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a year ago
Hey everyone! I'm not dead yet! =D
I had a really busy fall semester with my classes - taking both Drawing I and Painting I, side by side together, and starting at 8:30am took a lot out of me! O.o But...I survived! And I may have learned a thing or two (oh, trust me, I learned more than that!) and so many things that took me out of my comfort zone. But! I kind of approach doing art a little differently now. All my life, I've drawn and made art, but I actually never really learned the fundamentals of it, and that's what these two classes did for me. There were "ah-HA!!" moments, and moments where I had to literally walk away from the classroom to collect myself in the bathroom because some things were difficult to tackle. But, things went well, and I did good in my classes, and now I don't have to wake up at 5am anymore! =D
I am *never* taking a morning class again. Or two classes side by side like that again. Or....really, just two classes in one semester. I think I'll keep it to just one per semester. I really don't know how kids can do 5 classes per semester as full-time students, I don't think I could handle that... >.>
I also have some big news! I will be Guest of Honour at Fur the More 2024! The theme this year is Arthurian Legends, and...well, one of my biggest passions is making medieval illuminations, as well as studying books and manuscript from the middle ages. So, I'm happy that I'll be a part of that :)
I will *not* be selling art, or offering commissions at the con...there's just too much to plan for in such a short amount of time. Although, I do plan on submitting some art for the art show, and I'd like to see if I can get a decorative border frame made for the inside of the con book done in in time. I plan on having my booth as a show-and-tell of my medieval illuminations that I do for the SCA, as well as having some other things on my table, like my tablet weaving, and various tools of the trade that I use for making illuminations.
I'm also planning on doing a couple panels too...I need to get those finalized with the panel director, but I plan on having one being just a "round table" Q&A about the SCA, and to introduce people to what it is, what we do, and so on. Another panel, I'm going to demonstrate how I make homemade paint from pigments, using soot to make Lamp Black paint, and I'd like to see if I can get some little containers so people can bring home a sample of it that they can try out for themselves :) It works just like gouache, and can probably also be used as a watercolour too...but mostly like gouache. If it dries, it can re-activate with water.
In any case, that's all I have planned so far...maybe there will be more for me, but for now, that's the size of it :)
Hope to see you guys there!
I had a really busy fall semester with my classes - taking both Drawing I and Painting I, side by side together, and starting at 8:30am took a lot out of me! O.o But...I survived! And I may have learned a thing or two (oh, trust me, I learned more than that!) and so many things that took me out of my comfort zone. But! I kind of approach doing art a little differently now. All my life, I've drawn and made art, but I actually never really learned the fundamentals of it, and that's what these two classes did for me. There were "ah-HA!!" moments, and moments where I had to literally walk away from the classroom to collect myself in the bathroom because some things were difficult to tackle. But, things went well, and I did good in my classes, and now I don't have to wake up at 5am anymore! =D
I am *never* taking a morning class again. Or two classes side by side like that again. Or....really, just two classes in one semester. I think I'll keep it to just one per semester. I really don't know how kids can do 5 classes per semester as full-time students, I don't think I could handle that... >.>
I also have some big news! I will be Guest of Honour at Fur the More 2024! The theme this year is Arthurian Legends, and...well, one of my biggest passions is making medieval illuminations, as well as studying books and manuscript from the middle ages. So, I'm happy that I'll be a part of that :)
I will *not* be selling art, or offering commissions at the con...there's just too much to plan for in such a short amount of time. Although, I do plan on submitting some art for the art show, and I'd like to see if I can get a decorative border frame made for the inside of the con book done in in time. I plan on having my booth as a show-and-tell of my medieval illuminations that I do for the SCA, as well as having some other things on my table, like my tablet weaving, and various tools of the trade that I use for making illuminations.
I'm also planning on doing a couple panels too...I need to get those finalized with the panel director, but I plan on having one being just a "round table" Q&A about the SCA, and to introduce people to what it is, what we do, and so on. Another panel, I'm going to demonstrate how I make homemade paint from pigments, using soot to make Lamp Black paint, and I'd like to see if I can get some little containers so people can bring home a sample of it that they can try out for themselves :) It works just like gouache, and can probably also be used as a watercolour too...but mostly like gouache. If it dries, it can re-activate with water.
In any case, that's all I have planned so far...maybe there will be more for me, but for now, that's the size of it :)
Hope to see you guys there!
Hooog I can relate about college morning classes. Those were always a nightmare. I'm so glad you learned a lot this semester even though it was hard at times. And it sounds like you have a lot of cool stuff coming up, that's awesome! :)
I really should upload some of the stuff I did in my classes. For our drawing final, we had to do a self portrait, and normally I suck at drawing humans....but this one...this one turned out so amazing that I surprised myself! O.o I did mine in charcoal...i found out that I *really* like working with charcoal! =D
That's right: Five hours straight running right across lunch. Our structural organic prof very quickly got used to half the class eating.
1: OTOH, there was very little of the "oh no, I can't get the course I want because it's full/conflicting," problem I still hear people going on about.