Finally Finished!!! :D

(still need to post picture)

Final Project (step 7)

Time to Paint!!!

(need to tansfer pic still might need some help doing it in class today)

Havin fun in Class!!

Over the past few days in class we had fun learning about other people's project. We enjoyed lots of different activities from playing football with Braden to making tie dye shirts with Leeanne.We also learned about how Rosie would survive in the wilderness and build a cabin all by herself; she also brought a little teacup pig named Razer to show us. He was way cute, except when he peed all over the floor......But overall the past couple of days have been fun and very eventful! :)

Final Project (step 6)

Transfered my image to the canvas.

 

 

Final Project (step 5)

Gridded my 2 feet by 5 feet canvas with two inch squares.

AM Stockhill

 

“Texture is a critical element of my work. In working with multiple layers of media, I am attempting to portray the passage of time. In this age of technology, it is easy to forget our roots and the simplicity of knowing that where we began has a place in who we are. It is for that reason that I try to express spirit and emotion, rather than the horse itself.”

These are the words of AM Stockhill and how she explains the reason and symbolism behind her beautifully flawless paintings. She specializes in very textured paintings and warm earthy colors. She also talks about how many of her paintings require twenty to thirty individual glazes of pigment in order to obtain the luminosity and emotional impact that she wants. And that by using so many thin layers of paint it allows the painting to glow from within and create a sense of depth that draws the eye.

I couldn’t agree with her more! When I saw her art for the first time in person I was blown away by her talent and the amazing ability she has with a paint brush. Her art has definitely inspired me to become a widely known artist myself.  In a resent utube video I watched about her she talks about how her career started. She had never picked up a paint brush till she started school at the University of Montana. AM Stockhill’s first intensions were to do photograph but found her talent instead with painting using acrylics. From there her art career took off and she started trying new techniques.

One technique I found interesting was the way she used book pages as the background to her paintings.  She discovered the books when she visited a book store after they had just received a donation of old books. She noticed a stack of books off to the side with damaged covers and bindings. She then asked what they planned to do with them. When they told her they were going to be thrown away she decided to salvage them. Not knowing what to do with them at first the old books sat in her studio for a good six months before the idea of incorporating them into her paintings pop into her head. After Stockhill’s canvas were stretched and sealed, she then applied the old book pages using acrylic medium to bind the pages to the canvas. Stockhill uses books that are at least eight to one hundred years old with missing pages or damaged bindings that no long have their intrinsic value. She prefers them to have a western theme to compliment the horses and other animals that she paints. Stockhill feels that by doing this she is rescuing pieces of history by incorporating it into her paintings.

Below I have AM Stockhill's websit home page and a great utube video of her explaining her art. I really enjoyed it and you will too! :) 

http://www.amstockhill.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4bmCQCnMIY&noredirect=1

Field Trip

Today we went a field to a ranch outside of Dillon. It reminded me a lot of my ranch where I grow up. I also took some pictures while we were there.

This is an ally built for calves so they can be brand on the green table top a the end. The calves heads get caught by a head catch at the end of the shoot. Then the table flips over on it's side so the calves can be branded. Essentially it looks like a giant taco.



 

 

 

This is a loading ramp used for cows and calves to load them on stocktrailers.

 

 

This is a picture of round bails that ranchers use to feed thier cows in the winter months.

 

 

 

 

This is one example of how ranchers feed the round bails to their cattle. The tracter is used to pull the red feeder behind it as it spins leaving a trail of hay behind it in the field for the cattle to feed on. 

 

 

 

This is some of  the holding pens used to put sick or bottle calves and there mothers during calving season.

 



 

This is just a picture of some  of the calves at the ranch.