This week was the last week of painting class, so we had our final review...
It was great to hear my classmates get excited about my work! and I heard some good criticism that I can use to take my work in new directions.
And here is what I did tonight when Michelle and I (Finally) painted together... if you notice the watermark I've merged on to the painting, I've decided to do this, just to be safe. The painting is entitled "Fear not, I have conquered the world"
all of the below were found in the trash...
Downstairs:
Paint brushes that I'm trying to save by immersing them in Vinegar (they're hard due to paint drying on them) and a tube of modeling clay... I'll probably pick up several more in the near future.
a brand new fridge (used one year). On its way to the Friars in the Bronx...
My Room:
The whole kit, note the five pieces of wood in the back that is one 84inch stretcher, two 60 inch stretchers (which I found at school, and don't match, unfortunately) and two 40 inch cross beams standing straight up.
The acrylics and one art bin that I found...
The Oils in the same art bin's pull out tray.
Some photopaper, White business cards and labels, a grid ruler, a T-square, and some resume paper...
Several paint brushes, some blue duct tape, the rest of the t-square and note cards...
another brush, another tray, and another art bin, with several pencils, rubber cement, rubber cement thinner, surface sanitizer, mechanical pencils, some "shims" (for stretchers) and a prismacolor pen.
an architecture book, some sand paper, a canvas box, and a triangle.
The new mouse (okay so it quasi works...)
Michelle's stuff:
An office chair sans one original wheel... I found a replacement the day after ;-) Still in my downstairs...
Stuff at her place, some fabrics (some of it has already been used to make costumes for 14 ish kids in her class for the sound of music), a green chair, a clip lamp, a floor lamp, and a oscillating fancy fan..
Her tub after clean up of the oscillating fan (we took it apart and cleaned it... cause it was duuurty).
Things not shown, Yet:
Mine:
Several canvases, matched stretchers, pieces of wood, papers, and drawing books.
Michelle's:
Two other pieces of fabric, four rugs (two throw rugs, two area rugs), a traditional Good fan.
And most of all, my love for a woman who when she found out I was dumpster diving for cool stuff, didn't mock me, but got excited and laughed, and then went with me and looked for stuff (albeit not actual dumpster diving, but dumpster looking and taking) as we would walk to and from various stores.
She's fantastic!
So you're mom always tells you never play in garbage...
but I spent several hours this past week doing just that and...
it paid off, quite nicely
35$ optical wireless mouse (works perfectly, even came with battery, owner apparently couldn't get it to work... oh technology.)
Refrigerator (Cleaned out and everything! I got it when I talked to some people moving out... they were going to get rid of it so I took it...)
Lamps
Oscillating fan
Designer fan
Rugs
Paints - oils and acrylics
Paint brushes
Papers- Vellum, Newsprint, sketch, drawing
2 Artbin Art boxes
Paper Cement
Paper Cement thinner
Canvases/stretchers
Architecture book
note cards
Resume printer paper
Business card printer paper
Label printer paper
Triangle
T-square
pristine Yards of silk pink, purple and fancy patterned
etc.
The things art students throw away...
also to all you women out there... YOU HAVE TOO MUCH UNDERWEAR. How do I know this? I kept finding womens underwear everywhere, not a single pair of mens underwear and I even found a BRAND NEW package of womens underwear in the dumpster... Womens underwear was perhaps the single most common item I found while looking for art supplies.
