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So I haven't had a computer for a few days because someboy clicked something and a magical viral something downloaded itself onto this one. Sameboy that cut the cord on the other computer. You can tell I haven't had a computer because so much laundry was put away. Well you can't tell that. I can tell that.

I also finished Bet's teeshirt: I'm totally ready to start putting these things on Etsy. I would also like to say they look much better on than they do hanging up or laying flat for photographic purposes.

I have finished all my finals. So far I have an A and an -A. Not so bad.
I think I'll have one more A and probably a B. Hopefully the B would be an A... but you can't tell about that one. I haven't any idea about that one. I can't tell. Nobody knows.

Here are some things I got back from Elem. Art Methods class:

This is a really ??? watercolor. It looks way better now than it did while it was wet. I am not sure how that happened, I didn't like it as much when I put it on the drying rack as I did when I took it out of the portfolio last night. Please ignore the curly paper.  Anyway the idea was to do a painting of a storm, where the lines in the composition point to the action of the tornado/lightning/storm thing. There are famous artworks involving storms. For example, paintings of tornadoes looming in the distance behind oblivious citizens by John Brosio. This one at the Muskegon Art Museum is even more famous. Mine is sort of primitive but I'm okay with that. It is supposed to be, from left to right, shrimp boats on the Gulf of Mexico, a water spout, the jetties, a road & a field which also leads out to the Gulf, a path, a tree, and some sort of house with a screen door. The roof gave me trouble so I covered it up with the green part of the tree. I also don't remember what shrimp boats look like. I was little when I lived there.

That Wild Thing up there totally looks like a character from a book I read when I was little. I didn't mean to do that. I didn't recognize him till after I'd already done the sketch and inked all the lines in. This site has a picture of him. The Hoardasaurus. Anyway the assignment was to design our own Wild Thing. I used a fish tail and those spiky dinosaur feet (teeny little arms!), a camel back, and some random monster face. And what I ended up with was the Hoardasaurus with a fish tail. Well it is just alike enough that I recognized him. Perhaps I won't get in trouble.

The sun was an exercise in drawing symmetrical things using those shapes to make the rays. I traced the diamond and half-crescent doo-dads. The face is good, I think.

 I did not really matt and frame the thing. I played with it and thought a border would be cute.










The birdie is this guy:

 I have no idea how to rotate him.

For the assignment, we drew our subject on paper, took a sheet of styrofoam, traced thru the paper onto the styrofoam with a pencil. This created a relief, the white areas are higher than the black areas. The white Speedball block printing ink is rolled onto the styrofoam relief, and printed on black paper. 
I will now lament the fact that I'll never ever get the head right again. The birdie on the left has a perfect head. Anything else can change but the head is so good. I can't (I've tried!) duplicate it. See?

Lets see what else do I have? Um. Today before I picked up the computer I was sitting by my window and my cat began to make that noise she makes when birds are out there. So here are those little guys:

Don't they remind you of this little one?

I think that's all I got. It's almost 10. J. is supposed to come over and hopefully he will bring sustenance because I am starving. No really. I am. I'm dying here. No. Not really. I could live off my fat stores for weeks and days. Time to start "working out" again. I was doing great there for about 2 days.