Well I am on my way to see my brother graduate [WOO HOOO!!!!!] :) I'm super excited and as the boarding time approaches I am actually a little exctied to see my parents. But anywho I am going to miss my friends in my "hood." See you guys on Sunday
Shannon's a chicken headThis weekend has been phenomenal. Filled with tacos, pancakes and the newest addition to my permanent collection of people that I love [all of my amazing friends], how could it ever go wrong??? Well for one I have to do a painting and I am clueless, seriously clueless. Maybe I am stressing it a bit to much which is forcing my brain to self destruct and maybe loosing my glasses for a whole 2 hours prior to thinking about painting really made me discouraged. It's kind of scary when I realize how blind I am and how utterly useless the rest of my body is without my eyes. I suppose I am being a bit dramatical.
If there's anything I have learned is that being rational and getting away from whatever is driving me crazy will help me put the pieces together later. So heres the plan:
Tonight I am going to put together my CD cover, take an advil and look at pictures from this weekend to get inspiration.
Tomorrow I am going to work, think about the painting during my lunch break, get home around 6 and work on it.
Hopefully this will help:
They make me happy
xoxox
It's that time again...when I am completely disconnected from the world for a day or two going through all of the junk I've compiled over the past year in order to give spring a nice new welcoming, but this year I am also making more room in my "cozy abode" for my new pal Hans. Here is a drawing (at least I think it's considered a drawing although it's on canvas board and I used pantone chips and construction paper to work on it :) that I created in honor of the good sir and his gluteus maximus, inspired by the book "Everyone Poops."
So I have fallen in love with two AMAZING things in the past two days. My lovely co-worker Jordiemoo bought me a small pig from Vietnam who is probably the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life. My classmate named it Hans and I think I'm going to stick with it. (His full title is "Sir Hans the Pig.") I am seriously in love and I think I am slowly building a collection of unique teddybears/stuffed animals/inanimate objects that I consider to be human in every way possible :].
The second thing that I have fallen in love with is The Naive World exhibition in the Gina gallery. If you haven't seen it you should definitely go!!! The art was amazing and none of the artist were traditionally educated so it was interesting to experience how people see the world and their surroundings objectively and transfer them onto a 2d surface. It was super interesting and it was such an amazing environment, AND they had these salmon samples that were amazing. AND one of the paintings had a small shop named after my sister and my mom:
DUDE!! Today I realized that school will be over in approximately 4 WEEKS! How amazing is that??? I can't wait to finally sleep more than an average of 5 hours and not be a broke college student...for four months at least :}
Well today has been super duper productive. I started my final wash in for the year, and as I transformed my painting from poopy 'raw umber' brown to somewhat life like lights and shadows, I realized that I probably wouldn't have a chance to take painting again, well atleast not with Marvin [lol my prof. is too cool for his last name]. Even though I was a bit stubborn in the beginning of the year and reluctant to shell out big bucks for supplies that I thought were going to be completely irrelevant to my experience at SVA, I must say that I fell in love with listening to oldies and country music for 6 hours for 30 weeks of my life while painting "shapes" instead of huge boobs and funny looking feet.
When I look back at my first paintings, all I can say is: "man that definitely doesn't look right." But now I can say that I have improved quite a bit...not really awesome like the old masters but hey maybe one day.
Hmmmm so that is what the SVA Ad means.
So I think I am officially addicted to blogging. I am in class and we are on a somewhat break, so no worries sis ;).
Anywho today we are learning InDesign and I must say that I am really fascinated, or extremely off my bonkers. We are learning how to make amazing magazine layouts using drop caps, wrap around text and odd Latin text that I don't understand but will come in handy when I have to create a layout with non-existent or an invisible article, thanks to corporate America and potential issues with deadlines and co-workers...ha. Now that I'm typing this out it must sound really boring but guess what...IT'S NOT! Well at least not for someone who really enjoys talking about types and finding other odd people in the world who can detect the difference between a san-serif and a serif font.
Furthermore, this morning I realized that I had a small reading assignment due for class and I was definitely not looking forward to doing it, but then something amazing happened - I fell in love with the book! The book is called "Thinking With Type" and at first I thought it was an extremely boring book disguised in a hip and cool design. I couldn't have been more wrong. I learned all about ascenders and descenders and humanist letters and decorative letters and everything else that I would've considered irrelevant in my past life.
Maybe I'm not simply easily amused. Maybe, just maybe I really love what I learn and what I will do in the future. Maybe I'm finally realizing why everyone says to me:
"you are the alien that has found her home planet."
FINALLY! I am done uploading pictures to my blog and it only took me half of my brain cells and sanity to do it :]. Looking at this year I must say that is has been a doozy...an AWESOME one to say the least. And I reeeeaaaaally can't wait until next year...no seriously, this year has been over for me since i picked out my schedule for sophomore year :p.
[classes include Basic Graphic Design, Basic Typography, Drawing with my favoritist teacher in the whole wide world and much much more]
I'm basically taking 7 classes each semester and I will be lost under piles and piles of hw, but that only means that I MUST have high expectations next year and hopefully my brain doesn't explode from absorbing knowledge.
In any case ttyl
xox - K
