Wednesday, April 21st

I'm just chipping away at both of my drawing projects. This is the street view from the window I picked in the studio. The perspective isn't perfect, but that's not what I'm really going for in this assignment.

Tuesday, April 20th

I decided to change the theme for my second project while I was brainstroming for ideas on how to execute it. My original theme was to be centered around my mother's Barbie and Ken from the early 1960's. I came up with the idea of typing works from that era on a typewriter and then drawing over. While experimenting with this idea, I liked it so much I wanted to make that my theme.

This is one of the pieces done. I'm not sure how many I will be doing yet.

Monday, April 19th

Today I worked on one of two final projects for my drawing class. This particular drawing is part of a collaboration project we have to do with an assigned artist's work. Mine is Jennifer Bartlett and I've chosen to run with the idea she had for her In the Garden installation. She created 200 drawings of the same garden she viewed out of her window while in France. Of course I cannot do all of that, so I'm going to do about 50 drawings of the view from the studio. In class today I was able to complete three of 50, so I have a lot of work ahead of me. Not to mention the other project for this class...

Thursday, April 15th and Friday, April 16th

Thursday was a complete bust for me creative-wise. It was another bad day, and after a string of them I hit a block. Instead I focused on a paper I had to write.

Today was a different story. My only class was cancelled due to a presentation scheduled at the same time, in the same room. I had wanted to attend, as it was on two subjects I love, art and physics. I overslept, however. This afternoon was a practicum on how to make a camera obscura. This I did not miss. I learned a lot and can't wait to play around with lenses when I have some time. My list of summer projects keeps growing.

I also had an epiphany as far as my schooling goes. I hit upon a way that I want to combine what I am learning with something I would like to do for a living. I don't want to go into too much detail here, as I want to delve a little deeping into this, but will talk about it more once I am sure. It will involve adding a few more minors to my degree.

I took a long walk with my dogs and just allowed my mind to wander. As soon as I got back, I was inspired to draw in my sketchbook. I bought a few nibs to use for ink drawing and played around with them, drawing some things I saw on my walk.

This is one of many that I did tonight. I enjoyed playing and can't wait to hone my skills some more.

Monday, April 12th

Here's an updated photo of my large figure drawing. I'm not sure yet if I'm done with it or not. I think I'm going to ponder the photo tonight and make a decision from there.

I was actually on my way to buy some charcoal fixative that I could use when I am done, but my car died on the way there. That plan went out the window, and this has pretty much stranded me at home for now.

Sunday, April 11th

This is a peek at my large figure drawing. Today I worked on the blanket. I didn't want to do much on the figure since the model was not there. After drawing in the pattern of the blanket for some time, I decided I didn't like it at all. So I erased it and colored in with charcoal and conte crayon. I'm still not happy with it, but didn't know how to tweek it. When I'm undecided about something (and this can be anything at all), I step away and give myself time to mull it over. I usually like to sleep on it, as they say, to see if my brain can come up with a solution when I'm not pressing it to.

Tomorrow is the last day to work in class. This is due Wednesday.

Saturday, April 10th

Day two of the seminar, which was most of the day. We had various activities to do, all of which were to be done alone. I'm glad for that as I enjoy creating by myself the most. I filled a good chunk of my sketchbook today, but have more work to do. We have a month to complete the final assignment, which is to further develop two of our quick sketches into an innovative idea.

Friday, April 9th

I had a Sketching for Creativity seminar to attend tonight. I had mixed feelings over it, mostly due to the amount of other homework I have due in the next week. The first meeting involved learning techniques for drawing and putting them to practice in a sketchbook. Here's a shot of some of the sketching I did.

Wednesday, April 7th

Today we started out last figure drawing of the semester. The size is 60" x 40", which is the largest piece I've ever worked on. We had classtime today and on Monday to work, and he is expecting everyone to put in about an hour a day outside of class as well. I've never taken time to sketch out studies before jumping in and wanted to give that a try for this. This is just one of the few I did.

I managed to get the figure drawn out on the paper, as well as the blanket she is lying on. We are able to put her in any kind of setting, and have no restrictions or requirements in this drawing, which is nice. I noticed a few of my classmates cutting off her feet because they didn't want to draw them. I'm planning on filling in the background and working on the blanket for the time outside of class. Monday will be the day I work on shading. That's the plan for now.

Tuesday, April 6th

For my drawing class, we had an assignment to sketch the hand five different ways and the foot five different ways. I could probably sketch the foot hundreds of times before I start to like what I'm doing. That will be for other days.

This is one of the better quick sketches I did:

Sunday, April 4th

Today was spent with my boyfriend and his family. I didn't have much time to work on anything, but was inspired to do a series of sketches from my day.

Here is one of the few I did:

Wednesday, March 31st

We had a different female model today and we were to draw her using a brush and ink. This was my second time using ink in this way. I really need to work on drawing hands and feet in relation to the rest of the figure. I can draw each of them on their own, but when I put it all together, the proportions are off. Because ink is so unforgiveable, I just embraced the mistakes.

And like the previous post, the paper used is not really suited for a wet medium.

Monday, March 29th

We are continuing working on figure drawing in my drawing class. Today my instructor hypnotized us so we could overcome our inhabitions and fears with putting lines on the paper.

I can't say for sure that I actually was hypnotized, but I did feel more relaxed. Here is the result:

Friday, March 26th

In all of my years of taking art classes throughout grade school and high school, I never had to complete a self-portrait. I did a few of them on my own, but they were just basic drawings of my head.


For this assignment in my drawing class, we were told to be creative in our portrait, and to draw more than just our face. My idea came to me as I was trying to fall asleep last night.

The words read "I may have my head in the clouds, but my feet are well set on the ground".

I used graphite on paper for this, which is a departure from my usual charcoal when I draw. I'm not completely happy with my head, mostly because I made myself a little cross-eyed. But for this being my third or fourth time drawing myself, I'm pretty proud of it.