Andy Bean's woodblock prints and Jess Smiley's primitive drawings combine forces in We Want Our Friends Back! Its monsters and cavemen! Cannibals and mermaids! Priests and pyramids! Come see for yourself, okay?
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Showing posts with label jess smiley. Show all posts
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Opening Reception
WEDNESDAY APRIL 9, 6-8pm at UVSC's Art Wall (across the hall from the UVSC bookstore in the Student Center). FOOD! MUSIC! PICTURES!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
If This is What the Clairvoyants Had Guessed At, They'd Be Right
Did I mention that I made a CD? It has 27 songs on it and each song is different!
It costs $10 and you can buy it without mom and dad's permission.
If you want a copy, just email me at jess.smiley@gmail.com or send me a message in a paper airplane.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Meester Bunny
Just click on the comic to make it bigger and easier to read. Easter Sunday caught me drawing versions of this bunny all over my church program, my lesson manual, my sister's scrap papers and my sketchbook. After church I hit the sidewalks and decked out the cement slabs with our friendly bunny friend. Anyway, I've been reading some Krazy Kat lately and noticed that I was picking up on Herriman's scratchy qualities in drawings. Now if only I could learn something about quality...Thursday, April 5, 2007
HOT DOG!
I suck at painting. Fortunately, I have teachers that are really willing to help figure out what's wrong with what I'm doing and give me another chance...and another...and another...
The assignment was to paint a scene in a city involving one person and at least one animal. I decided to paint a hot dog vendor with pigeons eating up his stash of wares. The top painting is my first attempt. Generally, the class didn't think the design was too hot and they didn't like that they couldn't see the guy's face. The focal point was the hot dog, and I thought it read pretty well, but I took their comments and re-worked the whole thing. New design, new colours, new composition...The sucky scan on the bottom is the final piece. Probably a somewhat okay painting, which is a HUGE step up for me. I've gone from bad to somewhat okay. I think.
These are both pretty tiny paintings. They are 5 x 7" and painted in acrylic on illustration board.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Saint Patrick's Day Concert
Me and some buddies got together on Saint Patrick's Day and held a concert at Borders. We made up the entire show as we went. Check out YouTube for video.
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