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I haven't posted in like two weeks, I think. :[ I've been so goddamn busy.
School has started again. Let's see here, I have intermediate figure drawing, intermediate painting, modernism, professional practices for the studio artist, and applied food microbiology.
Figure is a really fun class. I love my teacher, Matthew Sontheimer, and he seems to really like my work so far. I'm thrilled that the teacher and I are getting along. He's been pointing to my work for good examples during class, and he always has constructive criticism for me. He's not like most of my past teachers, because he actually has things to fix. He doesn't say things like, "This just doesn't look right." He says things like, "Check the angle on the thigh and where it meets the hip, and make sure your contour follows the path properly." I'm going to start looking for him for my future courses, because even in the first week of class, I'm loving his teaching style. I hope it stays that way. I'm in desperate need of an A in a studio course, I feel like I haven't gotten one in forever.
My painting class, I have no idea what to expect. The teacher admits that he's a very tough grader, and I've heard stories that he'll sometimes look at a piece and say, "This is boring, next," during the critique. That would kill me... It's one of those classes where you guide your own self. There are deadlines, and that's it. No size limits, no media limits, no theme requirements... For that, I'm excited. We don't even need to go to class, as long as we get stuff done on time. This is actually already proving a problem for me, sadly. I've hardly started a painting that's due in two days. Hurgh.
Modernism is going to suck balls. I don't have any close friends in there, and there are so many due dates and essays and... I'm already way behind. It's a three hour class once a week in the evenings, and I have a feeling it's going to break my spirit entirely. I would have dropped it already if it wasn't required.
Professional practices is going to be a really interesting class. We're pretty much running a small business as a group. It's a small class of 18 or so, and we're going to be holding a gallery opening for ourselves, as well as publishing our own art books showing our body of work. It's going to be extremely intense. Also, it's a three hour class once a week from 8-11 a.m. This class excites me. I'm ready to get going and learn about what it's like to be an actual artist outside the classroom.
Microbio is pretty lame. It's basically a high school science course. Half of it is online, and then we meet twice a week in lab. The biology building is confusing as shit. Sometimes you come in on the first floor, sometimes it's the second. And I feel like I'm in a different area of campus every time I walk out the door. I have no idea where it is. I just kind of somehow end up there for class. Anyway. My lab TA is hot. She reminds me a little of Kate Beckinsale, but I think that's just because she looks a little vampiric. She's got short, slick, black hair and blue eyes and perhaps freckles. Also, tattoos. She is very, very cute. Especially in a lab coat. But she gets REALLY excited about E. coli ("poo bacteria" is what she likes to call it), and that is slightly worrisome.
In short, I feel like I'm falling behind already, and I'm trying to keep it together. I'm gonna go do homework now.
School has started again. Let's see here, I have intermediate figure drawing, intermediate painting, modernism, professional practices for the studio artist, and applied food microbiology.
Figure is a really fun class. I love my teacher, Matthew Sontheimer, and he seems to really like my work so far. I'm thrilled that the teacher and I are getting along. He's been pointing to my work for good examples during class, and he always has constructive criticism for me. He's not like most of my past teachers, because he actually has things to fix. He doesn't say things like, "This just doesn't look right." He says things like, "Check the angle on the thigh and where it meets the hip, and make sure your contour follows the path properly." I'm going to start looking for him for my future courses, because even in the first week of class, I'm loving his teaching style. I hope it stays that way. I'm in desperate need of an A in a studio course, I feel like I haven't gotten one in forever.
My painting class, I have no idea what to expect. The teacher admits that he's a very tough grader, and I've heard stories that he'll sometimes look at a piece and say, "This is boring, next," during the critique. That would kill me... It's one of those classes where you guide your own self. There are deadlines, and that's it. No size limits, no media limits, no theme requirements... For that, I'm excited. We don't even need to go to class, as long as we get stuff done on time. This is actually already proving a problem for me, sadly. I've hardly started a painting that's due in two days. Hurgh.
Modernism is going to suck balls. I don't have any close friends in there, and there are so many due dates and essays and... I'm already way behind. It's a three hour class once a week in the evenings, and I have a feeling it's going to break my spirit entirely. I would have dropped it already if it wasn't required.
Professional practices is going to be a really interesting class. We're pretty much running a small business as a group. It's a small class of 18 or so, and we're going to be holding a gallery opening for ourselves, as well as publishing our own art books showing our body of work. It's going to be extremely intense. Also, it's a three hour class once a week from 8-11 a.m. This class excites me. I'm ready to get going and learn about what it's like to be an actual artist outside the classroom.
Microbio is pretty lame. It's basically a high school science course. Half of it is online, and then we meet twice a week in lab. The biology building is confusing as shit. Sometimes you come in on the first floor, sometimes it's the second. And I feel like I'm in a different area of campus every time I walk out the door. I have no idea where it is. I just kind of somehow end up there for class. Anyway. My lab TA is hot. She reminds me a little of Kate Beckinsale, but I think that's just because she looks a little vampiric. She's got short, slick, black hair and blue eyes and perhaps freckles. Also, tattoos. She is very, very cute. Especially in a lab coat. But she gets REALLY excited about E. coli ("poo bacteria" is what she likes to call it), and that is slightly worrisome.
In short, I feel like I'm falling behind already, and I'm trying to keep it together. I'm gonna go do homework now.