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It was, well still is, a beautiful day and I decided to take my camera along with me.





you are welcome to bemoan snow all you want but I will never say it nay, it's far too beautiful. Enjoy.

My show is up, the artist's reception is over and went pretty well. My stress has gone down immensely. Now it's time to look foreword and start all over again. Now it's time to specify exactly what I'll be doing until and after I graduate. I've decided against going through the whole show of graduation. I didn't enjoy it the last time and so why spend money to do it again when I can just get my diploma mailed to me? Anyway that's my philosophy on it.
In class on Thursday we had a fascinating discussion about Albrecht Durer's piece "Melencholia I". Durer is absolutely amazing! While da Vinci usually holds the top spot in my favorite artists, whenever I study Durer, he comes very close to taking the top spot. You simply can't imagine all the things that go into a work by Durer, all the symbolism and geometry and pure planning. Durer didn't do things randomly or by accident or to "express himself" If you are not familiar with Durer, his work, or Melencholia I, I highly recommend that you change that. This might be a good place to start. You'd be amazed at all the cool stuff you could learn from Durer and the symbolism in his works. I don't know why people praise abstract expressionism when there is so much better out there, when there is something real out there. Find the real. Seek after truth.

relief

The marathon is over. I put up my final show tomorrow. All my pieces are finished and framed. I only need to take my pieces over to where they'll be displayed so I don't have to drag them and everything else I'll need tomorrow. A huge load has been lifted.
I scheduled this show way back in September, I figured I'd be done with everything by December...ha ha ha. I have been a procrastinator for far to long for that. I did work on art, but I also was doing a full schedule of classes, 20 hours of work a week and homework. Art sadly gets pushed to the back burner all too easily. I did get one piece mostly done last semester, and to be fair I made about three versions of a piece to try and get it to work right...which latter became four and five versions...anyway, bottom line I'd thought out most of my pieces, but I hadn't actually put brush to paper on them.
This semester I'm only taking three classes and that's helped a lot. Another thing that helped was finally getting to use some studio space, that truly boosted my productivity. Hours that were usually wasted on campus in between classes were suddenly very convenient times to go to the studio. Anyway while my working time was up immensely, it's still been quite a mad dash to get things finished. I've been doing a lot of pieces water color which has limited how quickly I can work, I can't put another layer of paint down while the paper's still wet from the last layer... this is why it's a very good idea to work on multiple pieces at once, so you have something to work on while you're waiting for things to dry.
Anyway, around midnight last night I finished my last piece. Prayer is a wonderful thing, as are blessings. Tiny miracles happen all the time once you start realizing them. I've been very blessed.
For those out of state, I'll probably post pictures of my show here eventually. Stay tuned.