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.

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.