts. Well...I mean you have to apply with a portfolio, but you get to present a senior show. To my point: I have been thinking about what I want to do as a theme for my senior show. The other day while I was walking around taking pictures and drawing I had an idea of what I wanted to do...let me preface this by saying that its in the beginning stages of course, and also I have to get approval from my professor/mentor before doing so.
I want to do a walking tour of Laie. Maybe not walking, I don't know, I'll probably change that, but something of a travel log, or illustrative essay on Laie as a town. I'm going to ask my professor about this though, because I don't want to do something that one hundred other people have done. I've been seeing a lot of flowers and tropical plants lately. LOTS. Which I love but I want to do something different. I'm doing a combination of photographs, drawings and several large paintings. I want to post them up in a sort of story-board/collage/travel log kind of way. And I want people looking at it to say "oh hey, I live there" or "I walk past that all the time".

I will be posting more of this over the coming months- hopefully. I've decided even if I don't do this as my senior show, that I will still work on it as a personal project. I feel that, among lots of other things, it's a good way to connect with this beautiful place that I live.

So without further ado, the first installment of my visual discovery of Laie.

Final for Drawing

I forgot to post this earlier. It was part of our final for Beginning drawing. It's the front of the McKay building from the little circle. If you've been to BYUH, it's be the flag circle.

Selected Photo Assignment

This was from a selected photo assignment. I chose to do a natural light still life...meaning I couldn't use flash or indoor/fluorescent lights.one more to uploaded soon

Photography 212 Final Project

These are the prints I chose for my final project in photography. We had to custom cut mounts for each one, which are about 7x10"

New Paintings

These aren't great photos, but I forget that I don't have any kind of program to crop/edit pictures on my home computer. So oh well. This first one is a still life (obviously vases are very still indeed) of some ceramic pieces. This was the third painting we did in my Beginning Painting class. Done in oil paint.Also done in oil paint, I did this painting of flowers as our last assignment for Beginning Painting. We were allowed to choose what we wanted to paint.
I chose to do this painting from a photograph of I took of some flowers. All of those dew drops may have been a bad idea! Also in oil paint.


This is one I just completed over the christmas break. It's in acrylic.

Charcoal

This doesn't look quite so scary in real life. However, the contrast wasn't very clear in the picture so I photoshop-ed it to make it easier to see. This was one of the last projects we did in my Drawing 112 class. It's different colored pastel layered and then a layer of charcoal over that. Our teacher took a picture of each of us and then we had to use that picture to create depth in the picture. He said it's not a self-portrait, it's to understand shapes and tone (creating depth). So...it's a zombie dana. Hahaha. I don't know why this is underlined....

Sketchbook as of Dec 14th

Happy Birthday Mom (yesterday)!! 43 and lookin good.


Anywho, here are some of the sketches I have had from the semester. I don't know if I have included these yet or not. Most of them are from the Devotionals in the CAC each tuesday. They are part of our sketchbook assignment.

Christmas Devotional, Last one of the semester. Dec 8

President Craig Earnshaw Devotional
(This was Chris' mission president, so we sat close to the front. We also got to go to a luncheon afterward.)


Devotional where I had to sit in the dark side of the CAC......
Early devotional sketch. I hope I have improved
Quick bed sketch of Chris for class. Thank you pillow for blocking the face (i hate faces)
Another quick sketch. The face looks like skeleton. cool.
Bed sketch again, this time with the whole room. Can you see where I goofed on the face? It might be that black blob.

Evening with the Fine Arts

I forgot to post the final Evening with the Fine Arts posters that went up. I have quite a few comments about it... mostly to the effect of "...I liked the first one better." But you can't please everyone. So here's the one that they wanted. I asked if it was too plain, or too boring but they said no. So yeah. Overall, it was a good turn out for the performance. Several of the musical pieces went a bit long but I enjoyed it. Although I was repeatedly told that I should make the poster look fancier because certain faculty members would be wearing tuxedos and formal wear. Well, all I'm going to say is that no, they did not wear formal wear, but instead aloha shirts. I was also a little bit disappointed that in the faculty art show. It was nice, but I would have liked to have seen more pieces that weren't class work from Brother Alisa.

We're starting up an art club for next semester. We're hoping to have a final event at the end of winter semester that would be similar, possibly join with the Music club and have some performers and an art show.

Several more posters