A rather peppy entry
The assignment was to do a large abstract painting which had to be at least 4 feet in one dimension, (mine is 4 by 2ft). I don't do abstract anything. Any time an abstraction is assigned i revert to my circles and art neuvoesque swirls and lines. I did this again. Everyone else splattered the canvas, or painted solid blocks of color, or some other such shit which is quick and easy. Teacher person planned for this and gave us slightly less then a week to do the painting. Of course i just had to make it hard on myself with those damn swirls and circles (not solid color, mind you, but with highlights and shadows for all of course). So the painting is due this wed. and i have worked about 10 hours on it today. Would have been more, but there was a family (Phillip's family not mine) birthday (Phillips birthday, he will be 24 soonish) dinner (grilled oastrage with asparagus on the side, amazingly good) to attend. And any dinner invitations (a few times a month or so) which come our way from his parents i happily encourage as i do adore them and the food they make.
Also on wed. for painting we have our proposal paper/sketches/ideas due for the final painting which can be absolutely whatever. Mine will, of course, be a Gothic masterpiece for which i have already found a fabulous gold oval frame (about 3 by 2 feet). It will be a loose self portrait in Victorian garb with all my little rats and things on me with my darling Circe snake in coiling from my hands springing at a baby rat (there will be baby rats in the back of me hanging by their scrufs on clothing lines or something). Perhaps partially due to the litters i have been having from my pet rats in an effort to produce food for my snake (also raising my own crickets to feet Little Dude/Set/Chinese Water Dragon) i have had the strange dicotamy of having rats as beloved pets, but also rats as food for pet snake on my mind. it is very dark in a way considering the animals have might-as-well-be-humans-or-even-better status in my mind, but then here i am killing and feeding them to each other. Guess how sentimental that makes me towards human life...
For Tuesday's advanced jewelry i must come up with my definition/analysis of beauty, for Thursday figure out what i want to make for the final project which, unlike my painting class, has very strikt guidelines and must, woe is me, future an element not usually used in metals (such as hair or dirt or some crap like that). I would love to argue that as i already used a sirket board rather then a stone for a ring in previous project i should be exempt and be able to go with something traditional... but oh no... they would never let me. I also need to finish a extra miniature painting of a still life compoasing of wine glass filled with blood, three candles, and plate with girls head on it with a bit of spine poaking out of the neck. I have set down the whole painting in browns and need to glaze color over top ala renaissance technique for luminous colors.
So goes my life. Must also figure out what classes i want to take fall term. Realized yesterday to my horror that except for two credits (to be taken up by etching fall term i hope) i have forfilled my studio art requirement (40 some credits) for my major which means i have no excuse to keep putting off those horrible sciences and maths and art histories (8 in total) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! Of course i still want to take at least one ceramics course here, and intro to glass blowing, and possibly more metals and and and......
Hmm so goes my life. Let's see, what else. Phillip has been quite wonderful in the last few weeks, no gloomyness what so ever, and when the gloom monster isn't possessing him he is absolutely darling and makes me very very very happy, so he has as of late. Still he is due for an attack of the glooms any day now (usually a major episode happens once a month and lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 days).
Oh i should be tired, really. But i have had much coffee in an attempt to work on painting for prolonged period of time and it has not worn off yet. maybe i will "serf the net"
Goodnight, and go take some aspirin as i am sure all my dear readers have now acquired a headache from reading this rather laberinthesque entry. But, as we know, i do so love my "(...)" don't i?
Also on wed. for painting we have our proposal paper/sketches/ideas due for the final painting which can be absolutely whatever. Mine will, of course, be a Gothic masterpiece for which i have already found a fabulous gold oval frame (about 3 by 2 feet). It will be a loose self portrait in Victorian garb with all my little rats and things on me with my darling Circe snake in coiling from my hands springing at a baby rat (there will be baby rats in the back of me hanging by their scrufs on clothing lines or something). Perhaps partially due to the litters i have been having from my pet rats in an effort to produce food for my snake (also raising my own crickets to feet Little Dude/Set/Chinese Water Dragon) i have had the strange dicotamy of having rats as beloved pets, but also rats as food for pet snake on my mind. it is very dark in a way considering the animals have might-as-well-be-humans-or-even-better status in my mind, but then here i am killing and feeding them to each other. Guess how sentimental that makes me towards human life...
For Tuesday's advanced jewelry i must come up with my definition/analysis of beauty, for Thursday figure out what i want to make for the final project which, unlike my painting class, has very strikt guidelines and must, woe is me, future an element not usually used in metals (such as hair or dirt or some crap like that). I would love to argue that as i already used a sirket board rather then a stone for a ring in previous project i should be exempt and be able to go with something traditional... but oh no... they would never let me. I also need to finish a extra miniature painting of a still life compoasing of wine glass filled with blood, three candles, and plate with girls head on it with a bit of spine poaking out of the neck. I have set down the whole painting in browns and need to glaze color over top ala renaissance technique for luminous colors.
So goes my life. Must also figure out what classes i want to take fall term. Realized yesterday to my horror that except for two credits (to be taken up by etching fall term i hope) i have forfilled my studio art requirement (40 some credits) for my major which means i have no excuse to keep putting off those horrible sciences and maths and art histories (8 in total) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! Of course i still want to take at least one ceramics course here, and intro to glass blowing, and possibly more metals and and and......
Hmm so goes my life. Let's see, what else. Phillip has been quite wonderful in the last few weeks, no gloomyness what so ever, and when the gloom monster isn't possessing him he is absolutely darling and makes me very very very happy, so he has as of late. Still he is due for an attack of the glooms any day now (usually a major episode happens once a month and lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 days).
Oh i should be tired, really. But i have had much coffee in an attempt to work on painting for prolonged period of time and it has not worn off yet. maybe i will "serf the net"
Goodnight, and go take some aspirin as i am sure all my dear readers have now acquired a headache from reading this rather laberinthesque entry. But, as we know, i do so love my "(...)" don't i?