New Songs

Hey Everyone.
I hope your spring break is going great. I'm currently at home doing a little recording. I have three new songs up on my music myspace page. Brilliant Mystery, Regrets and Beautiful.

Hannah, Beautiful is the song I chickened out of singing at yours and Stevens wedding. I dedicate it to you and your pretty little girls.)

You can check it out at www.myspace.com/carriepetersmusic . Unfortunately the blog doesn't support mp3 files, so I can't post them here. I'd love to get feed back from you all.

Hope you're all well. Goodnight.

Almost Spring

We are in our final days of Winter Term here at Portland State. The March weather has been quite bipolar... blooming daffodils and warm wind replaced by black clouds, rain and cold weather, and then back again. It's all quite tolerable though, because this is our last week of class-- dead week isn't really dead week here-- and next week is finals. Which means Spring Break is soon upon us. We plan to go camping on the beach for part of it, because we (like so many Oregonians) think it's great fun to get shivery sandy wet while pretending it is excellent warm spring weather. Very pleasant indeed.

Our second to last project in our color theory class was an assignment based on two opposing words with a composition for each of them. For example, the words could be "alienation" and "community", and the artist would create (via color, mainly), abstract compositions that make these words apparent to the viewer. So here are mine and Jeremy's projects, I'll let you guess the words.

Carrie's:

Jeremy's:

We went snowboarding a couple times in the past week, but didn't take pictures (we got some film footage last Thursday but I haven't downloaded any of it.) I'm hoping to get some spring boarding pics before the season wraps up, though. We've really enjoyed Meadows this winter, and it would be a shame to let the season escape without documenting some of it.

Color Theory: Depth

My ever-so-savvy sister Kate gave me the idea to post pictures of the art projects Jeremy and I have been creating in our art classes on the blog, so people can see what we do (besides snowboard and hike) and we can get feedback and comments on our 'work'.

I'm excited about this, but feel the need to make a small concession before I go exposing our art to critical eyes of loving family and friends. What the viewer has to realize is that we turn a lot of these projects in, and don't spend a ton of time creating masterpieces each and every time. Its just like writing papers; they can't all be inspired.

Right now we are taking Color Theory together. We use mostly acrylic paint on bristol board, and all of the compositions are non-representational (abstract); this forces us to use the color techniques we're learning in class to relate to the viewer, instead of relying on common association/recognition which can be used as a crutch in representational artwork.

Jeremy Working on a Piece

The most recent project we completed was an assignment where we had to create a composition that had a deep space. The idea was to achieve this by using perspective, color saturation/desaturation, cool/warm contrasts, and anything else we could think of. Here were the outcomes:

Jeremy's





Carrie's

Comments and questions are, of course, welcome and coveted...