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5/25/21 Blog

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  Last blog! Holy crap it was a long day today. I woke up early today to meet Molly Leith at 8:30 in the studio in order to go over website making on SquareSpace. In the end we just fiddled around with the website some more and decided that it was not worth my time as much as working on my painting and writing the final reflection essay. I then worked on my painting for a little while and then went outside to work on my essay. We had a quick seminar, and then went back to work. I was able to get most of it done before having to go to my dorm at 3 in order to clean up the common spaces. It’s crazy that it is time to start cleaning and packing… I personally haven’t started yet so I should probably get on that. Anyways, after cleaning the dorm I went back to the studio to work some more. I worked on painting the umbrellas so that they had more depth, color, and shape, and then I finished up my reflection essay. Tomorrow I still have the finished the hanging umbrellas and I need to paint
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5/24/21 Blog

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  As of right now I have a day left of senior project! Well, hopefully I’ll be able to use a bit of Wednesday to add some finishing touches. Today was a big day because I turned a corner where now I am a little bit less stressed since the painting is coming together more. Today I finished the shapes of the hanging umbrellas (I still need to go back through and finish adding details) and I added texture to the road. I think that adding the texture to the road was the extra oomph that the painting was missing. Also, after the weekend (where I only painted a little) I had more energy for working today so I was able to accomplish a fair amount. Now that I am thinking about this more… ok yes I am still a little stressed because I pretty much only have tomorrow left. I still need to clean up the painting, finish some details, make a website with Molly tomorrow at 8:30, and write this final reflection essay. Ok so I do still have a bit that I need to do, but I know that I’ll get it done. Al
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5/23/21 Week Two Reflection

   As my time with senior project is coming to an end, I am able to thoroughly reflect on two full weeks of art. This week specifically has been more rhythmic compared to the previous week because I have just been focusing on painting the Umbrella Street piece. This week has also been more stressful compared to the previous week because it seems like time has just completely flown by – I kept thinking that I had more time than I actually did. It also feels like I have just inched along with this painting: I will spend hours on it and then look back and realize that I only added a small section that I feel should’ve taken less time. I was able to go into the studio today (Sunday) and work for about an hour and a half, but in that hour and a half I only added some umbrellas (which really does not look like much but I have a lot of trouble when it comes to spacing and proportions).  This week one of the things that I learned is that I am someone who needs mental breaks from art. As much a
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5/21/21 Blog

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  Honestly, today was pretty much the same as the previous days – this week has just blurred together. Today I actually did get a lot done though: I added more depth down the street by adding more colors to the road, making the sky fade to yellow, and I added people walking down the street. I think that the people that I added really made the painting come to life more, and it added more colors to compliment the heavy amount of tan colors. Honestly I am not quite sure how to go more into detail about my day because that is pretty much all that I did in the studio. After working for a few hours, I went to the swinging bridge with my friends because it was such a beautiful day. Then some of my friends left and I stayed with Hailey Towne for a few more hours. We then went to support Alex and Hannah at their tennis matches. Overall I have been very grateful for the freedom and flexibility that senior project has given me. It is crazy to think that there are only about 3 days left to work
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5/20/21 Blog

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  Aaah stress! I didn’t realize that I have about four days left of senior project aaaah, that is not enough time to finish my painting. Well maybe it could be enough time but I will definitely have to crank and get really motivated. Today was very similar to the previous two days and mainly consisted of me adding more to my Umbrella Street painting. The past two days I have mainly focused on the left side of the street and adding more depth. I still need to continue with the right side, add the hanging umbrellas, and create more texture on the road. I am starting to like the painting more than I did yesterday but I still have such a critical eye. I don’t take super good care of my paint brushes, so now the small ones (which are the ones I use the most) are creating scratchy, very not clean brush strokes. Hopefully I will have time at the end to clean up some of my lines and marks on the painting. I just really want to be proud of this painting because it is for someone who has made
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5/19/21 Blogs

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  I had originally planned on going to breakfast again and getting to the studio at an early hour, but I ended up snoozing my alarm so that I got to the studio at about 9:30 (which was fine with my schedule). Again, today was all about the Umbrella Street painting because I am still pretty stressed about finishing in. Today’s work was similar to the previous day where I just slowly added more and more, but I am getting stressed and so far I have not been super proud of my work and am having trouble visualizing the end result. I also am a bit stressed about having to make a website when all I want to do is focus on this painting and make it as perfect as I can. My thought process has been that because I know that this painting will be on someone’s wall, I want it to be perfect. If it was just a piece of art that I created for me I would care a little less about whether it turned out perfect or not – but especially because it is going on the wall for someone I care about a lot, I want
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5/18/21 Blog

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  I actually went to breakfast today (I think it was the first time all term). I had Hannah Stowe come in and jump on my bed to actually get me to wake up because I knew otherwise I would just snooze my alarm until I really needed to get up. After breakfast at around 7:30 a.m. Hannah and I made our way to Slocumb. We proceeded to spend most of the day in that room along with some of our other friends. I am currently focusing all of my attention on the painting of the street in Israel. I have been having some difficulty knowing where to start and what to paint – that has been the most challenging part of painting from a reference photo with impressionism in mind. After a full day spent in the studio, Hannah and I were able to get Corby to let us into the studio again at 8:30. It sounds like Corby is alright with repeating this every night, which I will probably be needing because I am already starting to stress. I am not sure why but I thought that I had about 12 days left, but Hanna
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