End of semester

The end of this semester has been a test to my character. I've been sick and in and out of the hospital since Thanksgiving. On top of that all of my work got pushed back because I was unable to move certain days. And I have a job, so it has been really tough for me. I can't wait until this semester is over, not just because of how stressful and rough these last two weeks and the whole semester had been, but because I am done foundations!

Final

Book Binding Lecture

I loved the lecture this week. Its right up my alley cause I love book binding since I learned it last semester. I wish I remembered how to do the one from the lecture though. The way they explained it was very confusing.

Aquatic Life completed!

even though I did it wrong at first I'm happy with my end results and it wasn't really that bad to fix it like I thought it would be.

Aquatic life semi completed..oh wait i did it wrong

  dumby me didn't realize that I got this far and I formatted it wrong....

Start of my Aquatic landscape

Foundations=Hell

I really really REALLY hate foundations this semester. Maybe its because I was trying to balance two jobs and 17 credits, i dont know, but I really hate it. I can honestly say I cant wait for my second semester of foundations to be over. I've just been so stressed out and sleep deprived it is finally starting to get to me. I had to quit my work study job just so I can get some kind of sleep at night or else I would have really burnt out. Another reason I really hate it is because I really really just want to start my electives :)

Jessica Hische Lecture

Katie Murken, my 2d teacher, let us go to Jessica's lecture when she was at temple for the first half of class. I wasn't originally going to go but I am really happy that I did. Her lecture was so inspirational probably because she was a Tyler student before she went out in the world and did her own thing. But she is so successful in her field and gave such good advise that I really felt inspired to be as good as I can be and to work really hard to get what I want. This lecture couldn't have come at a better time for me because I was really feeling burnt out and stressed from all the work and was really re-thinking my choice in career. Now not so much! I took a ton of notes and when I'm feeling bad about my work I go back and look at it and all her advice, it really does help to hear from another artist from your school who had alot of the dame classes and went through the same things.

ART NIGHTS! WOO!-The inspiration for my final project

Ok so my boyfriend and I and some of out friends started this little thing we like to call art nights. Its amazing! we all get together at someones apartment and just hangout and paint all night long. We paint on any surface you can imagine. Just to give you some clues as to what we consider good painting surfaces: your typical canvas surface, scrap wood from the wood shop, cardboard, card stock, pumpkins, paper, gift box lids, and GORGES! It's so exciting. I love when we have art nights. What also makes it really fun is that we use to have each person make their own individual paintings, but now we have collaborations. We each start off with our own painting surface. Sometimes we time it but mostly we work until everyone is done. Then we hand our paintings over to the next person clock wise and do the same thing. This keeps going until it gets back to its original owner. Its really really fun and you get some really interesting results. Who ever host the art night on specific nights keep all the work done that night and hang it on the wall. I like to hang my stuff from the ceiling so they spin because most of the work that was done at my house is double sided. I love art nights so much that I decided I am going to host art night every week at my place until the end of the semester so that I can collect the work and use it in my final project.

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Im a fishy too!

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Out cast

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CATZILLA!

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My Woodcut Self Portrait

MY INSPIRATION

Waking life

This film had so many different styles with in it, it was amazing! I'm defiantly going to rent the movie and watch it on my own. It was really interesting how when a new artist/style was introduced, it gave a different mood the the story line and what was being shown at the time. It was very very interesting and i want to finish it.

Met trip

On Sunday, I had a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for my art history trip. It was   pretty cool. I went there last year, but we had very specific galleries we were required to look at and it took the entire trip. This semester we were given the chance to actually explore the museum. There was so much to take in because the museum was so large and the galleries were so varied. I forgot a notebook to write down the artist and works that I like soooo I guess that means I have to go back... :)

Surprise Surprise

On friday I thought I was going to a halloween dress up concert back home. Instead I was gong to my own surprise party. It was so amazing! Everyone there goes/went to art school, so there was some pretty creative costumes. Everyone for the most part made theirs. For mine, I was a greek goddess. I made my dress and head dress, which took forever! It was a lot of fun though and I felt like things i learned at tyler, specially in  3d, helped me make my custom.