Friday, April 23, 2010

Knock-Knock jokes

Knock-Knock jokes usually aren't funny at all, but I came across this one on a friend's facebook page the other day and thought it was terrific. Here it goes,



-Knock-Knock
-Who's there?
-You know,
-You know who?
-Yes! AVADA KEDAVRA!!!

Bahaha!! I just thought that was terrific. You know who, Voldemort, get it? Anyway, this has nothing to do with anything that's going on in my life right, now, I just felt like I should blog again, but didn't want to go into the epic blog post that is coming soon. And when I say soon, I mean probably in a week or more when classes are over. But maybe I'll get bored one day and displace my desire to not work on a project into a desire to blog or spend irreplaceable hours on the internet.
It's been know to happen. So until then, Buenos Noches.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Paige-a-rooni

So for the past few weeks I've been all-consumed with myself. Literally. In my painting class we had an assignment to paint a self-portrait, and not necessarily to just paint a literal representation of our face, just a self-portrait however we interpreted it. I did choose to paint my face, but part of that was a desire to academically paint a portrait with oils, which I had never done before. But regardless, this painting was the hardest thing I've ever done. We had weeks to work on it, and I sketched, and planned and thought, and filled up pages and pages in my sketchbook trying to settle on a composition, on an idea. I did want to simply paint my face, but beyond that I didn't want this to be an academic painting. I wanted to paint me. Which ultimately happens no matter what you paint. It's impossible to no put yourself into your work, but regardless, I wanted there to be more depth and meaning than the paintings I had done previously for classes. So I over-thought it to the extreme. So finally, a week before critique I settled on a composition. It took blocking in a few different ideas onto the canvas to get there, but I made it. So that week, literally all I did was paint. Every night I was up until the wee hours of the morning working on this stupid painting. I skipped classes the day before and the day of the critique in order to complete it to a point where I felt comfortable showing it. So anyway, I just wanted to show all 8 readers of my blog what I did. Because I am proud. It still needs work, but I'm happy with how it turned out.







So if you'll notice, the last photograph of the painting I have eyebrows, while the other ones don't. So as I was driving the painting to school a week ago for the critique after feverishly painting for a week straight, I realized I had forgotten to paint eyebrows and proceeded to burst into hysterical, crazy-person laughter. But at this point I said forget it and kept driving. So then that day we didn't get to my painting, we ran out of time, but again, even with time to add eyebrows I decided to leave it as is. But then this afternoon after I took pictures of the painting, on a whim pulled out a brush and added the eyebrows. I still don't know how I feel about them. Anyway, so this is my work, and hopefully I'll stay on top of things and at the end of the semester I'll keep all 8 of you updated on what else I do.
The end.

P.S. I realize my hair isn't actually that red. I really did try to match my hair color, but this has happened in every single self-portrait I have ever done. I think subconsciously I just think my hair is redder than it is. And I think I'm ok with this.

Friday, April 9, 2010

New Friends

So my sister Jackie has this knitting book full of these funny, quirky, creepy dolls you can knit, and I'm obsessed. It's the perfect, fun, quick little project for me. They're small enough that I can finish them fairly quickly, and interesting enough that I don't get bored. So meet my new friends.
This is Sean.



And this is Perry.


Aren't his dimples adorable.
So as you can see, I have a thing for gingers.