TARYN RILEY!

alrighty roo. so. in regan's class i am exploring the marvels of the delightfully disturbing foldy fleshy meats of the italian market and the ways that i can juxtapose them with architecture. As of laaate i have been wrapping support structures/beams (such as those for ceilings etc) with this hairy looking flappy meat. its terribly satisfying and great great fun.

in julia's class we recently had a critique on the photo in my flickr account called "julesprj1" and its of my space... ripping away from its wall on the arno. so i kinda hate it, yeah? but from my failures i have pulled a lot of success and i actually had a crapload of fun making it because i never use watercolors and that thing is primarily watercolors. it was fun to see how much i could control them versus let them do their own durn thang. the only part of it i really dig is the viney stuff supporting the structure. i also enjoy the way i did the bricks, which you cant really see, but i created a stamp out of an eraser that i chopped up and then dipped in different colors and washes of watercolor. i totally and completely loathe the composition. its hideous and im embarrassed of that aspect of it. so what i learned is that i certainly need to plan better where things will go - i have a tendency to DIVE RIGHT IN and not always in the good artsy way because it often results in strange, confusing overly triangular compositions. w0rd.

the picture right after julia's prjct picture is a picture of my hillariously messy room (typically messy as well though) and you can see the same drawing as it was in process - this is just how i work. amongst the mess. spilling and dripping on all my junk. it sucks and im sure completely hinders me in multiple, multiple ways.

the next four pictures, which are handily labeled for ye, are from the tremendously joyous ART PARTY THAT WE HAD!!!! GAH!! it was such fun. i wish you could have been there. whoever you are. maybe you were there. ok. um, but essentially it was just freeform art fun - no rules and no boundaries which i think resulted in some incredibly cool stuff. im not particularly crazy about my two pieces - the first two pictures are of my "sculpture" (i have no idea) but it was fun to make something 3D. Then my second was a response to a drawing carter had done. i like yellow black and gray.

ok i guess that is all. sorry.