While cleaning and organizing my things in the basement, I had come across a line drawing I had done a while back of a lamb boy on a DIY watercolor card. The drawing was meant to get the idea down before going to a larger scale.
So yesterday, I decided to paint on top of the drawing. Not crazy at all about anything in this piece, but it was fun to paint for the sake of painting.
Lamb Boy in a Catholic School UniformAcrylic on Watercolor Card 2012
Queens College has a pretty kick ass looking art building.
When I first started going to Queens College, I wandered a lot around campus. A lot of the campus holds pretty ugly crappy looking 1970s-80s modernist buildings that I cannot stand to look at. When I
"discovered" Klapper Hall, I immediately walked inside to find out what this beautiful building was for. I found out that it was the college's Art Department building. I took a stroll in and out of classrooms to see what kind of work was being produced by the students. Eventually, I wandered into a gallery space. It was a legit space. High ceilings, white walls, and wooden floors, what more can a man want? The gallery space was used to exhibit student work. A sort of envy came over me. FIT never had any proper viewing space for their student's work. How is it that a normal Joe Schmoe college have a gallery space, and an art school not have any space available for their students?
I made it a point to find out how I can get my work to be hung on those Queens College gallery walls. I learned about a show that was going happen in October. The submission date was sometime in late September. I gave it a try, I went out bought frames, made mattes myself, and even tried making a new piece for the show itself.
Unfortunately, the new piece didn't get in. Guess it didn't look as finished as the other ones. At least I can take it back home and work on it some more.
Here's how they all looked framed
The opening reception is on October 5th from 5:30pm-7:30pm at Paul Klapper Hall.
I'll probably check it out early on, but won't be able to stay since I'm seeing a Portishead concert later that night.
