Second Year

I am a second year.

It makes me feel.. powerful. It makes me feel all experienced and knowledgeable.

When I looked at the second years during my first year, I couldn't wait to be them. They had it all together. They were working on great big art projects while me, a lowly first year, was filling in colour wheels and painting still lives of a white ball.

Second year was sure to be all glamourous.

Well, here's the cold, hard truth. It is.

I mean, I haven't even had a full week of classes yet, but I'm pretty sure this is going to be the best year ever. Today was my first Ceramics class (finally!) and we spent all day throwing cylinders.

For six hours I was sitting there, hand on clay, trying to make a simple cylinder.

Think I could make one? Nope. Nottaone. It wasn't until after class, by a couple hours, that I managed to pull four. The homework assignment is to have six, all over six inches high. I have four, probably around four inches high, if that. But I plan on spending almost all of my free time in the studio throwing. I want to make so many cups. Just one-of-a-kinds, and glaze them all differently and fire them all differently; basically using functional pieces as test tiles. I just need to get really good at throwing, really quickly.

Which could prove difficult because tomorrow is first day of painting! Yay!

I haven't painted since December. So for nine months I have been under a painting dry spell. And here I am, starting back up!

I'm terrified. Why? It's simple- I don't know how to paint. I really don't! I mean I'm sure I must have learned something last year during the first semester, but I don't remember what it was, and even so I'm not sure I was any good at it! So now I'm doing second year painting? Oy. I basically just make all of it up.

Nice thing about working with acrylics though, is that I can just make stuff up and get away with it.

So I realize I didn't write on here during the summer. You didn't miss much. I worked, got sorta fired, worked some more, modeled at the school during Summer Series, slept, worked, tanned a little bit, and even more work. Basically, I just worked. In a nut shell. A very, very small nut shell.

But now I'm back! Actually, coming up shortly-ish here is an assignment in my class called Professional Practice, that will have something to do with social media. I'm not sure if I'm going to have to build a website, or if this blog will suffice, but I'll have to be super uptight during that not-so-distant future time period where an assignment will be keeping my social media up to date on what I'm doing, as an artist. For a week maybe? Or half a month or something? So I figured I should probably get in the habit of writing on here. Pictures and possibly movies to come!

If I can figure out how to movie. Somewhat on the lines of me not being able to art, I can't technology either, and I definitely can't movie. But maybe a tutorial on the Youtube will be able to help me out..

In the meantime, sleep tight!