Feeling exceptionally unmotivated.

[yoshi09]

I can't paint at all and this painting class is really a struggle to go through since the teacher's style is "copy this. Go." with no lecture or teaching of painting technique or anything. I am already half way through the semester and am still unsure if I'm holding my paint brush correctly. I am so over this class but I can't even drop it because

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[yoshi09]

Yeah I did approach my professor on this. On separate occasions. But she has little consideration of privacy and her office hours are during class, where everyone can hear you. On top of that she has no sense of over-stepping her boundaries and will use your work as examples of what-not-to-do or paint all over your painting with blue to point out areas you need to fix. (To give you an example of how reckless she is, every class she is "fixing" a student's painting without their permission or even knowing who the student is. She just picks a painting hanging on the wall for display that she thinks needs "help" and then paints all over it. No joke.) It's really humiliating sometimes because usually she calls the whole class around to look at this bad example and *then* she asks you as everyone is coming over if it's all right that she show people your painting. By that point everyone's already around her desk so it's not like you could say no anymore.

She's a good painter and I could tell just by how awful you feel afterward that people try harder because they're scared of her. That's where I am right now.

I don't understand her taste at all either. For my first painting there was no personality and she called it "boring" and that I should have focused on a section of the painting more. I didn't mind the "no personality" bit because I felt the same way but I was mad at her second comment because I had drawn two sketches, one was a sketch I really wanted to paint that focused on a part of the subject but she called boring and the other she said I should do which was a zoomed out sketch of the whole subject. Then during critique day she outright says I should have zoomed in on the exact spot of the subject I had sketched before but she had discarded. Man I was just UGH.

My second piece she liked. But then again I was just peeved at my own painting abilities and just painted whatever the hell I wanted because I felt like I couldn't please her. I thought she would mention how wrong all my colors were but she actually complimented me and said that I was sensitive to color and suggested I work with a palette knife. When I told her I painted with my right hand rather than my left (my writing hand) she scolded me saying that I should just stick with my left hand. I don't understand her at all.

She's made me want to cry almost every class we've had so far. It's pretty ridiculous. -_-

[novemberbaby]

Oh man. *hugs* Don't cry, Mel.

You should step up and fight back. Yes, that's putting your grade on the line but someone has to let her know that she's extremely disrespectful. If no one says a word, she'll just continue being the ridiculous professor that she seems to be and you guys will all have to suffer through the semester. Art is supposed to be relaxing and fun, though at times it can be frustrating. But it's the art that frustrates you, not the person who's guiding you.

She may be a good painter but she certainly sucks as a teacher if she's making her students feel miserable. 8(

I feel like I'm influencing you to be a rebel, haha. But really, love, don't cry. (Or maybe you can cry in front of her as she critiques your art work. *ducks from tomatoes*) I don't think you can't paint and I'm not saying this because I'm super biased and I love you. I know you can. <3