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Attached is my first attempt at creating a donut in Blender.

Attached is a music video to the song Mind by offonoff, made for my Real and Recorded art course.

Artist Statement 

     The piece is entitled “Questioning”. A digital collection of layers and Pngs meshed into a portrait. I started with finding a portrait I liked, searching Pinterest. I found a portrait of a woman up close and began mapping out a basic sketch. The sketch was the easiest part, taking about twenty minutes. I then spent around five hours beginning a digital oil paint base. First, I color picked and selected the closest to the portrait and began placing dots of color on the sketch before I began blending the colors into a base for the skin and the portrait. I then began adding the mouth, going for a horse’s mouth foaming at the bit, but without the foam. I added another layer and spent around an hour carving out the teeth and placing them in open lips. I started separate layers for each feature and began to paint eyes, starting with the base off-white color and repeatedly changing the feature until I decided the portrait was not what I initially intended.  

     I wanted to create a piece that asked a question of pain. After spending time in the hospital, I wanted to create a piece that represented feelings of paralysis and the inability to do what I love. I remembered paint on glass techniques as I started and decided to lean into the aesthetic. I decided to lose the focus on the original concept of oil painting and beauty to represent pain, and to lean into the obscurity of it all. Eyelashes that looked like spiders, and big nostrils to flatter the horses’ mouth. I wanted an exclamation point as the nose, to draw attention towards it, but blended away to flatten the nose and the appearance of the face. Each layer worked like another panel of glass. I wanted question marks as the eyebrows from the beginning, to hone in the point of “questioning”.  

      Paint on glass can be done with any type of paint, oil, acrylic, or even a POSCA pen. I decided to replicate each medium of the technique by adding blood to my already wet beautiful skin and rugged layered features. This was done by adding blood to represent the blood I had drawn over several days in the hospital. To finish the point of the piece, to make the audience think and the question.

the cost of beauty is a stop motion video of the unpacking of my makeup. as the makeup piles, so does the price. my goal was to create a silent video that conveyed a message. my project developed starting with a completely different idea and concept, however as my housing situation changed and my health declined, i was forced to change my idea. i was no longer in a place where i could paint or light a cigarette. the idea of creating a video about the cost of makeup came as i was unpacking. i hurriedly grabbed my camera and tripod and began taking photos. while working in premiere, i struggled to find the perfect duration for each photo to maintain the 12 frames per second. however, i was able to pull it together with trial and error. the strengths would be the flowing of the stop motion and it’s ability to convey the message at the end. i wish i could have filmed more of my makeup as this was only half. i intended to have pop ups of each product and its cost as it went, but due to the fps and lack of online reputation for certain products, i decided to combine the cost at the end. i think i would love to make more stop motion, but not in the near future as this piece took me ages to complete.

my concept for the final project is a stop motion animation that turns into paint on glass animation. the concept will be a cigarette box opening and a cigarette flying out, lighting itself, and turning into paint on glass smoke that spills over the box and turns into dripping blood down the carton. attached is a gif of my concept art.