Most recent painting.

(Looking Up - Acrylic - 10x10 in.)

I am working on a sister piece that could possibly make it a set.
In the picture above, the painting is placed at the intended angle,
although as you can see from the pictures below
I am exploring other options.
Feed back would be great.

Yeah! *sighs* *sighs*

One paper passed in... two to go!

My Theme…

I think this is my theme for this afternoon today this week this month this semester my senior year!

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.”

-- Mary Wilson Little

So, I have two papers that I should be working on….

…but I really, really would rather just be watching a movie or sleeping. The paper I’m currently working on is about Hawthorne. I have been reading a lot about his views of artists and of his influences and I think I have narrowed down my paper topic to how his views of artists has affected his portrayal of Miles Coverdale, the poet from the Blithedale Romance. I will also probably bring in how Hawthorne’s view of the artist and of the artist’s temperament affects his portrayal of characters in other short stories. It’s just that talking about it is much more fun that actually writing the paper.

Oh...

Happy Thanksgiving!
And Happy Birthday, Daddy!
Love you all!

A day of REST–less cleaning…

The first day of Thanksgiving Break found me here, there and everywhere.

Last night I saw another RA’s room and I really liked her setup.

So I decided that, aside from my intended cleaning, today was also the move stuff around day.

I am really pleased with the results.

I also spent an hour or so in the library collecting every possible book that I could so that I would be able to work on my papers while the library was closed.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be set aside for those projects. Today was my day of rest. I really miss being able to fiddle around. I feel as though I am always running from one thing to the next.

Sunset that I saw from my window as I was picking up that area of my room.

It’s just a peek…

This semester as a Painting II student I have been
working a series of paintings that all follow the same theme.
While I am still working on a title,
the working title that my teacher and I have tossed around is
Parts of Parts.
I believe I have mentioned this project before.
I finally remembered to take pictures
and while I only got a few in before my camera's battery died,
I thought I would post them.
After sharing them with my parents I realized
that I’d probably need to explain a bit more about them.
I’ll try.

This is just to show you the size.
Those are regular size pieces of paper in the background.
This is also not the complete series.
These are just the ones that I had up before my camera's battery died.

The other side view.
With these paintings you need to look at them from
all of the angles before you really understand them...
and even then I understand that not everyone does.

(Nose - Acrylic - 5x5x3 in.)
This is the first piece that I did.
It is a nose if you were not sure.
It's my friend Amy's nose.
I like the contrasts and the fact that you need to look
at it from different angles to figure it out.

(Ear - Acrylic - 5x5x3 in.)
This is the second piece that I did.
It's an ear.
I was waiting for my mouth model to arrive
and my friend Donna was sitting in the ceramics room (where I usually paint)
and she had her hair up and I thought, "I want to paint that." so I did.
I really like this one.

(Nose and Mouth - Acrylic - 4x4x1 6/8 in.)
This is my most recent painting.
(well, I have touched up paintings since this...)
This is a nose mouth combo of my friend Catherine.
I really like the nose, but I don't consider the mouth finished
although both the model and my art teacher like it as is.
We'll see who wins.

Or not...

The girls on my floor had an impromptu tattoo party. It was fun. My butterfly has mostly worn off, but the outline remains. Don’t worry. I have no desire for putting anything permanent on or through my body in any way.

Dad, I’m having technical difficulties posting the poem. More on that later.

Surprise!

Elevated on a poetic high / Sort of stressed

This weekend I attended several events at the Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) as a delegate from my school. It was amazing. I want to go on and on, but I am tired and I doubt you all are as interested as I was in the poetry. The buildings are amazing… being in the city… the movement, the buildings, the people – it was wonderful!

But I also spent my weekend NOT doing homework so now I have a zillion pages to read and no time to do it. I am tired too. Last week I had a big project due and I was on duty and then I went to a CHF event Friday night, so for three nights in a row I got about 4 – 5.5 hours of sleep. No, it was four nights in a row. I have napped a lot since then and gotten more sleep. I’m getting enough sleep now, but I’m still dragging from those long, long days.