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Friday, May 9, 2008

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Face. Melted. Oohhh. Lindsay ran the light show tonight. We invited Jen, Robin, and Karen but only Robin could make it. But that was great because she could give the completely new to it reaction. The full thing is just. woah. Mind blowing. The colors with the fader switches is a nice touch. And after Lindsay did her set, she let me run lights! It was fun though really complex. And after I did it, Robin did it! So cool! We ate brownies and talked and lounged and melted away. Whooo. I really need to sleep now.

Class was short. We had a couple nice little presentations. I gave out rice crispies (Flemming really liked his first one and asked for seconds, I obliged). We sort of wrapped up From Hell and talked about how our comics are going.

I finished From Hell. Well, I haven't finished the end part about the Ripperologists but I am finished with the massive body of work. HOLY CRAP. The last few chapters were amazing but I don't know if the killer(har) first 8 were worth it.

Gave some crispies to Jake, Matt, and Tricia. They liked them. Cleaned like I always do. Picked up my paycheck. Deposited my paycheck. Walked with Lindsay to Fred Meyer. Ate A LOT of food. I had a huge appetite today. Ate rice and used these little seaweed wraps that Jen gave me. Nice little salty treats.

Drew six more panels today. This weekend is go time for comic making. Will go to the museum and write my paper, sure, but otherwise I am sleeping in, staying up late, and drawing drawing drawing inking inking inking erasing erasing erasing washing washing washing. And then scanning scanning scanning and printing printing printing.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

crispy and treaty

Made two batches of rice crispy treats today. Maybe I should have saved the second batch. Uhh. I'll bring them to class tomorrow. Maybe. They go stale quick I think? Or not? Ehh, I dunno.

I don't even want to get into the Experiments in Drawing critique. It was way too early for shemales.

Harrell Fletcher came in and talked to the class about his work. He does a lot of work with getting other people's artwork out there over his own. A lot of collaboration stuff. He does Learning to Love You More with Miranda July. He brought in his kid to class and she was cute stuff. It was great.

I stopped by art media and got and had cut my backing board and spray. It took less than 10 minutes to spray and affix my pieces when I got home. They look really nice. I think I will do more of the spray+foam core presentation in the future. Simple, cheap, it doesn't transport well but it looks nice.

I went to Safeway and got rice crispy treat making supplies. I only had time to make and cut one batch. I tossed them out before my critique. Literally. I stood in front of the room and tossed them to whoever held their hand up. While my audience was eating, I put up my pieces. The Karen one is simply FANTASTIC. I am so pleased with myself. It and Robin are so colorful. I wish I had taken photo references of Llyw because his was worked on from memory and isn't as vivid as the other two. But go me! I grew so much in just three paintings.

Not many people went today so we got out a little early. Maddison did a painting of Inferno, James painted Castles, Daniel did a cool letter and a lady piece, Kenneth did an amazing and challenging pixelation self portrait, Mallory did portraits of peoples expressions, Robyn has fluffy stuffed animal portraits, and Lacey made a friggin' book with beautiful character illustrations. It was a nice critique. None of the over analytical crap I am sick of in Experiments in Drawing. Sometimes a puppy is despair, SOMETIMES A PUPPY IS A PUPPY. One week...one week.

Got home. Made some change. Did some laundry. I thought Keesee and Gavin were hanging out so I made some rice crispy treats but they left. Affixed a couple more paintings to the left over board. Made myself a double poached egg and cheese sandwich. I got my art history painting turned in with the very short artist's statement.

Tomorrow I will be going back to the grind of comic making. I had a nice break but now I have a week to do five pages, scan them, and make some print out of the comic (maybe, not really required).

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

ink under my nails, but not under my skin

On my feet all day. When I sat down to read I just went, "ahhhhh" and yoga helped unkink me further.

Printed my reworked plates. Did four (five if you count the test) of the Bigfoot one, four of the swampy lady one, and one test of the two people one. The bigfoot one looks great. The ghost image part left over from the first sugar lift turned out exactly how I wanted it to. Huzzah! The swamp lady got really abstract. It looks spooky but it doesn't have the face quality anymore. Weird. The two people one looks so screwed up. I don't have time to work on it more right now.

I also repressed my second litho color. I will be printing on Monday. Worked all through class. All 11-12:30 and 1:30 to 5 of it (and about fifteen minutes more).

Ate my Quizno's with Morgan during lunch. He was so jovial and talked about the manly methods of moustache growing (it includes smoking a cigar and standing with one leg on a chair and one elbow propped on your knee and the other on your hip). He will be in my figure drawing class next semester. Yay!

Read From Hell during my break. It does move a lot faster in the second half. Did "the crow" in yoga. So much balance stuff.

Lindsay has never seen The Triplets of Belleville! I think they have it in the Library's dvd collection. Can't believe she hasn't seen it. And she calls herself Toon! Bah!

Tomorrow is my painting critique. Have to finish the pieces up during my break. And make rice crispy treats for the class (because I am nice like that). Then all I have left are my Art History artists statement, my comic, printing, and a paper.

Seven class days left. This year sure went by quick.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

I've got the sniffles

Another rather boring critique day in Experiments in Drawing. Modou is so determined to critique all that we do. I prefer the, "if you want credit and your piece critiqued, bring it to CLASS" line of thought. Not the, "we shall use up class time and look at everybodys work" reasoning. We spend the class critiquing a few new work (rave reviews on Karen's work) and half re-critiqued work that has been worked on since the class critique (the kitten and puppy thing has been played out now). We got out early so I thought I would go to Powell's and see if I spy and deals on paperbacks.

And I did! I got Ryu Murakami's Almost Transparent Blue. I now have all of his work in English, my numero uno favorite writer! They had a whole pile of the books and were all on cheap cheap sale. Sweet deal.

Worked on Karen's portrait a little. Ate some udon. Took it easy. Petted Ibanez.

Finished the portrait of her in class. Probably my quickest portrait to date. The red of the background is so vivid. Rather stunned at how much I grew between the three portraits. Now I just need to make them presentable.

I had a lot of ice cream today. Had a cone during my painting break. I hung out with Jen tonight (she has a nice room, lots of cool stuff) and we polished off 3/4 of my AmeriCone Dream pint. She gave me some Korean treats. Awesome person that Jen.

Tomorrow I will be printing. Don't know what kind of printing but I will be printing.

All that is left is printing and the comic (and the Art History paper). Week and a half left. Woah.

Monday, May 5, 2008

chocolate milk makes my day

Turns out the painting for Art History is due any time we want this week. Well, it is good that I have it done now. No worries while I work on the rest of it.

We had a test. I flubbed up the definition of odalisque, but I think my essay was in depth and I wrote enough about the pieces. I'm not too worried. I have no test anxiety in that class. She wants us to learn for us not learn for a test. One class remaining. We will look at our paintings and turn in a paper next class. And that is it for Art History.

Yoga was a lot of balance work. I'm not good at balance. Keep tipping all over the place.

It was a really beautiful and warm day today. Just had on a tee during my bike ride and all through class. Normally have a hoodie or a light jacket. Put all the windows open when I got home.

Took it easy.

Made a juice and ice cream run.

Today is Ibanez's birthday. He is four. Tomorrow is Jeanette's birthday. She is fabulous.

I watched David Lynch's Blue Velvet today. Kyle Maclachlan sure is a cutey but that movie made me really uncomfortable and weirded out. Really strange and horrible. Not made or performed badly, just the people and situations within it are quite...yeah.

Got about halfway done with my portrait of Karen. I don't know if I can get four done. I will have to finish that one tomorrow and start on a fourth but I don't get home till late on Wednesday. Hmmn. Oh well. I'll see how it goes.

Lindsay let me have some of her chocolate milk. She is wonderful like that.

I'm making a good working pace. I just need to make time for printing.

I've been reading Hugh Laurie's The Gunseller. I'm only about a chapter and a half in and I am loving it. They haven't changed the lingo in it to the American versions so that is great (IE: changing Philosopher's Stone to Sorcerer's Stone). Lovely little story. I'm keeping up with my New Year's resolution to read more.

a little something from Fry

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Stephen Fry from a Bronzino


The assignment was to take what you have learned in Art History, find inspiration from a piece, and create a new work from it. Also a part of the newly acquired 511 Building had to be included.

I did a portrait of Stephen Fry inspired by Bronzino's Portrait of a Young Man.



Watercolor. 10"x14.

(I will eventually take good pictures of all my work).

where has all my ultramarine gone?

Mm yes, another missed post. It happens. I'll post some artwork to make up for it.

Yesterday:
I worked on my Art History painting a little in the morning. Got a few generic washes in on the suit and face and background. Fry looks a little like a corpse.

Jim came over around 3:20ish. We had a date(ish?) to see Iron Man. It almost was a double with Lindsay and Keesee but she opted out of it. We caught the 4:15 at the Metro. Wasn't as full as I was expecting. Got great seats. Iron Man was...well they showed some of the best parts in the trailers but it was great seeing them all big like on the screen. Robert Downey Jr. was spectacular, the effects were amazing, and the bit with Nick Fury after the credits was all WHOOO. It was in between good and great. It needs another movie (and it had a huge opening weekend gross so there should be more). It had a lot of trailers before the film. My sum up of them is as follows: Indiana Jones 4 looks actually really cool and seems to keep in spirit with the older ones, Dark Knight just gets better and better and now we see more of Harvey Dent, Incredible Hulk looks as cool as the first trailer, Love Guru...just looks horrible, what is Mike Meyers doing? and finally Don't Mess with Zohan looks just awful. Terrible. So a yay on the block busters, a nay on the comedies.

Afterwards we wandered about trying to figure out where to eat. We didn't get too far when Jim noticed he didn't have his cell so we went back to the theatre to check. It was under the seat. We went with Cha Cha Cha. Or...Ole Ole. Uhm. One of those. I had a quesedilla, he had one of those massive burritos and got about 3/4 of the way through. It was nice. It was fun. I probably won't get to hang out and go out for the next two weeks. I'll be doing the art stuff nonstop. Brilliant!

Today:
Got up. Walked about enjoying the sun. Then went inside and worked.

And worked.

And worked.

Paint paint paint. Watched the rest of Memento. Watched A Scanner Darkly. Watched some Doctor Who. And got my Stephen Fry painting DONE. Not sure if it looks much like him though. I'm not totally keen on it but it is what it is.

I talked to Ellie today. Long time to chatty. Talked with Briana as well. Double dose of old friends!

Karen returned my lightbox. She gave me tons of cookies in thanks for lending it too me.

Robin stopped over for some night time tea and cookies. We chatted. I showed her my small photo album. Chatted some more. We all need a little company, or else we will go crazy and talk to our cats and have conversations about how you(the cat) are TOTALLY spoiled and have WAY too many toys. Yeah.