The second career I chose that I thought could be interesting was a concert photographer. This job, if you aren't free lancing, requires some sort of experience in photography. This could mean, if you want to be a tour photographer, that you need a degree in photography and a portfolio to present to the management of the musician you want to work for. For you to be a "good" concert photographer, you have to be able to capture high energy compositions and create that sense of motion that most musicians are looking for, because these photos could possibly be used as the face of this musician's career for the rest of their life. Yale and the University of Arizona provide some of the best photography programs in the country.
I was most interested in this because it provides great opportunity for travel if you work for a band or musician that has a wide reach. I've also always really enjoyed photography, but I don't think I will ever actually consider pursuing this.
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This week was kind of a wind up week. I haven't physically started the projects, but I've been practicing techniques and taking reference photos. For my class project, I've taken a reference photo of me sitting in front of a mirror with another mirror on the other side of me so that I can get a gist of what the reflections will look like. And for my at home project, I've been practicing using watercolor, as this will be the first time I use them and I don't want to screw it up.
Art conservators are responsible for repairing and monitoring the pieces, sometimes in a museum, sometimes in an independent gallery. They might clean or re paint parts of paints and sculptures, or polish tarnished metal pieces. If there is a tear or a run in a canvas, they will repair it and paint over their suture. To have this job, you must at least have a masters in art conservation or a related field. Although, most choose to minor in some type of practical science like physics and/or chemistry, as this helps in the lab. Most require some sort of fellowship or lab experience as well. Almost all of the Ivy leagues in the US have art conservation, and quite a few schools in the UK do too, but they are harder to find information on. The picture below is of a piece in the process of being cleaned, as you can see, the right half is brighter than the left. This is just a picture I got from the lab at the VMFA when I was there, so sorry about the weird angle.
In order of the pictures shown, these are the media...
1. rice noodles from our Thai dinner 2. lavender in a jar (we grow lavender at the house) 3. feathers (most of them are peacock feathers) 4. a plant from the living room called Creeping Jenny 5. drawing in sand 6. a head massager 7. water on my desk 8. acrylic on canvas 9. my hair 10. wires from around the house Week 2: I have started adding highlights and resolving the background. I like how the newton's cradle looks, and I think I nailed the Buddha pretty well, although I may add more detail later. I am goin to start working on the rocks and background more next class. The background to the left of the tall crystal need to come up a bit more, and the crystal should be more integrated with the background.
Pt. 2: The second day of the week, I continued on adding more highlights. I think everything got better except for the newton's cradle because I had to work on the back ground near it and the paint kept getting smudged. I will add in crisper highlights later. I worked mostly on the background today and getting the rocks to feel like they're in the same space as the background. I have learned that using my finger sometimes works best when I'm bending something stubborn. Born in Henrico, Louis Draper was an influential photographer during the civil rights movement. He traveled to New York in 1957 and studied under another experienced photographer. He met many influential people such as Martin Luther King, and Langston Hughes. He formed a group called Kamoinge who were photographers that were capturing the African American culture. His work is particularly interesting because of the way he creates meaning out of his compositions and how he manipulates the photos with only the use of a dark room. My favorite phot of his is the one listed below, of Malcolm X.
The first picture listed here is my preliminary sketch for the painting. I then have a picture of my first layer of raw umber for my darks. For reference, I added a picture of my composition that I am painting from.
Week 1: This week, I drew the outline of the piece, and started the Brunei underpainting. I'm enjoying this so far, and I wanted to make the composition more interesting, so I put some pink cellophane up to reflect some interesting light onto the objects. I really like working with oil paint because it is very smooth and pigmented. I have figured out that the turpentine cuts down on the drying time of the paint as well, but will take off the last coat of paint it you let it. I think this talk was very interesting, and I think the stories behind these eggs is also intriguing. I do think that these eggs should have been worth more at the beginning, when Nikolai first bought it, and MUCH more late, when some eggs only sold for 2,000 dollars. The amount of work and attention to detail that went into these eggs is worth a lot more than they sold for in the beginning. The story about the man who bought the egg at a flea market is really funny, and actually, this kind of stuff happens a lot at estate sales and things. An interesting thing to see this kind of story on is Antiques Road Show.
It was interesting to see the point of view of an actual, active art student. However, I don't plan to follow down the same path. I don't have any plans to go to art school, but I do plan to keep art up as a hobby. I may even take an art class in college, but it isn't my major motivation.
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