There has been a good bit of progress for me on my Sr. Sem body of work. I have been working on 12 paintings at a time. Within the past 2 weeks I've spent over $300 on two 30 yard rolls of watercolor paper and a buttload of new watercolor paints. Thank you DICK BLICK. I've also spent a ton of my "free time" working on these paintings and other classwork. It has been a pretty hectic semester and I feel it's only going to become more chaotic as it winds down to an end. There is a light! I can see the light. There is an end!
Soon, I will upload a few photographs of my workings, but right now I am in class listening to my professor ramble on and on about something in Photoshop. Until I upload the photos here, you can check them out at my DA page in my Gallery under Watercolor. Or you can just click the correct link. Comments/critiques are appreciated and only two of the paintings are fully finished. Other than painting and classwork, I haven't been doing much of other artistic endeavors. My Total Drama Island like characters are probably my most popular features in my online gallery, however I haven't had any extra time to continue developing my ideas for my camp characters. Give me a few months and I'll have more characters. I'm also hoping to start developing scenes to give these characters more, um, character.
On October 20th and 22nd the Art Dept here at Ship held their first semesterly Sr. Sem critiques, in which all students in the 2nd Semester of Sr. Seminar are required to attend and present their works. I went on the second day and presented my watercolor paintings. It's been said from previous semesters' students that they professors tend to be very critical, most of them differing on opinions like Paula and Simon on American Idol, where huge arguments break out over students' works. Let me tell you, I was sooooo nervous about what they would think and say of my ideas and pieces. When the time came for me to present my works, the words I wanted to say came out right and the professors seemed somewhat intrigued and impressed. I received good advice and nice feedback. None of the horrible things that I thought I was going to hear. However, Prof. D in his big ego like manor had to say that I had to have 50... yes 5-0 paintings done by the next critique and thinking I had more time until the next critique came around, agreed to his demands. Since October 22nd I've been working my butt off trying to do as many paintings done because the next critique is next week. November 14th. From the 22nd to the 12th I had exactly 3 weeks to complete 50 paintings. Talk about stressed out. It would have been different if I didn't also have 4 classes and an internship to worry about and had all the time in the world to work on the paintings. But I don't have that kind of time. Today I received good news. I was talking with one of my professors, the one I am in class with, who absolutely loves my paintings. I mentioned the 50 paintings thing and she said "bullshit". She told me not to do all 50 because that would create for lesser quality of the works but she said what prof D meant was to do a lot of them. Like he's going to remember or count all of my paintings to see if there are 50 there. I'm just hoping this professor, and a few others, will back me up next Thursday if prof D starts to rip me apart for not having them. I did try though. I honestly tried to do as many as I possibly could. I set up a strict schedule that I followed, almost to a T. I say almost because I forgot to schedule when I would eat and I took a few liberties in making sure I ate something. I bought the extra supplies I would need in order to accomplish the feat and I only have 15 or 16 paintings, which only 2 of are finished. I can quit ripping my hair out after hearing what I heard this morning though. Wish me luck.
Welp, that's all that is new in the world of Bethany art. Check back sometime again in the future. I'm going to try to keep this updated as much as possible of bigger developments as they occur. =)
