The first post!

Hello! I'm Jessica Weinkam, a sophomore at UW Stout majoring in Studio Art and minoring in Psychology. I still haven’t decided on my Studio concentration but I’m definitely leaning towards drawing, just not sure what kind of drawing (who knows, maybe life drawing! :D) My game plan after this is to go to grad school to become an Art Therapist. I want to change lives, and not to sound like a commercial for poor African kids, but literally one child at a time. Children are our future. If we don’t help them grow emotionally and mentally, then what kind of leaders will we have tomorrow? 

The first two images included are of pieces I created last spring in Drawing II. One is a small charcoal drawing of a zebra I saw at the zoo. The assignment was to portray something in 35 inches. You could space out those inches in whatever proportion you’d like to on the page; I chose 3x11.6 inches to give a thin window of the picture. I wanted to portray my love of photo-realism and black and white. Two very simple concepts, but if executed correctly, in my opinion, can be very effective/interesting.

 

The second is a self-portrait in pastel of my ‘alter’ 

ego. I chose to represent myself through jealousy/envy (a not so attractive quality of mine) and my protective nature. I used ‘green envious wide eyes’ and my protective hand placements to try and get my idea across.
Also included are three sketches from class. They’re one or two minute sketches. I need to work on my proportions but I’m sure with time I’ll get better at the quick sketches and showing muscle mass with only a few lines.

 I'm pretty excited for Life Drawing. Since I’m considering life drawing as my concentration I’m really taking this class seriously. Even though I’d rather work on a drawing for two weeks off of a picture than work on a still life for a couple hours, but I’m pretty sure most people are like that. And I don’t think there’s a class offered like that at Stout anyways. But overall, I’ve got pretty high expectations for this class to learn the structure behind the human body to improve my art.