rebecca coleman visual studies notebook

I found a moth in the kitchen at my house the other day. I took several pictures of it with my phone against the stainless steel countertop. I thought these images looked sort of painterly but did not have time to try to paint it because of other end-of-semester commitments. But the word for this week was "reveal" and so it seemed like a collage of photos of an actual moth would make sense for this word. I am looking forward to trying painting next semester.

This drawing turned out to be a bit disturbing. The moth motif turns out to be useful to try to convey a wide-range of feelings, probably because most of these feelings contrast with the fragile, delicate, and insignificant (relative to human-scale issue) qualities of a moth. This isn't a new direction that I am going in in terms of the feeling conveyed (and good thing it's not the last assignment of the semester!) but I wanted to try something like this at least once.

I took a three week linoleum block printing workshop at the Berkeley Art Studio with a couple of friends in my program that just ended last week. I know that the print that I made (above) is just me dabbling in this medium but I wanted to share it anyways as something new that I worked on.  It's a print of a cricket that I saw on Mt Diablo while camping there a few weeks ago (below). Jerusalem Cricket, Juniper Campground, Mt Diablo Then I felt like working on it a little more and so I illustrated the print with some colored pencils and pastels (below). It didn't turn out how I had hoped but I did spend some time on it.