jo's blog

  Hello! Today I’m going to talk about changes that I would do to my study programme/career. Currently I’m on my fourth year of Plastic Arts at the Universidad de Chile, and after all this time studying there, I’ve noticed some things that could be improved. Firstly, I think that in terms of curriculum, we should have a subject to teach us how to survive as artists after finishing the career. I remember that in second year we had a subject named Management of Artistic Projects, and they taught us how to apply for art funding contests, but I think that’s not enough for showing us how the real art world operates on a daily basis, especially if one wants to make a living by doing art. The other thing that is **urgent** is a rebuilt of the facilities. Honestly, I think it should be illegal for the Uni to have a Faculty like ours. There are so many unsafe installations. A few examples are: poorly-made electrical plugs, bad ovens of the ceramic workshop that could explode anytime, an...

This painting is part of the "Antipaisaje como espacio liminal" series. Hello there! So, during this pandemic I haven't done much, apart from going to online classes. My mood has been really off, honestly. If I'm not doing Uni stuff I'm probably sleeping because I have little to no motivation to do anything else :(  But, one of my interests as an aspiring artist is doing digital art! This year I finally got to upgrade my graphic tablet, as I wasn't giving much use to my old one because it was working badly. So, when I bought a new one I started doing stuff again! This is a work in progress ehehe It's part of a little comic page I'm working on. As a traditional artist, I'm a painter, and my style is somewhat realistic (I think?), but with digital art I try to do illustration. Drawing is really challenging for me, so I don't really have a style yet, but I guess I'm influenced by comic and anime. I try to have fun with digital art, and I mostl...

Her tongue often sticks out XD  Hi! Today I will be talking about my little grumpy dog! Her name is Amaranta, and she is the only pet I have had in my whole life. We got her when I was 8 or 9 years old. So, Amaranta is a Yorkshire Terrier, and she is 13 years old. My big sister named her like that because of a character of the novel  "Cien años de soledad"  by Gabriel García Márquez, and I've always thought that it's a bit long for a dog, but regardless, I find it to be a really cool name! She's always been kinda bad-tempered, specially with strangers. For example, if someone gets remotely close to us while taking a walk, she instantly gets super mad and starts to bark at them. And when she was younger, she often growled at us for no reason at all lol But I've noticed that as she grew old, she has changed, and she's not as cranky as she was a few years ago. This year, Amaranta has been through a rough time, firstly because she's going a little blind, a...