Agent Plus Environment » art http://agentplusenvironment.com A few perceptions of the world Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:55:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Watching leaves turn http://agentplusenvironment.com/blog/2011/11/watching-leaves-turn/ http://agentplusenvironment.com/blog/2011/11/watching-leaves-turn/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:11:19 +0000 Jacqueline http://agentplusenvironment.com/?p=852 View from the room

During my senior year at Vassar, I periodically took photos through my bedroom window of the trees and the courtyard area between all the senior apartments.

The end result? This series, showing the seasons changing throughout the year. Photos are unedited.

trees are still green!

September 10, 2010

mostly green still!

October 8, 2010

rainy day

October 15, 2010

trees are turning red, carpet of yellow leaves

October 26, 2011

two days later: half the leaves are gone!

October 28, 2010

it was a blustery day - red leaves in the air

October 28, 2010

carpet of brown and red leaves, bare branches

November 5, 2010

bare branches, red tree behind, blue-gray clouded sky

November 17, 2010

First snow! Some ground still visible, pale clear sky

December 15, 2010

old snow everywhere, gray skies

January 11, 2011

fresh snow storm! everything is white

January 12, 2011

one of those rainy snow-slush days

January 18, 2011

even in winter with the ground covered in snow, there are blue skies sometimes!

January 25, 2011

tired of snow yet? a nice bright sunny day

February 10, 2011

the world has melted! gray spring day, still bare branches

March 11, 2011

evening light-rimmed clouds behind the branches of the trees

March 11, 2011

grey spring day, but at least there's some green on the shrubs!

April 13, 2011

that's more like it: buds and leaves on the trees, green grass, blue sky with puffy white clouds

April 29, 2011

the same beautiful spring day: it's all sunshine and puppies!

April 29, 2011

If I did this kind of series again, I’d make a point of putting the camera in the same place every time, and taking photos at set intervals. I think it still turned out pretty cool.

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A bare-limbed tree, autumn decor already a crunching carpet on the lawn, stood silhouetted before its bright red-orange neighbor. I’ve been watching these trees change all semester. Add in a backdrop of dramatic slate storm clouds, and how could I resist?

Here’s the relatively quick sketch I did to capture the scene (black pen and colored pencil – click for larger version):

bare-limbed tree in black pen, red haze of another tree behind it in colored pencil, orange-red leaves on the ground near both, and blue-gray clouds

View from my room III

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Usually, I can’t decide. But when my Hudson valley campus is decked out in full-blown autumn colors, my vote swings in favor of chill fall air, feet crunching through drifts of leaves, and myriad shades of red, brown, orange, and yellow.

Yes, I do, on occasion, meander across campus with my camera. Click for the larger versions!

glossy lake reflecting the bushy lines of green, yellow, orange, and red trees on the far bank

Sunset Lake

large tree, half covered in red-orange leaves

View from the room

a dark branch silhouetted in front of autumn-colored trees

Branch of doom

sunlight makes a red-leaved tree glow at the side of grey apartments

Red glow tree

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I took a sculpture class this semester on a whim. I enjoy art, but I’ve never done much sculpture, and I haven’t taken an art class in years–so why not?

The first project I did was an exploration of mass. I sculpted a head from clay (the professor modeled, because he couldn’t get an actual model), made a plaster waste-mold from it, then did a plaster casting. Everyone else in the class did essentially the same thing–sure, there were variations in the way the heads were sculpted, but we all made heads.

The second project, however, was open-ended. We were given an introduction to a selection of sheet metals, wire, and tools; we were told to think about space rather than mass, and that we should include repetition and variation in the work. And that was it.

Do you want to know what I created? Take a look! I titled it “Selves.” I think it turned out pretty darn cool. (But I wouldn’t have created it if I thought otherwise.)

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