Frankly, My Dear:

I know I've been bad on blogging. Here, have a squirrel.

The most recent homework for Advanced Life drawing. Behold, my saggy belly!

While I could have handled the most recent assignment clothed, it was my decision to take off my shirt and sit with really bad posture for over an hour. I got some very nice compliments on my saggy belly. And most everyone reassured me that it was totally normal to have a belly. Very considerate, but I was making fun of the fact that a slightly Rubenesque torso without a head on looks a bit like a pouty face. A slightly happy Droopy Dog, perhaps.

So this is spring break. Fantastic! Homework, in ridiculous quantity. Maybe I'll update, maybe I won't. I have two books to build and a third to do transfers with.
Yeehaw.

And of course, Life Drawing and Figure Painting ALSO have homework.

Hope For the Future

Stage 1 of a 5 day painting. Four sessions to go. I have depicted one model's whole torso, and the legs and arm of another. As I go I will begin to use actual (gasp!) color and insert a semi-believable background.

Turned in a painting of my feet today that I kind of realized was a pretty good attempt for a rush job on homework. Actually looking forward to working some more on the above painting. My teacher seems to want to put in the easels, but I am loathe to do something that seems so apathetic. The female seated model is the same as the one in this entry here. I think I'm getting very used to her face shape.

An in-progress homework assignment for Intermediate Life Drawing. I am sick of drawing myself, henceforth I irritated my fiance into sitting for me. Took about an hour and a half- doesn't quite look right to me.

And I have a hopefully trouble-free weekend ahead of me. Hurrah!

Homework Blues.

I'm a little bummed over this. I need to evidently get much more time with my acrylics before attempting anything larger with them. Stupid feet.

Done with Books!

Beautiful day outside. I spent Monday trapped inside the bookmaking room with my books trying to get them done.

I should have perhaps taken a nap instead of drawn and painted all night Sunday and Monday. As a result, today I'm playing hookey and recharging. I slept 12 hours and a little more.

A painting in the book about visuals, and a page of the book about text. I worked on them side by side, then gave up when the time crunch came around.

The inside cover paper for my books is some interesting printed rice paper that I love to use and wish I had more of. It's a little too thin, though. The hardest part was sticking it to the board.

And I'm done with books! At least for a week, then it starts again with the final project.

Arrgh, Books.

This is the first cover I've done. I hope it holds to the board all right. The paper cover is an old sheet of Rives BFK that I did a monoprint ghost on.

And here we have a poor quality photo showing the book board, being glued onto the book cover, and being wrapped around the edge. Also note the jar of funky wheat paste, and big applicator brush. Bone folder is there too. It's just a piece of shinbone, but very necessary.

I really wish I'd done more today as far as the bookmaking homework goes. But the couch soon coming to our pile of crap we call a living room argues differently. It begs to have an organized space to come to, clean of dust bunnies and random bits of paper, including Christmas wrapping under the old bookcases. I have come to the realization that we own far too many things.

Anyway- homework. I'm having what we will call "glue issues" right now. I'm not actually sure it is glue issues, because it could also be the stiffness of the paper. For some reason it won't bend around the book cover board in a good wrap, even with the special bone folder tool. High quality paper, but not as bendable as I'd like.

The content of the books is percolating in my brain. I almost want to do a third book by Monday.

I'm ambitious, but not smart.
I always swallow more than I can chew.
We'll see how it sits on my stomach.

I love macro.

Down it comes.

A good drawing from this morning. Sometime soon (probably spring break) I promise to post scans of the drawings I've done in my standard life drawing course. They've been occasionally interesting and quite different, but so far my energy in the late afternoon has been non-existent. I haven't even thought of reaching for my camera.

Jill was a big help with the spackle and take-down today. I'm the one in the dorky apron, looking like my Father.

Seems like only yesterday we were frantically putting things in place to be hung for the show. Now it's down and I must go in tomorrow to verify that yes, all holes covered and painted in the proper gallery white color. I've cut my teeth on SJSU's gallery system and I'm outright terrified that I'll get the urge to do it again. It's like having a child- as soon as the actual birth is over, you forget the pain and magnificent oopsies and start on the road to having more children. Artbabies. Whatever.

Well, seems it was actually a week. Whoa.

Now on to clean my living room. *faint*