Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Dueling Flowers





"Dueling Flowers" as my professor called them were a lot of work. The idea seemed simple enough, make a trough full of moving flowers, but making it work was a big mess. The end product was a machine you can crank that makes flowers move as if there is a breeze.


You can see down into the trough some of the sophisticated part of the project. You really have to see it in action to get the full effect, Lately I have been thinking of hooking it to a motor, right now it is hand cranked.
After working countless hours on cams and what not on the inside of the trough, I decided I wanted all that hard work to be seen so I covered the trough with Plexiglas. You can see the individual cranks that rotate on the center shaft and the wood "washers" that spin when it is cranked.











Monday, May 25, 2009

Art League Portfolio Pictures

White Chalk on black paper 1994

Quilt approx 7'x7' 2002




Quilt approx 7'x7' 2001


Vehicle Graphics 2004


Oil Painting on Canvas 2001





Assemblage pieces 2009





Mini-scape 2004






Plaster Easter Peep 2000




Oil Panting on canvas 2004




Assemblage Piece for Holography 2001




Oil Painting on Canvas 2001


Oil Painting on Canvas 2001




Oil Painting on Canvas 2001










Thursday, March 12, 2009

Artist Statement

Dennis Schaub was born in Lima Ohio in 1977. He grew up in a small mid western town until age 12, when his parents moved the family to a small farm. This rural setting would shape his work in later years. He began attended The Ohio State University in the fall of 1995 with an undeclared major. Upon taking a beginning drawing class his instructor urged him to take a digital media class being offered for the first time at OSU. This would be the beginning of his calling towards "Art & Technology". The combination of Fine Arts and Computer Technology was a comfortable one for him, in that it was a combination of being creative or "artsy" and smart or "geekish". In the fall 1998 Dennis was accepted into the "Arts & Technology" college at The Ohio State University. His work mostly focused on the utilitarian, it was useful, meaningful, simple, his own, reflecting his mid western values & rural sense. A combination of usefulness and raw creativity, balances between the geek and artisan. His "Yellow Exhibition" culminated his college career in 2001 at the The Ohio Union in Columbus. A presentation of a multitude of works from holography and 3D digital images to sculpture and quilting, the Yellow Exhibition would recognize that his work doesn't follow a specific medium, but is a balancing act of two worlds. To date he has worked in the mediums of wood, plaster, stained glass, snow, sand, drawing, painting, photography, holography, computer graphics, print media and outdoor advertising. His current work focuses on high relief, painting with objects or "assemblage".

Monday, January 12, 2009

Fruit Bowl




This was my first project in Art 182, 3-D Design. We where just supposed to make geometric shapes out of card stock material which sounds extremely easy, but try making a Great Rhombicuboctahedron (26 sided shape)!






Craftsmanship was also very important so that all my edges matches up precisely. These are just a few more pictures of my shapes. I took the extra pictures to include in a book we had to make of all our art projects.









This assignment helped me out some in my fruit bowl assignment in that I had to make spheres for the fruit out of this same card stock material.





First Blog Post




I think I want to make this blog about my artwork, or lack thereof? I think this will hold me accountable to be more creative and to do more, we shall see. In the mean time I will be posting past works and ideas I have for the future (aka Spring). Enjoy!