I forgot to post this drawing to the blog last week. I had taken a picture of a swirly blob of paint I scraped from my palette and began to sketch it in graphite. After a few minutes it started to look like an elderly fish, so I exaggerated it's fish-like features. I had forgotten that art doesn't always have to be so serious and that I can goof off sometimes if I want to until I started my internship with a local Philadelphia artist this semester.
Marie Ulmer, 95, graduated from the University of the Arts (Museum School) illustration department in 1941. I'm in charge of inventorying at least 100 pieces of her life's work and it's been amazing to see all the things this little woman has made. She has hundreds of watercolor still life's, portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes and has worked with silkscreen, acrylics, ceramics, fibers, found objects... pretty much everything. Sometimes she can work very realistically and other times she lets her illustrative side out. Her favorite works are what she calls her "fantasy" pieces which are done in a variety of media. I've asked her about her favorite mediums and subject matter and she says she just loves to make things, she's not picky about the what or the how.
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