Two classes this month -- I must be crazy. And I will NEVER have a journal.
If anyone reads this blog besides me, feel free to stop reading for this month. I am taking one online class (Roz Stendal's Drawing Live Subjects in Public, daily homework!) and one in-person class on Tuesday nights in April (Experimenting with Gouache with Shannon Brunette at Wet Paint). Lots of work and lots of thinking for me. As I am a complete and dedicated non-journaling/diary kind of person and never want to leave behind any kind of record of my thought process; this blog, that is not public, is my place for rambling thoughts. When I am dead it will disappear due to neglect I assume.
I think the Roz class of drawing every day will help me overall in all things and the gouache class will of course feed into my curiosity about other media and maybe this is the one for me. Still not sure about acrylic or watercolor and have started experimenting with open acrylics.
The clue to why I don't want to every "journal" -- and I hate the idea so so so much -- or write a diary is that when you are dead someone will find these precious books that you wrote private feelings into and will read them. Private thoughts should be private and I don't know why some people (psychiatrists) tell other people (my mother) to journal their deepest thoughts that other people (a daughter) might read when they are cleaning out your house. Journalers should write in invisible ink, or they should write an email and delete it when they are done. Or make a blog that is private and only 3 people see it and the 3 people are people I trust and I also don't put my deepest thoughts here. Only my weird art struggles.
Comments from Roz on this selection (above): Keep working FAST for this. Read the extra memos on Gesture now that you've done this and think about different approaches too while we are on this. Think about spine or action lines too. Great job...
Today (4/1) I went to Moos Tower and did some sketching after picking up my motorcycle parking sticker. Tried to be more gestural and less contour-y.
I think the Roz class of drawing every day will help me overall in all things and the gouache class will of course feed into my curiosity about other media and maybe this is the one for me. Still not sure about acrylic or watercolor and have started experimenting with open acrylics.
The clue to why I don't want to every "journal" -- and I hate the idea so so so much -- or write a diary is that when you are dead someone will find these precious books that you wrote private feelings into and will read them. Private thoughts should be private and I don't know why some people (psychiatrists) tell other people (my mother) to journal their deepest thoughts that other people (a daughter) might read when they are cleaning out your house. Journalers should write in invisible ink, or they should write an email and delete it when they are done. Or make a blog that is private and only 3 people see it and the 3 people are people I trust and I also don't put my deepest thoughts here. Only my weird art struggles.
Comments from Roz on this selection (above): Keep working FAST for this. Read the extra memos on Gesture now that you've done this and think about different approaches too while we are on this. Think about spine or action lines too. Great job...
Today (4/1) I went to Moos Tower and did some sketching after picking up my motorcycle parking sticker. Tried to be more gestural and less contour-y.
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