oh bed, why are you so lovely?

Uhg. Gosh. It was horribly waking up. I was exhausted and sore. I even had my cell phone alarm set to 10am, and still that felt too early. I kept resetting the alarm at random amounts for an hour and a half and then I finally got up, showered, ate some breakfast. Drew my portrait.

I got to my meeting with Martin right on time. I just took my bag of posters and dumped it out on his table. He said "these look great". We set aside each of the nine and looked at them as a set. He was mighty impressed. Sort of a "yeah, you have the visuals down and it works" meeting. It felt really good. Didn't talk about much, just sort of established where I am, and where I am is "I have a bunch of posters done, HUZZAH". He said he will wait to have a complete set of posters, but that he wanted a Samala one for now, as that is his obvious favorite of the lot.

After the meeting, I wandered and gave out posters. Then yoga. I think I like the Friday classes the best. I slow down the most and it really resets my state of mind. It was a small group as the weather in Portland today was GORGEOUS. Sunny and warm enough to not need an oppressive coat.

I swung by the studio where Karen was stressed and finishing her print.

Oh also, I got a nice print from Dom in thanks for the print I gave him, that is to say the print of him that is a part of my thesis that I finished. Glad he dug it.

Back home I chilled and relaxed. Then 7pm rolled around and I left for the print exchange shindig. I didn't have time to make something, well okay I totally had time I just couldn't think of anything, so I just bought some booze on the way there.

Liz, BT, Phil, Morgan B, Jalissa, Lacey, Asha, Heather, Daniel, Karen, Mel, DeAnne, Diana, Me, Beth, Heather, and some others were there. Some stayed various amounts of time. I drank. I ate. I exchanged. The prints look pretty darn awesome. I even drew some people, and as I sobered up the drawings got better. I may have got art for two to three more posters! Hurray! Asha made a delicious pasta salad that I gorged on. Not all the prints were actually turned in, so I left my edition there to be picked up later when the rest of the prints are in. We didn't play any games or watch any movie, mostly just talked and consumed.

It was a rainy but inconsequential ride home. Now I'm pretty tired and I have a lot of work to do on my paper over the next couple days. Whee.

Oh and it is UK Month at Portraitoday. Whoo!

Todays Portrait Is: James May.

time tables

6:00am: First alarm goes off.

7:05am: Get out of bed.

7:25am: get dressed after shower.

7:45am: enjoy a scramble

8:20am: head to school

8:45-10:40am: print the final two layers of my spirit animal print. Unfortunately all of the pink layers were misregistered so my whole print is off. All in all, I'm not totally satisfied with the result. It isn't my best piece of printmaking. If I had another week, I would redo it. But I don't have another week. Oh well.

11:00am: CLASS! We went through our websites. The websites are looking good. Lots of different looking sites. We are doing another art director assignment. I was the odd one out, so Kristin Rogers Brown art directed me. I am to illustrate a word or term in three different ways. Color. Detail. No faces.

12:30pm: lunch! I got a sandwich and accidentally ate the whole thing instead of saving half for later.

1:30pm: back to class. Worked on stuff. I folded and editioned my prints. Finally finished up my text sides.

3:05pm: scanned the text. edited the text. printed out the text.

3:somethingpm: went to the print lab. Emulsified screens. Laid out supplies. Exposed three screens. Chatted with people. Printed the color text layer on Leah and Robin's prints. Did the reductive drawing fluid to get them ready for the next layer.

6:30pm: yoga! Leg work! Lots of great fitness stuff. Felt good to work out all the kinks that are forming. Lots and lots of kinks.

8:00pm: gave away posters to people after yoga.

8:15pm: back to printing. Emulsion. Exposure. Wash out. Drawing fluid. Printing printing printing. Folding. Washing out. Lots of Sherlock Holmes.

9:30pm: walked with Daniel to Safeway to get a snack. Chips, Perrier, sweets.

10:00pm: back to printing.

1:00am: finish printing the final poster of the day. Fold it.

1:45am: leave the print studios with three complete posters, which brings my thesis total up to 9 posters.
2:14am: leave the Stevens Studios after talking with Jon for a bit.

2:49am: finish blogging. Very tired.

Todays Portrait Is: Joely Richardson.

spring, I'm going to pretend that it is here

Same old same old "I'm bad, I didn't do jack what I ought" entry. Being hard on myself isn't willing myself into working harder so I think I'll stop it.

It was a beautiful day so I rolled up my pant legs and pretended it was spring. Not a freezing cold day either, so it wasn't too off base.

Had lunch with Karen, Mel, Lacey, and Phil at Yur's and loitered about with Karen and Lacey afterwards. Went back home and worked at the text side of my posters. Worked on portrait. Going to get back to the poster text side and the portraits. I want to get another poster finished tomorrow. So I'll be getting to school before my 11am class, and get my screens set up. And maybe print a layer on my spirit animal print. Then class. Then printing. Then yoga. Then more printing. Then slumping home.

Todays Portrait Is: Julian McMahon.

a year later, can't think of anything to really reflect on though

It's been a year since that certain specific day. A lot has changed. Place, people, stuff. It is weird to think that it has been a whole year. Time moves forward impossibly fast.

Anyway. Didn't get as much reading done as I would have liked. Ate a scramble. Got the portrait up. Went to school and got the third layer on my Spirit Animal print done right on time. A CE class came in, but I had yoga at the same time so it wasn't like I was planning to print curing the Continuing Education class. Yoga had some good stretches. It went by relatively fast.

After that I went over to see Rollyn. He has been living it up in Hawaii for the past two weeks. And before that he was in Vegas. So I haven't seen a whole lot of him. Plus I'm all busy with my thesis. We watched The Thomas Crown Affair, the one with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. Good little movie, except the music was annoyingly loud and didn't correspond too well to the mood of the scene. Also some of the composite shots were grating. But still, I enjoyed it.

On the way back, I stopped by the walk up McDonald's window (for those who can't go through drive through because they don't have cars, and the front of McDonald's is closed for the night). I've been craving cheap burgers lately, so I sated my craving.

Tomorrow is my wide open day. No obligations except my own effort iPublish Postnto accomplishing something.

Todays Portrait Is: Dylan Walsh.

teal and orange

I've yet to get ahead on portraits. Once I break free of some sort of assignment or requirement, I sort of go into a slack mode. This productivity stasis. Where I know there is a lot of stuff due soon, but it isn't due soon enough so I don't quite jump on it.

Anyway, spring break is over. Four weeks left.

In class we mainly talked about editing and different ways to cite this and that. I talked to Joan and she advised me on my paper. I need a lot more research but the writing is good. Need to read up on portraiture and the history of portraiture.

After class I went home. Went to Trader Joe's and stocked up on the basic carbs and apples and onions and meat. Had pasta for dinner. Mmm.

But yeah, like I said, project stasis. ALL THOUGH, I did work a bunch on my website. Got into the CSS programming and made the website block wider, so now my art has more content space. That is good. So I guess I was productive with practical stuff. I would say I'd almost call my website done. I just need to put more art work on it, and make some custom graphics. My website is trilliantrillian.com, in case you had forgotten.

Tomorrow is yoga day. I think I'll spend the time before it reading. I have a lot of reading that needs getting done. I showed Joan the Marc Quinn portrait that he does that is a mold of his head that is filled with his own blood, frozen, and the mold peeled away. The work has to be kept refrigerated. It is a really disturbing piece. Anyway, I need to make a longer list of portraits and portrait artists to research. The main body of my paper will be portraiture. Joan mentioned that the gift part of my project is what really sets it apart, so I will be keeping those other chapters.

There is an hour and a half block of time in the silk screen studio during which I may squeeze in some printing. Just one layer. And afterwards do the yoga thing.

I should get up early. All though I should stop saying that.

Todays Portrait Is: Laura Allen.

doing it twice

Cripes, it is 1:48am already? Time flies.

The alarm went off and I awoke to being very very sore. My arms hurt and my chest muscles that connect to my arms hurt. And my stomach hurt. So much muscle activity yesterday. But that at least means that I was pushing my body.

Had a slow start due to being so sore. I decided to spend the day with my print for the Spirit Animal Print Portfolio. Needed a break from thesis. So I went to Utrecht and bought paper and went so school and scanned. Finished listening to Hunger Games. The last book was very depressing, but a good end I think. Moved on to Sherlock Holmes for the time being. A Study in Scarlet took me through printing images, cutting paper, another walk to Utrecht because I didn't buy enough paper, to Cha Cha Cha for a burrito, to exposing my screen, to emulsifying a second screen because the exposure didn't work out on the first one as it turns out. I didn't notice that it had washed out more that it should have till I started printing. The set backs made it so I only got two layers done. Because between layers I had to do the drawing fluid emulsion resist stuff. My print will be three drawing fluid reductive layers, one spot color layer, and one line art layer. I'm really excited for the print.

Got home at 10. Ate some popcorn and cocoa. Watched tellie. Did my nails. Da Vinci's Inquest is on Hulu. I watched so much of that show back in Seabeck when I couldn't sleep. Okay not "so much" but it was always on at weird late night hours. It's a crime show set in Vancouver Canada. Sort of gritty and lacks the technology glamor that CSI and the like have. Which is why I dig it. So I've been watching it in order. I've only seen the odd episode here and there (and the same episode three times, which seems statistically unlikely for a show you don't watch regularly because it comes on at odd hours).

Spring break is over. Now it is final countdown time. DUH DUH DUH. FOUR WEEKS LEFT. CRAP.

Todays Portrait Is: Rockmond Dunbar.

way up high, two feet off the ground

Oh man, what a busy full exhausting day!

I got up at the magic impossible hour of 7:30am. Had a light breakfast. Showered. Got to the print lab at about 8:30. Got right to printing. Finished the Mel poster. I was three fourths of the way through the Beth poster when I was informed that there would be a Continuing Education class in the lab. BOOO. So I finished up the poster right quick and folded and editioned the two posters in the other lab. Robin was there as well. I was hoping to finish all four but it was for the best as I was starving.

It was one of those days that was both sunny and rainy. It came and went. Home from school it was sunny. I had some pasta. Home to the east side, it started to rain as I crossed Broadway. A thick mist of rain. The type that gets you damp all over, but you never really feel like you are being pelted. I am incapable of finding the Multnomah street turn off of Broadway. I've missed it about three times now, so I always overshoot and then have to get my way over towards Lloyd. It is weird to think that Lloyd is within a reasonable bikeable distance. Like 10 minutes off the bridge. I biked in a circle and eventually got onto 12th and rode that miserable, shoulder shaking, teeth chattering from the road construction road down to Burnside. I locked my bike up and spied Toon approaching. We exchanged an enthusiastic hug and got to catching up, but still had the same level of closeness like it hasn't been ages since our last hang out.

She invited me to a beginning drop in class for aerial gymnastic fitness stuff. You know, that stuff where there are large silk ribbons hanging and people climb up them and spin and stuff? Yeah. The class was her treat. I signed a lengthy health waiver and got my exercise clothes on. We did 30 minutes of stretches. Lots of leg work. I'm glad yoga has kept me spry. Still, this was a lot of core building stuff that...well I have no core. No arm strength, no abs. I have strong legs though, probably. Strong enough that I can bike a few miles and not have wobble leg.

Not being able to really lift my own body weight really hampered my learning, but I soldiered on. There were a couple ladies in their 40's who casually mentioned that they did parkour. It was about half and half beginners and experienced people. I didn't feel so self conscious about being bad. It takes a lot of strength and finesse. It is a lot of taking slack and wrapping feet around lengths of suspended silk and clamping. I would love to try it again, but only if I had arm strength. I did get the hip lock. And after lots of failure, I got the foot lock as well. There was this stuff that we sprayed on our hands to get a better grip on the silk as well.

The class totally...just wiped me out. And I was only really on the silk a third or forth of the time. I don't think I could take any more though. Needed the breaks. Much respect to the dancers who make it look so effortless.

Toon and I went to Fire on the Mountain for a celebratory wings lunch. We gabbed and caught up. I got on my bike and had only a slightly better time getting to Broadway. It is weird how I'm just now figuring out Portland on bike, after I've been here for nearly four years.

I decided to go to school and print instead of passing out at home. I was pretty exhausted but I got into the rhythm of it. Callouses are starting to form! I finished up Samala and Acey, but didn't have the energy to fold and edition them. I'll do that tomorrow. I finally went home and slumped into a chair and chilled and hydrated and enjoyed me some Advil. I watched this great documentary called Yank Tanks, about the lengths that people with go to in Cuba to keep cars from the 50's running. I also worked on my spirit animal for the spirit animal print exchange. Since I've been going full out on thesis printing, I think I'll just print the spirit animal and work on the text. Edition and fold, but no thesis printing. Thesis drawing, yes. Thesis reading, yes.

It feels good to accomplish something before noon. "Think of what you can get done if you didn't sleep so much, Trillian" my mind says. "zzzzzzzz" logic says.

Ma and Pa, I'll let you know when I get my Focus Week time slot. I requested early in the week though, so I can get it over with. But who knows.

Todays Portrait Is: Michael-Raymond James.

x4

Didn't get that great of a night's sleep. My schedule is all out of whack. Only got to sleep for a bit before the 8am alarm went off. Rolled out of bed a bit after 11. Had a bagel and shmear and some tea and powdered water drink. Community was fantastic, as was Parks and Recreation. Finished up only four text sides, but that was enough for the day as it turned out. Got to school after 3. Scanned, printed. Went to the lab. Emulsified. Exposed. Set up my station. Not a very crowded studio. Mel came and printed. And left. I listened to Mockingjay. Lots and lots of Mockingjay.

Printed Mel's color text layer. That went well.

Printed Beth's color text layer. That went well, all though some of the tape kept coming off.

Printed Samala's color text layer. Had some issue with the opaqueness of the ink I was using. Hate opaque ink. But got it done.

Printed Acey's color text layer. Went really well.

Washed all the screens out and drew in the water resist for the second blank ink layers. Exposed. Washed out. They are all ready to be printed tomorrow. Another four hours and I'll have four more posters finished. Yaaay. I'll be getting up early to do that, because Lindsay, aka Toon, aka my first roommate invited me to a beginning Aerial class. You know, with the ribbons and stuff. So I'll be doing that tomorrow afternoon. And afterwards I guess I'll fold and edition prints. Bleh, have to get up super early. So I'm blogging now.

Have to work on my spirit animal print.

Todays Portrait Is: Donal Logue.

mmmmmcqueen

Let myself sleep in without the alarm clock. Which was a bad idea because I slept way way in. Need the alarm to check myself.

Worked a bit on stuff. Mostly took a long time to get warmed up to doing anything.

Yoga was just Fawn, Ruth, and myself. Lots of back bending, which is good.

Went to the east side for a get stuff done night. Whooo! There were a lot more people over this time. Robin, Diana, Lacey, this dude John, this dude Michael, Evan was there for a bit, and of course Phil, BT, and Karen. We watched The Great Escape. That hunk Steve McQueen. And that guy with the big forehead that I know mom likes. David McCallum. I worked on my text side. I have seven names done, about four nice words and a couple blurbs. Need to get more done. I stayed for another movie, though Karen took most of the people home. Karen made tacos. They were good. I left at around 2am. Got some work done, should be further along. I'll need to get to school by at least 3pm tomorrow. Seven hours to scan, print, emulsify, expose, and print five layers. The printing should go super fast. The more screens I have prepped, the faster I get through each layer. I think I did three layers in two hours last session. So yeah. Long day. I'll have to get up at an actual hour and finish five of the compliment sides.

I also have another print exchange to do, but that will only occupy one screen. I'll work on that drawing tomorrow night, because the school closes at 10.

Work work work. Listen to audio book listen to audio book listen to audio book .

Todays Portrait Is: Joelle Carter.

wednesday

Got up a bit early but was largely unproductive for the first chunk of the day. Ate nutella and toast and chocolate croissants for breakfast. Drew me some Walton Goggins.

Got to school around fiveish. A bit later than I wanted and with less work, but as it turns out folding took a long time to do. But I'm getting ahead of myself. In near record time, I printed three layers. I finished Daniel and Heather's poster and I finished Jon. TWO DOWN! Seven immediate ones to go and at least six or so more to create. Hurrah. I also finished Leah's side and that looks good as well. I then editioned the two sets and started giving them away. It begins! Tomorrow will be spent in whole on compliments. Can't print what I don't have ready to print.

A pretty good day. Am I as productive as I'd like? Eeer no. But tomorrow is a Get Stuff Done night at BT, Berger, and Bone's (BT, Karen, and Phil) so I'll draw people there. And work on compliments. Huzzah. Friday Karen and I will go see Rango. And Saturday there will be karaoke. But I will also be productive and work. Friday and Saturday I will print what I make tomorrow. If I get five compliments, that is five screens. I can easily print five layers in one day. By Sunday I could have seven completed posters! And Sunday I could print the remaining two. Damn, if I could get all nine posters finished by the end of Spring Break. Wow. But I don't want to set myself up that high, because if I don't reach that, I might be hard on myself. But I can see the schedule working itself out. Just have to be really productive tomorrow. But man, if I do do that then I'll be in such a good thesis place. So good. And I'll get through Mockingjay as well, which is the third in the Hunger Games series.

Got home at around nine. Had a salad and orange juice for dinner. Bleh, healthy. Don't worry, I had some candy as well. Drew some portraits. Need to get on top of them again, the last two were drawn the morning of (and todays came up after 3:00pm). Now I'm tired. Report to y'all tomorrow night.

Todays Portrait Is: Walton Goggins

should work harder though...

Whooo got stuff done and had tacos!

Got up at 9:30ish, like some sort of miracle. Showered and got all cleaned up. Went to Trader Joe's for some supplemental shopping. Had a scramble. Got to school later than I wanted to. Emulsified two screens. Printed the first Jon text layer. Exposed screens. Printed the Leah color layer. Printed the first Heather & Daniel text layer. Put on the drawing fluid over the text layer. Got into my yoga gear with time to spare. We worked on hip openers and hand stands. Against the wall hand stands, not free form. I need more arm strength.

After yoga I put emulsion on the screens and let them dry and exposed the screens and washed out the drawing fluid. Hurrah!

Tomorrow is a really open day. So early on I'll work on three more text compositions, then I'll go to school and put them on screens and print as much as I can. Huzzah. Getting stuff done. I'll have two finished thesis posters by the end of tomorrow. Maybe more? Need to do more hanging out though.

Anyway, after all that it was time for tacos! Dom bought da beer and I cooked up the beef. He's all lactose intolerant and stuff, so all the cheese was for me. We gnawed on tacos and watched The Social Network. Good back stabbery drama. Well acted. Well shot. We said our goodbyes after that.

I'm almost done with Catching Fire, the second of the Hunger Games series. SO GOOD. Young adult stories also read (well, listen) really fast. Did da dishes. It is good to have a clean sink.

Todays Portrait Is: Timothy Olyphant.

edging forward...towards the bar

Another slow start to the day. BUT I managed to be productive for the middle chunk. Got two text sides done, and once I know how to do one then I know how to do the rest. So I went to school and scanned those and edited those (and the sketch I did of Leah) and printed those out. I emulsified some screens, all though when I exposed them some of the inverted text didn't do so well. It wasn't opaque enough. Oh well. I have three unexposed screens for tomorrow to expose, and two that are ready to print. I'm so close to finishing a poster! I printed both sides of Acey in what seemed like record time. Mel and Carla were working in the studio as well.

I'm just breezing through the printing stage. So tomorrow I'll print Leah's poster and print Jon and Heather & Daniel's side and then do the water resist emulsion for the second layer of Jon and Heather & Daniel's. If I get to school around Noon to One, that should be plenty of time. Four printing hours, one to two for technical stuff and set up. Whoop!

After printing I returned home for some food, and then I went to Yur's at around 11:30 to chill with the people. There was a design group and an illustration group at opposite sides. I hung with both. Talked to Alex and Mark and Jon and Dom, and also Chloe and Mel and Ashley and uhh...that other guy. It was a good night. I was there till last call even. Tomorrow night Dom and I are going to eat tacos and watch The Social Network. But before that: printing! and yoga! productivity! hurray!

And for that to happen, I'll have to get up at like...10. And stuff. which is totally doable.

Todays Portrait Is: Maggie Siff.

first paper back, whoo!

Spring Break already feels like it is slipping away really fast and I'm not as productive as I should be. I did start on the compliment side of the portraits. Got a couple text treatments and such.

Went down to school and hung out with Leah and drew her. So that brings the portrait count up to 9. Huzzah! But I really need to spend my time finishing my posters.

Went to Trader Joe's and got hella fruits and vegetables. Now that I eat more salads and apples, my body really feels it when I don't intake them and eat mostly carbs.

I think I'm going to go to bed early (compared, 2am isn't really early but it is earlier than 4am which happens more than it should) and make a real effort to get stuff done tomorrow. Get stuff done, scan it, send it, print it.

Finally got my first paper review back, and the feedback was good. "Awesome paper writing skillz! Great voice and clarity." And some stuff about more citations and research and explaining this and that. But it is nice to know my paper isn't a complete mess or anything. Excited to get my other three floating edited papers back, whenever that happens. It is good to know that my copies do indeed have my name on them. I was worried about that when it had been a while and I had not received any back.

Yesterday I filled out my spot in the focus week form. Put in my blurb and desired room and set up parameters. Totally insane to be AT THAT POINT. Just need to start finishing these posters. I'm so close to that point. So many halves. So many audio books to listen to. Almost done with Hunger Games. Excited to listen to the rest of the trilogy. Listening to it while I while I'm productive is a great incentive to be productive.

Mmm salad and apple and banana. Very good!

Todays Portrait Is: Johnny Lewis.

doo doo doooo the other things that need doing

Didn't really touch on any thesis stuff today. Spent the day sorting out the apartment and stuff. Did a lot of dishes (though most of them were done by Mark and Kristen, I just did the rest of the accumulated dishes). Put away my laundry. Tidied my room. Put another henna wash in my hair. I think I'll go for the more red block of henna from Lush next time. It was a nice touch up. Didn't give me a headache like the last time, though I used considerably less of the stuff this time around. I just used the bit remaining from the block of henna I bought for the first dye. The color may be very subtle, but my hair feels good. Mmm.

The library is closed during Spring Break. Boooo. That is such crap. I can't believe how fast time runs out. But taking a chill day to sort to things was much needed.

Went to Fred Meyer's and got some soap and cotton balls and creme cheese and aluminum foil and other things.

Did a couple more portraits.

Been listening to Hunger Games. VERY good. Very invested in Katniss and Peeta.

Todays Portrait Is: Ryan Hurst.

a day for junk food

When I woke up and saw that the alarm was 11am, I swore loudly because I thought I was missing class. Then I realized that I had no class on Friday and said so. Kristen laughed from the living room. So I went back to sleep. I ended up sleeping a bit too much in so the first few tasks of the day were rushed. I went to Trader Joe's and got a frozen meal and some snacks to sustain me. Went to school and grabbed a pop tart and my beloved Propel powdered water. I also like Emergen-c. I tend to drink at least one powdered drink thingy a day, and the rest of my fluids are usually just water.

Anyway, at school I scanned in the drawing of Beth and edited it. Oh, I also finished listening to Shades of Grey by Jasper Fford. Very good book about a society with a hierarchy determined by the amount of colors one can see. Now I'm listening to the Hunger Games trilogy. Everything listens so fast compared to Game of Thrones. Those books were LOOOONG. Anyway, hauling around stuff gets me flustered. I don't like hauling multiple bags and for some reason I don't like backpacks. I resist using one until I absolutely have too much stuff to fit in my shoulder bag.

I like Friday yoga because it slows me down. I get all rushed with stuff and it is an hour and a half to just take it slow. Tuesday Thursday yoga has more movement, it doesn't slow me mentally down as much.

After yoga, I rushed to the studio to claim dibs on a spot and...

...it was totally empty! There was no one in the silk screen studio and only Asha in the letterpress area. There were some people in the litho and etching lab, but I don't go over there. So I claimed three tables, emulsified four screens, oiled up three stencils, microwaved a meal and consumed it, exposed the screens, washed them out, printed the lineart on the Dominic poster, counted out the sheets for the Beth edition, used up my first ream of paper in the process, printed the Beth color layer in a nice range of blues that match her signature sweater, printed the line art, washed out both of those screens, and was out of the building at 9:50. Beth also came in and worked on her screens a bit.

Back in my studio, I counted out another ream of paper into stacks of 10, so later on in printing I can just grab the number of sheets I'll need. Another task minimized! I'm really getting a handle on how long different parts take. If I am doing any non printing tasks (exposing screens, counting paper, emulsifying) I need at least an hour to do them properly, especially if I need to take food breaks. I can do three layers in three and a bit hours if I have nothing else to do. I wonder what my times will be like if I have people catching paper. Right now it is just me. Having a buddy speeds things up.

Got home and had some pasta. And then taffy and candy cane joe joes. MMMM.

I'll figure out what I'm doing tomorrow...tomorrow.

Todays Portrait Is: Tommy Flanagan (with bonus material).

Portrait of Oliver

Pen drawing with digital color.

olivveeeerrr!

My alarm is set to 8am, no changesies. That is an hour before I would usually set it. More time in the morning is better. Either if it is more time lounging conscious in bed or more time for breakfast.

But since I'm out of breakfast food, I just grabbed a nutrigrain bar and some powdered drink and went to class. We didn't really have a critique. We just had an in class assignment to do an illustration representing a person without doing a portrait of their face. So I picked Richard Hammond and did a portrait of his Opel Kadett from the Botswana Top Gear special. I've never drawn a car before, so that was very difficult. Just did a pen drawing straight from reference with digital color.

Got a burrito for lunch because I knew I'd be at school and needed easy sustenance later.

This "having screens ready to print" thing really works for printing efficiency. In the three and a half hours between class and yoga, I got exactly three layers done on my posters. It's almost down exactly. Just so long as I have the same set up. I set up on a far left table and I spread my pages out to dry across the two tables to my right. The length is exactly ten by two posters wide. So when I fill two tables with prints, that is 20 prints, and that is just over a third done. Then I do another 20. Then I do another 15. It is much better than a drying rack, which frankly I hate. They are on springs and if you are not careful the springs will, well, spring and then the racks go up. And if there are other peoples prints, then they might slide around and stuff. It sucks. Having a full three table spread takes luck and/or getting up early. I'll see how it goes once it gets farther along.

So I got the Samala poster printed and half of the Dom image. Tomorrow I will get Dom finished and Acey printed and Beth designed and applied to screens. After yoga I only have five hours before school closes. Before yoga I'll scan Beth's in and get the color in and print it out and get that oiled up and ready to go. Then yoga. Then applying emulsion. Then exposing (four screens: Acey layers and Beth layers). Then washing out. And while those dry, I'll finish Dom. And then I'll see how much printing I get done. Two hours for set up, three for printing. Stagger home at around 10pm. LOVE IT! That is my kind of day really. Printing and yoga. Wheee.

I'll need to go food shopping before all that. Trader Joe's! Whoo!

After yoga today, I was tired so I went home. Watched Community (it was okay). Ate the other half of my burrito. Watched Parks and Recreation (hilaaarious). Now I shall watch some more stuff, drink some fluids, and go to bed. Big day tomorrow.

Todays Portrait Is: Ron Perlman.

glass hug

Watercolor on cut paper glued to glass.

rain returns

Set my alarm, so I can at least pretend to have sleep rhythms. If I'm constantly whacking a snooze, I won't go deep into uncontrolled sleep. That is the plan anyway.

Ended up not going food shopping. Will very much have to do that tomorrow. I'm all out of my prescription eye drops now. Just gotta use the stye remedy. But the eyes seem to be healing well, which is good. Not puffy anymore. Certainly don't hurt.

At 5:30 I scooted down to Rogue to celebrate Heather's birthday. I got myself some tots and a pint of John John. Tasty beer. Daniel was there and Darshon arrived at the same time. Heather's friend Dana came and Tara and her husband and Jim and this other dude. It was a nice little time. Heather has been going to Rogue for her free birthday beer since her 22nd birthday. She is 27 now. I didn't have a present for her. Just a hug.

At 7:45 I rode over to Beth's place and we spent the next three hours watching Friends season 2 episodes and drawing. I drew her and her precious cats Mateo and Salama..Sama..something. Mateo was a massive white kitty and I showed Beth how to do the racehorse with him. She loved it and even tried it out herself. It was a nice night. Got some good drawing done. Now I just need to draw more.

Now to watch some stuff and draw some more stuff. I'm really tired for some reason. Hmm.

Tomorrow is class but also a hard core printing day. Okay maybe not hard core, but I aim to get another four layers printed. Two, maybe three, before yoga. And another afterwards. I have all the layers on my screens, I just need to count the paper and print them. Booyah. That would put my halves up to six, which would mean my thesis is one fifth or one sixth printed! Okay that is counting my eggs before they hatch but it is getting made. I'm so excited. Just need to draw draw draw more more more.

Oh and it is rainy again in Portland. Bleh.

Todays Portrait Is: Charlie Hunnam.

no obligation tuesday

Even though I was totally exhausted, I didn't pass out like I was expecting. Instead it was 2am and I was very restless. So I watched some tellie and then did manage to fall asleep.

Till 2pm. I was exhausted. Today was sort of a "bunking off responsibilities" day. A day to relax, watch stuff, do yoga, draw portraits, and contact people for hang out drawing sessions. And that is what I did.

Contacted Beth, we shall we hanging out tomorrow.

Watched Green Wing, and Glee, and Raising Hope, and Lights Out. Huzzah.

Drew just two portraits, but they were very difficult ones.

Yoga was energizing. That was nice.

There was even some thunder and lighting. Very very exciting.

Also, in eye news, the swelling has stopped. There is still a bump from the blocked gland but with the remaining of my prescription drops it should go down. I think I'll make a doctors appointment for next week anyway. A general check up is in order anyway.

So yeah, a day to chill and refocus. Tomorrow will be drawing and doing that stuff for illustration that needs doing. Tuesday and Wednesday are crappy days for printing. I'll be doing a lot of printing during Spring Break (which is next week, not week after next). I hope to have all seven posters finished by the end and have progress on three to five more. Drawing Beth should provide content for one. I'll go hang with Asha and Eva one of these days. Just hang and draw and draw and get right to printing. I can knock out a lot of printing when I have the time to do it.

Tomorrow I'll also have to go food shopping. I'm down to bread, pasta, and sauce.

Todays Portrait Is: Katey Sagal.