Project 3 has started up, and not gonna lie but I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing for the project itself. Here's some nudibranchs getting prepped to be part of a sand resin mold.
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One of the pros to being a work study for the campus galleries is that I attend most of the receptions. The downside is that I notoriously forget to take pictures. The painting above was a piece in the fundraiser event, La Mirienda, for TAMUCC's Visiting Artist program hosted by the Cotillion Club of Corpus Christi. Setting up this show was possibly the most stressful event I've ever experienced with handing and hanging close to 300 works. This particular piece was a fan favorite for many of us working the event. To paraphrase Dr. Petican, the painting is indulgent and almost like a guilty pleasure. It is neither overworked or underworked, as well as that the artists flexes their control over the medium, composition, and color choices utilized in the piece. The resin finish over the canvas brought a mirror-like finish to the piece which added another level of interest into the painting
The reception itself was a lot of fun, and also incredibly busy. I saw artists go into depth about their work and process with patrons to softly push sales, and I saw patrons be actively engaged with each other and the work displayed in the gallery. In a post-event update, we were all informed that the even this year was a great success with more work sold this year than last. I'm always bad at taking in-progress photos of my work for my sculpture work. This is mainly because I'm usually so focused on getting the project completed that taking a quick progress picture doesn't even come to mind when I take a break. The image on top is when I was using a rust dissolver on my metal to help take care of my rust cleanup faster. It actually did not help me out that much (and also lead to an impromptu vet visit for my dog a couple days later due to that my dog grazes as much as a goat). The bottom image is when I had finally finished a majority of my welding and started up on cleanup.
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