#25: Deadlines Pt. 4: "Venice Queen"

Update (2/23/11):

HD Version of "Art and Music Day Advertisement":

Finished Poster Format:

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I have a lot of work to do, both on here and in real life.  On here, I have several album reviews that need to be done as well as some PR work for friends (not that a million people are reading this).  In non-interwebz world, I need to create t-shirts, advertisements, learn songs, etc. 

However, on the top of the priority list was this, the Art and Music Day Poster Advertisement (title-ing will be done digitally when I get a decent picture, hopefully by my friend Michael).  Here is the finished work; for some reason, the ink in the picture gives it a glare when I use flash.

Copyright Casey Gardner (C) 2011.    Pencil, Ink, Acrylic, Pen.

#21: Deadlines (Art and Music Day - March 18th)

I find that artwork that is "due" or is required of me, is harder to make. At the moment, I am working on a "poster" for Art and Music Day. I also have to make 2 t-shirt logos, a logo for this semester's play, Much Ado About Nothing, as well as other random things.

I enjoy making these things, but have much difficulty starting them. I also find, that I am much more prone to doing a "required" piece when I am working on an "unrequired" or "fun" piece.

What do you think, interwebz peoples?

Poster/Advertisement for "Art and Music Day" - Florida Tech Campus, March 18th : 7pm-10pm

-Work In Progress-

#20: J. Prufrock "Love Song" [musings]

This is my last semester as an undergraduate (I hope) and I'm being overly ambitious and trying to change my life.

How?

I've joined a metal band (12 Steps Away), am cohosting another Art and Music Day, doing the advertisements for the theatre organization on campus (College Players), am in three jazz bands (one with an astronaut; Jazz Syndicate), and trying to get some art finished and put up.

In relation to the last addendum to my life, I recently worked on a drawing for my British and American Literature class. The assignment was to compare a piece of Modernist writing to a piece of artwork. I decided to do my own artwork. It is almost finished and I hope to have it up soon. It is called 'J. Prufrock "Love Story",' which you may know is a twist on T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J.F. Prufrock". (You can read it here --> The Love Story of J.F. Prufrock)

Eliot's poem is one of my favorite of all time. My mother showed it to me when I was in early high school and I never forgot my favorite lines, "In the room the women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo." Michelangelo was a great artist, and so was T.S. Eliot; however, Eliot was no Michelangelo. The protagonist, Prufrock, is dealing with frustrations regarding women (the attainment of), aging, and of the decadence of living in the city.

In my piece, I imagined Prufrock in a nightclub. Nightclubs are dingy, dirty, decadent, and superficial (you thought all of those words were going to start in 'd's,' didn't you?). The women are dancing to the beats of MC Michelangelo as poor Prufrock stands in the corner. I hope to have this up this week (it is pen, pencil, and colored pencil).

In other news, I have FINALLY joined some deviantArt groups, #All Art Support and #Unknown-Artists-Club . I hope to be a more actice community member of deviantArt. Anyway, stay tuned as I become "more active." ..as if that is even possible.

..oh, hey.. and maybe I'll start exercising.  I say that now..