by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Artist weekly Log
Me with my three beautiful daughters in a ball pit.
What a week! Sometimes art happens, and sometimes other things happen while you are trying to do art. This week a little of both happened. As many of you know I am a High School Art Teacher. For me this was the first week of the new semester. Since my last post I have done a lot in terms of getting students grades finalized, my classroom deep cleaned, and prepared for a new semester. On top of this my wife has flown to Florida for a conference and I am have taken half of the week of to be with my kids. Any of you stay at home parents out there can testify, it’s not easy getting things done with a 2 year old around. Despite the joys and challenges this week has had I have been able to get some artwork done. One thing I did this week is took pics of models for one of my new sculptures. I then sketched out the composition. Here is a picture of me hard at work. I like this picture because it wasn’t posed like many of my “me creating art” pictures are. I was just sketching and then my wife was taking the picture.
Here is the picture of the final sketch. The final piece will be a relief wall sculpture. If you can’t tell, this is a depiction of The parable of the Good Samaritan. This is one of my favorite stories in the bible. It teaches up that no matter who we are and no matter what our differences are we can always be a good neighbor.
The past couple days I have spent taking care of this beautiful girl. Her name is Eden and she is perfect. We have done a lot of dancing and singing and reading and laughing. I adore her. I tried to sculpt on my lion while she sculpted with play dough. It worked for a little while but then my other daughter got home from kinder garden and things went crazy. Later that night I found that one of my girls decided to help me smooth out my sculpture. isn’t that sweet? Lucky not too much damage occurred but it pretty much made any work I got done that day pointless.
In the meantime I have been brushing up on my Anatomy Knowledge and how it applies to Facial Expressions. I’ve been reading this book “The Artists Complete Guide to Facial Expression”. If you are at all interested in this I highly recommend it. This book would put many people to sleep but I find it facinating.
Other things accomplished this week. I applied for representation at another Art Gallery. This time for a gallery in Bozeman Montana. We will see how that goes. And I have finalized dates for my Solo Exhibition at the Carr Gallery in Idaho Falls. The show dates will be November 5th, 2015 – January 15th, 2016. I still have the kids all to myself until Sunday night. I am determined to get some more artwork done during this time. Probably after my kids go to sleep. Until next week… I hope you are inspired and happy.
Daniel Borup
by admin | Jan 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year!
2014 was a great year. For me it was full of many leaps and bounds as well as some disappointments along the way. Over the years I have come to accept the fact that no matter how great and noble my resolutions are at the beginning of the year, by the end of the year they just didn’t happen and often times weren’t realistic. This post is not about my theories on how to make and keep new years resolutions. But, I would like to tell you my resolution and maybe you can help me keep it. I also want to tell you some of the highlights of 2014.
My Resolution:
Simply put, I am going to regularly post to my blog. That’s it! Once a week (Thursday) I am going to write a blog post about the steps I made as an artist that week. This will be a way for my collectors to get a better understanding of me and my creative process. It will also be a place for other artists to learn from and find inspiration. It will also help keep me on track and doing the things I should. In short this blog will be about my journey as a professional artist.
So what can you do to help me keep it? If you haven’t already done so, you can subscribe to my newsletter. (sign up form in the side bar to the left, and the footer on this page) In this news letter I will be sending email notifications whenever there is a new blog post. Please read my posts and make comments. That way I know people are reading them, and it will be much easier for me to keep a blog if I know people are reading it. You will also get the added benefit of being among the first to know about pre-sales and other deals on my artwork.
Rather than setting a bunch of lofty goals that are unlikely to be accomplished. This year I am setting a small goal that I know I can accomplish. My hope is that this goal will snowball into some other lofty accomplishments.
Coming Up This Year:
I already have some exiting things planned for 2015, that you can look forward to. I am scheduled for an artist residency at the Idaho Art Lab the first week of March. This will be an exciting week of lots of artwork being created and I will be posting regular updates on Facebook and Instagram and of course a good blogpost about that.
I am also scheduled for a solo exhibition at the Carr Gallery in Idaho Falls around November 2015-Jannuary 2016.
2014 Highlights:
Tons of things happened this year here are some of the more exciting moments including pictures.
Artist in residence at Idaho Art Lab. This is a sculpture I did for my public demonstration on Portrait Sculpture and Anatomy.
Grafitti Mural at Barron Photography
Successful Kickstarter Campaign to Bonze My Sculpture Shelter
I made my first sculpture video while I was doing my artist residency. You can see me do an entire sculpture (took about 8 hours) in less than 8 minutes. Click on the link below to be directed to youtube.
http://youtu.be/tGi6pNdikrs
I received the Judges Award and best in sculpture professional division at the Eastern Idaho State Fair.
Finished and donated 19 Splatter Paintings to the Idaho Falls Arts Council
Painted 60 foot mural at the Dance Studio
I am looking forward to another great year and I hope you will join me in this journey and follow my blog.
Thanks for Reading.
by admin | May 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s the last day of school. Here is a painting by a student of mine. It will be going in the hallway at Shelley High School. I’m pretty proud of this student she did an excellent job. The painting is 4 feet tall.
by admin | May 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve been working on a figure sculpture with my high school students. Our model is an exchange student from Africa. Sculpting from life is so much fun. I love being an artist.
