....hi. *waves*
I'm going to actually post an entry. I keep telling myself I'll do it and then never do. I'm always waiting for something else to happen or I'm too tired or I'll just think "they don't want to hear about that thing you just did". I'll make this one anyways.
First thing: SCHOOL. This semester is been at least 500x better than last semester. I'm doing a lot more, but I'm also more satisfied with my work. I spend 9 hours (no including the time I spend driving) at school on M-W, and 6 hours on Tu-Th.
Oddly enough, I think Tu-Th classes tire me out more. I don't have a break between classes and Life Drawing II on its own tires me out. I've been kinda trying to avoid this realization but I can't seem to avoid it: I don't think I life drawing.. just period. It's frustrating and often times I feel like my work from it is very sub-par. Though, often times I do notice when I look at it later on when I'm not being compared to others and I don't have the model to compare my work to I don't hate it quite as much.
I'm just super dissapointed. I thought it would be my favorite thing like.. EVER. I tried to like it, I wanted SO BADLY to like it, in class and out. But.. not only do I not like it, I hate doing it and I'm dissapointed in myself for that. I understand the good that it does me and how it affects my drawing skills outside of life drawing but the act of doing it just sucks. Maybe if I had more control over the situation I would be okay with it, when I work in mediums and techniques that I like I tend to do much better. I'm kinda glad to get that out of my system though.
Okay, all my other classes are pretty cool though. No bitching for any of the others ones! Sunshine and rainbows all around! Actually, I'm not entirely sure what to think of collage yet. There are cool things about it and the professor is pretty fun and has an interest in installation art (major bonus points there!) it's just a really slow moving class. That's for the best though I think given my other classes. I think there's potential for amazing things to go on here, but I just don't feel like I really know yet.
Printmaking has been insanely fun and interesting and I do so like Kate! She's like a polar opposite to Tony in that she doesn't make me nervous, she's okay with me making utilitarian things with the stuff I do in class and she's okay with our personal direction as artists (I felt like Tony always wanted to shift our direction a little closer to his own, do not like!) She's just really lovely as a professor and printmaking is just fun.
I think performance has been my favorite though. I feel like it's a really good medium for conceptual work and more personal work. I'm really interested in doing performance that uses clothing (or even textile in general) as a central element and I feel like there is a lot I can do with that. Our class feels really tightly knit too. A lot of the performances have been personal in nature, and I think that has a lot to do with it. I have to say, it is insanely therapeutic. I might try and take this one a second time if I can.
I'm still working on stuff for the show. I'm making pen drawings on fabric in embroidery hoops of people, there will be 10 total, but they'll be paired up. Each pair will have red thread connecting them in different ways. So far I've completed 2 drawings on the fabric, I have 1 I'm ready to trace onto fabric and 1 I'm in the midst drawing out on paper. They go by quickly so long as there are no anatomy issues. The biggest worry I have about this show is the installation. I know (at least) a few of my antlers need to be repaired. They're just very fragile and have tendencies to break during storage and transport. So, the closer I can repair them to the gallery, the better. There will be glue showing wherever it gets repaired, but that's not much of a problem since I can just wrap the string around those parts. I'm not worried about installing my new piece too much, I'll just need to get the thread run through them. I'm excited, just worried and anxious as well.
I like being busy, as tolling as it is on me. I like working hard, working out of class and going the extra mile on something that I want to be amazing. I think my last few semesters have shown me that: the more I do, the better I feel. I like to put as much as I can into things and that's what I'm really trying to do right now. I'm frequently tired, carefully keeping track of my schedule so I don't fall behind or get confused on dates and I'm often doing a bit of balancing act but personal work, school work and keeping my sanity in check but I feel really good about what I'm doing right now.
First thing: SCHOOL. This semester is been at least 500x better than last semester. I'm doing a lot more, but I'm also more satisfied with my work. I spend 9 hours (no including the time I spend driving) at school on M-W, and 6 hours on Tu-Th.
Oddly enough, I think Tu-Th classes tire me out more. I don't have a break between classes and Life Drawing II on its own tires me out. I've been kinda trying to avoid this realization but I can't seem to avoid it: I don't think I life drawing.. just period. It's frustrating and often times I feel like my work from it is very sub-par. Though, often times I do notice when I look at it later on when I'm not being compared to others and I don't have the model to compare my work to I don't hate it quite as much.
I'm just super dissapointed. I thought it would be my favorite thing like.. EVER. I tried to like it, I wanted SO BADLY to like it, in class and out. But.. not only do I not like it, I hate doing it and I'm dissapointed in myself for that. I understand the good that it does me and how it affects my drawing skills outside of life drawing but the act of doing it just sucks. Maybe if I had more control over the situation I would be okay with it, when I work in mediums and techniques that I like I tend to do much better. I'm kinda glad to get that out of my system though.
Okay, all my other classes are pretty cool though. No bitching for any of the others ones! Sunshine and rainbows all around! Actually, I'm not entirely sure what to think of collage yet. There are cool things about it and the professor is pretty fun and has an interest in installation art (major bonus points there!) it's just a really slow moving class. That's for the best though I think given my other classes. I think there's potential for amazing things to go on here, but I just don't feel like I really know yet.
Printmaking has been insanely fun and interesting and I do so like Kate! She's like a polar opposite to Tony in that she doesn't make me nervous, she's okay with me making utilitarian things with the stuff I do in class and she's okay with our personal direction as artists (I felt like Tony always wanted to shift our direction a little closer to his own, do not like!) She's just really lovely as a professor and printmaking is just fun.
I think performance has been my favorite though. I feel like it's a really good medium for conceptual work and more personal work. I'm really interested in doing performance that uses clothing (or even textile in general) as a central element and I feel like there is a lot I can do with that. Our class feels really tightly knit too. A lot of the performances have been personal in nature, and I think that has a lot to do with it. I have to say, it is insanely therapeutic. I might try and take this one a second time if I can.
I'm still working on stuff for the show. I'm making pen drawings on fabric in embroidery hoops of people, there will be 10 total, but they'll be paired up. Each pair will have red thread connecting them in different ways. So far I've completed 2 drawings on the fabric, I have 1 I'm ready to trace onto fabric and 1 I'm in the midst drawing out on paper. They go by quickly so long as there are no anatomy issues. The biggest worry I have about this show is the installation. I know (at least) a few of my antlers need to be repaired. They're just very fragile and have tendencies to break during storage and transport. So, the closer I can repair them to the gallery, the better. There will be glue showing wherever it gets repaired, but that's not much of a problem since I can just wrap the string around those parts. I'm not worried about installing my new piece too much, I'll just need to get the thread run through them. I'm excited, just worried and anxious as well.
I like being busy, as tolling as it is on me. I like working hard, working out of class and going the extra mile on something that I want to be amazing. I think my last few semesters have shown me that: the more I do, the better I feel. I like to put as much as I can into things and that's what I'm really trying to do right now. I'm frequently tired, carefully keeping track of my schedule so I don't fall behind or get confused on dates and I'm often doing a bit of balancing act but personal work, school work and keeping my sanity in check but I feel really good about what I'm doing right now.