Progress

So I’ve made it very clear that Core Studio is the bane of my existence, but lately things have been looking up. I am with my other core instructor Rebecca Walz (who I’ve spent the most time with in core) and being in the state that I was in and being in her class just made me feel even worse. There was tons of pressure. But I’m starting to feel looser and more comfortable (probably because we are in the surface rotation finally. I will say that I have been lacking highly in confidence all year…). The past two critiques I have received really good feed back from Rebecca which means a lot to me because it’s hard to please that woman, and when she doesn’t like something she will tell you precisely why. And when she really likes something, it’s like the Gods’ shining their light upon us. And I’m glad to say that she has been happy with my work lately. And I have too. Things are slowly looking up for me. I’ve noticed my inspiration levels rising and it feels good. I think it’s because of the realization that freshmen year is almost over and there are just three years left to graduate. It’s time to start realizing what it is I want to make my art about. Which is why I’m going to soon be in the process of writing an artist statement, purely to get my thoughts out (and I’ll have it for whenever I may need it; which is a lot when you are in art school).

The past two projects have been good for me. The first one, we had to have a sewing component in the piece. I haven’t photographed it yet but I will soon and post it up. I got a great crit from Becca, and was generally well received within the class. Happy points. :] This piece really helped me in fleshing out my ideas.

The next one was a 25 drawings project. 25 drawings in one week. Sounds simple. But it’s not… It was a good exercise for me though, and I pulled it off. I scanned in some of them but others were too big for the scanner so I’ll post the ones I have below and post the others later. For the second week in a row, Rebecca really liked my collection of drawings and said that I was close to having a work of art the way I had them displayed (which could been more thought out). She even said she wanted to buy one of them haha. She pointed out things that I hadn’t quite noticed at first, like that all together there was some sort of narrative going on within the works. And that they seemed autobiographical, which is true. The crit was overall REALLY helpful, and I’m very happy about it. These drawings and the crit helped me form a vague idea of what I want my work to be about.

Here are some scans of some of the drawings (keep in mind though, that these drawings were all mostly done in a few minutes one after the other and that they all look a lot better displayed together on a wall):

More to come eventually… :]

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