It's good bein' an artist

As everyone knows, I've been stressed/busy enough that when I get home after school/scurrying I'm approaching burnout. I can't focus enough to work on 'work' - writing grad school essays, coding two websites - and neither can I quite chill enough to read a book or snooze. Hence, lots of wasted time online.

Well, yesterday in the middle of wasting time I reminded myself that i needed more stuff for my portfolio. This means it is OKAY to sit and draw...for an art major, I have an absurdly hard time telling myself that it is OK to do that. Crazy, no? The Puritan Work Ethic thinks drawing=fun, therefore you do it AFTER everything else is done. But anyhoo, decided to work on enlarging one of my nekkid element ladies into a watercolor. Stupid enlarging, never looks quite right until I cheat with a photocopier. I was at the time gazing in rapt addoration at Mucha prints online, and so I decided to try to sketch something on the cut off of my watercolor paper, which happened to be just the right size to stick in the letter to J. I set out to do a stereotypical Mucha type peice - the almost complete circles, lady, nudity, and drapery - and it took off with a will of it's own. I'm really happy with this drawing, and the only difficulty now is sending it off as planned...perhaps a photocopy enlargment so I can work on it as a painting later.

( Sketch )

This weekend I need to do (architecture) portfolio oriented stuff - life sketches, etc. Though I am consdiering expanding this one into either a much bigger, better drawing, or a painting (right now it's less than three inches wide).

Anyway, that little 'incident' of art inspired me and made it all look a good deal less hopeless. Perhaps I am a bit artistic, after all. :)

Halloween (reprise)

Once again, I found myself sitting at home alone on friday night. Quelle suprise. Obviously, in dire straits like these, the first thing any 20-something chic does is get on the internet and blow some $100 or more with her credit card, right?

Right!*

Unfortunatley, after that I was still sitting at home on a friday night - but I have more than $100 to pay off of my credit card. So I turned to more safe pursuits. Safe for me at least - I played with halloween photos I just got back. Two disclaimers - 1, I am not a photographer. 2. Er... 2.

*'more than $100' being a very rough approximation of the combined application fees of the University of Washington and Harvard. Yeah, you read that right. No, I'm not finished with my apps - just the bit where I send them money.

( photos )