Bee Grissinger

This week I finished one of my cmyk prints for my series entitled “insecurities” I am making about five to six different prints for this series and I am excited about how this first one turned out, I need to figure out a way to get the poems to show up on them better though. I also am working on the wire under structure for the animal masks and have two done so far. I also have a new rug piece in the works next. 

 Week 4! This week I am very busy and focused on making a few different things. I started and finished my second obstruction piece which was a challenge to create something happy. But I am happy with how it turned out and how this new material looks put together.  I also finished painting my plaster food and really like how they look with color to them. I am working on new photo collages for cmyk prints soon as well as more paper mache animal masks. 

 Week 3!  This week I worked on finishing some collage pieces for the first senior critique today, overall I am happy with how they turned out and the feedback I got in class today, although I think I am going to switch directions and work with a different material now. I think I am going to continue with the theme of childhood and now focusing on how my family didn't have much growing up so getting your needs met was a challenge everyday and we had to go without a lot. Focusing on food, money, and housing mainly as the aspects we are always insecure about.  I also finished working on my sculpture for my other class and the obstruction project for the drawing class. This time my challenge was to make something happy and It had to be a 2-d piece, I may have cheated a little and made it more of a 3-d object but overall I am happy with it and I tried a new process which was actually really fast and easy to transfer the image to fabric which I will be using again most likely. 

  Week 2! This week I was busy with several projects, I worked on a tiny dollhouse room sculpture for my Friday drawing class. We were given a partner and then told something to do, my instruction was to create something from a different perspective. I thought the word perspective was intriguing so I ran with it and decided to make something smaller than I was used to and also have it be a forced perspective with the table going back smaller into space. I am proud of how it turned out although if I had more time I would add a lot more details and maybe people to it.  What I worked on during my senior studio time was one of my first collages. I am experimenting with some new materials as well as imagery. I wanted to continue to use some of my childhood photos and memories and put them together in a visually interesting way. The color purple is also showing up a lot more in this work because it sort of represents me but also being in the middle of things. I wanted to use sugar packets in