Messages

I'm taking, like all freshman A&D students at Michigan, the TMP (Themes, Materials, and Processes) series of classes. I'm currently in TMP II : Messages. It's about the messages conveyed by art and the art process, we are concentrating on 2-d design. I'm super excited about it, the class seems really interesting and the prof is excited to be there and has some interesting projects lined up for us. Below I have posted part of the first project we are working on, it's about spaces. It's just cut out paper on heavy stock paper. We had to use 10 rectangle or square black paper blocks (we got to pick what sizes we wanted) and arranged them on a 6x6" square. All I could think of was sheet music, not sure why, I'm tone deaf. But this is what came out of me.


I like it, the predictability of the vertical lines relatively evenly spaced out overlapped by the more random, different sized horizontal bars is really appealing to me.

I had some scraps and which had some rubber cement on them and had stuck together in the form you see them in below. I simply put on some more rubber cement and attached it to a long rectangle of heavy paper stock. I think it looks like a cross. It's appealing to me because I didn't mean for the black paper to be arranged in that order, they simply fell like that. All I did was glue it on some paper. I still like it though.


I was playing around with scanned image of the cross with the free photo editing software The Gimp Shop after class. Bare with me, it's my first digital image manipulation past red eye removal and cropping. But it was fun, and I like how the image stands out in gray.

My Photography

I love to shoot photos. To help all of you acquaint yourselves with my art styles, I've posted a smattering of some of my favorite shots. I use a Nikon D-40 with an assortment of different Nikon lenses. If you'd like to see more, you can also check out my photo/rambling musings blog, UMpetehall. Enjoy and please feel free to leave comments.
Thanks!

Kara, my finance.


Rebekah, my sister.

One of my favorite photos I've ever taken, the reflection in the window is great. Also, how it frames itself several times is ascetically pleasing to me.

My Dad, Martin. Dad. Dad Hall.

The saddest looking kid on the Michigan Diag.


Downtown A2 (Ann Arbor for all you out of towners.)

Thanks for looking!

Drawing 100 (Literally)

So, welcome to my digital portfolio blog. This may be simply an assignment for a class, but I really like the idea of keeping a digital version of my portfolio and I'll be updating all my course work here. Now everyone can see my work!

Before I delve into any current class work, I'll get you up to speed with my (limited) first semester of Michigan's Art & Design School. I had a drawing class, 100. It was a life drawing class (nudes! hehe) and I hadn't drawn since middle school so I was quite pleased with the results that I got out of myself. I've got a sampling of some of my favorite works from last semester below. I hope you enjoy, please feel free to leave comments at the bottom! Thanks!


This was from Halloween, the model kept her costume on, she didn't have horns for real. Sorry.