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.

Sunday, April 18th

I love Sundays. I get all of my work done during the week, so I usually the whole day is spent with my boyfriend, but today he had to work. Because of this, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with a full day to myself. Sadly, I have been watching a marathon of Gossip Girl (love the show, it's sad because of the amount of time I've been sitting) instead of doing anything productive.

I did whip out my watercolors for awhile. I'm still not sure of myself using them and know that practice is what is needed.

Thursday, April 8th

The return of the dreaded color wheel! This one didn't take as long to paint, as this is it. I'm proud of my color matching to my other wheel. It didn't take much tweaking to get them to the right hues.

The next month is going to be crazy for homework for me. This weekend, I have a creativity seminar to attend. The instructor sent an e-mail with a supplies list and told us that we will be filling an entire 100 page sketchbook over the two days. She also mentioned a project that will be due in May.

For drawing, I have the work on my large figure drawing, and also start the two final projects. I am committing to a 50 drawing project for one of them. I'm not sure how large a body of work I want to do for the second. Three more papers from gallery visits have to be written and I need to finish my sketchbook too.

This color book project is one of three left for my design fundamentals class. I'm hoping the other two don't involve group work like this one does.

My other classes have less work. In creative writing, I need to finalize my final portfolio I'm going to submit. I only have to read for one more workshop day as well. The portfolio needs to be 18-20 pages, which is not a problem for me right now. Art History is the class with the least amount of work: just two more tests and two movies to attend. One of the movies is next week. And lastly, for my design library class, I have to write one more paper and write up a summary of my journal I've been keeping.

It sounds like a lot, but as long as I make myself stick to a schedule, I will get it done.

Monday, April 5th

The book project is finally done. I wish would would have been able to paint on different paper. Cardstock and acrylics = wavy paper, which makes it hard to glue down onto the pages. I also am not fond of the size we had to make this project. Too much waste from the pages I had to cut down to size. I did utilize some of the scrap, but most of it was thrown away.

Apparently, this is a two part project, so I am not convinced this is the last I will see of this book.

Friday, April 2nd

Today I forged ahead to finish the painting for the color wheel book. I can say I am glad to be done with that. Next up will be to cut out all of the pieces, arrange them on the pages of the book, and to write up the text. All of that is my goal for tomorrow. Sunday will be a day off from homework, as I will be going out of town with my boyfriend to his parent's house. Monday is day off from school again, so I'm planning that as a full work day as well.

Tuesday, March 30th

For a class project, I have to create a book on the color wheel. My instructor handed out the wheel for us to paint in, as well as strips for us to create tints and shades for each of the twelve colors. This is a very slow moving process, as we are supposed to paint within the lines (something I'm not a fan of in my own work). Today I started in on the primary colors. I'm going to do three colors each day for the next few days to finish. Then I have to mount the strips on paper for the book and type the written parts.

The other challenge to this project is we are painting in acrylics on cardstock. Not really the best canvas for a wet medium. If we could have picked, I would have used a heavier paper.

This is my progress so far: