In keeping with the theme of super low quality images taken from my cell phone, here are a few others that I took. They are from a senior show that happened a couple of weeks ago which was awesome. And I’m not just saying that because my beaufrand was in it. It really was a good show.
May 15
A VERY low quality image from my cell phone of some hand made business cards i’ve been working on. Some of them look a bit elementary at the moment but my hope is that I’ll make a whole bunch and that I’ll get better at designing them by the end. Or does that work the other way around?? Anyway, I can’t be too picky with them because they cost essentially nothing to make.
So I have to admit that I haven’t been the most productive artist in the past month or two. I think it has something to do with moving. I know its a little while from now but its really all I can think about. Living in a small town for all of my college years and being from an even smaller town for most of my life, I’m really starting to feel excited at the prospect of moving to a city. At the moment, the excitement fluctuates between excited happy and excited holy fucking shit how am I gonna do this impossibleahhh but I think, and hope, that it’s for the best. Right now I just feel like I need to get out of Greenville and I associate this need with my inability to focus on art. I still have a couple of projects going on though which are definitely keeping me busy and I’ll be putting some stuff up on here soon. Someone told me that if I didn’t set any reasonable goals that I was going to go crazy and so I’ve been trying to hold on to that instead of just fantasizing about being a superstar for now. So, goals as of now:
-Finish business cards and give them out to people.
-Set a specific time every week to always work on art, no matter what.
-Take more pictures/details of work.
-Fill up sketchbook by the end of the month.
-Make use of button maker. -THIS. I saw an artist selling her buttons for 10$ for a set of 3 and they are so cheap and easy to make. which brings me to a slightly harder and larger (WOAH. CALM DOWN THERE.) goal:
-Make an etsy account and put stuff on it! Stickers, buttons, tiny art, jewelry, etc.
-Make my friends give me criticism. One thing that I DEARLY miss from art school is group critique. It’s so nice to have a pair of fresh eyes to look at your work when you are the only person that has been staring at it for weeks up in a badly ventilated makeshift studio created from a room that was once an attic and you have no idea how to dispose of turpenoid so you just breath it in and start to question what the fuck you started painting in the first place and how the hell you got where you are now.
Small goals that I think will help me stay working and motivated. These are just a few at the moment but if anyone has any more suggestions I would love to add to the list!
May 11
Future goals.
Apr 16
Everyone ever! Go see these shows! The top image is from my friend Rebekah Todd’s undergraduate painting show, In The Mansions Where Cometh No Changes. Her reception is April 20th from 6-9 p.m. at Greenville Museum of Art. The bottom image is by Paul Nissenbaum and is part of a double show, My Paradigm Shift, that he’s showing in painting and photography. His reception is at the ECU School of Art & Design on April 20th from 5 to 8 p.m. These two are good friends of mine as well as soon to be fellow painting and drawing alumnis. Their artwork is amazing and so worth your time.
I got way too into that last post and completely forgot to talk about the actual work.
I did this for an event called “cherished lives” which is held at Vidant hospital for families who have lost children. And to my complete and utter excitement, I learned that the piece is going to be displayed permanently at Vidant’s children’s hospital and I hope to go out and take pictures when this happens to make up for the low quality ones that I put up in the last post.
Happy art adventures!
Apr 16
Also!
Apr 16
I took on this commission a couple of weeks ago and, technically, it was my first one ever. The whole process was very exciting/anxiety-filled/life questioning. It was a good experience in forcing myself to get over my shyness since it was an actual deadline for someone else outside of school. I’ve always depended on the comfort of school and the idea of doing work for myself. With a lot of my work, if I get stuck, I pretty much paint over the entire image in cycles until I feel like I have something good but it’s really time consuming and often a product of my inability to control myself. I was in a spot with this one where I really wanted to change it and start over but because of the deadline and the idea for the work (and the oil paint. the immortally wet oil paint!!!!) I couldn’t. The experience really proved to be a beneficial one because for the first time I really feel like I pushed myself to refine areas that were not working instead of erasing things and start over. It was a nice lesson in telling myself “Logan, you are a growing artist, you can’t just instantly be famous and as amazing as your idols, you have to work at it and be happy with yourself as an artist right now. and all that jazz.” Anyway, here’s to still doing art after college and not getting too off track in the whirlwind of graduation.
Mar 30
I’m thinking about participating in this collage exchange thing on brwnpaperbag.com. Someone else participate with me!! I have never been reliable when it comes to pen pals or any mailing back and forth but I’ve always WANTED to be that person.
Mar 27
Okay so, here is a project that I really hope happens. My friend Nolan was talking to me about putting out a record with his band The Charming Youngsters in the future and trying to replicate the top image for their album cover. He mentioned recreating the font and asked if I could do something similar. Yes yes and yes, and by yes I mean I would totally be excited to try it out. I had so much fun doing the lettering for my own show postcard (2nd image) which I did on photoshop but I’m anxious to try hand drawing it as well.
Mar 26
These are some pictures from a show I was in not long ago at the Progress Energy Center in Raleigh. It was my first show outside of Greenville so it was kind of scary being outside of my SOAD bubble. Being there didn’t help calm my nerves much either because there was, i think, one other person under 40 and a harpist and an indoor fountain! Honestly, that was the most ritzy thing that I have ever been to but that’s not saying much because my hometown’s name is Hogwaller.
I’ve been trying to stay on top of doing art. It’s weird when your sense of discipline goes out the window after graduating school. “I have to….make myself do work? But why would I ever do that to self, she is such a sweetheart!” Hopefully in the coming days I will be better at updating this tumblr with art things now that I have turned it into more of an art blog.
Hey guys!
I’m turning this tumblr into more of a sketch and picture blog. I’m in the process of making a website at http://cargocollective.com/loganbritt/ so go there to view all of my finished work instead of this tumblr!
