Another all-nighter spent painting. Woo Wednesday nights! :\. But my teacher liked the painting and I got an A-, which is very good. So I'm happy.
I'm glad that I am getting these assignments finished and handed in on time. I'm glad I am willing to suck it up and get the work done.
I'm not really sleepy but I'm tired and there has been a painful knot in my back for a couple weeks (from working at an easel) that is bothering me so I think I'll take a nap. Then I'll drive to Lancaster because today is my mom's Birthday.
Oh, something weird! :
Every week in Sketching for Illustration two designated students bring in visual representations of themselves and who they are as artists or as people or as whatever they are. It's show-and-tell, basically. Last week was my week and on of the things I brought in was my collection of grocery shopping lists I accumulated while working at the grocery store. Well today a guy in my class told me that one of his teachers works books much like Found Magazine, and that the other day she had said out of nowhere that she had an idea for a new book--one comprised entirely of shopping lists. Craaazy coincidence. He told her about how I'd brought a whole box full of them in to class just days earlier, and now I I've sorta got a business proposal on my hands.. -ish. I don't really know, I'm going to talk to her on Tuesday. I think it would be awesome for the lists to make it into a book.
What's your favorite song with "America" or "USA" in the title? Bonus points if you share it with us.
This is "American Way", a song by my friend Mark Morrison's band, Fisher J. Price, about a thrift store in Lancaster called the American Way. It reminds me of good times in the Antelope Valley.
As it happens, I bought a couple of good shirts at the American Way just yesterday.
Unrelatedly, I am happy because I just had a nice customer service call with my bank and the woman who took my call was very helpful and nice and I got a couple of things sorted out that had been bothering me for a while. So yay for good customer service and yay for bank business being taken care of.
Also unrelatedly, I am sculpting a plesiosaur. I will use it to make a plesiosaur mold with which I will be able to make hundreds of little plesiosaurs in bronze or aluminum or gold or plastic or Nerf-style squishy foam or soap or chocolate or etc. Pretty cool.
Been awake for 24 hours now and have been doing school-related business through most of them. Soon I'll be heading off to my 5-hour painting class. Blehhhh. I've reached that point where salvaging an hour of sleep wouldn't even be beneficial to me, unfortunately, so I'm just going to hang out for a few minutes here until I need to leave. I am really beat but I finished all of my homework and that's what matters. I can sleep this afternoon. Hopefully I'll get some cool hallucinations out of this. I already thought my hair was an animal once this morning. That's fun.
My back seriously hurts, though.
This week has been madness.
Bye now, chicklets.
What's making you smile today?
My portfolio review! It went extremely well! They really liked my art and gave me lots of compliments. Enthusiastic praise is hard to come by at this school, and receiving some today was really encouraging. They also gave me advice about moving forward and it was helpful to hear. I feel very good.
Thumb Up:
- Taking care of business. I've gotten most of the things I've needed to do done. Everything I need for tomorrow (which was a lot!) is ALL SET.
- So far, the new homeworks assigned this week are relatively easy.
- There is an apricot tree in the yard nextdoor and some of its branches hang over the wall into our porch area. The apricots are ripe and I've been eating a few every day. Picking a piece of fruit off a tree and eating it is a very satisfying thing.
- This week is getting closer to being over.
Thumbs Down:
- I did not get everything done and I feel guilty :(
- Tomorrow is going to be a horribly busy day. stressinnn.
- Dentist appointments! Aaaaaghhhhh. hate hate hate it.
- My bedroom is the biggest disaster. It was already an awful mess, and then yesterday I tore it apart like a crazy person searching for a piece of homework that I eventually remembered was actually in my car. Now it is straight up chaos.
- My alarm clock is busted and the fact that I need take time out of my day to drive into old town and buy another one pisses me off. This alarm clock was so cool, too. It allows you to set 2 different alarms, you can set them to go off on certain days of the week, it automatically adjusts itself in accordance with daylight savings time, it remembers your alarms even when it is unplugged, and when you set an alarm you are able to scroll through minutes forwards and backwards. Too bad its radio tuning and volume control goes insane after a year. Boo.
Last night/this morning I finished the big jellyfish I started over break. My 3rd term portfolio review is tomorrow and I wanted to get this done before then because they want to see us do non-school-related work (called "personal projects")and this is almost the only art I've done apart from schoolwork all year. Many Art Center students just don't DO art for themselves (because there is no time! and probably the last thing most of us want to do during the little free time we get is more art) and the higher-ups think it's important that we do. So I hope they dig this. (ie it isn't for school, but it is. It's not-for-school-ness makes it for school).
So anywho. Here's a big jellyfish drifting across some cardboard boxes:
Cutting out the top layer of the cardboard in all those sections with an exacto took the most time, was the most labor-intensive, was the most annoying, and was most definitely the messiest. I have cardboard scraps all over my floor and my bed and my clothes and basically everything. For a week I've been walking around with little brown paper scraps stuck to various spots on my body. Probably in my hair, too, but I wouldn't know. But it's cool. I'll clean it all up some day.
I like it! I think it's perdy and I'm glad I decided to paint it. It looked pretty cool when the only differences between areas were the levels of depth in the cardboard, but I like it this way.
And now back to more homework. This week has been Stress Mountain. I can't wait until Thursday afternoon.
woo midterms and portfolio review in the same week! jerks :(
Although almost every day at Six Apart is Take Your Dog to Work Day, Friday was extra special because it was the official Take Your Dog to Work Day! Plus, as lovers of blogs and animals, we think it's great that active blogger and Human Society's President and CEO, Wayne Pacelle, thinks having dogs around the office is a good reminder of "who we're working for."
We realize some people have it ruff and aren't lucky enough to be able to bring their dog to work, but hopefully these pictures taken at Six Apart last Friday will get your tails wagging... And let me tell you, it's harder than it looks to get all the doggies and their fetching owners in one picture.
HOLY SHIT
Koshalek's contract is NOT being renewed! I can't believe it! I can't believe they actually listened to us. Dude I was so fully expecting nothing to happen. I don't even know what to say. I hope we did a good thing here.
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, today is the summer solstice. For ancient civilizations, this day was akin to our modern day New Year's Eve and was viewed as a time to reflect and renew. So why not kick off your summer celebration with a new theme?
See all of our themes in the Design Area.
Or choose from one of these brand-new themes. (Available under "New.")
man. I've been painting all day. I started at like 11:30 and just cleaned up my stuff at 8:00. Ridiculous. I spend way too much time on these things. It is unnecessary and it hurts my back. And I've still got another painting to do before Thursday. But hey I'm pretty happy with the painting. It looks good. Want a picture?
and, BTW, I hate acrylic.
Okay, my dinner is done cooking now. Mmm, food.
