tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60895958946923429562024-02-06T21:26:50.052-05:00I Dare Me ExperimentI dare me to exercise my creative muscles and I dare you to hold me to it. I am going to create something on a weekly basis and post my creations here. This is an experiment because, let's be honest, I am easily distracted. That's why I need you to keep me focused. I'd love to hear your thoughts, criticisms, ideas for future projects, ANYTHING!Jillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280078396909163051noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089595894692342956.post-32616998760070483362010-07-03T23:26:00.002-04:002010-07-03T23:33:26.428-04:00Week 5: Cheating<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1jZd1aLIB2qjcVW_3HW5QRz5nDM13LSo89R14Fy_vGsli5fJqGVhkyRwk4LRWxDgNsWUit91Myy0M_kSYOZgZQvkQu0zCIjWgunSGM22y3EahV8w4_lUCYaswEjmdavW8tNIRKweuDds/s1600/P5310002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1jZd1aLIB2qjcVW_3HW5QRz5nDM13LSo89R14Fy_vGsli5fJqGVhkyRwk4LRWxDgNsWUit91Myy0M_kSYOZgZQvkQu0zCIjWgunSGM22y3EahV8w4_lUCYaswEjmdavW8tNIRKweuDds/s320/P5310002.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>So, I'm cheating this week. This is a still-life painting I did in high school. It's a plant hanging out of a shiny thing. I remember my art teacher telling me this painting was indicative of my artistic style and to stick with it. Mrs. Smith... she rocked.<br />
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(20" x 18")Jillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280078396909163051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089595894692342956.post-60184634708436366322010-06-26T15:58:00.001-04:002010-06-26T16:00:48.387-04:00Week 4: White Charcoal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSOE842SNTjqHXIaXKb0PPOcAilQ-neWkLRMLK179gVgew3YUXn2cbM6sOZ5rGIYvdxQCiHJuNzoyS57SQpwf_j7xEyMxChWHCQIoUoa2RHV96xC9CAzyQP-WfQlaue8AXOihXiIQlbXo/s1600/P5240012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSOE842SNTjqHXIaXKb0PPOcAilQ-neWkLRMLK179gVgew3YUXn2cbM6sOZ5rGIYvdxQCiHJuNzoyS57SQpwf_j7xEyMxChWHCQIoUoa2RHV96xC9CAzyQP-WfQlaue8AXOihXiIQlbXo/s200/P5240012.JPG" width="150" /></a></div><br />
This only took five minutes... so I did another.<br />
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I'm thinking she is enjoying a nice cool breeze... something we'll have to wait another six months for. :) These are both 8.5" x 11".Jillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280078396909163051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089595894692342956.post-64852214213671610442010-06-22T21:33:00.001-04:002010-06-22T21:34:53.048-04:00Week 3: Pastels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje3l5Q294ILdQxKHcBkVDUPxG9VxEkGinJgnxpTI8v_B4QHxilTVM__T805CGwhKBIVsO7inBYUg5Ttm0jK-qoFWcHaxYE5iB1DMXMy_rucvPbTi8OGeo_E9Q0beN6_YloVushBh1PK3M/s1600/P5220004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje3l5Q294ILdQxKHcBkVDUPxG9VxEkGinJgnxpTI8v_B4QHxilTVM__T805CGwhKBIVsO7inBYUg5Ttm0jK-qoFWcHaxYE5iB1DMXMy_rucvPbTi8OGeo_E9Q0beN6_YloVushBh1PK3M/s200/P5220004.JPG" width="156" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Uh, I have no idea. It was fun playing with pastels though!!!! :)<br />
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P.S. I did this almost a week ago, but my camera charger was MIA. I swear!<br />
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(11" x 14")Jillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280078396909163051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089595894692342956.post-64876904849836434332010-06-12T19:10:00.003-04:002010-06-22T21:39:01.253-04:00Week 2: Painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIye4XV00QBZFJuO2s38A45lzfc3XaRTJQdlxs1aLvM3wRJ98dNYL4jF6KFA1wHkSl9ciBaNqhM9JLexuCjKlG32BCSAY9QMvQK5uPayIvwNXVqAo2vIA7eZnzj1DYuEICg_WJHOqujZs/s1600/P5120002+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIye4XV00QBZFJuO2s38A45lzfc3XaRTJQdlxs1aLvM3wRJ98dNYL4jF6KFA1wHkSl9ciBaNqhM9JLexuCjKlG32BCSAY9QMvQK5uPayIvwNXVqAo2vIA7eZnzj1DYuEICg_WJHOqujZs/s400/P5120002+-+Copy.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm as dry as a seven year drough</span>t, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I got dust for tears and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I'm all tapped out, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Sometimes I feel broken and can't get fixed..." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I feel ya, Steven. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">But I know even the desert has its day. So will we.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">(1 1/3' x 3 1/3')</span>Jillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280078396909163051noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089595894692342956.post-2213389521155414602010-06-05T22:03:00.010-04:002010-06-22T21:42:24.686-04:00Week 1: Clusterfudge<object height="275" width="329"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8iaph2vZW34&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8iaph2vZW34&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />
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Between the old speakers on my keyboard and the cheap microphone on my laptop, the quality of the audio didn't really have a chance at being decent. And sorry you have to stare at my angry-face for 3 minutes. That was part of my desperate attempt to make my audio into a video so I could upload it to YouTube and embed it here. AHH! YouTube was really annoying! And I am a n00b. The song I'm playing was and is one of my favorites. Odds are, if you knew me six or seven years ago, you've heard me play this song a gazillion times. It's a pretty song. So naturally, when I dusted off my longtime-idle piano a month or so ago, this song is the first one I attempted. This piece is in B Major and I played it without the music in front of me. It still needs some fine-tuning though. I tried painting this week, but my paintbrushes and my eyes were not working. I also need to figure how to record audio better. Week 1 feels a bit like a clusterfudge... Week 2 will be better.Jillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280078396909163051noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089595894692342956.post-58303275478930772032010-05-29T13:51:00.002-04:002010-05-29T14:07:07.836-04:00Teaser<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-7VK-FKg6xQjVESa5m2eFIUo-CSZwYvQGbFVroph-K7fL6yfnIkS_T5qiM7WDGC1iiGRy8-4bX96s1R60JNJSECVCg2m4Y332V2QgnW2drXscv0E0we48BBB5oyRE0HsFWo_NEHf6o2g/s1600/The+Underfold.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-7VK-FKg6xQjVESa5m2eFIUo-CSZwYvQGbFVroph-K7fL6yfnIkS_T5qiM7WDGC1iiGRy8-4bX96s1R60JNJSECVCg2m4Y332V2QgnW2drXscv0E0we48BBB5oyRE0HsFWo_NEHf6o2g/s320/The+Underfold.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div><a href="http://briancrussell.net/">Brian Russell</a>, self proclaimed <a href="http://briancrussell.net/blog/">Awesomologist</a>, has been cracking me up with his webcomic, <a href="http://theunderfold.com/">The Underfold</a>, for two years now. While he was on vacation he let me be a guest artist and the above is what I came up with. I think it's fitting for this to be one of my first posts. I put my artistic-ness on the back burner after high school, and since then Brian has been THE LOUDEST and MOST PERSISTENT voice encouraging (and pestering) me to create stuff . This experiment is as much for him as it is for me, and hopefully it will get him to back-off. Much love brotha!</div>Jillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280078396909163051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089595894692342956.post-91833786362307924852010-05-25T21:32:00.003-04:002010-05-29T13:43:27.160-04:00Pre-Experiment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlXQ048vuD07N0fUldBdglxoQ2hcuE7f7SFoSv-wIAaZEhT1bIKmogGR9d_I1FozikKM1ji9zwu5wExzkoMkihe8PVP5rop0HkVKIB9FPeYES_OOejTve0MbtVBiYdBgeJMQe2of_1G0/s1600/105952855-80c4c1da23a1afa97a5fd407cf41eeb3.4bfc7290-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlXQ048vuD07N0fUldBdglxoQ2hcuE7f7SFoSv-wIAaZEhT1bIKmogGR9d_I1FozikKM1ji9zwu5wExzkoMkihe8PVP5rop0HkVKIB9FPeYES_OOejTve0MbtVBiYdBgeJMQe2of_1G0/s320/105952855-80c4c1da23a1afa97a5fd407cf41eeb3.4bfc7290-scaled.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><div><br />
</div><div>IT'S A PUPPY!!! Courtesy of Corey. She sent me this picture of Snickers on a day that I was horribly sad and she knew it. This picture of a soggy puppy and Corey's friendship have lifted my spirits so many times since then. It was Corey's idea to create a blog and use it as a way to be held accountable, artistically speaking. I love the idea. I work better under pressure. So c'est la vie laziness! I want to push a natural gift to the limit and see what happens, and I think a weekly post is totally doable. I love this Corey-girl and I can't wait to see what she creates! Find out for yourself by checking-out her <a href="http://anewlife84.blogspot.com/">experiment</a>. </div>Jillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06280078396909163051noreply@blogger.com2