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"Daniel Merriam's Bubble Street Gallery was founded in August 2012 by artist Daniel Merriam. Known for his prolific exploration of the...

For this project, I initially started with the challenge of proportions as I needed to combine my multiple reference pictures in order to...

My first impression of Mr. Reyfeild was admiration for his work and how hard he worked to get where is today. He mentioned how when he...

What Specifically have you learned? This year I learned a lot of different approaches to art, for example, in the beginning of the year...

The past weeks I focused on adding color to the painting and softening the shadows I originally added. Towards the end I also focused on...

This week I focused on adding darker values to the painting trying to match the darkest hues with my objects. I also started to add in...

I have started to work on the underpainting of our oil painting with a focus on blocking out the major shadows and darkest areas so far....

This weekend I decided to add string/yarn to my idea of disks. I am thinking of using the yarn as a way of adhering the disks together...

So far for the home project I have gathered my main source of materials. I decided that using movie disks would be an interesting medium,...

I found this lecture really interesting because of the way Lily May was able to make such a big career so young. I thought that making...

This week I focused on evening out the background as much as I could and getting the right wing outlined and curved like I had done with...

This week I took in more of the background and really tried to even it out. I also continued to work on giving the snake I added last...

This week I focused more on rounding out the figure of the bird and giving it a more 3D quality. I focused especially on the wings,...

This week I dug away a little more into the background of the piece and added some more depth. I also began to round out the stomach of...

This week I kept working on the background and really started see to see the bird start taking shape. I tried to give it some sense of an...

We have been working on our wooden sculpture project for a few weeks and at this point I am still working carving away the background....

My initial reaction to Theodora Miller's story was inspiration. The circumstances of her situation was hard to believe and it is amazing...

This week on the artist copy project I made more progress on the center of the figure as well as the leg. I started to use smaller lines...

This week I made more progress on our artist copy drawing by delving deeper into the core and legs. It has been difficult trying to get...