Sometimes.....

After a long hard day of art projects, I wonder if I am crazy....

Who in their right mind would take printmaking or lithography for fun when they don't need it for their major?

Yeah sure let me play with some deadly chemicals all for the sake of some pretty cool images. 

Let me kill brain cells to learn techniques I'll never use again.

But then I think, when will I ever get to do insane stuff like this ever again?

Let's face it, friends you make when you're slowly killing yourselves for the sake of art, are friends you know you can count on for the rest of your life. (That probably doesn't make any sense, but it does in my head. Basically those friends help you to KEEP you from doing something wrong & killing yourself). 

Plus there is this side of me that says, do you really want to quit this? Even though it's really hard and scary it's also really fun. I guess it's that addiction to the wild side of life that keeps me going. 

But just FYI. If you're ever thinking of doing a printing class, stick with intaglio (btw the g is silent), it is MUCH easier & more forgiving than lithography. Lithography is for the mentally insane I'm pretty sure.....

Which is starting to make sense why my teacher kind of laughs like a crazy person....

That explains so much.....

anywhoooo, that is all for tonight. Have a good week!!!!!

Can't wait to see my family this weekend!!!!!!!!

Might be a little woozy 

due to chemicals...

Megan

And It Is All So Crystal Clear

I want to show you something cool. 

Something clear.

Something beautiful.

And that is WATER.

These are fountains of thin perfect streams of water.

To show you how thin, I had Garett break the stream with his finger.

As if a watery umbrella had a piece cut out of it.

I could not get over the pure beauty of it.

Perfect.

And when the wind blew it often looked like a jellyfish.

 

Maybe it was just me, but these fountains were beautifully designed.
I thank the designer of these fountains for giving me a little piece of happiness.
Hope I spread some to all of you.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

I think my art

history classes 

are getting to me.

=]

Meg

You Asked For This

Y'all have been asking what I have been doing in my art classes so here are some of the more "interesting pieces. The last 5 are the ones I just turned in for my Drawing I class. I still have homework for Color and Design to do tonight.

This first one is the first picture I ever drew for my Drawing I class and it makes me sad. I want to cry at how awful it it. *crying*

This was a triptych, meaning you have an image using darker values, one using light values and then one with a mix of both.

This is a 2-point perspective cube.

This is a 1-point perspective cube with a shadow based on the light source and relative point.

This is a construction drawing we had to do of a Vase. They gave us step-by-step instructions on how to do it and then 4 steps before the end they told us to erase the bottom half of the Vase and learn how to draw it correctly. It wasn't fun but I liked it afterward.

A teacup based on an image of one which I will not post because otherwise it makes this look rather crappy.

This was for my Color and Design class. We had to use organic textures.

And mechanical textures.

Then we had to find textures of stuff around the apartment. Notice most of these are from earrings. And an Oreo! =D

Color value scale.

This took forever! For Color and Design. (If it's in color, it is for Color and Design). I had to draw every single one of those squares. I will save you the time of counting them (both pages), there were 58, not to mention drawing more for mess ups and getting the right shade after attempting and failing several times for some of those. But yeah I'm proud of it because it took forever!

So you better love these!

Or ELSE!!!

And these are the ones I turned in for Drawing I last night.
Gray scales in graphite, ink and charcoal.

A cone in ink. Each line was drawn with a straight-edge (aka ruler). Well except for the base of the cone of course.
This was a cylinder in charcoal. It wasn't AS hard but VERY messy. I washed my hands pretty much after every picture.

The sphere in graphite.And the cube in charcoal. We've drawn LOTS of cubes so this was easy. I could draw a cube in my sleep perfectly.

The end. That is what I have been doing in my classes. The rest of the assignments were much less interesting.
(FYI the pictures of texture are all pictures I have taken).

THE END

My roommates just bought
11 goldfish
I wonder how long
They will last O.o
Meg

Do You Know What It Feels Like?

So my roommates have been playing this song LOTS lately, and by lots I mean 3 times. And I kind of love it though I am not sure why. It sounds like a 90's boy band but it's not. But you should go listen to it because it is stuck in my head and now I will do the same to you. Also it sounds like someone is hitting a ping-pong ball around throughout the whole song....but that MIGHT just be me.....

I am kinda loopy right now due to sitting in my room since at LEAST 7:30pm, probably more like.....6pm. But from 7:30pm on was homework. And guess what, charcoal is EVIL and smears TOO much and ink takes FOREVER! Have you ever tried to shade something with pen but you can only use straight ruler-guided lines to make it darker??????? It's not fun! But yeah me sitting in a room, in one spot for 6 hours is torture. You might as well give me a world without peanut butter. But don't because that would be AWFUL!!!!!!

The image to the right is what my bed has looked like for the past 6 or so hours. Yes that is "Bones" on my monitor. And in this image I am starting to work with charcoal making a gray scale. My hands were covered in graphite, ink and charcoal all night.

Don't think I am unhappy, not in the least. I am in a GREAT mood! But that might be the loopiness kicking in.......maybe I should go to bed....

Oh random news. I got a printer today as an early birthday present. Thanks mom and dad! And thanks Stirling (Revert back to the people chart) for finding someone to give me a ride to the Bookstore to go get it and thanks again to Stirling for carrying the printer for me. (It is handy being friends with your brothers' roommates). =D

Anyway, I am off to bed. I am going running in the morning. =D =D =D =D

Now go listen to this song as well!
Thank you Catherine for showing it to me.
I love it!
And then my roommate played it on the way to the store
And now I am in love with this band =D
It reminds me of Catherine's cute self =]
I feel I thanked lots of people tonight.
Well thank you all for being awesome
"and you keep being classy San Diego."
Meg

Life As I Know It

This is my day in a nutshell:

• Laptop for looking up assignments and posting art homework.
• Scriptures for Book of Mormon homework.
• My phone, wishing I had the numbers of people in my class whenever I am unsure how to go about an assignment which has not happened yet but I know it will eventually.
• Scissors, ruler, square (which is actually a triangle O.o), special graphite pencils and paper for doing my Drawing 1 and Color and Design homework.
• Tuna and crackers (which should not be eaten on the bed) but were anyway for a late lunch/snack thing.
  
• My English binder.

• And Paradise Lost for my Humanities homework, which is turning out to be one of my favorite classes oddly enough. My teacher looks EXACTLY like the major from the show "Phinseas and Ferb"!! (see below) Except my teacher realizes it is 7:45am and so he makes the class fun and he is a happy person.
  

This on the other hand is what I want to be doing:

• Watching "White Collar" (Thanks Jon for sending this to me to borrow!)
• Making earrings
• Eating Jelly Beans
• Playing Sudoku
• Enjoying my ice cold water for the 1st time after spilling the first cup....
• Anything BUT homework (nah my homework is not that bad, just time consuming)
  

YUMMY TUNA!

So my roommate Nikki just walked in and handed me this:

A butterfingers milkshake.

Have I told you how much I LOVE my roommates?

Because I do!

Yeah that is my life thus far really. Now I am going to finish this milkshake and then go exercise with Nikki. And then relax since I actually finished my homework before midnight today! (Actually I finished it by 7pm! HA! =D)

Today has been a really good Monday. (It was LESS windy today! and got up to 60 degrees!)

Have a fabulous week
Do something nice
for someone
They might just give
you a HUGE HUG!!
Meg

A Mix of Old News and New Humility

In old news, here is a lovely picture I drew. I know, I am quite the artist:

Basically I draw the same as I did when I was 7.

Grant is ADORABLE!!!!
Can I just package him up and keep him???
He also happens to be THE perfect child!
If you ever wanted to know what one looked like, here he is.

Bennett is the most stubborn, persistent 3 year old I have EVER met.
More often than not, it makes me laugh, mostly because he is just so darn cute.

Klaus's family collects singing hamsters from his grandparents. I always wanted one of these. I used to go to the store and squeeze all their little hands so they all started singing and then I would run away. This was like......2 years ago.....yeah....

I have to announce to people whenever I win Mindsweeper because avoiding 90 bombs takes skills! Kidding. But seriously.

I love crazy earrings, I am addicted to them and I always want more. I can match them to anything and everything I own. I feel naked without earrings.
Yes I realize I can't wear these when I have kids. But I have a few years =D

A Winter puzzle for all y'all Westerners.

This one was intense with the WEIRDEST shaped pieces I have EVER seen! Plus the gaps and swirls. I did 95% of this puzzle by myself.

In new news, I got totally crushed at Mario Kart by a 7 year old tonight. I also failed at Wipeout (like the show) video game.

Bennett didn't want to sleep in his bed tonight so he ran into the older boys room, under Grant's bed and held on to the underside for dear life.

I was trying so hard not to laugh, it was just so cute!

And now I am going to bed at a decent hour. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

GOODNIGHT!

I love going to Bed, Bath & Beyond
And smelling
EVERY SINGLE SCENT
And then getting free samples
of their new scent,
enough to cover my hands,
arms and then some.
Meg