33 posts tagged “school”
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 on 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.
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.
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.
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.
Today was the day of the follow-up meeting to the huge and emotionally-charged Art Center Student Government / student meeting from a couple of weeks ago (which was actually recorded and put up on youtube here), and this time Richard Koshalek (the president of the school) and the board of trustees were up there, front and center, to answer questions and basically be grilled by the few hundred students and alumni in attendance for two and a half hours.
A reporter from the LA Times was there, and his article is already up on the lat website, here: click it. It's a pretty impartial report and does a decent job of explaining the situation at Art Center right now. I could elaborate on some things, but it's all really complicated and I don't have the energy to go into it here. If anyone is interested in reading a blog ranting (intelligently) about the current problems at Art Center, you can go read the blog post that started it all: designercowboy.blogspot.com, and skim though the [at the moment, exactly] 800 comments left by students, alumni, faculty, and staff.
I thought today's meeting was pretty successful. I am thankful that it happened. There was a dialog between students and Koshalek/the board, and that was something that needed to happen. We are making the severity of our concern with the school known and we are (at least on some level) being heard and acknowledged. Some people who are in the position to know have informed us (the students/alum) that some of the answers we were given today were not entirely truthful--that there was a lot of spin going on--but it was still something, we did get somewhere, we were not ignored. Hopefully this whole thing has made an impression. Enough of an impression to make a difference.
There is a board of trustees meeting on the 19th (the time and location is being kept secret from us) that will decide on the renewal of Koashalek's contract. We're trying to figure out what more we can do before then.
Good! :
- My lunch! Let me show you it:
It consists of: quinoa, red lentils, black lentils, garbanzo beans, broccoli, white mushrooms, toasted sesame seeds, nori flakes, a little bit of ground flax, and a little bit of soy sauce. Yum. I am eating it as I type!
- I picked a topic for my Art of Research project! woo!
- Visiting friends tonight!
- Yesterday I learned how to use power tools. I now possess knowledge of how to use a band saw, a drill press, and a lathe. I am most excited about the lathe. It seems like my kind of tool. It and I have an understanding.
- Thomas and I will have been together for 2 years tomorrow. Pretty neat!
- I sort of hate to keep yanking things from Drawn!, but they featured another thing that I thought was really amazing and wanted to share. It's an animation made of paintings done on walls, graffiti style. It was done by an Italian street artist called Blu. Click here to watch it on his vimeo page. It is massively impressive.
Bad! :
- Working in the [um I don't know what it's called... the power tool room?] at school and inhaling large amounts of sawdust makes my nose all congested and dry. That is an especially bad thing for me because a dry inner-nose = nosebleed city. I woke up last night with a minor one. Maybe I should get some of that dumb nasal spray.
- While I will get to see Jeff and Ruth, I will not get to see Tommi, who will only be around during the time slot of my digital illustration class. :(
- Sunday was the stupidest driving day ever. I don't want to type out the whole thing, but just know that it sucked and that AAA is the Mario to my Princess Toadstool.
Neutral! :
- My hairs are getting long and I feel like I should cut them?
I said I'd post a picture of the as-big-as-me drawing once I took one, so here it is:
What happened: I got to class about an hour early just to give me some time to erase stray pencil lines, re-ink some spots, and generally clean it up before critique. I worked on it a little bit and everything went fine. But then 5 minutes before class was to start, I was putting my supplies away and cleaning up my area when I grabbed my nearly-full bottle of blue ink by the not-actually-screwed-on cap and spilled the whole thing onto the table, the floor, and the right edge of the drawing. Disaster! My frantic 2-second solution was to cut the figure free from the now-stained surrounding paper and add some more color splotches to make it look intentional. I think that cutting it out was a positive change.
As far as the drawing goes... it is about things like the beauty of the human body, starvation, protest, veganism, efficiency, body temperature, thermography, maps, and size.
I wish I had a place to put it.
I am back in school / school is back upon me. I am really glad, actually. I can feel like a real human again instead of a sea urchin. I was playing The Sims 2 so much that my brain is still working in sim-mode. I feel compelled to micro-manage all the tasks in my life and figure out the best way balance my different wants and needs in order to keep my health bar in the green as I race against the clock of life. Luckily, in real life it does not take me 5 minutes to walk across the room and I seldom wish to be abducted by aliens or throw sport parties or buy rugs costing at least $600 or make out with 6 different people or see ghosts or be saved from death.
sigh. I don't know any Sims 2 players. No one will get my geeky references.
Anyhoo (anywho?). I really liked my Materials class today. The two instructors are highly entertaining and interesting and I think it's going to be a great class.
I just got around to taking pictures of more school things...
The pink and blue one was done in one class session. I kind of like how the mailbox sorta looks like a second dog.
This is a combination of Mexican folk art designs and amanitas muscaria mushrooms. I was running on 0 hours of sleep when I drew it.
This was for drawing concepts. We had to paint a portrait of someone we had never seen, based only on the information given in his/her obituary. This is Kate Webb, an Australian woman who was a foreign correspondent news reporter in Cambodia during the Vietnam war. She was captured by Vietnamese troops and mistakenly reported as dead. After being held captive for three weeks, she was released for no apparent reason.
detail:
and how I imagined her feet might've felt...
I'm not sure how to begin to explain this one, but it means a lot to me and I am very happy about it.
This hairy sucker sort of relates to Stuffed-animal Face up there. These are also from drawing concepts.
That's all for now. I still need to take a presentable picture of the big drawing. I'll do it later.
PS: I just set up a flickr account where I'll keep all of my art junk organized! --->LINK
Well, I survived another term. All of my finals went surprisingly smoothly and I'm expecting pretty good grades.
Ahh I love not having any work due! There is nothing hanging over my head. It is a big relief.
Mmmm 3 weeks of freedom. I have no idea how I will fill the time. For now, I'll just vege.
