Art.

LCD is over, so here is some of the larger pieces of art that didn't fit in the scanner. They're all huge files, and photoshop'd the same way- re-sized, cropped, and making the lights lighter and the darks darker (but not a contrast difference).
1. I think it was a self-portrait at one point, but this is the luminosity painting I did over winter break. Acrylic on Cardboard.
2. the third of the 3d glasses set, this is somewhat cubist. Charcoal and Newspaper.
3. Abstract cubist luminosity/chiaroscuro painting. Acrylic.
4. Foreground, middleground, background exercise, with normal, faux, and sfumato color palettes. Color-aid.

The first: What I did in college. Year 1.

I wanted to start with a list of food. I didn't realize how much the food changes in college. I ate lunch and dinner in the cafeteria, and had cereal for breakfast. When my meal money piled up, I had cereal from the cafeteria. The best part, I think, is that I still have not completely exhausted all the kinds of food. But here are some things that I generally started eating more of and less of when I got to school:

More of
String beans, Broccoli, Ramen, Pork, Ice Cream, Fruit Smoothies, Honey, Muffins, Rice, Lettuce In Sandwiches, Tea x100

Less of
Burgers, Pizza, Fresh Fruit, Steak, Soup, Pie/Cake, Salad, Peanut-Butter and Jelly, Real Italian Food

Some things are good, some are bad. Overall, though, it's just been a different food experience. Next year, when I don't have a demanding food plan, I'll finally be able to enjoy Brooklyn.

more arts

These are two of a set of 4, all based around 3d glasses. I love both of them for very different reasons.

some arts

it's about time I got some art up here. These are still lifes with flowers and patterns, based on Matisse. Nice-quality watercolor set, but the purples were difficult. The top one is better, but the idea behind the second is more interesting- a silhouetted bouquet against the sunlight outside.

watercolor, i miss you

I finally got my hands on a water-bush- a synthetic brush with a little water compartment in the handle. Osmosis doesn't work quite as fast as I thought it might, so I'm consistently misjudging the amount of water that comes out.
     The pigments are actually really nice and condensed (besides lacking purple). 12- black, white, lemon yellow, golden yellow, ochre, crimson, vermilion (blood-orange), light red (?), yellow-green, viridian green, cobalt blue, and prussian blue (darker, less intense). all in a little box.
     It also comes with a sponge, which is crap and will be replaced by paper towel or jeans leg quite shortly.

Technique:
I have a habit of picking up excess color/water with a dry brush. Because your brush is also the source of water, you can't have a dry brush. In my brother's words, Roar.

Too. Much. Water.

Well, I'll keep going. Pics edited in later.

another picture-less post

It's coming to the end of the my first year, but it's no where near done.

Portal 2 just came out. And I realized that I'd never finished the first Portal. So I sat down and finished it in 3 hours of full attention. uh, where did this come from? A lack of consequence, perhaps.

I think that's all I have to say.

waste of a day

Last week, I asked myself, what did I do today?

And all I could think of was, I don't remember. I don't think I did anything.

At the same time, I did many things.

But when you can't remember what you did, it feels like you wasted a whole day.

netflix, netflix, get away from me.

What have I done today? What did I try to do? What did I actually do?

I watched the Producers, The Jerk, and Burton's Batman.
I did my laundry, showed, ate meals.
I started my drawing homework but ran out of paper.
I broke my plaster mold.
I wrote a blog.
I went to the library and looked through a guide to FinalCutPro.
I painted my nails and went grocery shopping.
I drew 8+ pages of story work for a film project, which I am now debating on throwing out for a simpler, more surreal dream-sequence of a film, rather than a real story. But, why can't it be a real story.
It's because the ending. The monster roars and moans, and it's my soul that it sees.

I still have the drawing homework. I still have a rough draft of a paper due tomorrow. I don't have a thesis for it yet.
I still want to see Eyes Wide Shut, but I'm having trouble finding 2 1/2 hours of free time.
But I consider movies like my studying.
But I have schoolwork.