Well, I haven't kept up with this blog AT ALL. But anyway, I've graduated, and everything's set for the summer. Unfortunately, the Swine Flu and my friend getting bit by a shark in St. Augustine has prevented us from going to Mexico again (which was great when I went, by the way), but I'm still good for Egypt--May 23 to June 8. Can't wait!
AAAAANNNNNDDDD I got the GHD position! SUPER happy.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
What a rare mood I'm in!
I'm so H A P P Y !!!
Why, you ask? Well, I found out (unofficially) that I got accepted into the Graduate Art Education program at UF last night! And the Professor told me I was one of their strongest applicants, so that served as the veritable orange marmalade on the coconut shrimp. :D
The Juried show went very well last night, I had a pretty fabulous time. Did lots of relaxing afterward, too. I've been sketching a bit and working on painting, a lot more of which I must, must, MUST get done today. And especially drawing--I haven't done nearly as much as I should be doing...in the past two weeks, I've only knocked out one of the thirty heads I need to finish (see below) and it's my own.
Hm. Changed the layout of this blog in order to celebrate newly-admitted status as a UF grad student. Paid for graduation regalia (although personally, I'd be perfectly satisfied just getting my diploma in the mail), and treated myself to a UFARTED shirt, now that I can really wear one.
This morning, I volunteered at the second monthly art camp for kids, working on sketchbooks. I had a lot of fun! Luckily, I got to work with the older kids (10-12+), which is what I LARGELY prefer. Had a few of the same ones we had last month--this one kid, Bernie, is my favorite. He's so funny! And talented--in January, he did this blind contour drawing of a steer skull that just blew me away. And this time, we worked with comic book themes and narratives. What happened was everybody came up with a name/character and wrote it down on a little strip of paper. They were then shuffled around and passed out again. Bernie got a strip this other little girl made, with a character named "Blush Bloom." Instead of following through and making it into a fey little fairy tale, he turned it into this crazy looking terminator flower-type that anything and everything, bombing national treasures and destroying important country officials. I affectionately refer to it as "Weed-Killa."
So I had a much better, more relaxed time than last month. Last time, I was just way too nervous and high-strung. I was better able to go with the flow and stay encouraging this time...but I still couldn't have done it without Lauren. She's such a big help, and she's on top of things. I'm not quite at that stage where I can take complete charge and know what's going on, but I hope to get better at it through more experience.
Alright, must go grocery shopping and geet to vork!
Why, you ask? Well, I found out (unofficially) that I got accepted into the Graduate Art Education program at UF last night! And the Professor told me I was one of their strongest applicants, so that served as the veritable orange marmalade on the coconut shrimp. :D
The Juried show went very well last night, I had a pretty fabulous time. Did lots of relaxing afterward, too. I've been sketching a bit and working on painting, a lot more of which I must, must, MUST get done today. And especially drawing--I haven't done nearly as much as I should be doing...in the past two weeks, I've only knocked out one of the thirty heads I need to finish (see below) and it's my own.
Hm. Changed the layout of this blog in order to celebrate newly-admitted status as a UF grad student. Paid for graduation regalia (although personally, I'd be perfectly satisfied just getting my diploma in the mail), and treated myself to a UFARTED shirt, now that I can really wear one.
This morning, I volunteered at the second monthly art camp for kids, working on sketchbooks. I had a lot of fun! Luckily, I got to work with the older kids (10-12+), which is what I LARGELY prefer. Had a few of the same ones we had last month--this one kid, Bernie, is my favorite. He's so funny! And talented--in January, he did this blind contour drawing of a steer skull that just blew me away. And this time, we worked with comic book themes and narratives. What happened was everybody came up with a name/character and wrote it down on a little strip of paper. They were then shuffled around and passed out again. Bernie got a strip this other little girl made, with a character named "Blush Bloom." Instead of following through and making it into a fey little fairy tale, he turned it into this crazy looking terminator flower-type that anything and everything, bombing national treasures and destroying important country officials. I affectionately refer to it as "Weed-Killa."
So I had a much better, more relaxed time than last month. Last time, I was just way too nervous and high-strung. I was better able to go with the flow and stay encouraging this time...but I still couldn't have done it without Lauren. She's such a big help, and she's on top of things. I'm not quite at that stage where I can take complete charge and know what's going on, but I hope to get better at it through more experience.
Alright, must go grocery shopping and geet to vork!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Ha-cha-chaa!
Good news! You know those foul paintings I was forcing myself to finish way back when? I got an A on them!!! And not because my hard work paid off, or that they suddenly became wonderful--they were still awful. I mean, it was as if I bought a little pot of liquid ass and smeared it all over the canvas. But JC liked them! And that means a lot, as he is my faaaaaaavorite professor, and he knows his stuff. Even if I don't understand what that stuff is. I'm just glad that apparently my terrible paintings had a little of that in them.
Unfortunately, I've already rested (oh, how I've rested) on those laurels, and critique for our other batch of paintings is one week from tomorrow. And in addition to that, there's also a sketchbook check on Tuesday. But it's all good, I've been sketching a little tonight, TBC (and ideally finished) tomorrow. I plan on shooting out the other paintings and getting them to a "finished" place by Tuesday, so he can tell me what's wrong and what I need to fix for Thursday.
That leaves drawing. I really have to work on that. I've been doing precious little work these days...got an serious case of the senioritus.
Well, juried show is Friday, and I have an art camp I need to volunteer for Saturday morning. Stupid me, I missed the prep meeting tonight...that certainly doesn't bode well for my Grad school apps. Oy!
Okeedokee. Must sleep (as if the 14 hours I had last night wasn't enough). Night!
Unfortunately, I've already rested (oh, how I've rested) on those laurels, and critique for our other batch of paintings is one week from tomorrow. And in addition to that, there's also a sketchbook check on Tuesday. But it's all good, I've been sketching a little tonight, TBC (and ideally finished) tomorrow. I plan on shooting out the other paintings and getting them to a "finished" place by Tuesday, so he can tell me what's wrong and what I need to fix for Thursday.
That leaves drawing. I really have to work on that. I've been doing precious little work these days...got an serious case of the senioritus.
Well, juried show is Friday, and I have an art camp I need to volunteer for Saturday morning. Stupid me, I missed the prep meeting tonight...that certainly doesn't bode well for my Grad school apps. Oy!
Okeedokee. Must sleep (as if the 14 hours I had last night wasn't enough). Night!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Happy Chocolate Appreciation Day
Okay, so I'm working on getting my butt in gear for Drawing. Good news is, I got into the Juried show! YEEEEAH! And I finished framing my work (it's the horizontal vomiting picture), so that's done. Successfully applied for Grad school AND the position of a Graduate Hall Director (but I need to turn in my final letter of Recommendation for that), and I am soon to apply for financial aid.
Back to Drawing--I have an idea! That sprung from all the little dumb photoshop things I do for fun (recently, it was drawing myself as a Disney-fied princess). I'm making paper dolls! But instead of changing the clothes, I'm changing heads (ala Princess Langwidere). The base will be me, and the heads will be very generic versions of people I know (the Mother, the Scholar, the Model, etc) I think. Initially, it was going to be people I knew, but Julia asked me how people were supposed to know my relationship with them, and I wondered at that, too. So I'm not too sure what I'm going to do or how I'm going to go about...whatever I'm doing...but I'm thinking of coming up with 30 distinct "identities" and try and capture as much of that on one head as I can.
The size and scale are two troublesome factors I'm working on...initially, I had planned to draw them directly-proportional and life-sized, but now I'm leaning heavily towards the "Super-Deformed," extra-large heads (that make me look like a UFO doll). But I'm not sure how big I'd really want them to be...I think I'd like to make the heads about twice the size of a normal head, but the body about half the size of a normal body (or at least 2/3).
Well, I'm exhausted. Hopefully I'll get some work done tomorrow!
Back to Drawing--I have an idea! That sprung from all the little dumb photoshop things I do for fun (recently, it was drawing myself as a Disney-fied princess). I'm making paper dolls! But instead of changing the clothes, I'm changing heads (ala Princess Langwidere). The base will be me, and the heads will be very generic versions of people I know (the Mother, the Scholar, the Model, etc) I think. Initially, it was going to be people I knew, but Julia asked me how people were supposed to know my relationship with them, and I wondered at that, too. So I'm not too sure what I'm going to do or how I'm going to go about...whatever I'm doing...but I'm thinking of coming up with 30 distinct "identities" and try and capture as much of that on one head as I can.
The size and scale are two troublesome factors I'm working on...initially, I had planned to draw them directly-proportional and life-sized, but now I'm leaning heavily towards the "Super-Deformed," extra-large heads (that make me look like a UFO doll). But I'm not sure how big I'd really want them to be...I think I'd like to make the heads about twice the size of a normal head, but the body about half the size of a normal body (or at least 2/3).
Well, I'm exhausted. Hopefully I'll get some work done tomorrow!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
RRRARRRRRGGGHH
::Insert high-pitched bitchy scream here:: !!!!!!
I don't want to do it I don't want to do it I don't want to do it I don't want to do it I don't want to do it I don't want to do it!!!!
It's those awful paintings. I'm trying--really I am--to get those God-awful things finished, because they're due soon and I've barely a lick of acrylic on any of them, but I just can't get myself to finish them! They are quite the opposite of what I want to do. It's not even so much that I don't want to do them, it's now that I really want to NOT do them.
Ugh...I reeeeally want to drop this class. But I can't. I need it to graduate, and I'm graduating this May or dying, and I've just spent the past few days on the phone arranging a tour to Egypt in late May and there's simply no way in hell I am going to throw that away.
So, I've got to get them done. But I am certainly not going to be happy about it.
And I'm not doing it today!
I don't want to do it I don't want to do it I don't want to do it I don't want to do it I don't want to do it I don't want to do it!!!!
It's those awful paintings. I'm trying--really I am--to get those God-awful things finished, because they're due soon and I've barely a lick of acrylic on any of them, but I just can't get myself to finish them! They are quite the opposite of what I want to do. It's not even so much that I don't want to do them, it's now that I really want to NOT do them.
Ugh...I reeeeally want to drop this class. But I can't. I need it to graduate, and I'm graduating this May or dying, and I've just spent the past few days on the phone arranging a tour to Egypt in late May and there's simply no way in hell I am going to throw that away.
So, I've got to get them done. But I am certainly not going to be happy about it.
And I'm not doing it today!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Helloooo!
Ah, the first post in a long time. Well, I kinda knew that this blog would be a sporadic one...
I had a very nice, very short, relaxing break. Unfortunately, so short it was that I have unintentionally taken it upon myself to drag it into the first semester, reading my fill of smut and sleeping more than my share of unconscious hours when I should be getting back to work.
About that: I'm currently taking Printmaking: Figure Ground, Painting: Structure and Transformation, Women's Choir, and continuing with the second semester of Advanced Drawing. I can already see how these classes are going to pan out, as I am in the third week and copped a good feel on each of them (that doesn't make sense, but I really wanted to write it). Painting is a killer. I have my first project due next week, and I don't like it. I'm really not into it. It's this bizarre abstract crap that I just can't force myself to be interested in, much worse, actually do. It's something I know I won't be proud of when I finish it, and it's definitely not something I'll feel comfortable defending. Worse still, it's with my favorite professor, and I really don't want to disappoint him. Not that he has any personal investment in me or my future; I doubt he'd care if I didn't do anything at all--but I really want him to see me doing well.
And I can't even drop the class if it comes to that point. I have to take a 3000-level studio course, and that was the only one for which I had the pre-req.s and the time.
Printmaking is going to be my time-hogging class; the one where I get so wrapped up in doing it more than others that I devote too much more of my time to it than I do to either Painting or Drawing. Which isn't necessarily a good thing; I don't particularly need this 2000-level course, I just took it for fun and experience. And I really need to distribute my focus on other things.
Women's Choir is the stress reliever. I'm not too sure I've taken one of those before, except of course when I took Women's Choir freshman year. Either way, I'm glad I'm in it, and I'm having fun.
Advanced Drawing...is Advanced Drawing. But turbo-time. We have a new teacher, and she's very nice to talk to, but she is a hard-ass when it comes to work and extra stuff...can't say I'm too enthused to be writing an 8 page paper and preparing a 15-minute presentation in a class for DRAWING. Not to mention all the reading we're supposed to do....UGHHHHH
And she hates the drawings I did last semester (basically, all I worked on last semester) and wants me to draw them over again. (There are no emoticons sad enough to express my reaction.)
But I'll do it! I'm desperate to seek her approval. She's just playing hard-to-get, and I will win.
On a bright note, I made it into the Juried Show!
I had a very nice, very short, relaxing break. Unfortunately, so short it was that I have unintentionally taken it upon myself to drag it into the first semester, reading my fill of smut and sleeping more than my share of unconscious hours when I should be getting back to work.
About that: I'm currently taking Printmaking: Figure Ground, Painting: Structure and Transformation, Women's Choir, and continuing with the second semester of Advanced Drawing. I can already see how these classes are going to pan out, as I am in the third week and copped a good feel on each of them (that doesn't make sense, but I really wanted to write it). Painting is a killer. I have my first project due next week, and I don't like it. I'm really not into it. It's this bizarre abstract crap that I just can't force myself to be interested in, much worse, actually do. It's something I know I won't be proud of when I finish it, and it's definitely not something I'll feel comfortable defending. Worse still, it's with my favorite professor, and I really don't want to disappoint him. Not that he has any personal investment in me or my future; I doubt he'd care if I didn't do anything at all--but I really want him to see me doing well.
And I can't even drop the class if it comes to that point. I have to take a 3000-level studio course, and that was the only one for which I had the pre-req.s and the time.
Printmaking is going to be my time-hogging class; the one where I get so wrapped up in doing it more than others that I devote too much more of my time to it than I do to either Painting or Drawing. Which isn't necessarily a good thing; I don't particularly need this 2000-level course, I just took it for fun and experience. And I really need to distribute my focus on other things.
Women's Choir is the stress reliever. I'm not too sure I've taken one of those before, except of course when I took Women's Choir freshman year. Either way, I'm glad I'm in it, and I'm having fun.
Advanced Drawing...is Advanced Drawing. But turbo-time. We have a new teacher, and she's very nice to talk to, but she is a hard-ass when it comes to work and extra stuff...can't say I'm too enthused to be writing an 8 page paper and preparing a 15-minute presentation in a class for DRAWING. Not to mention all the reading we're supposed to do....UGHHHHH
And she hates the drawings I did last semester (basically, all I worked on last semester) and wants me to draw them over again. (There are no emoticons sad enough to express my reaction.)
But I'll do it! I'm desperate to seek her approval. She's just playing hard-to-get, and I will win.
On a bright note, I made it into the Juried Show!
Monday, December 1, 2008
It's been a very long time.
Hello! Well, school is wrapping up, and I'm full-steam-aheading towards my last semester as a UF undergrad...hopefully I'll slide right into my first semester as a UF grad school student! But who knows (I am going to end this sentence in a period even though I know it is technically a question). I just registered to take the GRE on Thursday (!), and I hope I do reasonably well on it...I know I'm probably not going to study, and Michelle (Art Ed Graduate Advisor) told me to just get it out of the way and not worry too much about it, so I figured I might as well take it and not put it off any longer. Besides, I'll feel much more relieved once it's over with.
Had an art show last Sunday called "new work" with my fellow Advanced Drawing majors.
The turnout was pretty impressive, actually...I got to show all I've been working on this semester in Drawing (with the exception of my sketches), some with which I was pleased, others with which I was satisfied, and one or two I would have liked to have improved but lost interest and ceased to care.
Well, as of right now, I am thinking about what to do for my Final Project in DIG 3110 (yet again, worried about that class!). Has to be somewhat lo-fi, and I have to say, I'm finding this class less and less worth it. Ugh. But whatever...I've come this far, and I have to just stick it out and come up with something, even if it is completely uninteresting. But at least I'll be projecting it on pantyhose.
Hmph. Anyhoo...I suppose I'll write more later?
Had an art show last Sunday called "new work" with my fellow Advanced Drawing majors.
The turnout was pretty impressive, actually...I got to show all I've been working on this semester in Drawing (with the exception of my sketches), some with which I was pleased, others with which I was satisfied, and one or two I would have liked to have improved but lost interest and ceased to care.
Well, as of right now, I am thinking about what to do for my Final Project in DIG 3110 (yet again, worried about that class!). Has to be somewhat lo-fi, and I have to say, I'm finding this class less and less worth it. Ugh. But whatever...I've come this far, and I have to just stick it out and come up with something, even if it is completely uninteresting. But at least I'll be projecting it on pantyhose.
Hmph. Anyhoo...I suppose I'll write more later?
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