LAUREN KALENKA'S ART BLOG

I took the professors advice and tried to do some repetitive images and some sketches of hour glasses, it got me thinking the moments I u...

This week i tried to shift materials a bit by working on a paper mache hour glass and it defiantly worked much better then the clay and r...

Tried to explore transparent hour glass sculptures using clay, putty, and resin... did not work but am now more familiar with what i did w...

Here are some paintings I used as “sketches” for my ideas going forward with my sculpture. I explored different images, lines, shapes, an...

These are my paintings representing blurry memories that someone regrets after blacking out, someone fighting with their wife, then going...

This week I did the beginning pieces for blurry night series, more pictures that one had to piece together after a night of blacking out ...

This week I dabbled in abstract painting, the idea being the mistakes that one makes when they black out, and trying to peice the picture...

This is my portrayal of the addiction to love, the face represents the emotions that i felt when dealing with this addiction. It has the ...

This is a project that is in the beginning process of representing the addiction to money. It shows a grabbing hand that will have cuts t...

This is a project that is in the process of representing my addiction to technology. It will have all its senses clogged, sewn eyes and m...

Throughout this process of making addiction art, I always had in the back of my mind the addiction that affected me and my family the mo...

These were my initial ideas that sparked my inspiration that I worked on improving and altering through this process.

Built the stand for my mask today now just have to paint the wood and attach my pulley.

Spent hours today in the studio working on the ears to my man, i was not expecting this to be the hard part of my project thus far but it...

This is what I have been working on in class thus far, the base for my technology addiction monster.

This week I began making the base for my first monster face. It still needs alot of work, but the base is the general idea of what my fir...