Jaquey Rodriguez

Ode to Dali

2010-12-01T09:22:00.000-08:00

Yes mam, you have your clocks, obscure monster faces cloud swirls. Where would I be with out this man.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Contra

2010-12-01T09:19:00.000-08:00

Drawing studies from the European painting collection at the Art Institute:

Conceptual Art

2010-11-29T16:30:00.000-08:00

One of the classes that freshmen are required(one of many) to take at SAIC is a research class called, well, Research. We 'research' various topics and work our imagination and idea muscle and create highly conceptual pieces. One of the first projects we worked on dealt with 'collections'. We practiced collecting objects loosely tied to a theme of our choice: personal items, items under our bed, etc. We would then critique the collections, where the class would try and guess what the theme or idea of the collection was.

Ultimately we made a collection piece, where we had to collect objects that had consistency with each object. I collected stuff animals from a friend, and thrift stores. I took out the stuffing and re-stuffed them with the following: fries, flour (symbolized crack), cigerettes, and conditioner (symbolized sperm). My concept was, we stuff children(represented by the stuffed animals) with, for lack of a more thoughtful word, 'bad' things.

For instance, I chose fries because 50% of kids in America are over weight.

Flour, because drug dealers often smuggle drugs across the border by stuffing child's stuffed animal. There's also an urban legend that a couple hallowed their dead baby and filled the corpse with drugs...not sure if its real, but it exposes that drug smugglers will even exploit children.

Cigarettes, in 3rd world countries most families don't really tend to their children, so a lot of kids pick up smoking and become terribly addicted.

Conditioner(sperm), children make up a percentage of human trafficking and since they are too young to be impregnated men do not wear condoms.
Feed back included:
+making the stuffed animals the same(same stuffed animal) to make the piece more balanced
+getting a hold of real crack and sperm, would make the piece more powerful

Overall my class and teacher enjoyed it

FASCI(NATioNS) + INSPiR(ATIonS)

2010-10-26T10:40:00.000-07:00

black bars (censorship)

love triangles

noses

crocodiles

time(travel, warp, irrelevance)

parties

3rd eye

weird movies

and of coarse, fashion.

Woe is me- Sketch Book Pages

2010-10-26T10:20:00.000-07:00

I have been very neglectful and down right awful about updating my blog. There are no excuses. Since I have no finished paintings you will have to settle for my sketches. Which isn't really settling if you ask me:

2nd Amenment Tattoo

2010-07-01T18:30:00.000-07:00

Well I think this is pretty self-explained:
ball point pen

Sacred and Common- new concentration pieces

2010-06-01T22:18:00.001-07:00

These paintings are a diptych. I picked and stretched the cotton myself-and with the help of my dad. In the first piece we see a woman/model with a chicken head(which was tricky to paint, but i think i was quit successful!), and she is wearing a common dress with the floral design we see everywhere now a days. The chicken is actually the most common farm animal people own today (surprise surprise). So, the chicken head and dress are common, not really that special and everyone has it. Now the second piece is a woman/model with a cow head, wearing a couture dress, an actual couture dress by Juanjo Oliva http://www.fashionwindows.net/2009/10/juanjo-oliva-spring-2010/juanjo-oliva-spring-2010-5/. Since the cow is considered a sacred animal, so might this dress after all it is couture, customed made for someones body, only a hand full made. Not a dress you'd expect to see EVERYONE in. So there you go. a contrast between the common and sacred.

MCQUEEN LIVES!!

2010-03-10T18:26:00.000-08:00

...through his very last last collection. His go-team put together this show, for us to see his very last pieces of art, i mean clothes. They are heaven sent :) the patterns are devilish ! encore encore, if only :'(

5th concentration- after show party

2010-03-08T09:23:00.000-08:00

Ok so usually after fashion show, there is most always a party! This is a masquerade themed party, and everyone is wearing a mask except for the 3 hostesses. I wanted to emphasize texture and patterns in the clothe, and felt I could do so in pen only. I left it black and white because I felt that adding color (through water color) would be a devastating assault to the viewers delicate eyes and mind.... so i left it old fashion black and white.I achieved different textures by different strokes and varieties of the pen. Since this is a party, the characters all have speech bubbles to show that they are socializing... because that;s what takes place in a party. talking and clothes. Also i tried to take it step further and transform the people wearing masks into the animals or things that their masks were, for example: The woman wearing a bird mask is transforming into bird, and the woman that is wearing horns for a mask has a furry leg.
We also see the passed out lady on the floor, who has had too much too drink
she is wearing a banana bra:

Finished with 5th piece on to the next one-->

2010-03-07T19:19:00.000-08:00

WELLL for my 6th piece Ive decided to do a 'pattern', of 2 dresses.
no not a pattern:

BUT a PATTERN:

They will be tiny, 5inch by 5 perhaps.. so theyll be CUTE. ill put up a picutre of my 5th concentration piece tommorow. I pinky promise yall
:)

My blog got a face lift yes it did ;)

2010-03-06T15:35:00.000-08:00

So, I changed the header of my blog, and I think it looks nicer. I was going to upload my bio-video but since a gas done leaked into the air that prevented me from going to ms. chams room... which was only a skip hop and a jump away as I was in the painting room. :S I hope my offspring don't come out deformed because of this leak >:( thats all im gonna say.

Im finishing up my 5th concentration piece with much speed and skill, so that I cant start on my 6th one, wich will be the tiniest one (5 by 3 inch maybe? ) i don't like it, but if I want a complete portfolio Imma have to suck it up and do some small ones :''''''(

On another note, yes I did draw that passed out lady ( who is now the blogs mascot) laying down on the header there. She's a character in my 5th concentration piece which you all shall get to see soon. And Enfante Terrible is french for cheez burger, NOT.. it means Terrible Child, of which I AM!

stay on your toes boys and girls

im ready to turn heads!

oh lala

my podcast everyone:

2010-01-28T13:45:00.000-08:00

http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/CChambliss/files/jaqueyspod.m4a

MY 3rd concentration piece haha!!

2010-01-18T15:04:00.000-08:00

So after 3 weeks? of working on this monster IT is completed :D and ready for its debut!
it is 19.5'' by 28.7'' or so, and weighs in about 200lbs! hehe It is entitled Opus, Fall 2014 Ready-to-wear. Yep just like them celebrity heavy hitter fashion designers, at last i am one of them!Oh see me shine hehe. It is drawn in pen and painted in water color of course my specialty ;) Controling water color has gotten even easier and fun for me! I've found my favorite medium at long last oh lala.

So, here we see the in style fashion in the year 2014~ dresses are still hot, and so is wearing FAUX furr ;) Of course there will be people who love your clothes or HATE them. My personal favorite model is the one who has her ribs exposed and her guts floating upwards.
off to make #4 in the series

If only I was a rich girl..

2010-01-18T14:53:00.000-08:00

...I would buy out Jackie Tileston.

2010-01-08T13:29:00.000-08:00

These pieces some being finished and unfinished have been the center of my universe for the past months.

1. Unity, first concentration Piece maybe? 20''x36''

2. From Nature to Fashion, 2nd concentration piece. 2'x3'

3. Hat Twirl, Messing around with patterns and elements of collage, 5''x3''

4. Sitting on Cloud 9 in couture, painting with elements of collage, 11''x18''

5. Mother Earth thy name is Jaquey, Water color and color pencil, 18''x24''

New Paintings for painting

2010-01-08T13:21:00.001-08:00

I have made a couple of new paintings inspired by the artist Michael Hussar. Looking at Hussars work has inspired me to move out of my tight nit, and tedious way of painting i've grown accustomed to.

The first painting is 4'x4', and is titled The Look of Love

The next piece isn't quite so finished but I have been working on it since i've taken it's picture.

It is 18''x24'' and it is titled Side smirk stare

Summer Work at CCS

2010-01-08T13:10:00.000-08:00

Over the summer

I had the privilege of going to the College of Creative Studies and partake in their summer program. They had a variety of classes to choose from: Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Photography, Illustration and Interior Design. I chose to take Illustration programs and spent the next four weeks in illustration classes from 9 am to 6pm and sometimes to 9 pm. In my previous posts I have posted pictures of detroit and other paraphernalia. Some of the classes I took included: character development, comic book art, photoshop art, working with Maya, Mud box, and After Effects. In this post I will show the work I have done in the program:

AP Drawing Breadth/Variety 2008

2009-10-06T09:59:00.000-07:00

AP Drawing Concentration 2008

2009-10-06T09:54:00.000-07:00

I decided to continue my sophomore series on self

portraits, but I chose to add more emotional content and

narrative meanings to my pieces. I wanted my

concentration to be about the ‘behavior’ of my hair. It was

calm and straight on some days, and wild and frizzy on

other days. As I immersed deeper into my concentration I

wanted my hair to symbolize moods or different state of

minds I was in.

My first pieces are very detailed and have

a lot of movement and expression. In my last pieces I

became looser in my depiction of my hair and more

symbolic. In ‘Float’ ‘Freedom’ ‘Shrink’, my hair supports

the figures (me) attached to it. It becomes a living

organism; it is a giving tree. It gives the figures life,

protection, and comfort.

However, I do keep a constant focus on shape and

form in my pieces. My hair is wavy and curly in real life, so I

used that as a reference and inspiration for my pieces.

COOL yard art :)

2009-08-02T17:01:00.000-07:00

OH the places i've been. Most of these were taken in a neighborhood that was turned into a pieace of art ! every stone every sidewalk transformed or painted on! THEn we went into an old warehouse used for making cars and cards now used as a studio for professional artists and students :) TRES COOL many floors looks haunted! :O this sculpture right was made by one of our teachers at CCS. neato yes? YES

YOU be the judge! trash ? or art!
being there and experiencing everything up front was a blast! i def. say its art :) i got to meet one of the artists who did some of this stuff. his other artists friends were sleeping or collecting more things to staples to trees. Detroit I miss thee already!!

Wut I did dis morn

2009-07-27T08:03:00.001-07:00

I present to you hunnies and bunnies Maya. :)

We are messin around on it ... and so far this is like 2000 feet below the tip of an ice berg @_@!!

its pretty complex yet simple at the same time (like me). Its easy if you know what you're doing but aren't most things??

I think i was trying to make a sun or a pokey ball (:P) anyways... im off to get lost in maya .

2-DULLS

CHECK IT!!!!

2009-07-25T09:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx2AenbfJt4

get some popcorn you gon needit

Blockhead meet the world. World meet blockhead

2009-07-25T08:09:00.000-07:00

Heres a creature of mines that i drew one stormy night. She resides in my sketch book and does nothing but pose. Shes wearing dress if you have no clue what the drippy and wavy stuff is/ i wanted to make her head look TVish so yea. tell me what you think. i hope this will become an actual dress someday..

Testin one two

2009-07-25T07:46:00.000-07:00

Dis is a test do not take anything seriously in this post
so when i say fire is cold DONt believe it
and when i say mcdonalds is giving out free happy meals DONT believe it

this is a test haha