HOME SOON :D
I'm heading back home on the 8th! It should've been the 4th, but Sophie's last final isn't until the following Tuesday, and she and I are sharing a storage unit. (She's from California and has no way of moving stuff currently. She's going to drive back here, though, so she'll have a way to move things. Well, I thought she was. Now I'm not sure. XD;) I cannot WAIT to get home and see people and my DOG. You have no idea how much I just want to have a lap full of excited Lola right now. I was hoping Mom could bring her down when she comes to get me, but the idea is really silly. Mom would have to leave early in the morning, she couldn't feed Lola because Lola gets sick in the car if she's eaten... it wouldn't work out. I'll likely have to wait until I get home. And even then, that might actually end up being a night spent in PA before heading back to Brooklyn, as the house is closer to Juniata than the apartment by two hours.
Tuesday I didn't give a crap about anything, and today, my body decided to give me a very unpleasant surprise, and I've been dealing with it all day. I skipped both my classes just because I could not leave my bed. This morning was hell. When I get back home, I need a trip to the doctor to sort myself out. Nothing serious, just major annoyance.
I've been drawing a lot lately... except a lot of that's been in a small sketchbook I picked up just to have a small wire-bound one. The other one I have is six inches square and has a spine, which irriates me to no end. I was trying to remember to draw in the book for Art Therapy--we had the option of doing a visual journal for extra credit--and I kept forgetting to do it until about a week ago, when I found myself missing Oliver a ridiculous amount and decided to recreate one of my favorite photos of him in colored pencil. I was super happy with the result, and my artmaking's just taken off since. I've been experimenting with watercolor in those pages, too. Right now the sketchbook is with Leah, so she can look at the pictures, so I'm using my large book. I've got a drawing of Skyward Sword!Link that I used a screenshot as a reference for in it, and I'm currently working on a redraw of two characters I've only ever drawn once before. I'm noticing a huge shift in the way I go about drawing since going through art therapy: I'm much less likely to hem and haw about what I should draw, and more likely to just start doodling and work it out as I go. This is what I wanted to happen from the beginning of the semester.
My life is in the ceramics studio right now. Lots of glazing happening. I was just in there tonight glazing something that probably won't look great once it's done. :\ I'm not overly happy with that piece; it could've been made in a different way and it would've turned out better, but now it just looks a mess. It's an abstraction of the flashlight I reproduced. I'm kinda hoping the abstract gets dropped by someone and gets destroyed, I feel that badly about it. On the plus side, a student saw my apple reproduction at the Liberal Arts Symposium art exhibition and liked it so much she wants to buy it. :D I only charged her $25 because she's a student probably making minimum wage and it didn't take me long to make the apple at all, but still, I sold something that I made. I think I need to thank Bethany for giving Patrick and me a relatively simple apple to make. Some of the apples she had were crazy, but ours was more or less what an apple should look like.
Also, the Link Making Faces Tumblr is the best thing ever. Especially this post. I'd buy that game just for the name. XD
Tuesday I didn't give a crap about anything, and today, my body decided to give me a very unpleasant surprise, and I've been dealing with it all day. I skipped both my classes just because I could not leave my bed. This morning was hell. When I get back home, I need a trip to the doctor to sort myself out. Nothing serious, just major annoyance.
I've been drawing a lot lately... except a lot of that's been in a small sketchbook I picked up just to have a small wire-bound one. The other one I have is six inches square and has a spine, which irriates me to no end. I was trying to remember to draw in the book for Art Therapy--we had the option of doing a visual journal for extra credit--and I kept forgetting to do it until about a week ago, when I found myself missing Oliver a ridiculous amount and decided to recreate one of my favorite photos of him in colored pencil. I was super happy with the result, and my artmaking's just taken off since. I've been experimenting with watercolor in those pages, too. Right now the sketchbook is with Leah, so she can look at the pictures, so I'm using my large book. I've got a drawing of Skyward Sword!Link that I used a screenshot as a reference for in it, and I'm currently working on a redraw of two characters I've only ever drawn once before. I'm noticing a huge shift in the way I go about drawing since going through art therapy: I'm much less likely to hem and haw about what I should draw, and more likely to just start doodling and work it out as I go. This is what I wanted to happen from the beginning of the semester.
My life is in the ceramics studio right now. Lots of glazing happening. I was just in there tonight glazing something that probably won't look great once it's done. :\ I'm not overly happy with that piece; it could've been made in a different way and it would've turned out better, but now it just looks a mess. It's an abstraction of the flashlight I reproduced. I'm kinda hoping the abstract gets dropped by someone and gets destroyed, I feel that badly about it. On the plus side, a student saw my apple reproduction at the Liberal Arts Symposium art exhibition and liked it so much she wants to buy it. :D I only charged her $25 because she's a student probably making minimum wage and it didn't take me long to make the apple at all, but still, I sold something that I made. I think I need to thank Bethany for giving Patrick and me a relatively simple apple to make. Some of the apples she had were crazy, but ours was more or less what an apple should look like.
Also, the Link Making Faces Tumblr is the best thing ever. Especially this post. I'd buy that game just for the name. XD