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Monday, December 20, 2004
final marks
Did well on my first semester. All A's, except for Typography, which is a B. I can live with that. Don't really like it, anyway. I'm looking forward to new classes in January. I take Drawing, Design, English, Art History again, but with different instructors this time. And I'm also taking a third year class, Critical Theory, which I'm really looking forward to. I am also looking forward to those two hour lunches, when I can go to the gym and get on the treadmill, do some weights and try some new machines. I have Mondays off, which is great!
I am going to sit down this week and do some trading cards, and make some New Year's resolutions. One of those will be about my blog! So look for it!
I am going to sit down this week and do some trading cards, and make some New Year's resolutions. One of those will be about my blog! So look for it!
Saturday, November 20, 2004
almost finished!
Only three weeks left, and classes will be finished. I have one exam on Dec 9, my drawing/design/typography classes finish by Dec 3. The only class I don't know about is English. I hope it's scheduled for the week before Dec.9.I want to be home to celebrate family christmas with Derek and Lindsay and my honey before Derek leaves for Taiwan.
Talked to Craig, program co-ordinator, about the possibilities for my program. Changes are being made, and more drawing/illustration classes are being offered. So I can go for the applied degree and focus on the stuff I love to do...drawing!
Mato, my drawing instructor, said that I've made an amazing transformation as an artist, and my development has been incredible. I felt fantastic after hearing that. I love my drawing class the most. This week, we start working on our final drawings for that class. I'm drawing Lindsay, in three different styles. She will be featured as an Art Deco drawing, a classic Ingres (fabulous portrait artist of the 1800s), and something very cubist, abstract, with lots of textures. I may do a fourth one for credit, if I have time. So far, I'm really enjoying my classes, even with the stress level. I wonder sometimes if I've made the right decision, giving up my job and being here by myself, but I'm committed now, and I'm going to see it through.
God has blessed me with good instructors (mostly) and a love of learning. Except for the stupid matting I have to do, where I always mess up the measurements, everything is enjoyable, and I'm doing well. I just feel like there's going to be great things happening for me when I'm done all this!
Talked to Craig, program co-ordinator, about the possibilities for my program. Changes are being made, and more drawing/illustration classes are being offered. So I can go for the applied degree and focus on the stuff I love to do...drawing!
Mato, my drawing instructor, said that I've made an amazing transformation as an artist, and my development has been incredible. I felt fantastic after hearing that. I love my drawing class the most. This week, we start working on our final drawings for that class. I'm drawing Lindsay, in three different styles. She will be featured as an Art Deco drawing, a classic Ingres (fabulous portrait artist of the 1800s), and something very cubist, abstract, with lots of textures. I may do a fourth one for credit, if I have time. So far, I'm really enjoying my classes, even with the stress level. I wonder sometimes if I've made the right decision, giving up my job and being here by myself, but I'm committed now, and I'm going to see it through.
God has blessed me with good instructors (mostly) and a love of learning. Except for the stupid matting I have to do, where I always mess up the measurements, everything is enjoyable, and I'm doing well. I just feel like there's going to be great things happening for me when I'm done all this!
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
midterm marks
Got thru midterms. Very stressful, but I'm happy with the results. Marks are as such:
English A
Art History A-
Drawing A
Design B-
Typography A-
Not bad for someone who nearly failed elementary school, and high school. I'm pleased with the marks. But I had to work very hard to get them. Thanks to a very helpful and accommodating staff, who have made arrangements for me to help me get tutoring, a computer, a time alone to write the exams, all of that helped to get me those marks. Now if I could just learn to deal with the stress and the time management, I'd fly through this! (I may end up with as little hair as my hubby's, if I keep tearing it out when I get frustrated!).
Working on a great project for Art History. Instructor Craig asked us to write an essay or do a studio project based on the periods of art we've studied. So I'm doing a piece called Zeus and Hera, using the Greeks' method of proportion to create the ideal form...and guess who the ideal forms are gonna be? Hee hee...never thought Brian and I would be ideal, except to each other! And for drawing, I have to do four black and white drawings, using all the things we've learned so far, and come up with related drawings. So Lindsay will appear as a Victorian portrait, an Art Deco poster, a subway graffiti drawing, and a pen and ink caricature. What fun I'm having now that the horrible exam stuff is over...at least until early December, when finals happen.
My drawing instructor said I have a very modernist style, sort of abstract expressionist. I like that. There's one fellow in the class who really strives for that, and gets frustrated that he doesn't achieve it. He asked Mato who had the most modern style of all the students - I don't think he was pleased to hear that my name was the first to come to Mato's mind. But, Mato is always suggesting to me that I try a more realist approach...he'd like to see me try a different style, not so distinctive. He always knows when we put our pieces on the wall for critique, which one is mine. Except for the last drawing...he told me he was very appreciative that I stepped outside my comfort zone and worked hard to do something different. He said that my development as an artist has already grown by leaps and bounds in the last few weeks. See me grinning? That's me in drawing class, experimenting and being creative. Last Monday, he had us draw with (first) our opposite hand, then both hands at the same time. I hated the both hands....probably because being LD and ADHD, I couldn't get my brain to function the right way. But the opposite hand wasn't really opposite...I didn't tell Mato that I'm somewhat ambidextrous. I could probably switch to lefty exclusively and have no problem drawing. Either way, I love to draw. I'd draw with my feet if I had to. (one person I admire, Joni Eareckson Tada, draws with her mouth and an apparatus...her vision still comes thru, despite overwhelming physical handicap!).
Gotta go now. Gonna do some drawing, then finish up a presentation for Typography. Just a note, I hate Swiss graphic design!
English A
Art History A-
Drawing A
Design B-
Typography A-
Not bad for someone who nearly failed elementary school, and high school. I'm pleased with the marks. But I had to work very hard to get them. Thanks to a very helpful and accommodating staff, who have made arrangements for me to help me get tutoring, a computer, a time alone to write the exams, all of that helped to get me those marks. Now if I could just learn to deal with the stress and the time management, I'd fly through this! (I may end up with as little hair as my hubby's, if I keep tearing it out when I get frustrated!).
Working on a great project for Art History. Instructor Craig asked us to write an essay or do a studio project based on the periods of art we've studied. So I'm doing a piece called Zeus and Hera, using the Greeks' method of proportion to create the ideal form...and guess who the ideal forms are gonna be? Hee hee...never thought Brian and I would be ideal, except to each other! And for drawing, I have to do four black and white drawings, using all the things we've learned so far, and come up with related drawings. So Lindsay will appear as a Victorian portrait, an Art Deco poster, a subway graffiti drawing, and a pen and ink caricature. What fun I'm having now that the horrible exam stuff is over...at least until early December, when finals happen.
My drawing instructor said I have a very modernist style, sort of abstract expressionist. I like that. There's one fellow in the class who really strives for that, and gets frustrated that he doesn't achieve it. He asked Mato who had the most modern style of all the students - I don't think he was pleased to hear that my name was the first to come to Mato's mind. But, Mato is always suggesting to me that I try a more realist approach...he'd like to see me try a different style, not so distinctive. He always knows when we put our pieces on the wall for critique, which one is mine. Except for the last drawing...he told me he was very appreciative that I stepped outside my comfort zone and worked hard to do something different. He said that my development as an artist has already grown by leaps and bounds in the last few weeks. See me grinning? That's me in drawing class, experimenting and being creative. Last Monday, he had us draw with (first) our opposite hand, then both hands at the same time. I hated the both hands....probably because being LD and ADHD, I couldn't get my brain to function the right way. But the opposite hand wasn't really opposite...I didn't tell Mato that I'm somewhat ambidextrous. I could probably switch to lefty exclusively and have no problem drawing. Either way, I love to draw. I'd draw with my feet if I had to. (one person I admire, Joni Eareckson Tada, draws with her mouth and an apparatus...her vision still comes thru, despite overwhelming physical handicap!).
Gotta go now. Gonna do some drawing, then finish up a presentation for Typography. Just a note, I hate Swiss graphic design!
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