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Today in lecture was ROUGH. I think every Tyler student is experiencing the effects of no sleep. It was a terrible rainy day when all I wanted to do was curl up in my bed and watch the Halloween series over and over again. Eileen Neff came in today to talk to us. She said she was a graduate of Tyler. She studied literature before she studied painting and then finally photography. She explained how she is very influenced by other artists. Much of her work has furniture in it. I didn't get it but it was kinda cool. A lot of her work seemed to target nature. Her work really looked like cut and paste with the computer. She works with the computer now, and her work is quite simple. 

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Sharon Louden came in to speak to us today. At the start I really didn't like her work, I respect her as an artist, but her type of work didn't interest me at first. She said she is inspired by nature, architecture, hair and dance. I saw some of that come through through her work. She says technology influences her work also, which I picked up by her animation as she called it. I wish it had sound ... it reminded me of an old video they would show in one of my high school science classes .. weird. All of her drawings were very paint-like and showed opacity. She started painting figures, and said that "boredom kicked her butt" and she really began to push herself. I loved her work with the glow in the dark paint on the three dimensional objects. It was really awesome how the objects themselves disappear in the dark, but the paint still showed her drawings and paintings that were on them. I also really loved the ceiling piece she created with the glass and fiber optics. It was such an interesting light source for a room, and something I can see myself having in my home someday. 

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From JackieNowa

From JackieNowa

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My life sucked this week. I did nothing interesting and was loaded with work. I did not leave my dorm and spent hours in the tech center ..

Lecture October 6th

So today's lecture really held my attention. Bradley  N. Litwin came in and discussed his career and what he does in the art world. I loved how he described drawing. He said that it is called Laying Lead. And he even called a pencil a lead holder. He called it a little machine. His outlook on everything seemed to be compared to machines. He is a very mechanical man. He mentioned how in high school him and his friend wondered if we could ever draw on the visual screen. Now look at our technology. He then went into talking about computers and how they developed in the art world and his experiences with computer programs and making artwork. He showed us many of his sketches he did when he was growing up and they all seemed very cartoon-ish and had a scientific flare. He had work in Tyler now, all mechanical and meticulous. They all have little motors and gears and are very fun to watch and study. I think Bradley is a very interesting man, and made me look at art in a mechanical aspect, which I have never done before.