I can make it better for you.

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I can't believe that life drawing is over with and in some ways I am happy but I also feel like I had been improving and so it's a bummer... As far as my blog goes for this semester I feel like I have been getting better in talking about if and how I have been improving in the class. This semester I have learned a great deal about not only life drawing but also about how well I work in drawing gestures as compared to long drawings and about how much time it really takes for me to succeed over the time that it takes other people. I found out a lot about the way that my brain works and how I connect the shapes that I am drawing to those on both the manikens and on the model's figure. Over the sum of these past five months in this class I wish that I could have improved a lot more than I ended up improving and I get people telling me that I have and that I should really keep looking at my drawings so that I can see what they are seeing... I think in the end when we look at our work just as sometimes we catch ourselves examining our lives well, we will always in some ways feel like we have fallen short. The way that I believe that this applies to my drawings is in the fact that I see myself using some of the same techniques that I have been trying to change for years. Now, I'm not saying that I haven't improved at all because I know that I have but I guess it's just the level of improvement that I have grown to expect and the contrast between that and what I see in my drawings. One of the most interesting things that I have picked up on this semester is the muscles that we put on the maniken and how they really are visible in the body and how they move when we move and how we draw those movements and even if the body moves the slightest bit there is still a change and should be a visible change in the drawings. I also noticed this especially while drawing the face, how different the model's expression is even if the angle on the mouth is changed only a tiny bit and the same thing goes for the nose and ears and hairline. My strengths this semester in drawing were more along the lines of me narrowing my focus enough to be able to focus on one aspect of the figure just long enough to get the right movement. Life drawing is so much more different than drawing still life objects, it's a great deal about examining the body and the forms that it takes but also about (for me) being able to separate the fact that I'm looking at a body and see the figure more as a form in which you need to execute perfect angles. I will use all that I learned in life drawing in every aspect of my life. As long as I'm around people I am using what I learned haha something quick and funny about this is on Saturday I hung out with a guy that I'm interested in and whenever we talked I couldn't help but to look at the planes on his face and the muscles and how they moved in his forearms. On the same day I went to a movie with a friend of mine and all throughout the movie I was assessing the angles and thinking about how I would draw them. I hope you all have a wonderful summer :)

If you're not moving forward.

It's funny that as I actually sit here with this picture in front of me I can see everything that's wrong with it. First off, the model that we were drawing is not nearly as fat as I made him in this drawing. Though if you were to look at the progression of drawings and how I have improved greatly since the start of this drawing, maybe you'd say that I just needed another half an hour or so and I might believe you. I do like the way that the lines are looking though because it's been pretty hard for me to actually realize those lines and find how they fit into the bone structure of the face. Some of the things that I thought were really difficult were the eyes because of the fact that he always seemed to be opening and closing them rather than keeping them open, which really does make sense because your eyes can get really dry and tired. As you can probably see, I made the chin really quite large which in all actuality it looked proportionate when I was drawing it and seemed like it when I looked at it in the drawing room. But, such is life, and I'm just glad that I'm not making Rob pay for this portrait or something haha because than... Well, he'd give me a receipt. In other news and notes... my back is breaking because I'm bent over this board I'm working on for sculpture. No kids I dont guarantee that handing over your life is a good idea but I'm gonna say that you're eventually gonna hand your life over to someone or something. I chose art a long time ago.

You spread your wings.

This week has been something interesting and frustrating and somewhat unproductive and productive... Yeah, if that makes any sense to you I will be surprised because lately everything has been really jumbled. In life drawing this week we worked on drawing noses, ears, and lips and I feel as if when I actually take a look at my drawings they are significantly worse than I had originally believed them to be. It’s a bummer that its almost finals week and I feel as if I haven’t improved at all in my drawings but the good thing is that I feel as if I have gotten a further appreciation for life drawing and how difficult it actually is. Also, I realized that when we study the individual body parts and how they fit into the body I become more and more aware of these parts and I look for them in people as well as through pictures. I was actually sitting here typing and I leaned over to a friend of mine and showed him how I actually found a bunch of pictures of lips and eyes and put them into a folder on my computer. I have a long way to go with my drawing abilities as well as in adjusting the way that I see things in order to really make any changes and so I feel that I will be doing that a great deal this summer if I can help it. Okay, so anyways… I think that I have said something like this before but I think that the structure under the surface is what makes me so uneasy when I draw. I hate the fact that I’m rambling but if you ever really talk to me you’ll see that’s how I am on a normal basis. As far as the title of my blog goes, all of them really have to do with things that I am thinking about in my practice and throughout my life…. This week is more of a commentary on relationships and the fact that we are all capable of growth both with and without them.

Silly Silly people.

I'm not one hundred percent sure that I really remember how this week went and that's not because I wasn't present just maybe because it was a short week... On Monday we worked on our hand drawings and I found that I quite enjoyed them which is pretty good because I haven't really found anything in particular that I've enjoyed drawing in this class. In a way I think that is sad to say because I'm supposed to be a Studio art major and here I am struggling with what should be the most simple concept to grasp... maybe it's the human figure that stresses me out but I also think that it might have something to do with how I have knowledge of the time restraint, and I'm the type of person who can get really stressed out in timed situations. At the same time that I say that I also think about how I could just be making up excuses for myself; I don't have to be good at everything if I'm a Studio Art major... My concentration isn't life drawing anyways. Okay, so getting back to business, on Wednesday we drew skulls and I am finding those to be one, if not the most complicated things that we have worked on and I think that it has a lot to do with the proportions and putting all of the individual pieces together. So now that we are finally boiling down to the end of the semester I have realized how just about everything has crept up really fast and I'm gonna be spending most of these last few weeks in the library, picking up where I should've left off.

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haha, i'm excited for it

but my parents wont like it

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yeah well

...that's how it is

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haha yeah, i told my mom last fall i was thinking about getting a tattoo and she didn't even look at me and she teared up a little bit and said i should do that to my body

so i'm a little nervous

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*should do that

?

i think you mean *shouldn't

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haha yes.

good catch

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yeah but how long can we feel guilty for what our parents do and don't believe

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well said

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Lars and I have been talking about that lately

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haha, bad influence?

ha

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no

ha

we have been talking about it

he hasn't been preaching about it

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oh ha ok

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we talked about family and how the bonds between blood take too much of a precedent over how we make our decisions and live our lives

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i've never thought about that

but that makes complete sense to me

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he thinks that we follow this dynamic because that's how it's been for centuries but in all actuality we owe our families nothing because we were born into these bonds

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hmmm, idk if i agree with owing our families nothing

but i get what he's sayin

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mmmm

it's all relative

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right

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I think that we owe our families something

but not our free will

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yeah

i agree with that

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If we owed our families that than everyone would always be a product of how they were raised

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definitely

i hear THAT

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well, so where does it end?

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megan you know i don't know the answer to that

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neither do I

that's the beauty of it

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haha

i se

see*

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the beauty is in the discovery of the question and the knowledge that no matter how many times you repeatedly answer it there are always more questions and more explorations to make

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and how questions like that kind of just make you sit down and go blank

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not actually blank but like only think about that question trying to come up with an answer

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yes sir

I'm an addict

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intervention?

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ahhhh nothing can stop it

and I would never ask for such a blissful existence

Finding a mind is easier than finding a brain.

This last week was pretty weird and that is one of the reasons why this post is so darn late. I'm sorry to all of you that had to do two comments when I didn't have my post up. So just to start off I want to take a look at my drawing/picture because this is what I believe to be one out of only two drawings that I produced last week. I like drawing the hands because I don't get so stressed out about the proportions and how they move etc. This picture however could have been a great deal better because the lines are really thick when they shouldn't be and the contour lines really don't add up as well as they should but I am working on both of those things. This week we worked on our manikins and on hand drawings, and I think that thus far working on hands is a lot more enjoyable for me. Not only because I am fascinated with hands but also because of the way that we have been able to work and how we can do the manikin hands or the model's hand or the clay. It's a bummer though that I feel as if I'm starting to improve and now we are really getting down to the last couple weeks of class. I'm so nervous to be out of school because I really do think that I'm going to lose a lot of the hard earned progress and that scares me. I suppose that we will see whether or not that is true when we all show up next year. I wish I could be in school all year round but unfortunately I don't have enough money to do so. I hope that all of you have been having a wonderful week and that I see you all in class on Wednesday before we get a little bit of a break.

Nightmares of a wasted existence.

This week has been somewhat interesting and not necessarily in a bad way which seems to be unique if you look at the last couple weeks and see how I've been doing. We only had two days of class this week and though it was nice to get a little bit of a break I still wish that I could have drawn Friday because I'm starting to feel like I'm improving. I apologize for not having pictures up throughout the last couple weeks but I just picked up a new computer yesterday and now I can actually upload images which is simply spectacular. So this whole week we have been drawing, we had a couple muscle assignments which the first one seemed to go really well but I haven't gotten to the second one quite yet... Monday we did quicker long poses which turned out really bad for me but I'm glad that I ended the week on a better note with the hour long pose. I have a great difficulty finding a good way to execute what I'm seeing in front of me and as we all know that can become problematic. For the muscle assignments this week I feel as if they have gone relatively quickly and that I like but today I'm just sitting outside and soaking up the warm air because I'm sick as a dog and so finding motivation to go down to the art building and build muscles onto my manikin is well... pretty much impossible. It's strange watching all of the hustle and bustle as compared to the winter months of people deciding to use their homes as a barricade between them and the outside world. So, I used this picture because I feel as if it best represented where I'm at in the class. Believe it or not, I am improving. The angle that I was at compared to the model was difficult in this situation and trying to find the angle of her head was really hard too but I think that in the end it worked out just fine and now I hope to improve in other areas. As for the title of my blog, it references a dream that I had one night earlier this week about a girl that I'm nannying this summer and last summer as well. The dream consisted of her yelling and carrying on to me about how she wasn't going to do what I wanted her to and unfortunately that's exactly how she is. But, I feel like it references more than just the summer. It brought into account everything that we do in order to earn money and in order to get by in school and in everyday life. I always tell my Mom that I'd rather live poor and do what I love than be rich and work at a desk for ten hours a day... but now I'm trying to see if that's the truth at all because I'm taking a job again this summer that I'm going to be absolutely miserable doing but if I don't take it I can't come back to school next year. Makes me wonder really if it's foreshadowing.

Whenever you need me.

Life is infinitely strange and I think that we all might agree on that but unfortunately there is no predicting what is going to happen next and it is a beautiful but often frightening thing. Lately I have been confronted with people who are in the same boat as me, first I picked up one of best friends and the party seems to keep growing until now it's relatively the size of a cruise ship. Now, these things that we are dealing with are anything but fun and they are put in our lives in order to teach us lessons, in order to help us grow, within ourselves and in our relationships with others. It's often hard to take a step back from difficult circumstances and praise God for putting them there but sometimes the only thing that you can do is step back. In the midst of the world's despair there is still peace, there is still hope with every sunrise and very few people stop in the middle of their lives hustle and bustle in order to realize this truth. Anyways, so that was a random lead in that doesn't really lead you in to my life drawing overview. This week in life drawing we worked on developing the body as a whole and getting everything into our 30 second gesture drawings, and man o man was that tough stuff. Okay, so I know that we have been doing it for awhile now and I've been really working at it but I just cant seem to get it. (ps. I will get pictures of my drawings up as soon as I can get my darn computer fixed) Okay... in the middle of the week we did long poses where Annie posed with her arms up so that we could practice the curves of the armpit and see how the shoulder muscles came together. I thought that this practice was really fun and I actually thought that I was doing quite well until I took a look at everyone else's drawings. I'm beginning to feel kind of like a broken record for saying that and recognizing the fact that I really need to start improving. Though I did make a change this week and went from lead charcoal to graphite and from standing to sitting down, I found that drawing is a lot more painful for your shoulders when you're sitting down. I did like the change to pencils though because I think that it helped quite a bit with the line weight and the sketching of the figure. At the end of the week class got canceled which was a blessing in disguise because I was able to finish applying my muscles and got to go home early to my dog who was thrilled. Also, I found that these muscles were difficult because I wasn't sure exactly how they connected under the shoulder and the books are often hard to follow. I hope that you all had absolutely wonderful weeks and weekends and I will see you bright and early.

Movement On Dreams. Stand Under None.

Mod Sun: Jeremy Cooper Photography

This week seemed to go by pretty fast which is strange because I feel like this week was filled with a whole lot of hustle and bustle. I've been working pretty diligently on a project for my sculpture class that I will hopefully be finishing up soon, and by soon I mean that hopefully I will have it finished by Monday. I'm surprised that Lars hasn't killed me yet because I really test his patience with due dates and the mess of the ideation process... Life is infinitely strange. I believe that I'm going to be concentrating in sculpture, and I hope that I've got that all figured out now... It's funny how one minute we will be entirely convinced that we are doing everything that we want to do in life and then the next minute it changes. Now off to another grand topic. This week in life drawing we have been working on the muscles that make up the shoulder as well as a few on the back, and I have found this quite difficult because I feel that no matter how many times they get explained to me I still find myself standing at my easel without the slightest clue as to what to do. I've been trying to improve my drawings based off of how I drew last year and I don't really think that it's going too well because I'm still outlining just as much as I did back then. Bob gave me trouble for that all of last year and I thought that I finally was improving but apparently that was all in my head because Amy mentioned to me that that is an area that needs a great deal of improvement. Have any of you guys ever seen something from a certain viewpoint and no matter what you do there is no changing that and then all of a sudden something hits you out of nowhere and you realize that things aren't just black and white. Sometimes there is a mix of gray... Unfortunately my camera and my outlets on the side of my computer are broken so I can't get any pictures for you at this time

One step forward and eight steps back.

This week has been a great deal more interesting than I hoped that it would be which has caused me to be really extremely off of my game.... Which has a great deal to do with why I'm doing this blog so much later than the rest of you. Unfortunately when I thought about this week and about having a break, it didn't occur to me that I would have to do a blog. Anyways, so this last week all of us had a great deal of things to do because of the midterms and so on but if you pile up a crashed computer it gets a bit more nerve-racking. After getting my hard drive completely wiped out I got my computer back and it is still quite a bit broken, none of the drives work and to top it all of my external hard drive crashed the day after my computer did. Two years of schoolwork and 18 days of music down the drain... Sometimes life throws curve-balls and unfortunately I'm not the most coordinated person in the world. So here I am having yet to realize the significance of all of the information I have lost, possibly afraid of coming to that realization... a little bit of both. Spring break was good to me, it did exactly what it was supposed to do, gave rest to an overworked brain at the perfect time. But since this post is a little all over the place I think that I'm going to start over without starting over: This last week during drawing we worked on the feet and my goodness were they/are they hard. So I was standing there in class drawing foot by foot and thinking that I'm doing so well when I look over at everyone else and their drawings are beautiful in every way. So after Friday's class I came home and asked members of my family to pose their feet, thank goodness I don't do this on days with the whole body haha... anyways, I found that I improved but I feel as if I was drawing the feet wrong and I just hope that I will someday get the process down. Looking forward into the rest of the semester I hope to begin improving at a lot more than I have been but that is going to take more effort than I have been giving, and I'm not sure I have that much time but I will continue to try. Unfortunately I can't post any pictures this week because my computer drives aren't working.... but hey, hopefully I will get one up soon. [Okay, so I got a picture up even though it doesn't exactly fit in with this blog... this is my studio space in the sculpture lab, though it is now painted over. It influenced a project that I am working on now which I hope goes well]

The middle of all terms.

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This semester has been pretty interesting for me because I wasn't exactly sure what to expect when I came into this class. At first I was wary of the whole concept of studying the human body, not that I don't see the beauty, rather I wasn't necessary comfortable staring at it. It turns out that I wasn't uncomfortable at all because the classroom setting gave me an odd sense of confidence in both my purpose and the model's. This semester I have learned a great deal about the human form and the muscles that make up the human form and cause us to move in the ways that we do. I will regret saying that I still have only a general knowledge of the muscles and I wish that I could look at the figure and point out the names and their exact funtion, I can usually point out where the muscles connect and how they are in comparison to the body but that is really quite different than having to memorize all of the names. Hopefully I will improve on that over the course of the second half of the semester. Since day one of this class I feel as if I haven't improved as much as I'd like to and I think this is partially because of the information that flows through my brain while drawing. The beginning of the semesters always seems drawn out and more introductory than the middle where we're all running around like chickens with our heads cut off. The way that this relates to life drawing is because when I look for so long at the figure I find myself trying to find every little detail and how they all flow together, and it seems to take away from the real focus of the drawing. For some people this might be helpful but for me it seems that it's more difficult to draw and think at the same time... Who said that women were good at multi-tasking? Don't get me wrong, I like knowing the information, it just seems to hinder more than help me because throughout my whole life I have made a practice out of over analyzing things. Throughout the second half of the semester I would like to learn to tie the figure into a more emotional context. I think that it would be cool to be able to work on a figure drawing outside of class where the figure can become more involved in a different context, or become more personal as something that we can study continuously. I really do enjoy this class, as of right now I am at a happy medium, and I hope that as we progress I will be able to learn more and improve in all that we have been working on thus far and all that we continue to learn. The reason as to why I chose this picture for my post is because I found that when I began to look back at my drawings, and actually spent time photographing and making mental notes, I realized just how beautiful some of the compositions of our gesture drawings can be. This one stood out most to me because of the way that both the contrast of the vine v. compressed and the finished figure v. the egg look in the end. I feel as if having all of these changes on one page has helped me in the way of being able to look back and see a progression. I hope that you all have beautiful and safe spring breaks.

Render me experienced and unbelievable.

This is not my drawing but Lord I wish it was... This week has been anything but void of complications and lack of time management. I had to miss class on Friday due to an unavoidable work schedule to which I had to travel nearly 2 hours and work for the whole weekend. I'm guessing that I missed a long drawing on Friday, and I missed the male model which I believe to be more challenging than the female model. I have learned a great deal this week and the number one thing that I learned is that sometimes life jumps out at you when you least expect it and schedules overlap and you have to use critical thinking in order to figure out what is most necessary at the time. Here I say this right now when I'm down to the deadline in three of my classes and sitting at the table at home 90+ miles away from school on a Sunday night trying to balance school, family, and work. I have an immense amount of respect for teachers and what they have to do. Alright, back on topic: This last week in drawing we worked on molding our muscles and studying the female figure. I found Monday was quite beneficial because professor Fichter walked around and took time explaining the individual muscles and how they formed onto the body. She hadn't had time for mine previously so I needed to change a lot but I find it more helpful to know now rather than wait until the last minute and realize that everything needs to be switched around and elongated and such. The reason that I used this picture in this weeks post is because I happened upon it when I was researching information on artists for another assignment, and as it turns out this drawing was done by a homeless artist. For me, of course, this was beautiful and I thought that I'd share it with my Grandmother... Her response was not expected (ha). She turned to me and said "Well, he's homeless because he probably has an art degree!?" My Mother and I exchanged looks and laughed it off but I did think that her response was interesting. I've heard several times that I'm just "taking up space" but I still keep up on my art degree and remain hopeful that if I never do find a job then I will at least stay happy for the rest of my life.

Sometimes they'll paint your box gold.

A great deal has happened this week and I'm still unable to wrap my mind around all of it. Though I wish that I could sit here and type 300+ words about life drawing that just seems illogical for me and I apologize for that ahead of time. I believe that our art is directly influenced by our lives and what is going on around us not only in our institution but in our state, in our country, in our world. Now, this may seem like it's going somewhere that a great number of people would rather not see it go and well... depending on who you are I suppose it is. So I'm going to start rambling because I am a bundle full of passion and a powder keg ready to explode. Some things that really bug me: People who spout nonsense about issues that they are not educated in, people who call names and argue simply because they like to, and people who don't allow others to express their opinions without continuously bashing them. Now I'm no saint and I do realize that I have done this many times in my life but in this case things have changed and I'm not going to sit back and take all of this anymore. I already knew a little about the rally and the protesting and yada yada but this morning it started to get personal. A professor of mine that I respect greatly spoke in front of the class about the "Budget Repair Bill" and the impact that it would have on our professors and in turn on all of us students. The professors in my department are already on a 3% pay cut in order to hold onto some of the more experienced educators and now they're expected do lose somewhere around 17% of their salaries. It's not only the professors and all the educators around the state but it's all state employees that are expected to make this sacrifice. I know that not everyone agrees that this should be protested but as a college student at a university in Wisconsin it sure makes me wonder where our tuition money is going. I was talking to a friend of mine who mentioned a conversation she had with a custodian who has worked at Stout for nearly 30 years, she stated that her pay would now be reduced to around 7 dollars an hour when she could earn more than that working in the drive through at a fast food restaurant. What is keeping our professors and other state workers here in Wisconsin when they could be making more money instructing at almost any community college in the surrounding states? I have heard many complaints from students about this issue and most of them are about them wasting tuition money for their professors to protest. I'll stand firm in my beliefs that I would much rather be taught by a professor that is not afraid to stand up for their rights than one who bends over and takes it. Now most of this might have seemed like rambling on about nothing but I encourage you to look more into the subject and find your voice in the matter. I respect different opinions and I listen to opposing arguments, I don't expect for you to change yours and don't think for a second that you can change mine.

Nobody fed the creature and the creature died.

This last week had a lot of ups and downs and unfortunately they all had to do with the art program and my brain trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my life... I know that this might be a recurring theme being that I am in college and should probably try to figure these things out as soon as possible, but whenever I do it causes more harm than good. At the beginning of this last week my friend Lauren and I moved into our sculpture studio space and then things really started getting serious. I am blessed to be able to surround myself with wise upperclassmen that know more about what they're doing and where they're going but it also stresses me out more than it probably should. We are brainstorming for our first sculpture project and I'm not as far as I'd like to be but I have been distracted by other classes and that doesn't help much. Also, these last two weeks we have had a show in the student gallery that has been up and it took up an hour of my time every day... So this is the start of some of the downs; The show failed because as a group we didn't work as collectively as we should have and I regret that I hadn't mentioned anything to the class about that but what's done is done. Lars told us that our issue was that nobody fed the creature and the creature died, and I think that I am going to start to bring that idea into my practice more than I have been. If we have creative ideas that we let sit in the back of our brains and we don't constantly feed them than how are they supposed to grow? I figure that since this is a life drawing post than I should probably address the class and talk about this week's progress. At the beginning of the week I felt a great deal more confident than I did at the end of the week when I walked around and took a look at the drawings made by the rest of the class. I thought for awhile that I was getting the ribs right but I think I am going to need to start to search for models on my free time because I might need twice as much work as the rest of my classmates when it comes to this course. It was interesting to have a male model at the end of the week because it gave me a chance to see the difference between the curves in the female figure and the opposite in the men's figure. Tonight I just got back from molding the muscles on my skeleton and I am pleased to report that I am actually doing quite a lot better with it than I was before, I think that the model that we can look at helps because when I look at the book I get more confused than I should be as to where the muscles go on the bones and what not. I hope that I improve in my drawings this week because that would be a nice change. Sweet Dreams Wisconsin.

I hear ya cluckin' little chicken.

Recently I have started thinking more and more about the expiration dates of relationships and even certain understandings and emotions. What's most interesting to me about this is the fact that nothing/no one can be dependable, it's not for a lack of trying but there's no guarantee that people will stick around for as long as they've promised or feel the same way today as they do tomorrow. The inevitability is inevitable, the way that I have found that this relates to the art world is in people's practices and the fact that interests tend to change over time and no matter how consistent certain artists seem there is always going to be a certain shift in their meanings and explorations. This is one of the most beautiful yet simple concepts to understand and I intend to look further into this as my practice grows. On a more general note, this week in life drawing we have been moving further away from gesture drawings and more towards contour line drawings and getting proportions marked correctly. In the past I have been better at long drawings because when I move swiftly my hands don't seem to cooperate with my eyes. I'm not doing as well as I'd have hoped in this area of the class and so I'm not entirely sure how the rest of the semester will work out but I am hoping to improve with practice and persistence. We've also begun working on putting muscles on our skeletons and I have found that to be a great deal harder than I had ever expected it to be. It is interesting to me that it looked so easy before I started and then when I did I realized the major difference between 3d and 2d skeletal structure. I might have to pull the clay off that I have already modeled because it is not looking as well as I would have liked.

An incomplete introduction

My name is Megan Leigh Wieczorek and I am an artist based in Wisconsin.  I have been called many things and each of them has been true to some extent but I'm going to begin by explaining some things relevant to develop some understanding... I'm a sophomore in college. I strongly believe that art is in the mind not in an ability also that everyone is an artist to some extent but some people chose not to practice, that is our difference. I have an addiction to knowledge and take every given chance to learn more in art and in life. I care deeply for people and love to emphasize that as much as possible in my practice. Just recently I have been doing some soul searching on what it means to do what you love and am still trying to narrow down my findings. The art that I do best is conceptual and I hope that some day, with a great deal of practice, it will make up for my growing abilities. As of now I believe that I will be concentrating in sculpture and painting and possibly be picking up a minor in Human Development and Family Studies. The reason that I chose to use this picture as a representation of my introduction is because I like to emphasize the impact of big events in people's lives and how those events correlate with their art. This picture is a part of my sculptural installation last semester. The project that I did had an incredible impact on the campus in an unexpectedly beautiful way. After seeing my piece there were a number of people that shut me off, both in the art department and on campus. The way that this makes one feel on a regular day is upsetting and I felt it one hundred fold... I hope for their sake, that every student in the art department has a chance to feel in the way that this project made me feel. If I could ask for anything in my life, it would be to find this passion in everything that I do. To this day, no one really knows the true meaning behind my project, and that is fine for me. In all of our lives there will be people who tell us what to believe and what is wrong and right and all of the in between, but I believe that we as individuals need to find our own truths and live in them without any hesitation. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=543685260&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=154420454593645 This is a link to a page that two of my best friends set up to help me raise money to pay off the fine if anyone is at all interested in looking at the responses that people had to the project...(to be continued)