wa-oh, wa-oh.

whoops. i guess im not very good at keeping up with blogs. Its a stressful time of year. Many people can argue that thanksgiving break helps them out, and they get all rested up for the last kick of the semester. Not this girl. I stayed in menomonie this year (for the second year in the row) due to poor planning on my mother and sister's part. I'm not complaining though. I got a lot of stuff figured out and done, but I still have a lot to go. Feeling rested is hardly whats happening with me. I'm feeling stressed to say the least.

Im going to try to pull myself together and really try to nail this final project. its interesting trying to draw on a piece of paper that is practically my size. its exciting though. we'll see where this goes!

portraits.

This week and last week we did portraits. Man, it is hard to do. Its hard to make it resemble the person you are drawing. I had fun though. I was really genuinely interested in drawing these figures. I think the hardest day was the modeling day. Sitting there for 3 hours completely still is so hard. Now i know why not everyone models for life drawing classes. haha.

it was...CHICAGO.

I went to chicago this weekend with the fine arts association. It was a crazy and fun weekend, but now I am in such a haze--I just don't even know what to do with myself.

We went to the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Institute of Art. At the mca there was a Luc Tuymans show that was pretty interesting. It was a large body of his work, so there were a lot of hit and misses with me. He had a lot of different jumps in concepts in his work, but they were generally all addressed the similarly. Naturally, some pieces worked better than others.

Im excited to do more drawings this week in life drawing. I really like seeing that i am able to draw better and more realistically. At this point in my college career i feel like the conceptual part of my art is really coming forward and that learning all of the basic techniques is falling back. I mean, when I think back to my first year at stout, it was all about drawing for hours at a time staring at still lives. I think what I'm getting at is that its nice to be able to still work on purely visual and technical skills.