Taking crayons seriously.

Life-Drawing. As a moderate warning, these are naked people. It's not porn. At least, to me it isn't. Some of these I really like, some of them are just showing how amazingly crazy this model was. Definitely a dancer. But these are the best out of the 30-ish drawings today.

Experiments in crosshatching. As a note, his head really was that shape. There were boxes everywhere, because I wasn't early enough for a decent seat. The second 5min has little sense of balance, but I like other parts of it.

1 min, 2x 5 min, 20ish min, 10min, 20 min.

300

My mom asked me about the movie 300. She's student-teaching world history. SETUP FOR DISASTER.

Young disney people talking basically about CalArts. Thank you, forum people.

The new psych project is about the progress of relationships. That's more specific than his definition. I was thinking of starting from the end, and working my way back through a relationship. In comic form. Inked. Keeping things general will probably be my best bet. It's been a while since I've tried a comic project.

Recipes:

French Toast

Grilled Cheese

Croutons

Toasted Italian Bread

Breadcrumbs

poetry, and the importance of blogging.

The blogs came up today in STAC, and yes, I do read them. I feel like blogs are written so that someone listens to you. So I'm here to listen. Because it's important.

I found a wonderful place today: there are desks behind the reference section of the library. No one knows where they are, so I get a whole quiet place to myself, with reference books. I went through about 5 or 6 looking up late 30's fashion. There's a whole Tom and Jerry episode- The Zoot Cat.

STAC magazine article idea: simple, quick recipes that save money. Like '5 things to do with a loaf of bread'.

We wrote poems today that were supposed to be random. Not random, but stochastic. Random, but with a sense of 'what are the odds of that??'. My poem, with a touch of editing. Starts with someone else's line.

costume designs.

Some slightly rushed costume designs. At this point of the children's show, these are probably not correct anymore, since the script is being edited again. The presentation and discussion today was amazing, and the resulting changes in the show will probably make Caged Bird pretty damn decent.

What's being changed:

VIVIAN: she's not really poor anymore, which leaves me at a loss because it's so open. Maybe something more bird-like? The colors also remind me too much of the flag. late 30's fashion is something to look up. The clock-belt stays. Although the big-headed picture was second, I think the layered skirt looked nicer in the normal-headed picture.

COMMISSIONER: He has a straight, long coat (like Gormogon), because he isn't really out on the streets. He can look a little swankified. The mustache is gonna be good.

GORMOGON: got this one straight-on. The buttons have to be red. Has to be purple. Secondary colors are EVIL. I like the 'he knows things. He's an information guy' aspect. He really is a damn good villain.

JAMES: after hearing his part and looking at it again, the shorts have to go. He's not a child, and no one really treats

him like one. The vest stays. The pot-hat must go. Maybe. I like the vest, and the shirt is just about finding something white and dying it yellow with tie-dye colors.

After Halloween will be a good time for costume shopping. Then, I can get the mustache and silly hats. I also need to figure out costumes for Fiveheads, the minion, and Fabio the makeover man.

what about

I feel like ignoring responsibilities and watching pixar movies all night. But I need to paint some primal costume designs and come up with a list of set design limitations.

I feel like my standards are so high I can't reach them and only DaVinci and Schiele can touch them. I feel like I can do anything, so why am I doing this? It can always be better. Do not blame the world for boredom. Blame yourself. For you are not poet enough to call forth it's riches. Rilke.

In response to molly and niki: I don't have it, it's never been part of my world, but I'm surrounded by it.

Everybody's got the right to be happy....

Been listening to Assassins today (Everybody's got the right). The musical covers the motives behind presidential assassinations, and it's just so interesting.

Tomorrow I continue working on the pointillist piece (now that I have a middle green thanks luke), and I'm hoping to present it to STAC.

After Romanticism, I was going to work on a Romantic art piece with Hansel and Gretel. What's more Romantic that putting them on a path in the woods with a lantern and scary trees visually blocking the path at every end? Hopefully quill and ink.

Thumbnail and other doodles. The thumbnail isn't the first, it's planned. Cept the fallen tree should be more scary. Hansel's dropping the shining stones... I don't even know if he does that. The path is on the side of a slope, up on their left and down on their right. The pic doesn't really show that.

"Pilfered Waistcoat". Girl getting clothes from the remains of Princes... from a lot earlier in the year. The prince-killing princess. On the right is a version from last summer.

'insatiably curious'. that's a goodun.

The nostalgia has kicked in from college apps and portfolios.

I have to make the DEAD LIST, deadlines for everything and how they want the portfolio served. Hard copy with a side of fries? On a CD with some crispix? Perhaps skewered and smoked over an applewood fire.

CalArts wants an artist statement. I have an idea and I've written one before. "I do art to understand people around me. And maybe through that understanding, I'll understand me." I don't want to label myself, I don't want to be close-minded. I want to be insatiably curious. I think that's what I am.

The storm is... calming...

I haven't drawn anything I would put up here. If anything, there's the picture of objects ("still-life" is not a word anymore.) from school. I was thinking of adding a sky in the background, for some sizing effect and surrealism.

Fuerza-bruta. Life and death, Male and Female, breaking away from it all. There was so much balance, and so much beauty in that show. And it was full of good, simple ideas. Each idea was introduced, had its wonderful moment, and had its own ending. It was the best crew work I've ever seen. The only rival in my mind would be Cirque du Soliel, Corteo, but that's more 'circus' that 'theater', so it's another monster.

Afterwords, people kept going 'I've gotta see it again!'. I don't want to. I don't want to know what's gonna happen. I had a wonderful experience, and I want Fuerza-Bruta to remain in my memory as is. I like how you are allowed to be in the group, and it is safe in the 'group' of spectators. They let us be that.

I have to write a letter to myself, that will be sent in 5 years. I want to handwrite it, and I want to put everything in it.

Been looking at the art of other people making calarts portfolios. It's really interesting to see other people's art, and I'm glad I'm not so far behind.