Videos from my Video Sketchbook Class

Hello All....as promised I have all of my video assignments from my video sketchbook class this past semester (Spring 2012).  We had MAC computers using Final Cut Express to edit, alter and create our video projects.

In this class there were certain rules that we had to follow:
    1.  No music whatsoever!
    2.  Each video could only be 90 seconds long, no more no less - 1:30 exactly!
    3.  You had to find or create your own audio sounds.  You couldn't get them from the internet, you  had to create and alter the sounds yourself. (we used Audacity...Free Software you can download)
    4.  You couldn't use any vacation videos that you took of your family - had to be fresh and unrelated to leisure time with family or friends.
    5.  We couldn't film anything in or around the University.  My professor had seen way too many of the same staircases and hallways for years - it had to be filmed in a space that he hadn't seen before!

I LOVED this class, and I hope you enjoy the videos as much as I enjoyed making them!  There were 9 video projects that were assigned during the semester. 

You can view them on YouTube... just click on ZiptoDaloo and it will take you to my channel so you can see all of them.  Tell me what you think!!

Spring 2012 Final Marks

I have finished my semester for Spring 2012 and here are the final marks:

Art History:  B-
Neuroscience:Brain & Behavoir:  B
Painting I:  A
Video Sketchbook:  A-
Overall GPA:  3.23

I will try to bump up my GPA this summer when I start my summer semester this Monday (May 7th).  I will be taking:

ONLINE COURSE:  Children's Literature (manitory for my Minor in Language Arts)
Archology 1000 (my last Science GLER)
History of Rock & Roll from 1968 to 1990 (one of my electives)

Wish me luck everyone!

Painting is Finished

It is finally finished......to recap.....I had to take 3 historical works of art and combine an element from each of them together. (Renior - the Umberellas, Jack Vettriano - woman with the sunglasses, and another female artist, but can't remember her name, but her piece is called "The Burial" - the crouching man).  I also had to take modern images (like the pig, fish, girl holding the rod, and the tree) into the picture somehow.....this is what I came up with and I LOVE it. 

I used bubble rap, collaged assorted paper (background), white paper roses, stamps, wax crayon (umbrellas and melting colors), and scrapbooking paper...oh, yes and my imagination!  Tell me what you think!!

Close-Up #1

Close-Up #2

Close-Up #3

Close-Up #4

Close-Up #5

Close-Up #6

Close-Up #7

Phase #2 - Painting Final

Here is more of my Final painting...as it has progressed!  The umbrellas are wax crayon melted...like melting colors onto the umbrellas.  Hope you like.....more to come!

Close - Up



FINAL Painting....In Progress!!!

My FINAL painting project.... it is suppose to be different figures from different historical paintings put together with other modern images in a collage kind of composition.  Painted with acrylic on panel board (4' x 3') so it is quite large...for me anyway.  This is in progress...stay tuned, more to come!

Close-Up

Close - Up #2

Almost Done!!!

Almost the end of the semester....it has been awhile, but busy, busy, busy little student I have been!  Here are a few pics from my Painting I sketchbook.

I signed up for my Summer semester....Archeology 1000, Music:History of Rock & Roll from 1968 to 1990, and an online course - Children's Literature.

After this summer I will be DONE my B.A.....YAAAAHHHHH!!!!  I have applied to the Faculty of Education, and hopefully....fingers crossed.....I will start my practicums this Fall.
Right now I have 2 BIG final projects on the go.  One big painting (4' x 3') and a 3 to 6 minute video for my Video Sketchbook class.  So once I have everything done....I will post.

Take a look......

This is a painting I did on wood panel.

New Semester - Painting I

I am now into my 2nd semester of my 2nd year at University.  For this semester I have the following classes.

Neuroscience: Brain & Behaviour
Media Arts II - Video Sketchbook
Painting I
Art History - Western Prehistory through to the French Revolution

They seem really interesting, and the 2 art classes are my very last that is required for my B.A.  For my Painting class we need to create an art journal/sketchbook...oh, darn...I hate those things....he he he he!!!

Here is the inside cover and introductory pages.  I promise I'll have more to come, and I won't wait until the end of the semester to do it.

Painting I - Spring 2012 - Art Journal/Sketchbook

~ INSIDE COVER ~

~ INSIDE COVER - TAG PULLED UP ~

~ INTRODUCTION PAGE - "Where I Am at Now"

~ CLOSE-UP - "Where I Am at Now" ~

~ CLOSE-UP #2 - "Where I Am at Now" ~