Meagan's Blog

New Artwork & My Press!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-08-31T19:38:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone, so it's been almost 2 years since I posted anything so I'm trying to start this up again. I took a trip to Costa Rica in February for my cousin's wedding and these paintings were inspired by the local nature in Manuel Antonio. I also bought a press at an estate sale this summer and haven't broken it in yet since I just moved to Sioux Falls, SD a month ago. I will let you know how the press works once I find time to try it out!

October

2008-10-08T08:53:00.000-05:00

Wow I have not posted since May! I can't believe that. Well I just wanted to put a quick post up. This semester I am working on a multi-plate for the first time and trying to work out the kinks in that right now. Once I get them worked out I will post an image of my print. I am continuing to work in Lithography. My first print from the semester is also about No child left behind and how it causes budget cuts in art and forces art teachers out of schools because of lack of funding. I will try to get an image up of this print soon. I will be printing it in red soon. I am planning on working more in color with lithography and maybe do a multi-stone.

Paintings

2008-05-24T22:47:00.000-05:00

Just thought you guys might like to see some of my paintings. The top one is titled Can You Guess.

Studio

Self Portrait

That's All He Gave Me

Leaf

Kitten's Perpsective

No Child Left Behind

2008-04-19T11:15:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone I haven't posted in a long time, haven't had time to but here is one of my latest works titled No Child Left Behind. It depicts a teacher teaching to the test, not to the children. I wanted to show how much this law is hurting students.

My winter break

2008-01-25T13:01:00.000-06:00

Hey everyone, I hope your winter breaks were good, mine was pretty uneventful except for these paintings that I did so I thought I'd share them with you guys. The first one is named Green Glass and the second one is Green Glass 2, they are part of a series, I have one more to still come!

Lithographs

2008-01-03T22:56:00.000-06:00

Here is one of my lithographs from the semester! This one is my favorite, we got to go outside with our stones so that was pretty cool. The title for this one is "Tree".

Online Exhibition

2007-12-02T23:05:00.000-06:00

Pollution Series: Deformed Frogs Lithograph
Pollution Series: Factory Lithograph

Pollution Series: Oil Spill Lithograph Pollution Series: Oil Spill 2 Lithograph

I am doing a series on pollution and here are four of my prints from the series. The first is a scene of deformed frogs that became that way from chemicals that humans let into the environment. The second is a factory emitting smoke into the air polluting the air that we breathe. The third is an oil spill with two birds full of oil and dead fish in the water to show how our actions hurt the environment. The fourth is the same image as the second transfered back onto my stone and then I drew over the transfer with a wet crayon to make the water look more like an oil spill.
I would have to say that Kim Berman has inspired me the most this semester content wise but Sue Coe has inspired me in lithographic printing techniques. I think the social art centered blog was a great idea for this semester and I think it has helped me develop my ideas for my series and opened my eyes to how I can make a difference through my artwork.

Halloween in the Printshop

2007-10-30T22:30:00.001-05:00

Paintings

2007-09-10T22:56:00.002-05:00

So here are my three latest paintings. I need some advice on the blue one on what to do to make the blue disks stand out more! Let me know what you think!

A new year

2007-09-03T13:12:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone!
I just wanted to welcome everyone back to school! I am excited about this semester because I have all art classes and no education classes, which may be more work than I expect but I'm ready for it! I'm starting off a new year with Intermediate Ceramics, Intro to Jewelry, Lithography, Art History I, ART 399, and Photo Appreciation. I am also starting off as the studio assistant for the ceramics studio!

Series

2007-05-02T13:18:00.000-05:00

Here are the first two prints from series. the one where the tree is grabbing her hand is the first one! I will try to crop them later on!

Series

2007-04-19T17:32:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone! I loved to see the prints today in class that Karen brought! They were awesome. I wanted to put up a picture of one of the prints in my series, this will be the final print in the series because it's a time sequence.

Aquatints, Line Etches and Drawings

2007-04-04T20:52:00.000-05:00

Ok so I re-aquatinted my plate and here is the print from that. I think it turned out much better than the first time. I also decided to put on my first line etch so here it is. It's the one with the woman knitting. I thought I would put my drawing for one of my plates in my final series so here it is! It is the one with the trees.

Aquatint Print

2007-03-02T19:24:00.000-06:00

So here's a picture of my first aquatint print. I don't like it very much but hopefully that will change once I try to go back and do more with it!

Aquatint

2007-02-26T21:48:00.000-06:00

Okay so I made my first print today after doing the aquatint and I don't really like how it turned out. The second print I made was better but it still didn't look like I wanted it to. I guess I expected it to be darker than it is. Maybe I did it wrong too? I don't know! But I finally took a picture of one of my prints from the first plate I did with drypoint. It was the last print I made from that plate so it changed a lot but I like how this one turned out! At least I like this one!

Intaglio

2007-02-07T21:57:00.000-06:00

I am loving print making. The process is very interesting. I didn't know what we were going to use to make prints before so I was surprised when we were using copper. I really like that we aren't using drypoint for our next assignment. I am actually excited to see how my plate turns out after it's been in the acid for the different times!

Spring Semester

2007-01-23T18:41:00.000-06:00

I am happy to be back at school this semester! I have three great art classes: Intro to Printmaking, Intro to Photography, and Art History 2. I also have three education classes: EDM 319, RDG 328, PSY 370. I am looking forward to all of my art classes and not so many of my education classes.