To Prove I Am Still Alive

I am blogging for the first time in 3 weeks.

Sorry for the delay. School, work, and wedding planning are drowning me. Sadly wedding planning is the only part that is pleasant.

So I guess this will be a quick little update:

• Color Photo has unrealistic expectations that I can take pictures ANY TIME of  the day. But I can't. This makes assignments hard.
• Printmaking is fun, and I am not the only one that stinks at it. 4/5 of my class does. Given there are only 12 of us in the class, if that.
• If I ever remember to scan them in, I will show you my prints.
• Graphic Design is getting easier, I am kind of bad at that too.
• Marriage Prep is AMAZING and I actually want to keep the books from my class. Weird never thought I would say that.
• New Testament. Awesome.
• Work is of the devil, I think they honestly secretly hate their lives.
• Anyone have a cure for a constant headache?
• (sorry those all sound like whining)
•  On the bright side, for my sanity's sake I go to the Temple twice a week with Haley! =D =D
• 79 days until I am Megan Bonds (And I can spell it cursive quite fluently, thank you photo lectures for giving me this practice)
• I have awesome home teachers
• I miss FHE (weird!)
• Rexburg is warm
• Garett and I are eating egg salad tonight YUM!!! (I could eat it by myself...)
• And I get to teach Relief Society for the first time ever on the 27th! (poor girls!)

That is my life. Great huh?
Also Garett and I are going home this weekend for our engagement pictures and my dress fitting. Gah I can't wait to go home! I never thought I would be so happy to see Utah in my entire life!

Now a random picture of my nephew Nikolai.

 Who happens to be the cutest little boy in the entire world!

 Time for sleep.

Egg salad: how heaven tastes

Marriage: how heaven looks

Megan

 

Just a Thought

Looking at my homework for the week, I am beginning to realize I am not a "go-with-the-flow" kind of girl. I am the "there 10 minutes early for class" kind of girl and I like knowing this is due then and this is how I will order my schedule accordingly.

Now yes I realize I sound like a stick in the mud, and maybe I can be sometimes, but I do some things at the last minute. This really only applies to hanging out with people though. When it comes to my school work I cannot just "go with the flow".

The reason I bring this up is because looking at my art homework, this is one of the biggest assignments we have had yet and it is also my "midterm" assignment. Yes I may be "artsy" but I like to think my art is and should always be behind a camera lens. That is where I am happy and comfortable. These drawing and painting classes are challenging me as an artist to try things I have never done before. I am appreciative of it, but at the same time it is scary.

I'm starting to wish I was a little more laid back and didn't stress so much, but this is the way I am.

Lately I haven't been as laid back social wise though. I feel I have been turning opportunities down to have lots of fun because they are out of my comfort zone and I always have some homework eating at me in the back of my mind.

So here's to change and trying something new. Let us all step out of our comfort zone and either "go with the flow" more or be less "go-with-the-flow" and more "get-to-class-early" kind of a person.

Have a wonderful day!
Go call someone you haven't talked to in awhile.
It will make you happy
(I hope)
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

For the record

I think I am FINALLY done changing my blog background. I am completely loving this layout so it is a keeper. =] I MIGHT change that picture behind my title on occasion buuuut..... it took sooooo long it get it right that I PROBABLY won't.

I realized today that some of my socks actually match, and I am NOT okay with that. Thank you Hannah for showing me the ways of none matching awesomeness.

Now to do art homework.....*Shutters at thought*

But at least now I have a printer that I can scan all my homework in on....tee hee hee =D

And I had 30 minutes of class today because my teacher was gone and we met in groups and the other girls had to rush out do to homework. So yah. 30 minutes of class the whole day. Awesome right?

I guess I will show you my art projects when I am done, if I don't totally hate them and shred them into a million pieces after I turn them in....not that I would ever do that or anything.....

We have grape Koolaid
And I just discovered
I have rice and hot cocoa
And Rexburg is deciding to be windy today
How rude!
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