Finals Frenzy

Fall semester is quickly coming to a close, and there’s still so much to do! I had my Ideas of Western Art final yesterday, which I think went pretty well. I still have to write a research paper for my Ethics final and present it to the class next week. In my other classes, which are studio classes, I have a different set up for finals.

In Drawing class, we are doing portfolios in the same way that I described earlier in the semester: we bring in all of our work that we’ve done since the last review and talk it over with our classmates and professor. In Painting class, our professor is just collecting all of our work from the whole semester and then giving us a total grade on it. If we would like to, we can schedule an individual meeting with her to discuss our work. I am most excited for my Printmaking final! It’s really not a final at all, it’s called a print exchange. Each of the students in my class creates a final print using whatever printmaking technique they would like with an image that has significance to him or her. Then, each of us has to create 14 prints, one for each of the people in the class. That way, everyone ends up with a print from each person. I’m very excited to finish mine (of course I’ll post it) and to see what everyone else decides to print!

In this post, I’m posting a few drawings from Drawing these past few weeks. We’ve been working a lot with pastels; as I mentioned before, we worked on that mixed media self portrait for a few classes. The past 4 classes, we’ve been working on a new type of drawing. It’s still in pastel, and we drew from a model, but the structure was very loose. Our professor asked us to draw the model’s body parts as well as bones of a model skeleton all over our big drawing paper, periodically turning our whole canvas so that the body parts were turned all directions. The body parts were meant to look fragmented, scattered, and almost unidentifiable. We worked on the body parts in bright colors to bring some of them forward and then put a blue background down. I’ve posted my finished body part drawing here!

In other news, I’ve finally finished my study abroad application process. After 5 application processes, countless stamps, and many trips to the Visa Office, I’m accepted and registered to study at SACI in Florence, Italy for the Spring 2013 semester! The classes I’m taking are: Intermediate Painting, Advanced Drawing, High Renaissance Art History, and Color Photography. I’m so excited to take these classes and I cannot wait to travel around Europe every weekend!